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AssigneeGame Play Network, Inc.
InventorsRussell M Fine, Jamison Selby
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The invention relates to systems and methods of selecting and placing real-world wagers responsive to one or more wager triggers, obtaining outcomes of the real-world wagers, facilitating user interactions with various interactive media, and revealing the outcomes of the real-world wagers through the interactive media to give an appearance that the outcomes of the real-world wagers resulted from the user interactions even though the outcomes resulted from the real-world wagers and were determined before the user interactions. The system may a reveal a payout using different measures of value. For example, the system may reveal the payout as a cash reward (e.g., “defeat an enemy in a game and win two dollars”), an in-game reward (e.g., “defeat an enemy in a game and win a thermite bomb”), a multimedia reward (e.g., “defeat an enemy in a game and win two music downloads”), and/or other value.
A computer implemented method of updating a user account balance associated with a user based on outcomes of real-world wagers placed on behalf of the user and revealing portions of the user account balance or strategic items through an interactive media application based on user interactions with the interactive media application, the method being implemented in a computer system having one or more physical processors programmed with computer program instructions that, when executed by the one or more physical processors, cause the computer system to perform the method, the method comprising:
A system of updating a user account balance associated with a user based on outcomes of real-world wagers placed on behalf of the user and revealing portions of the user account balance or strategic items through an interactive media application based on user interactions with the interactive media application, the system comprising:
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