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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2012
Apparatus and method with physical location check-in that triggers a status change in a virtual game
Minglei Xu, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Puneet Chhabra, Mountain View, CA (US);
Heidi Kay Carson, Cupertino, CA (US);
Tanya Yin WA Buell, Mountain View, CA (US);
Christopher Michael Kirmse, Mountain View, CA (US);
Minglei Xu, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Puneet Chhabra, Mountain View, CA (US);
Heidi Kay Carson, Cupertino, CA (US);
Tanya Yin Wa Buell, Mountain View, CA (US);
Christopher Michael Kirmse, Mountain View, CA (US);
Zynga Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to receive a check-in indication from a physical location with a corresponding virtual location in a virtual game. An attribute in the virtual game is altered based upon the check-in indication. The attribute may be earned points for a user, a virtual object earned by a user or an enhanced popularity measure for the virtual location.