Patents by Inventor Laurence M. Toney

Laurence M. Toney 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: 9305425
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for providing online games that are non-monolithic programs. One method includes an operation for providing access to a plurality of online games and to a wrapper game. Each of the online games and the wrapper game is directly accessible to be loaded utilizing a corresponding internet address, which is different for each online game. The wrapper game includes options to load any of the plurality of online games. In addition, the method includes another operation for providing a chat interface in the plurality of online games and in the wrapper game. The chat interface allows users accessing any of the online games to exchange messages with other users accessing any of the online games, and the chat interface is unavailable to users currently absent from the online games and absent from the wrapper game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Zynga Inc.
    Inventors: Shane Sareli, Lamberto M. Alvaro, Laurence M. Toney, Nir Leibovich, Sergey Pervov
  • Publication number: 20140121027
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for providing online games that are non-monolithic programs. One method includes an operation for providing a shared navigation interface in a plurality of game applications to be rendered on a mobile device. The shared navigation interface includes options for loading and executing each of the game applications from the plurality of game applications, and progress made in each game application is independent from progress made in other game applications from the plurality of game applications. Further, the method includes operations for loading and executing a first game application from the plurality of game applications on the mobile device, and for detecting a selection, made by a user playing the first game, of a second game application in the shared navigation interface. The second game application is loaded and executed in response to the detecting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2014
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: Zynga Inc.
    Inventors: Shane Sareli, Lamberto M. Alvaro, Laurence M. Toney, Nir Leibovich, Sergey Perov
  • Publication number: 20140038726
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for providing online games that are non-monolithic programs. One method includes an operation for providing access to a plurality of online games and to a wrapper game. Each of the online games and the wrapper game is directly accessible to be loaded utilizing a corresponding internet address, which is different for each online game. The wrapper game includes options to load any of the plurality of online games. In addition, the method includes another operation for providing a chat interface in the plurality of online games and in the wrapper game. The chat interface allows users accessing any of the online games to exchange messages with other users accessing any of the online games, and the chat interface is unavailable to users currently absent from the online games and absent from the wrapper game.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: ZYNGA INC.
    Inventors: Shane Sareli, Lamberto M. Alvaro, Laurence M. Toney, Nir Leibovich, Sergey Perov
  • Patent number: 8585506
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for providing online games. One method includes operations for providing access to a plurality of online games and to a wrapper game, where each of the online games, as well as the wrapper game, are directly accessible utilizing a corresponding internet address which is different for each online game. A virtual currency is shared by the plurality of online games. Additionally, a shared navigation bar is provided, and each of the online games includes the shared navigation bar in a graphic user interface (GUI) of the game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Zynga Inc.
    Inventors: Shane Sareli, Lamberto M. Alvaro, Laurence M. Toney, Nir Leibovich, Sergey Perov