Player Recommendation For Playing Online Game

A method for recommending a list of players for playing an online game, comprising:

• receiving a request to join the online game currently being played by a plurality of players, the request including one or more player selection parameters provided by a user generating the request, the player selection parameters defining filtering options for filtering the plurality of players currently playing the online game;
• gathering player attributes associated with each of the plurality of players that are currently playing the online game, in substantial real-time, in response to the request received from the user;
• and
• identifying a subset of players from the plurality of players by matching two or more of the player selection parameters with the player attributes of the plurality of players obtained in substantial real-time;
• returning the subset of players as a list of recommended players for rendering on a user device;
• receiving selection of one or more of the players from the list of recommended players to join for playing the online game;
• determining if a maximum number of players for the online game has been reached by one or more groups in which the selected ones of the players are members;
• and
• allowing the user to join a select one of the groups of the selected ones of the players in playing the online game when number of players in the select group is less than the maximum number of players allowed for the online game, the number of players in the group updated in substantial real-time to account for the user joining the group.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium embedding program instructions for recommending a list of players for playing an online game, the computer-readable storage medium including:

• program instructions for receiving a request to join an online game currently being played by a plurality of players, the request including one or more player selection parameters provided by a user generating the request, the player selection parameters defining filtering options for filtering the plurality of players currently playing the online game;
• program instructions for gathering, in substantial real-time, player attributes associated with each of the plurality of players that are currently playing the online game, in response to the request received from the user;
• program instructions for identifying a subset of players from the plurality of players by matching at least two or more of the player selection parameters with the player attributes associated with each of the plurality of players;
• and
• program instructions for returning the subset of players as a list of recommended players for rendering on a user device, the returned list including options for selecting one or more players by the user, the selection of the players by the user resulting in the user joining the selected players in playing the online game.