Dynamically providing guest passes for a video game

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8702518
APP PUB NO 20080234043A1
SERIAL NO

11690770

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A system and method for determining and providing one or more guest passes for temporary access to one or more video games to a first player that was previously granted membership to a platform that offers access to playing these video games. One or more different determinations are made on information related to the first player and/or available video games to generate one or more guest passes for a video game that is at least somewhat relevant to the first player. In at least one embodiment, one or more of the different determinations can be intrinsically and/or extrinsically weighted to further refine the generation of a guest pass for a video games that is at least somewhat relevant to the first player, and thereby more likely to be offered by the first player to a second player. Also, the platform enables the determining and generating of the one or more guest passes to the one or more video games for the first player.

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  • VALVE CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Birum, Derrick Jason Duvall, US 12 1115
Cook, John Seattle, US 123 1508
Coomer, Gregory Seattle, US 5 208
Johnson, Erik Axel Issaquah, US 3 197
McCaskey,, IV John A Seattle, US 1 0

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