Free-for-all game session methods, systems, and apparatuses
US12046105B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 9, 2019 |
| Grant date | Jul 23, 2024 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 4, 2041 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG07F17/3267
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are provided for implementing free-for-all game session participation and administration including creating a game session hosted at a social platform, issuing a plurality of prizes, populating the issued prizes with quantities of a commodity, setting a task as a precondition to claiming the issued prizes, awarding prizes to claiming users from whose respective user devices the social platform received successful claims based on performance of the task, and disbursing each awarded prize. Example embodiments of the present disclosure implement collective activities which encourage participation by groups of people affiliated by friend and/or group relationships using token or nominal commodity prizes to provide incentives, and furthermore provide token levels of challenge to provide participants with entertainment. Friends, family, colleagues, and other such extended groups of people may be incentivized to participate for the sake of collective low-stakes competition without extensive investment.
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