Patent ID: 9452364
Filing Date: 2016-09-27
CPC Classification: A63F

Claim Text:
1. A system configured to facilitate providing assistance between users, the system comprising: one or more physical processors configured by machine-readable instructions to: execute an instance of a virtual space, and to implement the instance of the virtual space to facilitate participation by the users in an online game, and to facilitate interaction of the users with the virtual space by executing actions in the instance of the virtual space in response to receiving action requests from the users, wherein executing the actions requires one or both of a predetermined amount of time and/or a virtual resource; store inventories of resources that are available to users in the virtual space, the inventories including a first inventory of resources available to a first user in the virtual space and a second inventory of resources available to a second user in the virtual space; store associations of the users in the online game within the virtual space with affiliations wherein the affiliations comprise a discrete group of three or more users, the affiliations comprising a first affiliation comprising a first discrete group of users to which the first user and the second user are associated; and receive a request for assistance from a first user of the first affiliation in the performance of a first action requiring a first predetermined amount of time to complete, effectuate presentation of information related to the request to other members of the affiliation, receive an assistance input from the second user of the first affiliation, wherein the assistance input includes reducing the first predetermined amount of time and/or eliminating the first predetermined amount of time, and effectuate provision of the assistance from the second user to the first user in response to reception of the assistance input such that the first predetermined amount of time required to complete the first action is reduced and/or eliminated.