Systems and methods for creating and joining tournaments in a multi-tenant database system environment

• US 9,468,855 B2
• Filed: 10/19/2011
• Issued: 10/18/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Inventors: Carlberg, Reid, Kopacki, Paul
• Primary Examiner(s): Yen, Jason
• Application Number:
  US13/277,060
• Publication Number:
  US 20130006402A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,826 Days
• Field of Search: 463/42
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/75 Enforcing rules, e.g. detecting foul play or generating lists of cheating players
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/795 for finding other players; for building a team; for providing a buddy list
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/798 for assessing skills or for ranking players, e.g. for generating a hall of fame computing the game score A63F13/46
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3276 wherein the players compete, e.g. tournament

Abstract

A system and method for creating and joining a tournament in multi-tenant database environment is provided. The system for creating a tournament, for example, includes a database configured to securely store tenant based data and a processor communicatively connected to the database. The processor may be configured to receive number of participants data, assignment of participant data and type of tournament data, receive tournament access information, create tournament data based upon the number of participants data, the assignment of participants data and the type of tournament data, and push the tournament data to a tournament application on a domain of one or more tenants of the multi-tenant database system based upon the tournament access information.

Claims

1. A system for creating a tournament in a multi-tenant database environment, comprising:

a database configured to securely store tenant based data; and

a processor communicatively connected to the database, the processor configured to;

receive number of participants data, assignment of participant data and type of tournament data;

receive tournament access information;

create tournament data based upon the number of participants data, the assignment of participants data and the type of tournament data; and

push the tournament data to a tournament application on a domain of one or more tenants of the multi-tenant database system based upon the tournament access information.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

receive privacy option data; and

push the tournament data to the tournament application on the domain of one or more tenants of the multi-tenant database system based upon the privacy option data.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the processor is further configured to:

receive scoring option data;

generate leader board data based upon the scoring option data; and

push the leader board data to at least one of the tenants in the multi-tenant database based upon the privacy options.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein blocked users of one or more tenants of the multi-tenant database are precluded from joining the tournament.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein the privacy options includes a data security data defining the tournament data that may be shared between tournament users from the same tenant and between tournament users from different tenants.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein any number of participants may be participating in the tournament.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein a user creating the tournament creates the assignment of participants data and the participants may be assigned in any arrangement.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein results of the tournament are based upon a database entry stored in the database.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to retrieve the tournament results from the database at a predetermined time.

10. A method for creating a tournament in a multi-tenant database system, comprising:

receiving, by a processor, number of participants data, assignment of participant data, type of tournament data and tournament access data;

creating, by the processor, tournament data based upon the number of participants data, the assignment of participants data and the type of tournament data; and

pushing, by the processor, the tournament data to a tournament application on a domain of one or more tenants of the multi-tenant database system based upon the tournament access information.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

receiving, by the processor, privacy option data; and

pushing, by the processor, the tournament data to one or more tenants of the multi-tenant database based upon the privacy option data.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

receiving, by the processor, scoring option data;

generating, by the processor, leader board data based upon the scoring option data; and

pushing the leader board data to at least one of the tenants in the multi-tenant database based upon the privacy options.

13. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

determining which users are allowed to join the tournament; and

pushing the tournament application to the domain of one or more tenants of the multi-tenant database system based upon which of the users of the respective tenant are allowed to join the tournament.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the privacy options includes a data security data defining the tournament data that may be shared between tournament users from the same tenant and between tournament users from different tenants.

15. The method of claim 10, further comprising retrieving, by the processor, tournament results from a database in the multi-tenant database system at a predetermined time.

16. The method of claim 10, further comprising retrieving, by the processor, tournament results from an external network and pushing the tournament results to the tournament application on the domain of the one or more tenants of the multi-tenant database system.

17. The method of claim 10, further comprising retrieving, by the processor, tournament results from a user input and pushing the tournament results to the tournament application on the domain of the one or more tenants of the multi-tenant database system.

18. A system for joining a tournament in a multi-tenant database environment, comprising:

a database configured to securely store tenant based data; and

a processor communicatively connected to the database, the processor configured to;

push tournament data to a tournament application to a domain of at least one tenant, based upon tournament accesses data stored in the database;

receive a request to join the tournament from a user in the tenant;

push assignment of team data to the tournament application on the domain of the at least one tenant; and

receive participant selection data from the user.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the processor is further configured to:

receive privacy options from the user joining the tournament; and

push leader board data to a tournament application on a domain of one or more tenants of the multi-tenant database system based upon the received privacy options.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein the privacy options determine how much information about the user that is shared to other users in the same tenant and other users in different tenants.