Graphical user interface for a gaming system

• US 9,308,456 B2
• Filed: 07/14/2014
• Issued: 04/12/2016
• 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:
  US14/330,197
• Publication Number:
  US 20150011312A1
• Time in Patent Office: 638 Days
• Field of Search: 463 31- 42
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 improving a user'"'"'s experience with 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 selectable option, and eventually, performs a touching or a swiping operation through multiple points on the display screen of the graphical object. 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 user interface comprising a first region and a second region, a first set of selectable objects presented in the first region and a second set of non-selectable object presented in the second region, the user interface comprising a touch-sensitive display screen configured to sense simultaneous touching operations performed at multiple points of the second region; and

a computing hardware operable to execute a software product, wherein executing the software product results in generating and rendering multiple instances of a graphical object associated with the first set of selectable objects on the touch sensitive display screen of the user interface and wherein execution of the software product on the computing hardware causes the computing hardware to;

detect a selection of one or more of the selectable objects presented in the first region of the user interface, wherein the selected one or more selectable objects correspond to one or more resources configured to perform one or more operations on the non-selectable object in the second region;

detect multiple touching operations around the non-selectable object in the second region of the user interface, each touching operation corresponding to a touch point on the second region of the user interface;

deploy a first resource in the form of a first set of multiple graphical objects to a first set of touchpoints in the second region of the user interface and a second resource in the form of a second set of multiple graphical objects to a second set of touch points in the second region of the user interface;

cause the first resource to perform an action on the non-selectable object and the second resource to perform an action on the non-selectable object; and

reformat and represent the second region of the user interface to show a current state of the non-selectable object after the action performed by the first resource and the action performed by the second resource.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein a number of the first resource and a number of the second resource deployed to the first set of touchpoints and the second set of touchpoints depends at least on a pressure applied over the display screen during the multiple touching operations.

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

4. The electronic device of claim 3, wherein the gaming system corresponds to a war-based game, the second region of the user interface corresponding to a battlefield, and the one or more resources correspond to weapons of use within the battlefield.

5. The electronic device of claim 1, including a database for continuously recording and updating the change in status of the multiple instance of the graphical object, the software product being coupled to the database and being configured to resume a status of the multiple instances of the graphical objects to a last updated status in the database, in case of interruptions in an operable state of the user interface.

6. The electronic devices of claim 1, wherein the electronic device connected to a server through a network in communication with multiple electronic devices, the user interface being generated temporally concurrently on each of the multiple electronic devices, to facilitate a plurality of users'"'"' interaction with the user interface, wherein the user interface generated on the multiple electronic devices are coordinated and synchronized through the server, and updated concurrently on the multiple electronic devices with time.

7. 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.

8. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the first set of touchpoints corresponds to a path defined by a first swipe touching operation and multiple instances of the first resource are deployed at different points along the path, and the second set of touchpoints corresponds to a path defined by a second swipe touching operation and multiple instances of the second resource are deployed at different points along the path.

9. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the first set of touchpoints corresponds to an area around a first detected touching operation and the second set of touchpoints corresponds to an area around a second detected touching operation.

11. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein a number of the multiple instances of the first resource and a number of instance of second resource that are de loved is based on a time period of the first detected touching operation and a time period of the second detected touching operation, wherein each period is user adjustable.

12. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein a rapidity of rendering the multiple instances of the first resource and the second resource is based at least on a speed of the first swipe touching operation and the second swipe touching operation.

10. A method of facilitating user interactions with a graphical user interface, the graphical user interface being generated and rendered on the display of an electronic device by execution of a software product on a computing hardware of the electronic device, wherein execution of the software product on the computing hardware of the electronic device causes the graphical user interface to:

render one or more graphical objects in first and second regions of the graphical user interface, graphical objects in the first region corresponding to one or more user selectable options, the one or more user selectable options corresponding to one or more resources to be deployed on the second region of the graphical user interface and wherein a graphical object in the second region is not selectable;

detect a selection of one or more of the user selectable options in the first region;

detect a touching operation at different points on the second region of the graphical user interface;

deploy the one or more resources corresponding to the selected user selectable option at multiple locations on the interface simultaneously, the multiple locations corresponding to the different points of the detected touching operation wherein the one or more resources are deployed at multiple locations only if a time duration of the touching operation at the multiple points on the display screen exceeds a predetermined time period;

cause the one or more resources to perform an action on the non-selectable object; and

reformat and represent the second region of the user interface to show a current state of the non-selectable object after the action performed by the one or more resource, the current state being a result of an interaction of the one or more resources with the non-selectable object.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the touching operation is a swipe operation and the swipe operation defines a path on the second region of the user interface and multiple instances of the one or more resources are deployed at different points along the path.

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

15. The method of claim 13, wherein a number of the one or more resources deployed at the different locations on the second region of the graphical user interface depends on a pressure applied on graphical user interface during performing the touching operation or the swiping operation.

16. A method of claim 10, wherein the software product and the graphical user interface corresponds to a gaming system.

17. A method of claim 16, 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.

18. A method of claim 10, 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.

19. A method of claim 10, 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.

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 10.