Social collaboration in community casino game offered as player incentive

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9881447
SERIAL NO

15181181

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Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for enhancing social collaboration in an online casino game. One method includes an operation for receiving bets from players playing in a first gambling mode in an online gambling room. The method also includes an operation for determining contributions to a community metric based on the outcomes of the bets, where all players in the online gambling room contribute towards the community metric. After detecting that the community metric reaches a predetermined goal, the online casino game enters all players in the online gambling room into a second gambling mode to achieve a room goal, where the value of the community metric does not change while players are in the second gambling mode.

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  • ZYNGA INC.

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Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Guase, Josh Austin, US 6 64
Malle, Nimai Austin, US 15 266
Ratcliffe, Nathan Austin, US 6 64

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