Voting with your feet
AssigneeZynga Inc.
InventorsAmitt Mahajan, Matthew Adam Ocko, Brian Reynolds
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Abstract
A method of voting with your feet is disclosed. A performance of a location-based action by a player of a computer-implemented game is associated with a vote on a matter. The performance of the location-based action by the player is detected. A count of votes corresponding to the vote on the matter is incremented based on the detecting of the performance of the location-based action by the player.
Claims17
A method comprising:
- receiving a survey question and a plurality of possible answers to the survey question;
- associating a first location-based action with a first answer of the plurality of possible answers;
- associating a second location-based action with a second answer of the plurality of possible answers;
- incrementing a count of votes corresponding to the first answer based on a detecting of a performance of the first location-based action by a first player of a plurality of players of a computer-implemented game;
- incrementing a count of votes corresponding to the second answer based on a detecting of a performance of the second location-based action by a second player of the plurality of players of the computer-implemented game, the incrementing of the count of votes corresponding to the second answer being performed by a hardware processor;
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- incrementing the count of votes corresponding to the second answer based on a detecting of a lack of the performance of the first location-based action by the first player.
A system comprising:
- at least one processor-implemented module configured to:
- receive a survey question and a plurality of possible answers to the survey question;
- associate a first location-based action with a first answer of the plurality of possible answers;
- associate a second location-based action with a second answer of the plurality of possible answers;
- increment a count of votes corresponding to the first answer based on a detecting of a performance of the first location-based action by a first player of a computer-implemented game;
- increment a count of votes corresponding to the second answer based on a detecting of a performance of the second location-based action by a second player of the plurality of players of the computer-implemented game;
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- increment the count of votes corresponding to an the second answer based on a detecting of a lack of the performance of the first location-based action by the first player.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium, the non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising a set of computer instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, perform operations comprising:
- receiving a survey question and a plurality of possible answers to the survey question;
- associating a first location-based action with a first answer of the plurality of possible answers;
- associating a second location-based action with a second answer of the plurality of possible answers;
- incrementing a count of votes corresponding to the first answer based on a detecting of a performance of the first location-based action by a first player of a plurality of players of a computer-implemented game;
- incrementing a count of votes corresponding to the second answer based on a detecting of a performance of the second location-based action by a second player of the plurality of players of the computer-implemented game, the incrementing of the count of votes corresponding to the second answer being performed by a hardware processor;
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- incrementing the count of votes corresponding to the second answer based on a detecting of a lack of the performance of the first location-based action by the first player.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.