System and method for determining and acting on a user's value across different platforms

• US 9,656,179 B1
• Filed: 04/20/2015
• Issued: 05/23/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Electronic Arts Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Aftershock Services, Inc. (The Walt Disney Company)
• Inventors: Xu, Ziqiang
• Primary Examiner(s): Torimiro, Adetokunbo O
• Application Number:
  US14/690,865
• Time in Patent Office: 764 Days
• Field of Search: 463 20, 463 25, 463 39, 463 40, 463 41, 463 42, 463 29, 705 16
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/50 Controlling the output signals based on the game progress
• 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: A63F 13/87 Communicating with other players during game play, e.g. by e-mail or chat

Abstract

Individual users may log into the same online game from multiple different social networking platforms. The disclosed technology provides a way to unite users'"'"' accounts such that users that have logged into the online game from different social networking platforms can have their progress in the online game preserved regardless of which social networking platforms the user logged in from. Business intelligence about differences in the user'"'"'s value when logging in from the different social networking platforms can be determined and incentivizing actions can be performed on the social networking platforms based on the business intelligence.

Claims

1. A system for determining and acting on a user'"'"'s value for an online game when the online game is accessed from a first social networking platform and a second social networking platform, the system comprising:

one or more processors configured by machine-readable instructions to;

identify the user that played the online game via the first social networking platform as the same user that played the online game via the second social networking platform;

determine for a first metric, the user'"'"'s first value for the online game based one or more activities of the first user within the online game when the online game is accessed via the first social networking platform and to determine, for the first metric, the user'"'"'s second value for the online game based one or more activities of the first user within the online game when the online game is accessed via the second social networking platform; and

generate a first notification to the first social networking platform based on the first value and the second value determined for the first metric.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further configured by machine-readable instructions such that the first notification causes an indication of an action to be displayed on a virtual wall associated with the user in the first social networking platform.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the first metric comprises one or more of:

revenue generated, virtual currency bought or sold, time logged into the online game, time logged into the social network, or number of friends or associates on the first and second social networking platform.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further configured by machine-readable instructions to:

determine for a second metric, the user'"'"'s third value for the online game when the online game is accessed via the first social networking platform and to determine, for the second metric, the user'"'"'s fourth value for the online game when the online game is accessed via the second social networking platform; and

generate a second notification to the second social networking platform based on the third value and the fourth value determined for the second metric; and

wherein the first metric and the second metrics are different metrics.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further configured by machine-readable instructions to execute an instance of a virtual space in which the online game is played, and responsive to the user being logged into the online game, (i) the instance of the virtual space is implemented to determine view information that defines a view of the virtual space for presentation to the user, and (ii) the view information is transmitted to a client computing platform associated with the user to facilitate presentation of the view of the virtual space to the user on the client computing platform.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further configured by machine-readable instructions to aggregate social networking information that is received from the first and second social networking platforms such that social networking information about the user received from the first social networking platform and the second social networking platform is aggregated for the user to represent the user across both the first social networking platform and the second social networking platform.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein the one or more processors are further configured by machine-readable instructions to:

determine which of the first and second social networking platforms to perform the incentivizing action on based on the first value and the second value determined; and

generate a notification to the determined social networking platform.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the notification causes an indication of an action to be displayed on a virtual wall associated with the user in the determined social networking platform.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further configured by machine-readable instructions to:

unite the user'"'"'s account in the online game across multiple social networking platforms, the multiple social networking platforms including the first social networking platform and the second social networking platform, wherein the user can access the online game through the first social networking platform or the second social networking platform;

wherein the first value indicates of the user'"'"'s interaction within or related to the online game for the first metric for the first social networking platform, and wherein the second value indicates the user'"'"'s interaction within or related to the online game for the first metric for the second social networking platform; and

perform an incentivizing action on either the first social networking platform or the second social networking platform based on the first value determined and the second value determined.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the first metric for the first social networking platform reflects revenue generation for an operator of the online game by the user when accessing the online game through the first social networking platform and the first metric for the second social networking platform reflects revenue generation for the operator of the online game by the user when accessing the online game through the second social networking platform.

11. The system of claim 9 wherein the incentivizing action is performed to entice the user to access the online game through the first social networking platform rather than the second social networking platform based on the first value and the second value determined.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:

executing an instance of a virtual space in which the online game is played, and implementing the instance of the virtual space to determine view information that defines a view of the virtual space to be presented to the user.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:

perform an incentivizing action on a virtual wall associated with a second user, wherein the second user is associated with the user, based on the first value and the second value determined.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:

perform a second incentivizing action on the second social networking platform in response to a first incentivizing action being performed on the first social networking platform.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:

provide social network information of the user to a provider of the online game.