Patent ID: 9272212
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: A63F

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising operations of: receiving a request for assistance with a game task from a first player of a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game; broadcasting the request to a second player of the MMO game using an application programming interface (API) exposed by software running on a social networking website or a social media website; determining whether the second player responds to the request within a time period, wherein the time period depends on one or more factors including data received from a profile or stream associated with the first player on the social networking website or the social media website; assigning completion of the game task to the first player, if the second player does not respond within the time period; and transmitting an automated apparent response to the first player, if the second player does not respond within the time period, wherein each operation of the method is executed by one or more processors.