Graphical user interface for a gaming system

• US 8,814,674 B2
• Filed: 05/24/2012
• Issued: 08/26/2014
• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): Ahmed, Masud
• Application Number:
  US13/479,637
• Publication Number:
  US 20130316813A1
• Time in Patent Office: 824 Days
• Field of Search: 463 31- 42
• US Class Current: 463/30
• 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 by a user, comprising:

a touch-sensitive display screen configured to sense simultaneous touching operations performed at multiple points of the touch-sensitive display 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 touch-sensitive display 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, a selected option configured to provide a resource for performing an operation on one or more of the one or more graphical objects;

wherein

the execution of the software product is configured to render individual instances of the resource corresponding to the selected option at multiple locations of the graphical user interface, the multiple locations being selected by the touching operations performed at multiple points of the touch-sensitive display when the touching operation at the multiple points of the touch-sensitive display is performed for a pre-determined time period.

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

3. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the software product is configured to render the individual instances of the resource at multiple locations, based on the touching operation comprising a user touching multiple points of the touch-sensitive display screen with two or more fingers at substantially the same time, or a user swiping operation through the multiple points, the multiple points corresponding to the multiple locations on the touch-sensitive display screen.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the pre-determined time is user adjustable.

5. The electronic device of claim 3, wherein the rapidity of rendering the individual instances of the resource at multiple locations is based at least on a speed of the touching operation or the swiping operation on the display screen.

6. The electronic device of claim 3, wherein a number of the individual instances of the resource rendered at multiple locations depends at least on a pressure applied by the user to the touch-sensitive display screen during the touching or swiping operation.

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

8. The electronic device of claim 7, wherein the gaming system corresponds to a war-based game, the graphical user interface corresponding to a battlefield, and the resource comprises weapons of use within the battlefield.

9. The electronic device of claim 1, including a database for continuously recording and updating a change in status of the one or more graphical objects, the software product being coupled to the database and, when executed by the computing hardware, being configured to resume a status of the one or more graphical objects to a last updated status in the database, in case of interruptions in an operable state of the graphical user interface.

10. The electronic device claim 1, wherein the electronic device is connected to a server through a network to a plurality of electronic devices, the graphical user interface being generated temporally concurrently on one or more of the plurality electronic devices to facilitate a plurality of users'"'"' interaction with the graphical user interface, wherein a graphical user interface generated on the plurality of electronic devices is coordinated and synchronized through the server, and updated concurrently on the plurality of electronic devices with time.

11. The electronic device of claim 1, the device comprising, a desktop computer, a laptop computer, an iPad, or a smart phone, including an iPhone®

, an Android®

phone or a Symbian®

phone.

12. 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, wherein a selection of a user selectable option is configured to provide a resource to be deployed on the graphical user interface for performing an operation on the one or more graphical objects;

the selection of the user selectable option comprising 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 an individual instance of the resource corresponding to the selected user selectable option at multiple locations on the graphical user interface substantially simultaneously, the multiple locations corresponding to the different points where the touching operation, or through which the swiping operation, is being performed, wherein the individual instance of the resource is deployed at multiple locations only if a time duration of the touching operation or swiping operation at the multiple points on the display screen exceeds a predetermined time period.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the rapidity of deployment of the individual instances of the resource at multiple locations depends on a speed of the swiping operation or the touching operation.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein a number of the individual instances of the resource are deployed at the different locations on the graphical user interface depends upon a pressure applied on the display screen during the touching operation or the swiping operation.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the software product and the graphical user interface correspond to a gaming system.

16. The method of claim 15, 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.

17. The method of claim 12, furthering comprising continuously recording and updating a change in status of the one or more graphical objects, coupling the software product to the database, and resuming a status of the one or more graphical objects to a last updated status in the database, in case of interruptions in an operation of the graphical user interface.

18. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

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

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

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

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the graphical user interface corresponds to a gaming system, and the method being configured to facilitate an online multiplayer gaming system.

20. 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 12.