Patent ID: 11911688
Assignee: WIZARDS OF THE COAST LLC
Field: Furniture, games (Other fields)
Classification: CPC A  B | IPC A  B

Claim 0:
1. A method of managing of virtual game pieces comprising:
instantiating a game piece collection management platform (“management platform”) that stores and organizes virtual game pieces for a first player, the management platform includes history data that indicates a number of virtual copies of game pieces that are in a first collection associated with the first player, wherein a virtual copy of a given game piece associated with the first collection is enabled to be used by the first player during a session of a game associated with the management platform;
assigning each virtual game piece an availability frequency, each availability frequency is organized into hierarchical groups; and
receiving instructions from the first player that causes the management platform to consume a number of virtual game pieces from the first collection in exchange for a new virtual game piece independent of the consumed virtual game piece(s), wherein consumption of the virtual game pieces causes those virtual game pieces to be disabled from the management platform during the session of the game associated with the management platform, wherein an exchange rate of the consumption is based on the availability frequency associated with the number of virtual game pieces and the new virtual game piece.