Techniques for offering synergistic bundles in games involving game-sets of play-items
US12134040B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 28, 2021 |
| Grant date | Nov 5, 2024 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 21, 2042 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA63F2300/6027
- WIPO fieldFurniture, games
- WIPO sectorOther fields
Abstract
Techniques are described herein for automatically pre-constructing bundles of play-items based on the degree of synergy between the play-items. The degree of synergy between play-items is determined empirically, based on contents of player-constructed game-sets and outcomes of actual games using those game-sets. Automatically pre-constructing bundles involves generating pairwise synergy scores between every possible pair of play-items, and then (for bundles containing more than two items) using those pairwise synergy scores to determine bundle-wise synergy scores. Techniques are provided for identifying candidate bundle(s) of play-items to offer or award to a player. The candidate bundles are determined based on synergies between the play-items in each of the pre-constructed bundles and the play-items in the player's specific game-set.
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