Patent ID: 9305425
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: G07F

Claim Text:
1. A method, the method comprising: providing access to a plurality of online games and to a wrapper game, wherein each of the online games and the wrapper game is directly accessible to be loaded utilizing a corresponding internet address which is different for each online game, wherein the wrapper game includes options to load any of the plurality of online games; and providing a chat interface in the plurality of online games and the wrapper game, wherein the chat interface allows users accessing any of the online games to exchange messages with other users accessing any of the online games, wherein the chat interface is unavailable to users currently absent from the online games and absent from the wrapper game, wherein each online game and the wrapper game is a non-monolithic program that requires execution to enable play, wherein the chat interface provides exchange of communications between client computers executing a same non-monolithic program and the chat interface provides exchange of communications between client computers executing different non-monolithic programs for playing respective online games; invoking an API of a social network to identify friends in the social network of a player accessing any of the online games or the wrapper game; and providing an information area with information about the friends of the player, wherein the operations of the method are executed by a processor.