GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR A GAMING SYSTEM

• US 20130316813A1
• Filed: 05/24/2012
• Published: 11/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Supercell Oy (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Supercell Oy (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: Derome, John Nicholas, Leppinen, Lassi
• Granted Patent: US 8,814,674 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/31
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/2145 the surface being also a display device, e.g. touch screens
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/218 using pressure sensors, e.g. generating a signal proportional to the pressure applied by the player
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/533 for prompting the player, e.g. by displaying a game menu
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/1075 using a touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/308 Details of the user interface
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8029 Fighting without shooting
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 9/24 Electric games; Games using electronic circuits not otherwise provided for video games A63F13/00; computerized gaming systems G07F17/32
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3209 Input means, e.g. buttons, touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3211 Display means

Abstract

A method and a system for a graphical user interface corresponding to a gaming environment executes a software product corresponding to the game on the computing hardware of an electronic device. The interface renders multiple graphical objects and user selectable options corresponding to the graphical object. The user selects one or more option, and eventually performs a touching or a swiping operation through multiple points on the display screen. The touching or swiping operation leads to deploying of multiple resources corresponding to the selected option, at different locations on the interface. For controlling the different deployed resources, the user can swipe through different regions of the display screen based on his/her desire. The number of resources deployed at the different locations on the screen depends on certain parameters, including the pressure applied by the user on the screen during performing the touching or swiping operations.

Claims

1. An electronic device for playing a game comprising:

a touch-sensitive display screen, configured to simultaneously sense touching operations performed at multiple points of the screen; and

a computing hardware operable to execute a software product, wherein executing the software product results in generating and rendering a graphical user interface on the display screen, the graphical user interface being configured to facilitate user interaction;

the graphical user interface, when rendered, presenting;

one or more graphical objects; and

one or more user selectable options, each option representing one or more resources for performing an operation on one or more of the one or more graphical objects;

wherein based on a user'"'"'s selection of one or more of the user selectable options, the software product is configured to render the one or more resources corresponding to the selected user selectable option, at multiple locations of the interface and rendering the one or more resources at multiple locations when the user'"'"'s touching operation at the multiple points is performed for a pre-determined time period.

2. An electronic device of claim 1, wherein the software product is configured to execute actions through the one or more resources, on one or more graphical objects, based on receiving a user'"'"'s execution input, after rendering the one or more resources at multiple locations.

3. An electronic device of claim 1, wherein the software product is configured to render the one or more resources at multiple locations, based on a user'"'"'s touching operation at multiple points of the display screen, or a user'"'"'s swiping operation through the multiple points, the multiple points corresponding to the multiple locations on the display screen.

6. An electronic device of claim 3, wherein the rapidity of rendering the one or more resources at multiple locations is based at least on the speed of the user'"'"'s touching operation or the swiping operation on the display screen.

7. An electronic device of claim 3, wherein the number of resources rendered at multiple locations depends at least on the pressure applied by the user over the display screen, during performing the touching or swiping operation.

8. An electronic device of claim 1, wherein the software product and the graphical user interface corresponds to a gaming environment.

9. An electronic device of claim 8, wherein the gaming system corresponds to a war-based game, the graphical user interface corresponding to a battlefield, and the one or more resources corresponding to weapons of use within the battlefield.

10. An electronic device of claim 1, including a database for continuously recording and updating the change in status of the one or more graphical objects, the software product being coupled to the database and being configured to resume the status of the one or more graphical objects to their last updated status in the database, in case of interruptions in the operable state of the graphical user interface.

11. A plurality of electronic devices of claim 1, connected to a server through a network, the graphical user interface being generated temporally concurrently on each of the electronic devices, to facilitate a plurality of users'"'"' interaction with the graphical user interface, wherein the graphical user interfaces generated on the plurality of electronic devices are coordinated and synchronized through the server, and updated concurrently on the plurality of electronic devices with time.

12. An electronic device of claim 1, the device being a desktop computer, a laptop computer, an iPad, or a smart phone, including an iPhone®

, an Android®

phone or a Symbian®

phone.

4. (canceled)

5. An electronic device of claim 4, wherein the pre-determined time is user adjustable.

13. A method of facilitating user interactions with a graphical user interface, the graphical interface being generated and rendered on the display of an electronic device, by executing a software product on a computing hardware of the electronic device, the method comprising:

rendering one or more graphical objects, and one or more user selectable options corresponding to the one or more graphical objects on the graphical user interface, each user selectable options corresponding to one or more resources to be deployed on the interface;

selecting one or more of the user selectable options, and performing one of a touching operation at different points on the display, and a swiping operation through the different points of the display; and

deploying the one or more resource corresponding to the selected user selectable option at multiple locations on the interface simultaneously, the multiple locations corresponding to the different points where the touching operation, or through which the swiping operation, is being performed, wherein the one or more resources are deployed at multiple locations only if a time duration of the touching or swiping operation at the multiple points on the display screen exceeds a predetermined time period.

15. A method of claim 13, wherein the rapidity of deployment of the one or more resources at multiple locations depends on the speed of the swiping operation or the touching operation.

16. A method of claim 13, wherein the number of resources deployed at the different locations on the interface depends on the pressure applied on the display screen during performing the touching operation or the swiping operation.

17. A method of claim 13, wherein the software product and the graphical user interface corresponds to a gaming system.

18. A method of claim 17, wherein the gaming system corresponds to a war based game, the graphical user interface corresponds to a battlefield, and the one or more resources correspond to weapons of use within the battlefield.

19. A method of claim 13, furthering comprising continuously recording and updating the change in status of the one or more graphical objects, coupling the software product to the database, and resuming the status of one or more graphical objects to their last updated status in the database, in case of interruptions in the operations of the graphical user interface.

20. A method of claim 13, further comprising:

connecting a plurality of the electronic devices to a server through a network;

generating the graphical user interface temporally concurrently on the displays of the different electronic devices;

coordinating the plurality of graphical user interfaces through the server, and updating them concurrently with time, to facilitate multiple users'"'"' interaction and coordination with the graphical user interfaces.

21. A method of claim 20, wherein the graphical user interface corresponds to a gaming system, and the method being configured to facilitate an online multiplayer gaming system.

22. A software product recorded on a machine readable data storage medium, the software product being executable on the computing hardware of a computing device, for implementing a method of claim 13.

14. (canceled)