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System and method for implementing a refund calculator in a game

  • US 10,467,856 B2
  • Filed: 09/21/2018
  • Issued: 11/05/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for implementing a mechanism for automatically determining and distributing requested refunds of virtual items to users in an online game, the system comprising:

  • one or more processors configured by machine-readable instructions to;

    execute a game instance of a game space, and to facilitate presentation of views of the game space to the users to enable interaction of the users with the game space and/or each other by performing operations in the game space in response to commands received from the users through client computing platforms associated with the users;

    store inventories of items that are available to the users in the game space, the inventories including a first inventory of items available to a first user in the game space and a second inventory of items available to a second user in the game space;

    receive, from the first user, a first refund request for a first set of one or more virtual items to be refunded into the first inventory;

    receive, from the second user, a second refund request for a second set of one or more virtual items to be refunded into the second inventory;

    determine user values, indicating value of the users, based on past user spending characterizing past spending by individual ones of the users in the online game, the user values including a first user value indicating a value of the first user and a second user value indicating a second value of the second user;

    determine refunds in response to the first and second refund requests, wherein determination of the refunds is based on the determined user values, wherein the refunds are distributed into the inventories of the users without requiring an exchange of consideration by the users for the refunds, such that whether a first refund is to be distributed into the first inventory is determined based on the first user value and wherein the first refund is to be distributed without requiring the first user to exchange any consideration for the first refund, and further such that whether a second refund is to be distributed into the second inventory is determined based on the second user value and wherein the second refund is to be distributed without requiring the second user to exchange any consideration for the second refund;

    responsive to a first determination that the first refund is to be distributed, distribute the first refund for the first set of one or more virtual items into the first inventory of the first user; and

    responsive to a second determination that the second refund is not to be distributed, the second refund for the second set of one or more virtual items is not distributed into the second inventory of the second user.

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