Patent ID: 9248375
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: A63F

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: providing, by one or more processors, a graphical user interface to a player, the graphical user interface displaying a virtual environment, the virtual environment including a resource object and a game object; receiving a selection from a user of a portion of the virtual environment displayed in the virtual environment; creating a resource object, from the selected portion of the virtual environment, for storing at least a portion of a current resource pool belonging to the user, wherein the resource object comprises a resource production attribute and increases an available storage capacity of the current resource pool according to a respective quantity of resource units; detecting a resource production event generated based on the resource production attribute of the resource object, the resource production event specifying that a quantity of resource units have been generated; based on the detected resource production event, allocating at least some portion of the quantity of generated resource units to the resource pool belonging to the user; and responsive to detecting a user initiated game action applied to the game object, removing a determinable amount of resource units from the resource pool.