Patents by Inventor John A. McCaskey, IV

John A. McCaskey, IV 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).

  • Patent number: 8702518
    Abstract: A system and method for determining and providing one or more guest passes for temporary access to one or more video games to a first player that was previously granted membership to a platform that offers access to playing these video games. One or more different determinations are made on information related to the first player and/or available video games to generate one or more guest passes for a video game that is at least somewhat relevant to the first player. In at least one embodiment, one or more of the different determinations can be intrinsically and/or extrinsically weighted to further refine the generation of a guest pass for a video games that is at least somewhat relevant to the first player, and thereby more likely to be offered by the first player to a second player. Also, the platform enables the determining and generating of the one or more guest passes to the one or more video games for the first player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Valve Corporation
    Inventors: John A. McCaskey, IV, Derrick Jason Birum, John Cook, Erik Axel Johnson, Gregory Coomer