Providing virtual items based on location-based actions

US9895608B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Zynga Inc. · US

Inventors

• Kathleen Auterio · San Francisco, US
• Deniz Ersever · San Francisco, US
• Nathan Arthur Etter · San Jose, US
• Hardik Kheskani · San Francisco, US
• Serena Lam · San Francisco, US
• Amitt Mahajan · San Francisco, US
• Christopher Joseph Makarsky · San Francisco, US
• Jay Monahan · Los Gatos, US
• Donald C. Mosites · San Francisco, US
• Benjamin Mullin · San Francisco, US
• Matthew Adam Ocko · San Francisco, US
• Brian Reynolds · Timonium, US
• Shantanu Talapatra · San Francisco, US
• Justin Waldron · San Francisco, US
• Ian Wang · San Francisco, US
• Jackson Wang · Toronto, CA

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 30, 2012
• Grant date: Feb 20, 2018
• Expiry date: Sep 7, 2032

Classification

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

Abstract

A method of providing virtual items based on location-based actions is disclosed. An indication is received of a performance of a location-based action by a player of a computer-implemented game. A virtual item is added to an inventory of a player character of the player of the computer-implemented game 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 is usable within the computer-implemented game by the player character of the player of the computer-implemented game.