Systems and methods to provide sharing of benefits amongst a group of users based on gains from distribution rights pertaining to digital assets

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11935146-B2
Application number	US-202117555132-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 17, 2021
Priority date	Jan 15, 2021
Publication date	Mar 19, 2024
Grant date	Mar 19, 2024

Abstract

Systems and methods to provide sharing of benefits amongst a group of users are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: effectuate a presentation of an agreement interface for the users to define and/or join group agreements; generate, based on the group agreements, sets of instructions for implementation of the group agreements; transmit the sets of instructions to a decentralized ledger server; receive and executing the transmitted sets of instructions to record the group agreements on the blockchain as smart contracts; record transactions pertaining to the digital assets; responsive to recording the transactions, increase the group account balances by a portion of the earned gains resultant from the recorded transactions; and responsive to an occurrence of at least one of the trigger events specified for the first group agreement, allocate a portion of the group account balance to the group of users.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A benefit sharing system comprising an online gaming platform and a ledger server that implements a blockchain, wherein the online gaming platform comprises:
a game component;
a group agreement component;
a gaming platform processor; and
a first non-transitory memory containing first instructions, wherein the first instructions, when executed by the gaming platform processor, cause the gaming platform processor to perform the steps of:
executing, by the game component, an instance of a game, wherein execution of the instance of the game facilitates presentation of the game to users;
executing, by the game component, in-game actions in the instance of the game in response to action requests for the in-game actions by the users, wherein the users include a first user and a second user;
presenting, by the group agreement component, an agreement interface that displays group agreements between two or more participating ones of the users, wherein the group agreements include a first group agreement, wherein the two or more participating ones of the users:
(i) contribute future gains to a first group account balance associated with the first group agreement, wherein the future gains result from transactions of the particular digital assets, wherein the transactions are recorded on the blockchain, and
(ii) share a future allocation of benefits, wherein sharing of the future allocation of the benefits includes at least a portion of the first group account balance, and wherein the sharing of the future allocation of the benefits is specified to occur at a pre-determined time;

receiving user input from the group agreement component, through the agreement interface, wherein the user input indicates the first user and the second user have joined the first group agreement;
generating, by the group agreement component, a set of instructions for implementation of the first group agreement as one or more smart contracts;
transmitting, by the group agreement component, the set of instructions to the ledger server for recording of the first group agreement on the blockchain; and
at the pre-determined time, effectuating the sharing in accordance with the first group agreement, by a benefit allocation component, of an allocation of a portion of the first group account balance between the first user and the second user such that the allocation of the portion of the first group account balance reduces the first group account balance.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein responsive to a second transaction pertaining to the first digital asset being recorded and the first user earning a second gain based on owning the first distribution rights, the steps further include increasing, by the group balance component, the first group account balance by a portion of the second gain.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the sharing of the future allocations of the benefits includes a determination by a smart contract of individual allocations that are shared with the participating users, wherein the individual allocations are individually determined portions of the group account balance.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the allocation shared is based on at least one of:
(i) the gains contributed to the group account balance by the individual participating users,
(ii) time spent on the online gaming platform,
(iii) progress within the game,
(iv) damage done to another digital asset,
(v) victory within the game, and
(vi) contribution to a goal of the individual participating users.

5. The system of claim 3 , wherein the allocation shared is determined by evenly dividing, by the benefit allocation component, the group account balance amongst the participating users in accordance with the smart contract.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the sharing, by the benefit allocation component, of the allocation of the portion of the first group account balance occurs repeatedly at a reoccurring predefined time.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the transactions may be responsive to at least one of in-game victories and one or more of the in-game actions.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the portion of earned gains that increases the group account balances is predefined by the individual group agreement or the online gaming platform.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the portion of earned gains that increases the group account balances is specific to individual ones of the participating users.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the future gains include virtual currency and/or virtual points.

11. A method to use group agreements between users of an online gaming platform, the method comprising:
executing, by a game component that is included in the online gaming platform, an instance of a game to facilitate presentation of the game to the users, and implementing, by the game component, in-game actions in the instance of the game in response to action requests for the in-game actions by the users, wherein the users include a first user and a second user;
presenting, by a group agreement component that is included in the online gaming platform, an agreement interface that displays the group agreements between two or more participating ones of the users, wherein the group agreements include a first group agreement, wherein the two or more participating ones of the users:
(i) contribute future gains to a first group account balance associated with the first group agreement, wherein the future gains result from transactions of the particular digital assets, wherein the transactions are recorded on a blockchain implemented by a ledger server, and
(ii) share a future allocation of benefits, wherein sharing of the future allocation of the benefits includes at least a portion of the first group account balance, and wherein the sharing of the future allocation of the benefits is specified to occur at a pre-determined time;

receiving user input from the group agreement component, through the agreement interface, wherein the user input indicates the first user and the second user have joined the first group agreement;
generating, by the group agreement component, a set of instructions for implementation of the first group agreement as one or more smart contracts;
transmitting, by the group agreement component, the set of instructions to the ledger server for recording of the first group agreement on the blockchain;
at the pre-determined time, effectuating the sharing in accordance with the first group agreement, by a benefit allocation component, of an allocation of a portion of the first group account balance between the first user and the second user such that the allocation of the portion of the first group account balance reduces the first group account balance.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein responsive to a second transaction pertaining to the first digital asset being recorded and the first user earning a second gain based on owning the first distribution rights, further comprising increasing, by the group balance component, the first group account balance by a portion of the second gain.

13. The method of claim 11 , wherein the sharing of the future allocations of the benefits includes a determination by a smart contract of individual allocations that are shared with the participating users, wherein the individual allocations are individually determined portions of the group account balance.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the allocation shared is based on at least one of:
(i) the gains contributed to the group account balance by the individual participating users,
(ii) time spent on the online gaming platform,
(ii

Assignees

• Mythical Inc

Inventors

• Linden John
• Koch Rudy

Classifications

• G06Q50/184 Primary

  Intellectual property management · CPC title

• A63F13/00

  Video games, i.e. games using an electronically generated display having two or more dimensions · CPC title

• A63F13/79

  involving player-related data, e.g. identities, accounts, preferences or play histories · CPC title

• G06F16/23

  Updating · CPC title

• G06F21/10

  Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material (protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16) {; Digital rights management [DRM]} · CPC title