Patent ID: 8602881
Filing Date: 2013-12-10
Classification: G06F,G06Q,G07F

Abstract:
1. A sponsored hybrid game, comprising: a real world engine constructed to provide a randomly generated payout of real world credits from a wager in a gambling game; an entertainment software engine constructed to execute an entertainment game providing outcomes upon a player's skillful execution of the entertainment game to earn a payout of game world credits; and a game world engine constructed to manage the entertainment software engine and communicate gameplay gambling event occurrences based upon the player's skillful execution of the entertainment game that trigger the wager in the gambling game to the gambling game, wherein the game world engine integrates a sponsorship module constructed to access a database containing a player profile and a sponsor profile, and the sponsorship module is constructed to: receive sponsorship terms involving allocation of gameplay resources during sponsored gameplay of the sponsored hybrid game between the player profile and the sponsor profile, wherein the gameplay resources are elements that are of limited quantity and the consumption of which during play of the entertainment game triggers a wager in a gambling game; allocate gameplay resources associated with the sponsor profile to the player profile based on the sponsorship terms for use in sponsored gameplay; and allocate gameplay resources resulting from a payout of gameplay resources during the sponsored gameplay using the sponsorship terms.