Method and system for supplementing a video stream of a fantasy card videogame

• US 10,625,163 B1
• Filed: 08/09/2019
• Issued: 04/21/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 08/09/2019
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cardboard Live, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Cardboard Live, Inc.
• Inventors: Hsu, James Chieh-Wei, Hunter, Wilson
• Primary Examiner(s): Laneau, Ronald
• Application Number:
  US16/537,102
• Time in Patent Office: 256 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/30 Interconnection arrangements between game servers and game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game servers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/352 involving special game server arrangements, e.g. regional servers connected to a national server or a plurality of servers managing partitions of the game world
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/53 involving additional visual information provided to the game scene, e.g. by overlay to simulate a head-up display [HUD] or displaying a laser sight in a shooting game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/69 by enabling or updating specific game elements, e.g. unlocking hidden features, items, levels or versions
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/86 Watching games played by other players
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/95 Storage media specially adapted for storing game information, e.g. video game cartridges
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2001/008 adapted for being playable on a screen

Abstract

The present invention provides a method and system for supplementing a video stream of a fantasy card videogame including receiving gameplay data from a game log, the gameplay data representing a playing of a plurality of electronic gaming cards within the fantasy card videogame. The method and system analyzes the gameplay data to retrieve supplemental content associated with the electronic gaming cards played within the fantasy card videogame and transmits supplemental content to a viewer application associated with a streaming application. Whereby, the method and system displays the supplemental content in conjunction with the video stream, the viewer application displaying the supplemental content using an overlay function based on a user interaction with the video stream.

Claims

1. A computerized method for supplementing a video stream of a fantasy card videogame, the method comprising:

electronically accessing a game log and receiving gameplay data therefrom, the gameplay data representing a playing of a plurality of electronic gaming cards within the fantasy card videogame by at least one user electronically playing the fantasy card videogame via a computerized gaming interface;

analyzing the gameplay data to retrieve supplemental content associated with the electronic gaming cards played within the fantasy card videogame;

electronically transmitting the supplemental content via a network connection to a viewer application associated with a streaming application receiving the video stream of the fantasy card videogame; and

displaying the supplemental content in conjunction with the video stream, the viewer application displaying the supplemental content using an overlay function based on a user interaction with the video stream.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

accessing the game log using a log-reader program.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the fantasy card videogame and the log-reader program execute on a client device, the log-reader program transmitting the gameplay data from the game log to an extension backend service engine.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

based on the gameplay data, accessing a card data database and retrieving the supplemental content therefrom.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the supplemental content is content data about the plurality of electronic gaming cards.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the supplemental content includes a likelihood of gameplay generated using predictive analysis based on the gameplay data.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying of the video stream is on a viewing device, the method further comprising:

executing the viewer application on the viewing device;

monitoring a cursor position on the video stream display in the viewer application;

upon detecting the cursor position within proximity to a first card of the plurality of electronic gaming cards, displaying the supplemental content associated with the first card.

8. A system for supplementing a video stream of a fantasy card videogame, the system comprising:

a non-transitory computer readable medium having executable instructions stored therein; and

at least one processing device, in response to the executable instructions, operative to;

electronically access a game log and receive gameplay data therefrom, the gameplay data representing a playing of a plurality of electronic gaming cards within the fantasy card videogame by at least one user electronically playing the fantasy card videogame via a computerized gaming interface;

analyze the gameplay data to retrieve supplemental content associated with the electronic gaming cards played within the fantasy card videogame;

electronically transmit via a network connection the supplemental content to a viewer application associated with a streaming application receiving the video stream of the fantasy card videogame; and

display the supplemental content in conjunction with the video stream, the viewer application displaying the supplemental content using an overlay function based on a user interaction with the video stream.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the processing device, in response to the executable instructions, is further operative to:

access the game log using a log-reader program.

10. The system of claim 9 further comprising:

an extension backend service engine, wherein the fantasy card videogame and the log-reader program execute on a client device, the log-reader program transmitting the gameplay data from the game log to the extension backend service engine.

11. The system of claim 8 wherein the processing device, in response to the executable instructions, is further operative to:

based on the gameplay data, access a card data database and retrieving the supplemental content therefrom.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the supplemental content is content data about the plurality of electronic gaming cards.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the supplemental content includes a likelihood of gameplay generated using predictive analysis based on the gameplay data.

14. The system of claim 8, displaying of the video stream is on a viewing device, the processing device, in response to the executable instructions, is further operative to:

execute the viewer application on the viewing device;

monitor a cursor position on the video stream display in the viewer application;

upon detecting the cursor position within proximity to a first card of the plurality of electronic gaming cards, display the supplemental content associated with the first card.

15. A computerized method for supplementing a video stream of a fantasy card videogame, the method comprising:

executing the fantasy card videogame via at least one processing device, including playing a plurality of electronic gaming cards using a gaming input device;

electronically distributing an output of the fantasy card videogame to a streaming engine for distributing the video stream to at least one viewer application;

generating gameplay data representing the playing of the plurality of electronic gaming cards and storing the gameplay data within a game log;

via a log reader client program, accessing the game log and analyzing the gameplay data to retrieve supplemental content associated with the playing of the electronic gaming cards as indicated by the gameplay data;

electronically transmitting via a network connected the supplemental content to a backend server;

electronically transmitting the supplemental content to the at least one viewer application via the backend server; and

displaying the supplemental content within the viewer application in conjunction with the video stream.

16. The method of claim 15 further comprising:

monitoring a cursor position generated by a viewer within the viewer application; and

upon detecting the cursor position within proximity to a first electronic gaming card of the plurality of electronic gaming cards, displaying the supplemental content in a secondary display window relating to the first electronic gaming card.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the supplemental content is content data about the plurality of electronic gaming cards.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein the supplemental content includes a likelihood of gameplay generated using predictive analysis based on the gameplay data.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein the at least one viewer application includes a streaming content viewer application and a supplemental content extension to the streaming content viewer application.

20. The method of claim 15, wherein the backend server is a separate processing server from the streaming engine.