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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2014
Zynga Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Jesse Janosov, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nir Leibovich, Austin, TX (US);
Zynga Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Software on a server and/or client device causes a view in a graphical user interface (GUI) for a game to be displayed to a user. The game is an online gambling game for real money. The software receives input from the user. The input includes a wager and play according to game mechanics for the game. The software calculates a payout from the play. The payout includes a promotional payout that depends at least in part on a measure of social activity associated with the user or a measure of social influence associated with the user. And the software broadcasts the payout to at least one other person who is a social relation of the user.