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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2018
Filed:
May. 03, 2016
Deepak Murali Chandrasekaran, San Mateo, CA (US);
Guruprasath Krishnamurthy, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Andrew Gilmore Francis, Saratoga, CA (US);
Deepak Murali Chandrasekaran, San Mateo, CA (US);
Guruprasath Krishnamurthy, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Andrew Gilmore Francis, Saratoga, CA (US);
Roblox Corporation, San Mateo, CA (US);
Abstract
A video game method has steps for receiving, at a network-connected server providing video games, a request from a first player to enter a particular game, determining by software executing on a processor on the network-connected server, from a non-transitory medium, instances of the particular game already in progress, accessing stored information regarding friends of the first player, determining if one or more friends of the first player are engaged in one or more of the games already in progress, and directing the first player to a particular one of the games already in progress wherein one or more friends of the first player are engaged.