Patent ID: 8298087
Filing Date: 2012-10-30
Classification: A63F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. In a network of distributed personal video game systems connected via a network, a method for recommending video games to a player comprising: establishing network communications with a player's game playing device; using the established network communications and at least one processor, monitoring the player's game playing usage over time, including collecting game playing usage data and associated date of usage; obtaining the player's consent to use the collected game playing usage data and associated date of usage to recommend additional offerings to the user using the at least one processor, weighting said player's collected game playing usage data by age of the collected game playing usage data to provide weighted game playing usage information to thereby take into account the game player's changing tastes over time and the game player's current game playing preferences while also taking into account the game player's historical game playing preferences; using the at least one processor, enforcing parental controls to avoid recommending mature games to children; and conditioned on the obtained consent and using the processor, recommending at least one further video game for the player to download over the network based at least in part on said player's weighted game playing usage data, including excluding from the recommendation at least one title the user already owns.