Patent ID: 9254436
Filing Date: 2016-02-09
CPC Classification: A63F

Claim Text:
1. A method for executing a game, the method comprising: providing a graphical user interface (GUI) for a first player in the game, the GUI including a first game board of the first player, wherein the game identifies a plurality of slots in a timeline and identifies a sliding window that includes a predetermined number of most recent time slots; detecting visits by the first player to a second game board of a second player in the game, wherein the first game board is different from the second game board; determining a number of time slots in the sliding window where the first player visited the second game board; assigning the first player a regular visitor status when the number of time slots in the sliding window is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold, and assigning the first player a non-regular visitor status when the number of time slots is less than the predetermined threshold; displaying on the GUI a bar that includes a fragment for each time slot in the sliding window, each fragment indicating if the first player visited the second player in the respective time slot; and giving the first player a special reward when the first player has the regular visitor status, wherein the special reward is not given to the first player when the first player has the non-regular visitor status, wherein operations of the method are executed by a processor.