Patent ID: 8727869
Filing Date: 2014-05-20
Classification: G06Q,G07F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method executed by one or more computing devices for enabling real-time competition between a first user and a second user based on commodities or currencies, the method comprising: receiving, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, information from a first user including a selection of a first commodity or currency and a second commodity or currency, a first competitive position, and odds corresponding to the first competitive position, the first competitive position corresponding to whether a value of the first commodity or currency will rise, fall, or remain the same relative to a value of the second commodity or currency over a specified duration of time, the specified duration of time having a start time and an end time; receiving, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, information from a second user including an acceptance of the odds corresponding to the first competitive position and a second competitive position, the second competitive position also indicating whether the value of the first commodity or currency will rise, fall, or remain the same relative to the value of the second commodity or currency over the specified duration of time, wherein the first competitive position and the second competitive position are mutually exclusive; enabling, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, a real-time competition based on the first competitive position and the second competitive position, the real-time competition including the display of an entertaining experience on a computing device associated with at least one of the first user and the second user during the specified duration of time, the entertaining experience indicating a real-time state of the first competitive position relative to the second competitive position, the real-time state corresponding to a first state in which the first competitive position is consistent with a real-time value of the first commodity or currency relative to a real-time value of the second commodity or currency, a second state in which the second competitive position is consistent with the real-time value of the first commodity or currency relative to the real-time value of the second commodity or currency, or a third state in which neither the first competitive position nor the second competitive position is consistent with the real-time value of the first commodity or currency relative to the real-time value of the second commodity or currency; transmitting, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, after the end time of the specified duration of time, information to the first user and the second user indicating either: