Patent ID: 9028324
Filing Date: 2015-05-12
Classification: G06F,G06N,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising the following computer-implemented steps: providing, by one or more computers, an on-line virtual world that is accessible to users having respective web browsers via the Internet; allowing a first one of the users to configure an avatar that the user can control via the user's respective web browser to interact with other content in the on-line virtual world; establishing a game that is playable in the on-line virtual world, the game having associated game content in the on-line virtual world, an associated prize and associated prize reward criteria; configuring a rarity of the prize, the rarity defining additional criteria for limiting a number of the prize that can be rewarded; receiving, from the user's respective web browser, information regarding the user's participation in the game, the participation including the user's control of the avatar's interaction with the associated game content; determining from the information whether the user has satisfied the associated prize reward criteria; further determining from the information whether the user satisfies the additional criteria; rewarding the user with the prize only if the user has satisfied both the associated prize reward criteria and the additional criteria.