Patent ID: 9533217
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: A63F,G06Q

Claim:
1. A method for enabling online game play in a content stream, comprising the operations of: receiving a website logon of a social networking website from a user of a smartphone or tablet computing device and retrieving from persistent storage a profile associated with the logon; accessing via a network a social graph of the user managed by the social networking site, the social graph of the user identifying friends of the user; generating a content stream associated with the profile using data stored in volatile memory and processed by one or more processors, the content stream including multiple content posts and a view of a massively multiplayer online game; causing the content stream associated with the profile to be displayed in a graphical user interface presented by the smartphone or tablet computing device, wherein relative locations within the content stream of the multiple content posts and the view of the massively multiplayer online game are ordered on the basis of recency; updating the view of the massively multiplayer online game in response to a game move, wherein the game move results from input from the user; and relocating the view of the massively multiplayer online game to a location of prominence within the content stream, if user data associated with the user who logged on to the website indicates that the user is a participant of the massively multiplayer online game and is a friend of the user based on the social graph, the relocating of the view of the massively multiplayer online game to the location of prominence changing the relative locations within the content stream of the multiple content posts and the view of the massively multiplayer online game from a first ordering to a second ordering, where the first ordering is an ordering in which the relative locations of the multiple content posts and the view of the massively multiplayer online game are ordered on the basis of recency and the second ordering is an ordering in which the relative locations of the multiple content posts and the view of the massively multiplayer online game are not ordered on the basis of recency.