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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2010
William Henry Kelly Mooney, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew Adam Ocko, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Carl Eric Schiermeyer, Burlingame, CA (US);
William Henry Kelly Mooney, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew Adam Ocko, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Carl Eric Schiermeyer, Burlingame, CA (US);
Zynga Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
An online multiuser game includes friend-playing characters that can be taken into account when determining outcomes of game events. The outcome of a game event can depend on player inputs, player character state, game state and the state of characters of friends of the player, independent of whether the friends are current players. Friends of a player can be determined by a game social network system that maintains records on game players and relationships between various players. A game server can attribute one or more in-game benefits to a current player based on the in-game profile associated with other players who are identified in a game social network as friends of the current player. The friend network can be single-layered or multiple-layered.