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US 9,174,125 B1Granted
Social networking game system and method
OwnerIsaac S. Danielinventor
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Abstract
A social networking game system that includes at least one processor, and computer executable instructions readable by the at least one processor and operative to display at least one game on a display device, wherein the game includes displaying a plurality of pictures of online social networking contacts and non-contacts, requiring that a user identify which pictures belong to contacts or non-contacts, and allowing the user to move onto a next level if the user correctly identifies which pictures belong to contacts or non-contacts.
Claims17
A social networking game system comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- computer executable instructions readable by the at least one processor and operative to display at least one game on a display device, wherein the game comprises:
- enabling the display device for displaying a display of a plurality of pictures of a user's online social networking contacts and suggested contacts taken from the user's or suggested contacts' profile and of persons who are not the user's online social networking contacts wherein displaying of the pictures of persons who are not the user's online social networking contacts includes using image recognition software for displaying pictures of persons that look like the user's online social networking contacts found in a database of pictures of online social networking users, other online repository or collection of pictures, such as a search engine;
- enabling the display device to present the plurality of pictures to enable user interaction with the plurality of pictures requiring a determining by the user as to which of the plurality of pictures are identifiable from the user's social networking contacts or which of the plurality of pictures are not of the user's social networking contacts;
- and
- enabling the display to present the plurality of pictures in a shorter period of time or from a larger population of pictures from which user's successful interaction allows the user to move onto a next level if the user correctly identifies which pictures are of the user's social networking contacts or are not of the user's online social networking contacts.
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A social networking game method comprising:
- using at least one processor to perform any or all of the following:
- enabling at least one display device for displaying a display of a plurality of pictures of a user's online social networking contacts and suggested contacts taken from the user's or suggested contacts' profile, and of persons who are not the user's online social networking contacts;
- enabling the at least one display device to present the plurality of pictures to enable user interaction with the plurality of pictures requiring that the user use an input device in determining which of the plurality of pictures are identifiable from the user's social networking contacts or which of the plurality of pictures are not of the user's social networking contacts;
- and
- enabling the display to present the plurality of pictures in a shorter period of time or from a larger population of pictures from which user's successful interaction allows the user to move onto a next level if the user correctly identifies which pictures are of the user's social networking contacts or are not of the user's online social networking contacts.
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A non-transitory computer readable medium containing computer executable instructions operative to display at least one game on a display device, wherein the game comprises:
- enabling the display device for displaying a display of a plurality of pictures of online social networking contacts and suggested contacts, and non-contacts taken from the user's or suggested contacts' profile;
- enabling the display device to present the plurality of pictures to enable user interaction with the plurality of pictures requiring a determining by the user as to which of the plurality of pictures belong to the user's social networking contacts or which of the plurality of pictures are not of the user's social networking contacts;
- and
- enabling the display to present the plurality of pictures in a shorter period of time or from a larger population of pictures from which user's successful interaction allows the user to move onto a next level if the user correctly identifies which pictures belong to the user's social networking contacts or are not of the user's online social networking contacts.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.