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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2017
Aftershock Services, Inc., San Ramon, CA (US);
John Kim, San Francisco, CA (US);
Bryan Tsao, San Carlos, CA (US);
Inyang Akpan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kevin Chanthasiriphan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Albert Wei, San Francisco, CA (US);
David McNeill, San Francisco, CA (US);
Aftershock Services, Inc., San Ramon, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for providing currency multiplier items to one or more users of an online game is described. A user of an online game may obtain a currency multiplier item by purchase, by award, responsive to one or more actions taken in the online game, and/or by other methods. Use of the currency multiplier item may enable the user to adjust the amount of virtual currency in the inventory in the user's user account, wherein the adjustment to the amount of currency is not provided to the first user prior to use of the currency multiplier item.