Patent ID: 11864054
Assignee: ROBLOX CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  A  G | IPC A  G  H

Claim 14:
15. A system to establish a trusted relationship between user accounts associated with an online gaming platform, the system comprising:
a memory; and
a processing device, coupled to the memory, to:
receive, from a first client device corresponding to a first user account of a first user of the online gaming platform, a first request to establish the trusted relationship via the online gaming platform between the first user account and other user accounts that requested to establish the trusted relationship via the online gaming platform;
receive, from a second client device corresponding to a second user account of a second user of the online gaming platform, a second request to establish the trusted relationship via the online gaming platform between the second user account and the other user accounts that requested to establish the trusted relationship via the online gaming platform;
responsive to receiving the first request and the second request, estimate whether the first client device corresponding to the first user account is within a defined physical range with respect to the second client device corresponding to the second user account, wherein the estimating comprises:
determine that a first physical proximity indicator corresponding to the first client device and a second physical proximity indicator corresponding to the second client device identify a same local area network that is accessed by the first client device and the second client device;
determine whether at least one of the first user account or the second user account satisfy an age threshold; and
responsive to estimating that the first client device is within the defined physical range with respect to the second client device and determining that at least one of the first user account or second user account satisfy the age threshold,
establish the trusted relationship-between the first user account and the second user account via the online gaming platform, and
enable additional functionality for the first user account and the second user account that enables the first user account and the second user account to interact via the online gaming platform based on the trusted relationship.