Patents by Inventor John Linden

John Linden 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: 20220222237
    Abstract: Systems and methods for synchronizing database operations with a distributed blockchain are disclosed. The database operations are performed on a database that is shared between multiple users including a first user. Exemplary implementations may: receive database information reflecting one or more database operations performed by the first user on a first version of the database; verify whether the one or more database operations are allowed to be performed by the first user; record on the distributed blockchain, responsive to the verification being affirmative, a message that describes or refers to a description of one or more modifications to the database; effectuate transmissions of notifications to the first version of the database; subsequent to the transmissions, propagate or revert the one or more database operations, based on the verification result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Stephan Cunningham, Cameron Thacker, John Linden
  • Patent number: 11379455
    Abstract: Systems and methods for synchronizing database operations with a distributed blockchain are disclosed. The database operations are performed on a database that is shared between multiple users including a first user. Exemplary implementations may: receive database information reflecting one or more database operations performed by the first user on a first version of the database; verify whether the one or more database operations are allowed to be performed by the first user; record on the distributed blockchain, responsive to the verification being affirmative, a message that describes or refers to a description of one or more modifications to the database; effectuate transmissions of notifications to the first version of the database; subsequent to the transmissions, propagate or revert the one or more database operations, based on the verification result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephan Cunningham, Cameron Thacker, John Linden
  • Patent number: 11376508
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enabling exchange of tradeable items are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive the first tradeable item from a user; determine whether the received first tradeable item is a valid tradeable item within the online gaming platform by identifying the first tradeable item based on the first item-identifying information and by verifying the first tradeable item is a valid tradeable item within the online gaming platform; responsive to determining the received first tradeable item is valid within the online gaming platform, select a second tradeable item from a repository of tradeable items; and dispense, from the repository, the second tradeable item to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventor: John Linden
  • Patent number: 11369878
    Abstract: Systems and methods to effectuate challenges between unique digital articles, the challenges being evaluated based on particular real-world information, are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may execute instances of a game; manage player accounts associated with the players, including a first and a second player account associated with a first and a second player; present a first user interface to a first player that enables the first player to define an objective for a challenge between a first and a second unique digital article, define one or more stakes for this challenge, and invite the second player to partake in this challenge, record executable code on a permanent registry to evaluate the challenge, based on real-world information; and responsive to the first or second unique digital article winning the challenge, distribute the one or more stakes to the first or second player, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Rudy Koch, John Linden
  • Patent number: 11373174
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating transfer of ownership of tokens between users on a decentralized database stores a registry of assets and transactions are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: store, on electronic storage, a set of code executable by the decentralized database to manifest individual tokens on the decentralized database; and record the set of code on the decentralized database such that the set of code is accessible at a creator address that is associated with the creator of the set of code. Using the functions defined by the set of code, an owner of an individual token can offer to sell the individual token, and a buyer can accept this offer to buy the individual token, at an agreed-upon price.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephan Cunningham, Cameron Thacker, John Linden
  • Patent number: 11338204
    Abstract: Systems and methods to distribute geolocation-specific benefits to unique digital articles, based on real-world information, are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may execute instances of a game; manage player accounts associated with the players, including a first and a second player account associated with a first and a second player; record player-configurable sensitivity of player-owned unique digital articles to receive distributions of benefits; determine real-world information based on events that have occurred in the real world; determine geolocation information for the first and second player; evaluate whether to distribute and/or adjust the benefits, based on the real-world information and the geolocation information; and provide the (adjusted) distributions of benefits accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Rudy Koch, John Linden
  • Patent number: 11331579
    Abstract: Systems and methods to distribute benefits to unique digital articles based on real-world information are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may execute instances of a game; manage player accounts associated with the players, including a first and a second player account associated with a first and a second player; record and control eligibility of player-owned unique digital articles to receive distributions of benefits; determine real-world information based on events that have occurred in the real world; evaluate whether to distribute the benefits based on the real-world information and on the eligibilities of the player-owned unique digital articles; and provide the distributions accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Rudy Koch, John Linden
  • Publication number: 20220111292
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using natural language processing (NLP) to control automated gameplay in one or more online games within an online gaming platform are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: train a pretrained text-based system to generate sequences indicating one or more activities, wherein activities are associated with characteristics of user-controllable characters such that a particular user-controllable character having a particular characteristic may perform, within the online gaming platform, one or more activities from a particular set that is associated with the particular characteristic; receive user input describing one or more commands; generate, using the pretrained text-based system, a sequence indicating one or more activities based on the user input; transfer the generated sequence to the online gaming platform; effectuate automated execution of activities by the particular user-controllable character in accordance with the generated sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Cameron Thacker, John Linden
  • Publication number: 20220105434
    Abstract: Systems and methods for modifying game assets based on tradeable items that are associated with user accounts of users of the online gaming platform are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: store, in electronic storage, item information associated with the tradeable items; obtain a first item identifier of a first tradeable item; obtain first user information of a first user account; link the first tradeable item with the first user account such that a first item-account connection is established; store the first item-account connection; obtain, based on the first item identifier, the first modification information; receive, from the first user, an indication of a selection of a first game asset to be modified based on the first modification information such that a first asset-item connection is established; and modify, based on the first modification information, the first attribute information in accordance with the first tradeable item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventor: John Linden
