Patents by Inventor Rudy Koch

Rudy Koch 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: 12186668
    Abstract: Systems and methods to provide ledger-specific utilities for unique digital articles and other digital assets that are not fungible in an online gaming platform are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may execute instances of a game; manage user accounts associated with the users, including a first user account associated with a first user, wherein a first account inventory includes a first unique digital article; receive a first action request to use the first unique digital article in a first manner of usage; either permit or deny the requested first manner of usage, based on the type of unique digital article usage that is requested and on the type of decentralized ledger (or the specific decentralized ledger) on which the first unique digital article has been recorded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventor: Rudy Koch
  • Patent number: 12179120
    Abstract: Systems and methods for dispersing gains derived from ownership of user-generated content among users of a gaming platform are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: execute an instance of a game and implement in-game actions in the instance of the game as requested by the users; assign ownership of a first item of user-generated content to a group of users; record the ownership of the first item of user-generated content by the group of users; determine a first quantity of gains that have been gained within the gaming platform through use of the first item of user-generated content; and disperse at least a portion of the first quantity of gains to individual ones of the group of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventor: Rudy Koch
  • Patent number: 12168181
    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: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Rudy Koch, John Linden
  • Patent number: 12154153
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating purchase offer selection across multiple online sales platforms are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: obtain first information defining a first sales listing of a particular virtual item on a first online sales platform; obtain second information defining a second sales listing of the particular virtual item on a second online sales platform; receive at least two indications of offers to purchase the particular virtual item; obtain information that represents at least one sales characteristic by which the offers to purchase the particular virtual item are to be ranked according to desirability; determine and compare a first metric value for the first offer and a second metric value for the second offer; and determine an accepted offer that is accepted based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Liwen Kao, Rudy Koch, Cameron Thacker, Andrew Royer
  • Patent number: 12109493
    Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamic inventory control for player-to-player exchanges between users interacting within an online gaming platform are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: execute an instance of the game; monitor user-specific in-game actions of a user; determine in-game objectives based on the monitored in-game actions; receive information representing virtual items available for exchange; determine metric values representing usefulness of individual virtual items regarding the in-game objectives; and present the individual virtual items such that more useful items are presented more prominently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventor: Rudy Koch
  • Patent number: 12090410
    Abstract: Systems and methods to support different player types in a franchise game based on ownership of unique digital articles are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may execute an instance of a franchise game, the different player types including a first player type and a second player type providing access to different utilities; receive and perform in-game action instructions from players having different player types, wherein different in-game action instructions fall within different sets of utilities; receive exchange instructions from a particular player having the first player type to obtain a particular affiliation-specific unique digital article; modify the player account for the particular player such that the particular player no longer has the first player type but rather the second player type; receive and perform a particular in-game action instruction from the particular player by virtue of the particular player having the second player type; and/or other steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Chong Won Ahn, Rudy Koch
  • Patent number: 12083438
    Abstract: Systems and methods to provide in-game consequences for unique digital articles, the in-game consequences being 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 be exposed to in-game consequences of either receiving distributions of benefits or losing stakes; determine real-world information based on events that have occurred in the real world; evaluate whether to distribute the benefits or seize the stakes, based on the real-world information; and either provide the distributions of benefits or seize the stakes accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Rudy Koch, John Linden
  • Patent number: 12083437
    Abstract: Systems and methods to providing gated in-game access based on collections and/or combinations of unique digital articles in an online gaming platform are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may execute instances of a game; manage player accounts associated with the players, including a first player account associated with a first player, wherein a first account inventory includes a first and a second unique digital article; receive, from the first player, a first action request for an in-game action that requires ownership of the first and second unique digital articles (as recorded on an immutable ledger); permit the first action request (and other similar requests) unless and until the first player is no longer the registered owner of the first and second unique digital articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventor: Rudy Koch
  • Patent number: 12036477
    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: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: John Linden, Rudy Koch
  • Patent number: 12008645
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling an automated electronic networked central clearinghouse for clearing and reversing reversible exchanges of digital assets are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Rudy Koch, Cameron Thacker, Liwen Kao
  • Patent number: 11992770
    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: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Rudy Koch, John Linden
  • Patent number: 11935146
    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: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: John Linden, Rudy Koch
  • Patent number: 11918911
    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: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Rudy Koch, John Linden
  • Publication number: 20240058707
    Abstract: Systems and methods to support different player types in a franchise game based on ownership of unique digital articles are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may execute an instance of a franchise game, the different player types including a first player type and a second player type providing access to different utilities; receive and perform in-game action instructions from players having different player types, wherein different in-game action instructions fall within different sets of utilities; receive exchange instructions from a particular player having the first player type to obtain a particular affiliation-specific unique digital article; modify the player account for the particular player such that the particular player no longer has the first player type but rather the second player type; receive and perform a particular in-game action instruction from the particular player by virtue of the particular player having the second player type; and/or other steps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Chong Won Ahn, Rudy Koch
  • Patent number: 11872496
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling distributions by an automated electronic networked central clearinghouse are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive an exchange request that indicates a first user offers a first digital asset for a reversible exchange on a fiat-currency-based online exchange platform; obtain asset-specific distribution rights for the first digital asset; receive exchange information regarding the reversible exchange with an exchanging user; monitor, during a waiting period, whether any actions taken by the exchanging user determine reversibility of the reversible exchange, or whether the waiting period for reversibility times out; based on a time-out or a determination regarding reversibility, either (i) transfer the ownership of the first digital asset to the first user, or (ii) clear the reversible exchange by non-temporarily transferring the ownership to the exchanging user, and by distributing benefits in accordance with the asset-specific distribution rights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: Rudy Koch, Cameron Thacker, Liwen Kao
  • Publication number: 20230415047
    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: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Rudy Koch, John Linden
  • Publication number: 20230410235
    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: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: John Linden, Rudy Koch
  • Publication number: 20230390649
    Abstract: Systems and methods for tokenizing moments in a game are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: create an asset that represents a set of rights pertaining to an occurrence of a given moment in the game. The given moment includes a transition from a first user game state to a second user game state that has occurred to a given user-controlled character. The set of rights includes a right to a given type of usage of the asset. Implementations may include recording ownership of the asset; receiving a request for using the asset according to the given type of usage; verifying whether the requesting player owns the given right; creating a presentation of the game as requested; and presenting the presentation to the requesting player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventor: Rudy Koch
  • Publication number: 20230394545
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating purchase offer selection across multiple online sales platforms are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: obtain first information defining a first sales listing of a particular virtual item on a first online sales platform; obtain second information defining a second sales listing of the particular virtual item on a second online sales platform; receive at least two indications of offers to purchase the particular virtual item; obtain information that represents at least one sales characteristic by which the offers to purchase the particular virtual item are to be ranked according to desirability; determine and compare a first metric value for the first offer and a second metric value for the second offer; and determine an accepted offer that is accepted based on the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Liwen Kao, Rudy Koch, Cameron Thacker, Andrew Royer
  • Publication number: 20230390648
    Abstract: Systems and methods to provide in-game consequences for unique digital articles, the in-game consequences being 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 be exposed to in-game consequences of either receiving distributions of benefits or losing stakes; determine real-world information based on events that have occurred in the real world; evaluate whether to distribute the benefits or seize the stakes, based on the real-world information; and either provide the distributions of benefits or seize the stakes accordingly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Rudy Koch, John Linden