Patents by Inventor Alden Seabolt

Alden Seabolt 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).

  • Allowing interactive post of an online game within a social network
    Patent number: 9579561
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs for sharing a game play over a social network include executing a play session of a game. During execution of the play session, an option is provided to share a portion of the game on a social network. In response to receiving a request to share the portion of the game, an instance of the game is generated at a time when the request is received and is posted to a stream of the social network. The instance of the game inherits a current state of the play session. A reward is generated to a user account that plays the instance in the stream and to the user that initiates the sharing of the portion of the game upon the user playing the instance of the game claims the reward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Zynga Inc.
    Inventors: Alden Seabolt, Russell L. Daigle, Jianlin Wang, Nathaniel Wise, Di Wu
  • Allowing Interactive Post of an Online Game within a Social Network
    Publication number: 20140179412
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs for sharing a game play over a social network include executing a play session of a game. During execution of the play session, an option is provided to share a portion of the game on a social network. In response to receiving a request to share the portion of the game, an instance of the game is generated at a time when the request is received and is posted to a stream of the social network. The instance of the game inherits a current state of the play session. A reward is generated to a user account that plays the instance in the stream and to the user that initiates the sharing of the portion of the game upon the user playing the instance of the game claims the reward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Inventors: Alden Seabolt, Russell L. Daigle, Jianlin Wang, Nathaniel Wise, Di Wu