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Graphical user interfaces in computer-implemented multiplayer games

  • US 8,814,698 B1
  • Filed: 03/30/2012
  • Issued: 08/26/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented system comprising:

  • a game display module to generate a game display for a game instance of a computer-implemented multiplayer game, the game instance being associated with a player of the game, and the game display including an environment view that shows a virtual in-game environment associated with the game instance;

    a graphical user interface module that comprises one or more computer processors, the graphical user interface module being configured to generate a graphical user interface that forms part of the game display, the graphical user interface including a friends panel that is operable between;

    a collapsed condition that provides a collapsed friends panel arranged such that the environment view is substantially unobscured by the collapsed friends panel, andan expanded condition that provides an expanded friends panel which occupies a larger area of the game display than the collapsed friends panel and at least partially obscures the environment view, both the collapsed friends panel and the expanded friends panel providing friend information display functionality or friend communication functionality to the player, the graphical user interface being configured to switch the friends panel between the collapsed condition and the expanded condition responsive to player input.

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