Patents by Inventor Kyle Sampson

Kyle Sampson 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: 20140024462
    Abstract: Software at a MMO game website creates a team to perform a collaborative game task in the MMO game. Each player on the team is assigned from a queue of players who share one or more attributes. The collaborative game task is composed of a plurality of individual game tasks. Each player on a team is assigned an individual game task by the software. The software provides a game reward to a player after the player has satisfactorily completed less than all of the individual game task assigned to the player. The software determines that a team has satisfactorily completed the collaborative game task, according to game mechanics associated with the collaborative game task. Then the software provides a game reward to each player on the team.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: Zynga Inc.
    Inventors: Yi Qiang, Tatung Mei, John Osvald, David Richey, Cesario Julation, Kyle Sampson
  • Publication number: 20140024461
    Abstract: Software at an MMO game website creates a team to perform a collaborative game task in an MMO game. The collaborative game task is composed of a plurality of individual game tasks. Each player on the team is assigned an individual game task by the software. The software removes an existing player from the team, if the existing player is not participating, and the software assigns a new player to a team. The software determines that the team has satisfactorily completed the collaborative game task associated with the team, according to game mechanics associated with the collaborative game task. Then the software terminates provides a game reward to each player on the team.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: Zynga Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff Rodkey, Tatung Mei, Kyle Sampson, Cesario Julation, Yi Qiang