Patent ID: 9183700
Filing Date: 2015-11-10
Classification: A63F,G06Q,G07F

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: storing, in a machine-readable medium communicably coupled to one or more processors, an indication that a first social contact of a plurality of social contacts desires to be included in an electronic game of chance provided on a computerized social network system; randomly selecting, based on an output of a random element generator, a subset of the plurality of social contacts; presenting graphical objects representing the subset of the plurality of social contacts on a display during operation of the electronic game of chance by a player; determining, by the one or more processors, that a profile attribute of each of the subset of the plurality of social contacts stored in the machine-readable medium matches a profile attribute of the player stored in the machine-readable medium; determining, by the one or more processors, that the first social contact is included in the subset of the plurality of social contacts; and in response to determining, by the one or more processors, that the profile attribute of each of the social contacts in the subset of the plurality of social contacts stored in the machine-readable medium matches the profile attribute of the player stored in the machine-readable medium and that the first social contact is included in the subset, electronically communicating, via a network interface, an award to the first social contact.