Patents Assigned to KING.COM LTD.
  • Patent number: 11027201
    Abstract: The invention relates to a computer implemented method for controlling the display of a tile image on a display of the computer device, the method comprising: storing in a computer memory at the computer device, image texture data comprising a plurality of sets of predefined masks, each set of predefined masks for forming a respective tile image; selecting at random a tile image for display from a plurality of tile images; determining a location of each mask in the set of predefined masks for forming the selected tile image, in the image texture data; and supplying an indication of said location to a shader program executed on the computer device to control the shader program to use the set of predefined masks to form the selected tile image on said display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: KING.COM LTD.
    Inventors: Juan Antonio Moya, David Picon, Oriol Canudas
  • Patent number: 11007446
    Abstract: A method comprising: storing information relating to one or more game objects; determining game objects to be displayed in a manner enabling a first user to play a game using the objects; causing at least one graphical representation associated with a second user to be displayed on the game board in association with at least one of the game objects, information of the at least one graphical representation being obtained from an electronic database storing information relating to a plurality of user profiles, and at least one game criteria being associated with the at least one graphical representation of the second user; and receiving a user input from the first user in response to the user input determining a match condition between a plurality of game objects, the match condition causing the game criteria to be satisfied; and responsive to satisfying the game criteria, initiating communication with the second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: KING.COM LTD.
    Inventor: Andres Ortega Sabogal
  • Patent number: 10981058
    Abstract: A computer implemented method comprises display of a navigable image on a display. The navigable image comprises a plurality of game objects. Game resources are associated with at least one of said game objects. A given amount of game resources are provided in a respective time period. The providing of the game resources can be speeded up if a computer game is played and an objective associated with the game achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: KING.COM LTD.
    Inventor: Mathew Baker
  • Patent number: 10977893
    Abstract: A user device supports a computer implemented game. An input from a user is received. This input requests a purchase of an in-game item. When this input is received, a determination is made as to whether the user device is on-line or not. If the user device is off-line, it is determined if the in-game item can be purchased in dependence on a locally available in-game currency budget. If so, the requested in-game item is provided in the computer implemented game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: KING.COM LTD.
    Inventor: Michael Sjoberg
  • Patent number: 10977150
    Abstract: A method for determining one or more anomalies associated with a first set of data, said method comprising: processing said first set of data to provide frequency information for a plurality of combinations of data in said first set of data; comparing said frequency information for the first set of data with frequency information for said combinations of data in a reference set of data; and in dependence on said comparison determining one or more anomalies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: KING.COM LTD.
    Inventor: William Saar
  • Patent number: 10960309
    Abstract: A computer implemented method is performed in a device. One or more first game objects is displayed. In response to user input one or more collectable game objects, are accumulated. It is determined if a number of accumulated collectable game objects has reached a predetermined value, and if not, a further set of first game objects is displayed only if a game level has been played.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: KING.COM LTD.
    Inventor: Marc Garcia Villoria
  • Patent number: 10960301
    Abstract: A method of rendering a grid based user interface includes selecting a gaming object with an illumination value to be updated. The gaming objects located directly adjacent to the selected gaming object each having an associated illumination value. The updated illumination value takes into account the illumination values of the directly adjacent gaming objects. The game object is rendered using the updated illumination value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: KING.COM LTD.
    Inventor: Manuel Kurt Bosze
  • Patent number: 10953326
    Abstract: There is provided a computer implemented method of providing a game in a device, the method comprising retrieving, from at least one memory of the device, information associated with a plurality of objects and one or more characteristics of the objects, the information comprising at least one constraint, each constraint being between two of the plurality of objects, determining, using at least one processor of the device, position information for each of the plurality of objects in dependence on an imposed movement generated by the at least one processor and a threshold distance which limits the distance between respective ones of said plurality of objects having a constraint therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: KING.COM LTD.
    Inventors: Klas Norden, Daniel Nystrand
  • Patent number: 10949059
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of controlling an entity displayed on a user interface of a computer device, the method implemented by computer readable code executed by a processor of the computer device, the method comprising: detecting a user input at a first location on the user interface; detecting that the user input continues along a user input trace to a second location; determining a distance along a direct path between the first and second locations; calculating a speed of movement of the entity based on the determined distance; and generating for display a number of graphical indicators to be displayed on the user interface at locations spaced from one another between the first and second locations, wherein the number of displayed indicators represent the speed of movement of the entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: KING.COM LTD.
    Inventors: Xavier Palau, Pere Balsach, Damia Vazquez, Kamil Fazil
  • Patent number: 10946287
    Abstract: A computer device comprises a user interface configured to display time information associated with a feature. The time information indicates when the feature will change from one of being available and unavailable to the other of being available and unavailable. The time information changes at a first rate. At least one processor is configured, in response to a user interaction via the user interface, to cause the user interface to display content, the time information being configured to change at a second different rate while the content is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: KING.COM LTD.
