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Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2014

Filed:

Sep. 26, 2011
Applicants:

Erik Francis Vanbragt, San Francisco, CA (US);

William Henry Kelly Mooney, San Francisco, CA (US);

Matthew Adam Ocko, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Carl Eric Schiermeyer, Burlingame, CA (US);

Jonathan Chang Tien, San Francisco, CA (US);

Roger F. Dickey, San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Erik Francis Vanbragt, San Francisco, CA (US);

William Henry Kelly Mooney, San Francisco, CA (US);

Matthew Adam Ocko, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Carl Eric Schiermeyer, Burlingame, CA (US);

Jonathan Chang Tien, San Francisco, CA (US);

Roger F. Dickey, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Zynga Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 9/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Example systems and methods related to player recruitment for acquiring rewards in an online game network is presented. In an example, an online game for a plurality of players is hosted. A player of the game is provided an asset based satisfaction of an acquisition requirement that includes a social requirement satisfied by a new association of a predetermined number of people with the online game.


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