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Method and system for providing an event space associated with a primary virtual space

  • US 9,613,179 B1
  • Filed: 04/18/2013
  • Issued: 04/04/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/18/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for providing an event space associated with a primary virtual space, the system comprising:

  • one or more processors configured to execute machine-readable instructions to;

    execute an instance of a primary virtual space, and to implement the instance of the primary virtual space by effectuating transmission of information over a network to client computing platforms associated with users to facilitate interaction of the users with the primary virtual space and/or each other by performing operations in the primary virtual space in response to commands received over the network from the client computer platforms associated with the users;

    manage accounts of users related to the primary virtual space that include a first primary user account associated with a first user, wherein the first primary user account includes inventory information for the first user which indicates virtual items available to the first user in the primary virtual space;

    execute an instance of an event space, and to implement the instance of the event space by effectuating transmission of information over a network to the client computing platforms associated with the users to facilitate interactions of the users with the event space and/or each other during an event period by performing operations in the event space in response to commands received over the network from the client computer platforms associated with the users, wherein the event space comprises one or more event objectives;

    manage accounts of users related to the event space that include a first event user account associated with the first user, wherein the first event user account indicates a set of event user parameters for the first user, a set of event game parameters for the first user, and event inventory information which indicates virtual items available to the first user in the event space, wherein the event user parameters include an association of the first event account with the first primary user account, and wherein the virtual items available to the first user in the event space are different than the virtual items available to the first user in the primary virtual space;

    facilitate purchase of event virtual items useable in the event space such that responsive to purchase of an event virtual item in the event space by the first user, the event inventory information reflects the availability of the event virtual item to the first user in the event space;

    determine the progress of the users with respect to the one or more event objectives, anddetermine event rewards to be awarded to individual ones of the users based on the progress of the individual users with respect to the one or more event objectives, wherein the event rewards are usable in the primary virtual space; and

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    distribute event rewards to the users in the primary virtual space such that responsive to determination of a first event reward for the first user, the primary inventory information in the first primary account is updated to reflect the availability to the first user in the primary virtual space of one or more virtual items included in the first event reward, wherein distributing the event rewards to the users in the primary virtual space includes effectuating transmission over the network to a first client computing platform associated with the first user of communications that cause the first client computing platform to present the availability of the one or more virtual items included in the first event reward.

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