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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2012
Kathleen Auterio, San Francisco, CA (US);
Deniz Ersever, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nathan Arthur Etter, San Jose, CA (US);
Hardik Kheskani, San Francisco, CA (US);
Serena Lam, San Francisco, CA (US);
Amitt Mahajan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christopher Joseph Makarsky, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jay Monahan, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Donald C. Mosites, San Francisco, CA (US);
Benjamin Mullin, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew Adam Ocko, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Brian Reynolds, Lutherville, MD (US);
Shantanu Talapatra, San Francisco, CA (US);
Justin Waldron, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ian Wang, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jackson Wang, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kathleen Auterio, San Francisco, CA (US);
Deniz Ersever, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nathan Arthur Etter, San Jose, CA (US);
Hardik Kheskani, San Francisco, CA (US);
Serena Lam, San Francisco, CA (US);
Amitt Mahajan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christopher Joseph Makarsky, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jay Monahan, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Donald C. Mosites, San Francisco, CA (US);
Benjamin Mullin, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew Adam Ocko, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Brian Reynolds, Lutherville, MD (US);
Shantanu Talapatra, San Francisco, CA (US);
Justin Waldron, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ian Wang, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jackson Wang, San Francisco, CA (US);
Zynga Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of providing virtual items based on location-based actions is disclosed. An indication is received of a performance of a location-based action by a player of a computer-implemented game. A virtual item is added to an inventory of a player character of the player of the computer-implemented game based on the receiving of the indication of the performance of the location-based action by the player of the computer-implemented game. The virtual item is usable within the computer-implemented game by the player character of the player of the computer-implemented game.