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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2011
Andres Cantor, San Francisco, CA (US);
Andres Cantor, San Francisco, CA (US);
Zynga Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods for crew creation and management are provided. One method includes providing a user interface by the social gaming program for generating a request for help by a requestor to enable access to a content item in the social gaming program. The request for help is forwarded to friends of the requestor based on analysis of the social graph to define a crew of friends in the social gaming program. The method includes obtaining an indication of acceptance of the request for help from at least one friend of the requestor. The acceptance is utilized to increase a progress toward enabling access to the content item. The method also includes detecting completion of the progress by the crew of friends and enabling access to the content item. The detected completion is saved to a crew database to signal a level change in the social gaming program.