Patent ID: 9724612
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: A63F,G06Q

Claim:
1. A method comprising: communicatively connecting an online gaming server and a web site to a central online gaming service database that stores and synchronizes user profile data from both the online gaming server and the web site; enabling a user to create an online profile and to log into said web site using credentials received from the online gaming server during creation of the online profile; receiving, by the central online gaming service database, online user profile information from a gaming device while the gaming device is connected to a network including the central online gaming service database, the online user profile information being associated with a user of the gaming device and updating the online profile created by the user of the gaming device with the online user profile information; receiving, by the central online gaming service database, offline user profile information, the offline user profile information comprising achievement information generated by the gaming device while the gaming device was not connected to the network, the offline user profile information being associated with the user of the gaming device and updating the online profile created by the user of the gaming device with the offline user profile information; receiving web user profile information from the web site indicative of activities of the user on the web site and updating the online profile created by the user with the web user profile information; and enabling the user to view and interact with the user's online profile using a single identity for the web site and the online gaming server.