Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080307320 | Online system and method for enabling social search and structured communications among social networks - A system and method for enabling structured communication among a social network is disclosed. The system enables a user to formulate a question and answer pattern including potential responses to the question based upon the form of question. The system then translates and transmits a message including the question and answer pattern to users over a plurality of different messaging platforms for eliciting responses to the question using the answer pattern. The system then aggregates responses to the question and presents the responses in a summary format. A language for defining messages according to static and dynamic content and other attributes is disclosed. Collaborative filtering reduces the decision space and as a result increases the possible range of specialized communications a user can choose from and apply or the message processing space available to contemplate alternatives resulting in more effective choices. | 12-11-2008 |
20140214992 | ONLINE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING SOCIAL SEARCH AND STRUCTURED COMMUNICATIONS AMONG SOCIAL NETWORKS - A system and method for enabling structured communication among a social network is disclosed. The system enables a user to formulate a question and answer pattern including potential responses to the question based upon the form of question. The system then translates and transmits a message including the question and answer pattern to users over a plurality of different messaging platforms for eliciting responses to the question using the answer pattern. The system then aggregates responses to the question and presents the responses in a summary format. A language for defining messages according to static and dynamic content and other attributes is disclosed. Collaborative filtering reduces the decision space and as a result increases the possible range of specialized communications a user can choose from and apply or the message processing space available to contemplate alternatives resulting in more effective choices. | 07-31-2014 |
20140274268 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF REVEALING THE OUTCOMES OF REAL WORLD WAGERS THROUGH SKILL BASED ACTIONS - The invention relates to systems and methods of selecting and placing real-world wagers responsive to one or more wager triggers, obtaining outcomes of the real-world wagers, facilitating skill-based actions with various interactive media, and revealing the outcomes of the real-world wagers through the interactive media to give an appearance that the outcomes of the real-world wagers resulted from skill-based actions even though the outcomes resulted from the real-world wagers and were determined before the user interactions. The system may reveal an outcome of a real-world wager through the skill-based action, which is required to claim a value of the reveal. The skill-based action may include an action that requires interaction from a user and for which is not completely dependent on chance for the user to achieve the action. | 09-18-2014 |
20140274270 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF REVEALING THE OUTCOMES OF REAL WORLD WAGERS THROUGH ALLOCATED REVEAL PAYOUTS - The invention relates to systems and methods of selecting and placing real-world wagers responsive to one or more wager triggers, obtaining outcomes of the real-world wagers, facilitating user interactions with various interactive media, and revealing the outcomes of the real-world wagers through the interactive media to give an appearance that the outcomes of the real-world wagers resulted from the user interactions. The system may withhold a reveal of a payout if one or more reveal parameters are not satisfied. A reveal parameter may specify that a minimum level of performance of an objective must be achieved for a reveal to occur. The objective may include, for example, an amount of winnings in a game, a number of points in a game, a number of enemies defeated in a game, a length of a video viewed, a number of promotions redeemed, a number of advertisements viewed, etc. | 09-18-2014 |
20140274272 | System and Method of Revealing the Outcomes of Real World Wagers Through Single or Multiple Reveals - The invention relates to systems and methods of selecting and placing real-world wagers responsive to one or more wager triggers, obtaining outcomes of the real-world wagers, facilitating user interactions with various interactive media, and revealing the outcomes of the real-world wagers through the interactive media to give an appearance that the outcomes of the real-world wagers resulted from the user interactions even though the outcomes resulted from the real-world wagers and were determined before the user interactions. The system may obtain an outcome of a real-world wager and update an unrevealed balance of a user. The unrevealed balance may include an indication of an outcome (e.g., an amount of a payout or a loss) of a real-world wager that has not yet been revealed to the user. The system may reveal at least a portion of the unrevealed balance or a given outcome in a single or multiple reveals. | 09-18-2014 |
20140274327 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SELECTING INTERACTIVE MEDIA USED TO REVEAL OUTCOMES OF REAL WORLD WAGERS - The invention relates to systems and methods of selecting and placing real-world wagers responsive to one or more wager triggers, obtaining outcomes of the real-world wagers, and revealing the outcomes of the real-world wagers through select interactive media to give an appearance that the outcomes of the real-world wagers resulted from user interactions with the interactive media even though the outcomes resulted from the real-world wagers and were determined before the user interactions. The system may select a given interactive media application (or interactive media) to reveal a value (e.g., a payout) based on various factors to customize which application or media is used to provide a given reveal. | 09-18-2014 |
20140274336 | System and Method of Securing Reveals of Outcomes of Real World Wagers - The invention relates to systems and methods of placing real-world wagers, obtaining outcomes of the real-world wagers, facilitating user interactions with various interactive media, and securing reveals of the outcomes of the real-world wagers through the interactive media such that if the reveals give an appearance that the outcomes of the real-world wagers resulted from the user interactions even though the outcomes resulted from the real-world wagers and were determined before the user interactions. The system may provide an outcome of a real-world wager to be transmitted securely, such that it will be known whether the outcome was viewed by the user and/or the system. For example, the system may enable a wagering outcome to be encrypted, transmitted and later revealed securely, where an indication is provided if the outcome had been earlier revealed or inspected. | 09-18-2014 |
20140274337 | System and Method of Providing an Integrated Wagering and Interactive Media Platform - The invention relates to systems and methods of providing an integrated wagering and interactive media platform. The system may allow various types of third party interactive media providers such as video game publishers (including smartphone and tablet game publishers, console game publishers, etc.), video and other multimedia download or streaming services, and others to access outcomes of real-world wagers associated with users so that the outcomes may be revealed in association with interactive media. Other types of systems may also access the reveal mechanisms to reveal outcomes of real-world wagers such as, for example, retail systems, kiosks, vending machines, and/or other user touch points that can identify a user, obtain wager outcomes from the system, and provide the wager outcomes to the user. Furthermore, in-house developed games and other interactive media may use the reveal mechanisms described herein to reveal outcomes of real-world wagers associated with the user. | 09-18-2014 |
20140274340 | System and Method of Timing Wagers in an Integrated Wagering and Interactive Media Platform - The invention relates to systems and methods of selecting and placing real-world wagers responsive to one or more wager triggers, obtaining outcomes of the real-world wagers, facilitating user interactions with various interactive media, and revealing the outcomes of the real-world wagers through the interactive media to give an appearance that the outcomes of the real-world wagers resulted from the user interactions even though the outcomes resulted from the real-world wagers and were determined before the user interactions. A real-world wager may be initiated by one or more wager triggers that cause the real-world wager to be placed. The one or more wager triggers may include, without limitation, acquisition of a token, user selection or initiation of interactive media (e.g., selection of a game to play), an occurrence of an event in the interactive media (e.g., based on a user controlled or other in-game action), and/or other events. | 09-18-2014 |
20140274352 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERACTIVE GAMES - The invention relates to systems and methods of gaming, including online gambling. The system may enable betting to be performed by a user with respect to one or more events (e.g., the betting results are revealed to the user (optionally in a time delayed manner) based at least in part on the user's game play with respect to an interactive game (e.g., an online interactive electronic game)). By way of example and not limitation, the event may be a sporting event, a lottery, stock market activity, a political race, or other form of risk resolution that provides a return against an amount wagered. The interactive game may involve physical coordination, problem solving and/or other activity unrelated to the underlying event being wagered on. Further, the actual selection of events (e.g., races and competitors, stocks, etc.) to bet on may be automatically selected, without requiring the user to perform manual selections. | 09-18-2014 |