Patent ID: 9446321
Filing Date: 2016-09-20
CPC Classification: A63F

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: transmitting, to a first player, a first advertisement for an opportunity to play a computer-implemented game against a second player, the second player being identified in the first advertisement, the first advertisement indicating that the computer-implemented game is displayable on a public medium accessible via a plurality of client devices; receiving a plurality of notifications that a particular move has been made in a different game by a plurality of corresponding players of the different game; responsive to each of the plurality of notifications, entering the corresponding player into a pool of potential players, the pool of potential players being larger than a number of players supported by the computer-implemented game; selecting, from among the pool of potential players, the first player from the plurality of potential players; generating, using a processor of a machine, gameboard display data to display a gameboard of the computer-implemented game; and sending, to a broadcast server, the gameboard display data to be displayed on the public medium.