Patent ID: 8287343
Filing Date: 2012-10-16
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: enabling a first user to perform one or more first online actions in an online gaming account comprising a discrete game play area specific to a second user at a first time without applying the one or more first online actions to the online gaming account while the second user is absent from the online gaming account at the first time; generating to the second user a request to accept help from the first user; dismissing the one or more first online actions in response to receiving from the second user a dismissal to accept help from the first user; and determining, using at least one processor of a machine, one or more second online actions to be applied in the online gaming account of the second user based on the one or more first online actions by the first user at the first time and a state of the online gaming account of the second user at a second time succeeding the first time in response to receiving from the second user a confirmation to accept help from the first user, the one or more second online actions being consistent with the state of the online gaming account of the second user at the second time.