  • Patent number: 11288759
    Abstract: Systems and methods to provide sharing of benefits amongst a group of users are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: effectuate a presentation of an agreement interface for the users to define and/or join group agreements; generate, based on the group agreements, sets of instructions for implementation of the group agreements; transmit the sets of instructions to a decentralized ledger server; receive and executing the transmitted sets of instructions to record the group agreements on the blockchain as smart contracts; record transactions pertaining to the digital assets; responsive to recording the transactions, increase the group account balances by a portion of the earned gains resultant from the recorded transactions; and responsive to an occurrence of at least one of the trigger events specified for the first group agreement, allocate a portion of the group account balance to the group of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: John Linden, Rudy Koch
  • Publication number: 20220084284
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using natural language processing (NLP) to automatically generate three-dimensional objects in a virtual space are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: obtain three-dimensional objects using a three-dimensional voxelized format; encode those objects, using a variational autoencoder, into pairs of vectors that are subsequently sampled; decode the sampled vectors; determine loss information for the decoded voxelized three-dimensional objects; use the loss information to train the variational autoencoder; fine-tune a pretrained text-based system; receive user input describing a three-dimensional object; generate a vector from the user input; decode the vector into a voxelized three-dimensional object; present the voxelized three-dimensional object to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Cameron Thacker, John Linden
  • Publication number: 20220047953
    Abstract: Systems and methods for transfer of rights pertaining to game assets operate between users of an online gaming platform. Exemplary implementations may: tokenize a game asset into a tokenized game asset; record, on a distributed blockchain, ownership of a beneficiary right to a share resulting from selling the game asset; responsive to a sale of the game asset, transfer the share resulting from the sale to a first beneficiary; responsive to a transfer of ownership of a particular virtual item from the first beneficiary to a second beneficiary, and responsive to a second sale of the game asset, transferring a second share resulting from the second sale to the second beneficiary in accordance with the beneficiary right.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Stephan Cunningham, John Linden
  • Patent number: 11247127
    Abstract: Systems and methods for modifying game assets based on tradeable items that are associated with user accounts of users of the online gaming platform are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: store, in electronic storage, item information associated with the tradeable items; obtain a first item identifier of a first tradeable item; obtain first user information of a first user account; link the first tradeable item with the first user account such that a first item-account connection is established; store the first item-account connection; obtain, based on the first item identifier, the first modification information; receive, from the first user, an indication of a selection of a first game asset to be modified based on the first modification information such that a first asset-item connection is established; and modify, based on the first modification information, the first attribute information in accordance with the first tradeable item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventor: John Linden
  • Patent number: 11232631
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using natural language processing (NLP) to automatically generate three-dimensional objects in a virtual space are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: obtain three-dimensional objects using a three-dimensional voxelized format; encode those objects, using a variational autoencoder, into pairs of vectors that are subsequently sampled; decode the sampled vectors; determine loss information for the decoded voxelized three-dimensional objects; use the loss information to train the variational autoencoder; fine-tune a pretrained text-based system; receive user input describing a three-dimensional object; generate a vector from the user input; decode the vector into a voxelized three-dimensional object; present the voxelized three-dimensional object to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Cameron Thacker, John Linden
  • Patent number: 11224818
    Abstract: Systems and methods for transfer of rights pertaining to game assets operate between users of an online gaming platform. Exemplary implementations may: tokenize a game asset into a tokenized game asset; record, on a distributed blockchain, ownership of a beneficiary right to a share resulting from selling the game asset; responsive to a sale of the game asset, transfer the share resulting from the sale to a first beneficiary; responsive to a transfer of ownership of a particular virtual item from the first beneficiary to a second beneficiary, and responsive to a second sale of the game asset, transferring a second share resulting from the second sale to the second beneficiary in accordance with the beneficiary right.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephan Cunningham, John Linden
  • Patent number: 11207604
    Abstract: Systems and methods to enable users to incentivize particular in-game user behaviors and particular user activities within an online game are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: effectuate presentation of an incentive interface that enables a first user to define a social agreement of a set of activities for a second user to perform and incentives for the set of activities that the second user can earn, and specify the second user to propose the social agreement to; effectuate presentation of the social agreement to the second user via an online gaming platform; receive an indication of acceptance to the social agreement; generate instructions to form the social agreement as a smart contract and transfer such to a decentralized ledger server for recordation; and receive indication of execution of the set of activities and, in responsive, provide the incentives to the second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Rudy Koch, John Linden
  • Publication number: 20210387093
    Abstract: Systems and methods for modifying game assets based on tradeable items that are associated with user accounts of users of an online gaming platform are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventor: John Linden
  • Patent number: 11192033
    Abstract: Systems and methods to provide and use proof of in-game participation by unique digital articles are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may execute instances of a game; manage player accounts associated with the players; record usage information pertaining to player-owned unique digital articles on a permanent registry; determine whether in-game player-controllable virtual items participated in in-game events; generate sets of video information depicting the in-game player-controllable virtual items participating in the in-game events; and record references to the sets of video information on the permanent registry such that the video information is accessible for viewing by users of the permanent registry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Rudy Koch, John Linden
  • Patent number: 11179638
    Abstract: Systems and methods to enable administrators to incentivize one or both of particular in-game user behaviors and particular in-game user activities via group agreements that govern user groups within an online game are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: John Linden, Rudy Koch
  • Patent number: 11173401
    Abstract: Systems and methods for modifying game assets based on tradeable items that are associated with user accounts of users of an online gaming platform are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventor: John Linden