System and method for automatically creating and updating a friend database associated with a player

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016005255-A1
Application number	US-201414321292-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jul 1, 2014
Priority date	Jul 1, 2014
Publication date	Jan 7, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a system and method for automatically creating and updating a friend database associated with a player. Generally, in various embodiments, the system of the present disclosure is configured to access one or more player accounts (such as social media accounts) of the player, collect player friend data from the accessed player account(s), determine a list or one of more friends of the player based on the collected player data, and create or update a friend database associated with the player to include the determined friends. The system of the present disclosure thus dynamically and automatically creates and updates the friend database associated with the player without requiring the player to actively create and repeatedly and actively update (e.g., add friends to and remove friends from) the friend database.

First claim

The invention is claimed as follows:

1 . A method comprising:
(a) causing at least one processor to execute a plurality of instructions to access, through a data network, a player account associated with a player such that player friend data may be collected from the accessed player account; (b) causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions to collect the player friend data from the accessed player account; (c) causing the at least one processor…

Assignees

• Igt Reno Nev

Inventors

• Nelson Dwayne R

Classifications

• G07F17/3274

  Physics · mapped topic

• G07F17/3272

  Physics · mapped topic

• G07F17/3232

  Physics · mapped topic

• G07F17/323 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic