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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2007
John A. Mccaskey, Iv, Seattle, WA (US);
Derrick Jason Birum, Duvall, WA (US);
John Cook, Seattle, WA (US);
Erik Axel Johnson, Issaquah, WA (US);
Gregory Coomer, Seattle, WA (US);
John A. McCaskey, IV, Seattle, WA (US);
Derrick Jason Birum, Duvall, WA (US);
John Cook, Seattle, WA (US);
Erik Axel Johnson, Issaquah, WA (US);
Gregory Coomer, Seattle, WA (US);
Valve Corporation, Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for determining and providing one or more guest passes for temporary access to one or more video games to a first player that was previously granted membership to a platform that offers access to playing these video games. One or more different determinations are made on information related to the first player and/or available video games to generate one or more guest passes for a video game that is at least somewhat relevant to the first player. In at least one embodiment, one or more of the different determinations can be intrinsically and/or extrinsically weighted to further refine the generation of a guest pass for a video games that is at least somewhat relevant to the first player, and thereby more likely to be offered by the first player to a second player. Also, the platform enables the determining and generating of the one or more guest passes to the one or more video games for the first player.