Geo location questing
AssigneeeBay Inc.
InventorJohn Patrick Edgar Tobin
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Abstract
A method and a system of a geo-location quest game. For example, registering game participants to play a geo-location quest game within a game environment having a plurality of beacon devices which are capable of providing location information for registered game participants within the game environment. In further examples, presenting, on the beacon enabled user device, to the registered game participants, a description of a first task in the geo-location quest game and a request for first task completion information, the first task having a start and end location within the game environment. In another example, receiving the requested first task completion information from the registered game participants.
Claims30
A method, comprising:
- registering game participants to play a geo-location quest game within an environment having a plurality of beacon devices capable of providing location information for registered game participants within the environment;
- presenting, on user devices of the registered game participants, a description of a first task in the geo-location quest game and a request for first task completion information, the first task having a start and end location within the environment;
- and
- receiving the requested first task completion information.
A system, comprising:
- a processor;
- a network interface device, coupled to the processor, to communicate with a network;
- and
- a memory including instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the system to:
- register game participants to play a geo-location quest game within an environment having a plurality of beacon devices capable of providing location information for registered game participants within the environment;
- present, on user devices of the registered game participants, a description of a first task in the geo-location quest game and a request for first task completion information, the first task having a start and end location within the environment;
- and
- receive the requested first task completion information.
A machine-readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed on a system, cause the system to:
- register game participants to play a geo-location quest game within an environment having a plurality of beacon devices capable of providing location information for registered game participants within the environment;
- present, on user devices of the registered game participants, a description of a first task in the geo-location quest game and a request for first task completion information, the first task having a start and end location within the environment;
- and
- receive the requested first task completion information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.