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US 2020/0051384 A1Published application
System and method for implementing a refund calculator in a game
AssigneeKabam, Inc.
InventorsLuc Pieron, Peter Im
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Abstract
One aspect of the disclosure relates to implementing a refund calculator in an online game. The refund calculator may provide the ability to prioritize what users may receive items, troops, and/or any other in-game parameters. The refund calculator may provide the ability to determine how many items and/or troops the user may be refunded, the time frame in which the user receives the items, troops and/or other aspects of a refund.
Claims16
A system for implementing a mechanism for automatically determining and distributing requested refunds of virtual items to users in an online game, the system comprising:
- one or more processors configured by machine-readable instructions to:
- execute a game instance of a game space, and to facilitate presentation of views of the game space to the users to enable interaction of the users with the game space and/or each other by performing operations in the game space in response to commands received from the users through client computing platforms associated with the users;
- store inventories of items that are available to the users in the game space, the inventories including a first inventory of items available to a first user in the game space and a second inventory of items available to a second user in the game space;
- receive, from the first user, a first refund request for a first set of one or more virtual items to be refunded into the first inventory;
- receive, from the second user, a second refund request for a second set of one or more virtual items to be refunded into the second inventory;
- determine a first past user spending characterizing past spending by the first user in the online game, and a second past user spending characterizing past spending by the second user in the online game;
- determine whether refunds are to be distributed in response to the first and second refund requests, wherein such determination is based on the first past user spending and the second past user spending, wherein distribution of the refunds into the inventories of the users is performed without requiring an exchange of consideration by the users for the refunds;
- responsive to a first determination that the first refund is to be distributed, distribute the first refund for the first set of one or more virtual items into the first inventory of the first user;
- and
- responsive to a second determination that the second refund is not to be distributed, the second refund for the second set of one or more virtual items is not distributed into the second inventory of the second user.
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A computer implemented method for implementing a mechanism for automatically determining and distributing requested refunds of virtual items to users in an online game, the system comprising:
- executing an instance of a game space, and implementing the instance of the game space to facilitate participation by the users in the online game that takes place in the game space, wherein facilitating interaction of the users with the game space and/or each other by performing operations in the game space in response to commands received from the users through client computing platforms associated with the users;
- storing inventories of items that are available to the users in the game space, the inventories including a first inventory of items available to a first user in the game space and a second inventory of items available to a second user in the game space;
- receiving, from the first user a first refund request for a first set of one or more virtual items to be refunded into the first inventory;
- receiving, from the second user, a second refund request for a second set of one or more virtual items to be refunded into the second inventory;
- determining a first past user spending characterizing past spending by the first user in the online game, and a second past user spending characterizing past spending by the second user in the online game;
- determining whether refunds are to be distributed in response to the first and second refund requests, wherein distribution of the refunds into the inventories of the users is performed without requiring an exchange of consideration by the users for the refunds;
- responsive to a first determination that the first refund is to be distributed, distributing the first refund for the first set of one or more virtual items into the first inventory of the first user;
- and
- responsive to a second determination that the second refund is not to be distributed, not distributing the second refund for the second set of one or more virtual items into the second inventory of the second user.
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