Patent ID: 8727868
Filing Date: 2014-05-20
Classification: A63F,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, the method comprising: receiving, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, information from a first user computing device associated with a first user identifying a real-time event corresponding to a value of a first commodity or currency relative to a value of a second commodity or currency and including a first competitive position regarding the real-time event and odds corresponding to the first competitive position, the first competitive position corresponding to the first user and 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 a specified duration of time, the specified duration of time having a start time and an end time; presenting, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, challenge information to a second user computing device associated with a second user identifying the real-time event and including the first competitive position and the odds corresponding to the first competitive position; receiving, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, information from the second user computing device including an acceptance of the odds corresponding to the first competitive position and a second competitive position regarding the real-time event, the second competitive position corresponding to the second user and 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 at least one of the first user computing device and the second user computing device 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; and transmitting, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, after the end time of the specified duration of time, outcome information to the first user computing device and the second user computing device regarding an outcome of the real-time event relative to the first user's competitive position and the second user's competitive position, the outcome information including an indication of whether the first user or the second user was a winner of the competition, wherein the first user is the winner if the first 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 at the end time of the specified duration of time, and wherein the second user is the winner if 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 at the end time of the specified duration of time.