Patents by Inventor Aidan Lynch

Aidan Lynch has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20080102933
    Abstract: Methods for apportioning revenue in an online game-playing community include: maintaining a trait summation ladder, the trait summation ladder comprising a hierarchy of player communities, each player community comprising one or more player groups all having a given trait; receiving a request from a user to play an online game, wherein the user is a member of a player group comprising one or more players sharing a given trait; receiving a request from the user to play a session of the online game in a forum corresponding to a given community, wherein the community includes the user's player group; computing an amount of revenue derived from the player during the session; and determining, based on a level of the given community within the trait summation ladder, a given percentage of the revenue amount to allocate to the player group. Corresponding systems are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2006
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Inventors: Killian Jones, Aidan Lynch, Michael Kelly, Stephan Daniels