US Patent No: 8,083,591
Number of patents in Portfolio can not be more than 2000
Game hosting service
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Dec 27, 2011
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May 15, 2007
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11/748,761
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Abstract
A network gaming service accesses attributes of a particular user to match the user to a gaming session with users having similar attributes. A game hosting service uses preferences of the users in a session and determines parameters for a match. Subsequent match parameters can be further determined based on a history for the session as well as each of the user's preferences.
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| 6,641,481 Simplified matchmaking | 38 | 2000 | |
| 2006/0121,990 System and method for social matching of game players on-line | 19 | 2004 | |
| 2006/0135,264 Social matching of game players on-line | 21 | 2005 | |
| 2006/0287,099 On-line gaming session and party management | 13 | 2005 | |
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| 6,712,693 Method and apparatus for player selection of an electronic game payout | 107 | 2000 | |
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| 7,029,394 System and method for generating statistics for a user of a gaming application | 33 | 2002 | |
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| 6,345,297 Network match maker | 37 | 2000 | |
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| 6,203,433 Network game system, a network game server, a network game client, a player selection program, a medium storing a player selection program, and a medium storing a player information collection program | 38 | 1998 | |
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| 2006/0194,633 Interactive game playing preferences | 36 | 2006 | |
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| 2006/0242,291 Method and device for determining and notifying users having matching preference profiles for accessing a multiple access online application | 3 | 2003 | |
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| 6,352,479 Interactive gaming server and online community forum | 127 | 1999 | |
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| 2004/0128,319 System and method for automatically finding gaming partners based on pre-established criteria | 9 | 2003 | |
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| 6,293,866 System for adapting gaming devices to playing preferences | 205 | 2000 | |
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| 6,631,522 Method and system for indexing, sorting, and displaying a video database | 90 | 1998 | |
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