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Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 07, 2014
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Darren Ryan Craine, Lafayette, CA (US);

Justin Potter Driemeyer, San Carlos, CA (US);

Kevin Thomas Hagan, Paia, HI (US);

Jason Samuel McGuirk, San Mateo, CA (US);

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

Shane Ishmael Sareli, Austin, TX (US);

Nicholas John Tornow, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/12 (2006.01); A63F 13/795 (2014.01); A63F 13/30 (2014.01); A63F 13/822 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/795 (2014.09); A63F 13/12 (2013.01); A63F 13/822 (2014.09); A63F 2300/407 (2013.01); A63F 2300/556 (2013.01); A63F 2300/5566 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure relates to games and applications in general and in particular to computer-implemented online games, such as online role-playing games, playable by more than one person from more than one location. The game engine can search a player's social network to find friends to play with. These social networks can be constructed implicitly by analyzing a player's game play information and other information.


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