Patent ID: 9613486
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: A63F,G07F

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: sending, by a server, an interface to a client computer for a casino game upon receiving a request to play the casino game by a user; receiving, by the server, a bet from the user via the interface; determining, by the server, an outcome of the bet in the casino game; moving, by the server, an avatar along a path of an online game displayed on the interface of the casino game, wherein an amount of movement of the avatar is based on the outcome of the bet; accessing, by the server, an API of a social network to identify friends of the user in the social network; detecting, by the server, when friends of the user are in a section of the path visible to the user in the online game; and providing, by the server, data to the client computer for displaying in the interface the friends of the user that are in the section of the path, wherein operations of the method are executed by one or more processors of the server.