Systems and methods to enable administrators to incentivize in-game user behaviors and in-game user activities via group agreements that govern user groups within an online game

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12036477-B2
Application number	US-202117448824-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 24, 2021
Priority date	Feb 25, 2021
Publication date	Jul 16, 2024
Grant date	Jul 16, 2024

Abstract

Systems and methods to enable administrators to incentivize one or both of particular in-game user behaviors and particular in-game user activities via group agreements that govern user groups within an online game are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: effectuate presentation of an administrative agreement interface that enables administrators to: define a formation proposal of a new group agreement to be formed, formation incentives thereof, and prospective users for the new group agreements, and define an activity proposal of proposed activities for a user group and activity incentives thereof; receive an indication of acceptance to form the new group agreement, generate instructions to form the new group agreement as a smart contract and transmit such to a decentralized ledger server for recordation; provide the formation incentives to the prospective users subsequent to the generation; receive indication of execution of the activities and responsively provide the activity incentives to the user group.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system configured to enable administrators to incentivize particular in-game user activities via group agreements that govern user groups within an online game, wherein the group agreements commit disbursement of group account balances to the users within the user groups, the system comprising:
one or more processors configured by machine-readable instructions to:
effectuate presentation of an administrative agreement interface that enables administrators to:
(a) define new group agreements to be formed,
(b) define formation incentives responsive to formation of the new group agreements,
(c) select users that are prospective participants for the new group agreements as defined,
(d) select proposed activities for the user groups,
(e) initiate transmission of formation proposals and activity proposals to client computing platforms associated with the users that are prospective participants, wherein the formation proposals correspond to the new group agreements, wherein the activity proposals correspond to the proposed activities, such that:
(i) a given formation proposal proposes formation of a given group agreement between a given set of users that are prospective participants for the given group agreement, and a given formation incentive, and further such that:
(ii) a given activity proposal proposes a given set of activities to users of a given user group;

effectuate, via an online gaming platform, presentation of the formation proposals and the activity proposals such that the given formation proposal is presented to the given set of the users and the given activity proposal is presented to the users of the given user group;
receive, from client computing platforms associated with the users that are prospective participants, indications of acceptance to form the new group agreements such that a given indication of acceptance is received from a client computing platform associated with a user from the given set of users to form the given group agreement in accordance with the given formation proposal;
generate sets of instructions to form the new group agreements as smart contracts such that a given set of instructions is generated to form the given group agreement as a given smart contract;
transfer the given set of instructions to a decentralized ledger server such that the given smart contract is recorded on a blockchain implemented by the decentralized ledger server;
provide, subsequent to generation of the given set of instructions, the given formation incentive to the given set of the users in accordance with the given formation proposal;
receive, from the online gaming platform, particular information that indicates execution of the given set of the activities by the users of the given user group; and
disperse, responsive to the receipt of the particular information, at least some of the group account balances to the users of the given user group in accordance with the given group agreement; and

the decentralized ledger server comprising one or more processors configured by machine-readable instructions to:
receive and execute the sets of instructions to record the new group agreements on the blockchain as the smart contracts such that the given set of instructions is received and executed to record the given smart contract on the blockchain.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the formation proposals and the activity proposals are transmitted separately.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured by machine-readable instructions to:
monitor, in an ongoing manner, in-game user activities of the users,
wherein effectuating the presentation of the activity proposal is based on the in-game user activities of the users as monitored.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the proposed activities for the user groups includes one or more of:
(i) recruiting new users, and
(ii) referring other users to join the user groups, wherein the proposed activities cause increasing:
(a) time spent on the online gaming platform,
(b) playing a game via the online gaming platform during a particular time of day, and/or
(c) in-game victories frequency.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the group agreements specify trigger events that cause the disbursement of some or all of the group account balances to the users within the respective user groups, wherein the modifying of the group agreements includes one or more of:
(i) modifying the trigger events, and/or
(ii) modifying the user groups.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the formation incentive include one or more of:
(i) contributions to the group account balances, and/or
(ii) dispersing a direct bonus to the users within the respective user groups, wherein the direct bonus includes virtual items and/or virtual currency.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the administrative agreement interface enables selection and/or entry of one or more of:
(i) a bonus benefit for the users within the user groups,
(ii) a bonus trigger that causes dispersion of the bonus benefit, and
(iii) a message, so that the dispersion of the group account balances to the users within the respective user groups includes the bonus benefit, wherein the one or more processors are further configured by machine-readable instructions to:
effectuate, via the online gaming platform, presentation of the message that provides information related to the bonus trigger.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein proceeds from transactions pertaining to digital assets that the users of the user groups hold rights to are added to the group account balances.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the given set of the activities are for execution by a particular user of the given user group.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein individual ones of the given set of the activities are for execution by particular users of the given user group.

11. A method configured to enable administrators to incentivize particular in-game user activities via group agreements that govern user groups within an online game, wherein the group agreements commit disbursement of the group account balances to the users within the user groups, the method comprising:
effectuating presentation of an administrative agreement interface that enables administrators to:
(a) define new group agreements to be formed,
(b) define formation incentives responsive to formation of the new group agreements,
(c) select users that are prospective participants for the new group agreements as defined,
(d) select proposed activities for the user groups,
(e) initiate transmission of formation proposals and activity proposals to client computing platforms associated with the users that are prospective participants, wherein the formation proposals correspond to the new group agreements, wherein the activity proposals correspond to the proposed activities, such that:
(i) a given formation proposal proposes formation of a given group agreement between a given set of users that are prospective participants for the given group agreement, and a given formation incentive, and further such that:
(ii) a given activity proposal proposes a given set of activities to users of a given user group;

effectuating, via an online gaming platform, presentation of the formation proposals and the activity proposals such that the given formation proposal is presented to the given set of the users and the given activity proposal is presented to the users of the given user group;
receiving, from client computing platforms associated with the users that are prospective participants, indications of acceptance to form the new group agreements such that a given indicat

Assignees

• Mythical Inc

Inventors

• Linden John
• Koch Rudy

Classifications

• A63F13/79

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

• A63F13/69

  by enabling or updating specific game elements, e.g. unlocking hidden features, items, levels or versions · CPC title

• A63F2300/575

  for trading virtual items · CPC title

• A63F13/75

  Enforcing rules, e.g. detecting foul play or generating lists of cheating players · CPC title

• A63F13/71

  using secure communication between game devices and game servers, e.g. by encrypting game data or authenticating players · CPC title