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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2019
Electronic Arts Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Su Xue, Fremont, CA (US);
Kazi Atif-Uz Zaman, Foster City, CA (US);
Navid Aghdaie, San Jose, CA (US);
John Kolen, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Zhengxing Chen, Boston, MA (US);
Electronic Arts Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of systems presented herein may identify users to play a multiplayer video game together using a mapping system and machine learning algorithms to create sets of matchmaking plans for the multiplayer video game that increases player or user retention. Embodiments of systems presented herein can determine the predicted churn rate, or conversely retention rate, of a user waiting to play a video game if the user is matched with one or more additional users in a multiplayer instance of the video game.