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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2015

Filed:

Feb. 11, 2014
Applicant:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Jonathan Berger, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Edmund Wright Helmer, Mountain View, CA (US);

Michael Munie, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Shailendra Ramineni Rao, East Palo Alto, CA (US);

Yoav Shoham, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);

Thuc D. Vu, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 9/24 (2006.01); A63F 13/00 (2014.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 19/00 (2011.01); A63F 13/30 (2014.01); A63F 13/40 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/12 (2013.01); A63F 13/10 (2013.01); A63F 2300/407 (2013.01); A63F 2300/5533 (2013.01); A63F 2300/5546 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method to share challenges between users of a social game system is described. The method may include accessing relationship data reflecting a relationship between a first user and a second user, and accessing challenge data in a challenge database. Based on () the challenge data and () the relationship between the first user and the second user reflected by the relationship data, the challenge data is selectively communicated as part of a challenge about the first user to the second user, with the challenge forming part of a challenge game.


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