    Inventor: Johan Acevedo
  • Patent number: 10946290
    Abstract: In an embodiment there is provided a game element within a game adapted to be played on data processing apparatus, the method comprising the following steps implemented by at least one processor of the data processing apparatus, displaying a game area having a plurality of game objects on the display, providing a predetermined player object configured for targeting and shooting of the game objects in response to player input, providing predetermined data comprising characteristics of at least one game element, selecting the at least one game element and associated characteristics for display, displaying the at least one game element, and executing the characteristics of said at least one game element in the game in dependence on a trigger event. A computing system, user device and server are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: KING.COM LTD.
    Inventors: Julian Perez, Sebastian Knutsson
  • Patent number: 10926180
    Abstract: Controlling the display of a computer device to deliver functions of a new type of clicker game, in which a player can control the location at which a booster is created on a game board. This provides a player with many more strategic options over game play because the clearing effects of a booster can be targeted more effectively. A game element which a player selects (clicks) to remove a group of adjacent matching game elements is identified and its location on the game board is ‘reserved’. When the game board refills, the ‘reserved’ location is not refilled, but remains as a ‘soft void’ in which a booster object can be created after refill has taken place. At that point the booster may be activated (automatically or by user interaction).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: KING.COM LTD.
    Inventors: Dennis Gustafsson, Grant Lafarge, Gerardo Basurto
  • Patent number: 10828558
    Abstract: A computer device comprising a user interface, a processor, and a graphics rendering component. The user interface is configured to display user actuatable game elements, each user actuatable game element displayed on a respective tile, and to detect user input when a user engages with at least one of said user actuatable game elements in a move. The processor is configured to determine, on detecting the match game condition, whether at least one tile of the respective tiles associated with the at least three actuatable game elements of the match condition has a tile characteristic indicating an attained background appearance and, if so, to modify the tile characteristic of each tile of the respective tiles associated with the at least three actuatable game elements of the match condition not indicating an attained background appearance to indicate an attained background appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: KING.COM LTD.
    Inventor: Magnus Hansson
  • Patent number: 10834039
    Abstract: A messaging system for both generating and receiving message data, which breaks up a sent message and displays it as a time sequence of message parts on the receiving user's device. Breaks in the sent message are defined by delimiters, which are inserted into the message data by the user on the generate device and are detected by the receiving device. Delimiters or other part of the message data determine the time period for each part of the message. The first part of the message is displayed on the receiving user's device for the time period associated with that part. Once the time period for the first message part has expired, the next message part is displayed in addition to the preceding part. This continues until the whole sent message is displayed, thus creating a timeline of message parts for the receiving user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: KING.COM LTD.
    Inventors: David Viklund, Driss Louriagli, Pontus Lundwall
  • Patent number: 10821363
    Abstract: A computer device providing a computer implemented game, said computer device comprising: a user interface configured to detect user input from a player of said game; at least one processor; and a display, said at least one processor being configured to: cause a game area to be displayed on said display, said game area comprising a plurality of third game objects; cause at least one second game object to move along a trajectory, wherein when said second game object hits one or more of said third game objects, said respective third game object is removed; and cause an angle of a trajectory of said second game object to be altered to cause said second game object to hit one or more third game objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: KING.COM LTD.
    Inventors: Julian Perez, Alejandro Moreno, Hugo Lanchares
  • Patent number: 10810175
    Abstract: A device, system, and computer implemented method for storing segmented data in a computer memory, the segmented data indicating which of a plurality of entities belong to which of a plurality of segments, each segment accommodating entities sharing a single binary characteristic. A computer receives a list of entity identifiers selected from a sequence of entity identifiers, each entity identifier in the list representing an entity which belongs to a segment; the computer uses the list to create a bitmap in which each bit has a bit position in a bit sequence corresponding to the sequence of entity identifiers. The state of each bit indicates whether the entity identifier representing that position in the sequence identifies an entity belonging in the segment or not; and the bitmap is stored in a memory in association with a segment identifier, as the segmented data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: KING.COM LTD.
    Inventor: Galderic Punti
  • Patent number: 10792565
    Abstract: A game server receives game data associated with a computer implemented game played on a user device. Using this data the computer implemented game is recreated in dependence to generate video data which corresponds to the computer implemented game being played on the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: KING.COM LTD.
    Inventor: Fredrik Persson
  • Patent number: D902223
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: KING.COM LTD.
    Inventors: Marcus Edstrom, Erik Buchholz, Elin Andersson, Robin Brook, Kerstin Edin, Heather McGrath, Caspar Swahn, Johannes Barte
  • Patent number: D910041
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: KING.COM LTD.
    Inventors: Marcus Edstrom, Erik Buchholz, Elin Andersson, Robin Brook, Kerstin Edin, Heather McGrath, Caspar Swahn, Johannes Barte
  • Patent number: D914761
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: KING.COM LTD.
    Inventors: Rick Thompson, Sean Hayden, Gabriel Loques, Eugene Teh, Hollie Taylor, Anthony Simpson