Audience adjusted gaming

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10857466-B2
Application number	US-201816197302-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 20, 2018
Priority date	Dec 29, 2014
Publication date	Dec 8, 2020
Grant date	Dec 8, 2020

Abstract

A system and method includes a first device with one or more processors coupled to a memory that executes instructions from the memory to perform the steps of receiving a request to begin a videogame; streaming video of the videogame to an audience; determine a popularity of the streaming video; and changing the videogame mechanics based on the popularity of the streaming video.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system, comprising: one or more processors; and
a memory coupled to the one or more processors and storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, perform operations, comprising: receiving, from one or more computing devices, a request to receive streaming video of a video game; providing one or more game mechanics to the one or more computing devices; receiving, from the one or more computing devices, input that requests at least one of the one or more game mechanics be changed; and
altering the at least one of the one or more game mechanics based, at least in part, on the received input.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more game mechanics is a difficulty setting of the video game.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more game mechanics is a size of map associated with the video game.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more game mechanics is an attribute of a character of the video game.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the attribute is a damage-per-second of the character.

6. The system of claim 4 , wherein the attribute is a movement speed of the character.

7. The system of claim 1 , further comprising receiving a monetary contribution from a user of the one or more computing devices prior to providing the one or more game mechanics to the one or more computing devices.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one of the one or more game mechanics is altered based, at least in part, on an amount of money contributed by a user associated with the one or more computing devices.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more game mechanics is altered for an amount of time.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the amount of time is based, at least in part, on a monetary value contributed by a user associated with the one or more computing devices.

11. A method, comprising:
receiving, from one or more computing devices, a request to live stream a video game;
providing one or more game mechanics of the video game to the one or more computing devices;
receiving, from the one or more computing devices, input that requests a change to the one or more game mechanics; and
altering the at least one of the one or more game mechanics based, at least in part, on the received input.

12. The method of claim 11 , further comprising receiving a monetary contribution from a user of the one or more computing devices prior to providing the one or more game mechanics to the one or more computing devices.

13. The method of claim 11 , wherein the at least one of the one or more game mechanics is altered based, at least in part, on an amount of money contributed by a user associated with the one or more computing devices.

14. The method of claim 11 , wherein the one or more game mechanics is altered for an amount of time.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the amount of time is based, at least in part, on a monetary value contributed by a user associated with the one or more computing devices.

16. The method of claim 11 , wherein the one or more game mechanics is a difficulty setting of the video game.

17. The method of claim 11 , wherein the one or more game mechanics is associated with a map of the video game.

18. A method, comprising:
receiving, from a remote computing device, a live stream of a video game; receiving, from the remote computing device, one or more game mechanics of the video game;
providing input that requests a change to the one or more game mechanics during the live stream; and sending the request to the remote computing device.

19. The method of claim 18 , further comprising receiving an indication that the one or more game mechanics has been altered.

20. The method of claim 18 , wherein the one or more game mechanics is a difficulty level of the video game.

Assignees

• Ebay Inc

Inventors

• Ziaja Jason
• Luk Bryant Genepang
• Tang Yu
• O'Toole Christopher Diebold
• He Robert

Classifications

• H04N21/2668

  Creating a channel for a dedicated end-user group, e.g. insertion of targeted commercials based on end-user profiles {(information retrieval from the Internet by querying with filtering and personalisation G06F16/9535; arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast H04H20/10; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; adaptation of message content in packet-switching networks H04L51/063)} · CPC title

• H04N21/2407

  Monitoring of transmitted content, e.g. distribution time, number of downloads (arrangements for monitoring programmes for broadcast or for distribution combined with broadcast H04H20/14) · CPC title

• A63F13/86

  Watching games played by other players · CPC title

• A63F2300/535

  for monitoring, e.g. of user parameters, terminal parameters, application parameters, network parameters · CPC title

• A63F13/67 Primary

  adaptively or by learning from player actions, e.g. skill level adjustment or by storing successful combat sequences for re-use · CPC title