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: 20210346801
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using re-playable in-game operations to reach particular user game states in an online gaming platform are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: manage user inventories for users of the online gaming platform; receive a request, from the first user, for activation of the replay asset by the first user; and execute the set of in-game operations automatically such that a first current user game state for the first user is advanced to a first subsequent user game state for the first user within the online gaming platform, responsive to the activation of the replay asset as requested by the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Stephan Cunningham, Cameron Thacker, John Linden
  • Publication number: 20210351937
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining authenticity of non-fungible digital assets are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: store information, wherein the stored information includes information regarding a given type of digital assets, including a first digital asset; generate a first quantity of encoded information, based on encoding an identifier of a smart contract and an asset-specific identifier that identifies the first digital asset; generate a digital signature of the first quantity of encoded information, wherein the digital signature is based on a private key associated with the smart contract; and record the first quantity of encoded information and the digital signature as part of the metadata of the first digital asset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Cameron Thacker, Andrew Royer, John Linden, Liwen Kao
  • Patent number: 11154783
    Abstract: Systems and methods to support player-initiated proof of in-game participation by unique digital articles in in-game events 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; present a player interface for a player to select an in-game event; store video information of the selected in-game event; and record references to the stored 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 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Rudy Koch, John Linden
  • Publication number: 20210287196
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating transactions of virtual items between users of an online game are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive a sales request that indicates a selling user will be offering for sale a particular virtual item from a seller's inventory through an online sales platform; assign the ownership of the particular virtual item temporarily to a holding account; publish a sales listing of the particular virtual item on the online sales platform; receive sales information from the online sales platform indicating whether the particular virtual item has been purchased; assign the ownership of the particular virtual item to the buyer's account; and transfer at least a portion of a sales amount received from the buying user to the seller's account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Stephan Cunningham, Rudy Koch, Liwen Kao, John Linden
  • Patent number: 11077369
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using re-playable in-game operations to reach particular user game states in an online gaming platform are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: manage user inventories for users of the online gaming platform; receive a request, from the first user, for activation of the replay asset by the first user; and execute the set of in-game operations automatically such that a first current user game state for the first user is advanced to a first subsequent user game state for the first user within the online gaming platform, responsive to the activation of the replay asset as requested by the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephan Cunningham, Cameron Thacker, John Linden
  • Patent number: 11077367
    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: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Cameron Thacker, John Linden
  • Patent number: 11062284
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating transactions of virtual items between users of an online game are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive a sales request that indicates a selling user will be offering for sale a particular virtual item from a seller's inventory through an online sales platform; assign the ownership of the particular virtual item temporarily to a holding account; publish a sales listing of the particular virtual item on the online sales platform; receive sales information from the online sales platform indicating whether the particular virtual item has been purchased; assign the ownership of the particular virtual item to the buyer's account; and transfer at least a portion of a sales amount received from the buying user to the seller's account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephan Cunningham, Rudy Koch, Liwen Kao, John Linden
  • Publication number: 20210192266
    Abstract: Systems and methods for converting video information into electronic output files are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: obtain video information defining one or more videos; select a subset of the visual content included in the video content of the particular video; perform object detection to detect objects in the selected subset; perform motion detection to detect a movement for one or more of the detected objects in the selected subset, responsive to the object detection detecting one or more detected objects; and generate and store an electronic output file, responsive to the detection of the movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Stephan Cunningham, Cameron Thacker, Chris Downs, John Linden
  • Patent number: 11044098
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing authenticity of digital assets that are not fungible are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: store information, wherein the stored information includes information regarding a given type of digital assets, including a first digital asset; generate a first quantity of encoded information, based on encoding an identifier of a smart contract and an asset-specific identifier that identifies the first digital asset; generate a digital signature of the first quantity of encoded information, wherein the digital signature is based on the private key associated with the smart contract; record the first quantity of encoded information as part of the metadata of the first digital asset; and record the digital signature as part of the metadata of the first digital asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Cameron Thacker, Andrew Royer, John Linden, Liwen Kao
  • Publication number: 20210103761
    Abstract: Systems and methods for converting video information into electronic output files are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: obtain video information defining one or more videos; select a subset of the visual content included in the video content of the particular video; perform object detection to detect objects in the selected subset; perform motion detection to detect a movement for one or more of the detected objects in the selected subset, responsive to the object detection detecting one or more detected objects; and generate and store an electronic output file, responsive to the detection of the movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Stephan Cunningham, Cameron Thacker, Chris Downs, John Linden
  • Patent number: 10970602
    Abstract: Systems and methods for converting video information into electronic output files are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: obtain video information defining one or more videos; select a subset of the visual content included in the video content of the particular video; perform object detection to detect objects in the selected subset; perform motion detection to detect a movement for one or more of the detected objects in the selected subset, responsive to the object detection detecting one or more detected objects; and generate and store an electronic output file, responsive to the detection of the movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephan Cunningham, Cameron Thacker, Chris Downs, John Linden
  • Patent number: 10930066
    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: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Cameron Thacker, John Linden
  • Publication number: 20200409928
    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: September 16, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Stephan Cunningham, Cameron Thacker, John Linden
  • Publication number: 20200360820
    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: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Stephan Cunningham, John Linden
  • Patent number: 10810183
    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: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephan Cunningham, Cameron Thacker, John Linden
  • Publication number: 20200324201
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using re-playable in-game operations to reach particular user game states in an online gaming platform are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: manage user inventories for users of the online gaming platform; receive a request, from the first user, for activation of the replay asset by the first user; and execute the set of in-game operations automatically such that a first current user game state for the first user is advanced to a first subsequent user game state for the first user within the online gaming platform, responsive to the activation of the replay asset as requested by the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Stephan Cunningham, Cameron Thacker, John Linden
  • Patent number: 10786741
    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: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephan Cunningham, John Linden
  • Publication number: 20200293633
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating tokenization of modifiable game assets on a distributed blockchain may: generate a smart contract configured to contain license keys associated with the modifiable game assets and to effectuate transfers of the license keys to purchasers; post the smart contract to a distributed blockchain; receive sales information describing a first game asset that is usable within the online gaming platform and intended to be offered for sale to gaming users of the online gaming platform; obtain verification information that indicates the first game asset has passed or failed a verification; tokenize the first game asset into a tokenized game asset on the distributed blockchain, responsive to the verification passing successfully; and offer the tokenized game asset for sale.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Stephan Cunningham, John Linden, Cameron Thacker
  • Patent number: 10726107
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating tokenization of modifiable game assets on a distributed blockchain may: generate a smart contract configured to contain license keys associated with the modifiable game assets and to effectuate transfers of the license keys to purchasers; post the smart contract to a distributed blockchain; receive sales information describing a first game asset that is usable within the online gaming platform and intended to be offered for sale to gaming users of the online gaming platform; obtain verification information that indicates the first game asset has passed or failed a verification; tokenize the first game asset into a tokenized game asset on the distributed blockchain, responsive to the verification passing successfully; and offer the tokenized game asset for sale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephan Cunningham, John Linden, Cameron Thacker
  • Publication number: 20200179810
    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: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Stephan Cunningham, John Linden