Game-based incentives for location-based actions

US8491395B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Zynga Inc. · US

Inventors

• Kathleen Auterio · San Francisco, US
• Deniz Ersever · San Francisco, US
• Hardik Kheskani · San Francisco, US
• Serena Lam · San Francisco, US
• Christopher Joseph Makarsky · San Francisco, US
• Donald C. Mosites · San Francisco, US
• Benjamin Mullin · San Francisco, US
• Shantanu Talapatra · San Francisco, US
• Justin Waldron · San Francisco, US
• Jackson Wang · Toronto, CA

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 30, 2011
• Grant date: Jul 23, 2013
• Expiry date: Jun 30, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A63F2300/575
• WIPO field: Furniture, games
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

In a method and system of providing in-game assets for location-based actions, an indication of a performance of a location-based action by a player of a computer-implemented game is received. A virtual item is provided based on the receiving of the indication of the performance of the location-based action by the player of the computer-implemented game, the virtual item being usable within the computer-implemented game.