| 摘要 |
The invention relates to systems and methods of maintaining revealed and unrevealed balances that both belong to a user, but the user is aware only of the revealed balance. In this manner, the system can give the user an impression that a value (e.g., a cash amount or other value) has been gained or lost by transferring the value between the revealed and unrevealed balances of the user, even though no gain or loss actually occurred. The unrevealed balance may include a payout from a real-world wager. Thus, payout may be revealed to the user in a manner that the user believes that the payout was won by the user through a game or other interactive media, even though the payout belongs to the user based on the payout. Other changes in value to the unrevealed and revealed balances may occur as well. |
| 主权项 |
1. A computer implemented method of maintaining a revealed balance and an unrevealed balance associated with real-world wager payouts of a user to give the impression to the user of a change in value of the revealed balance based on user interactions with interactive media even though a true change in value has not occurred, the method being implemented in a computer system having one or more physical processors programmed with computer program instructions that, when executed by the one or more physical processors, cause the computer system to perform the method, the method comprising:
causing, by the computer system, an unrevealed balance associated with one or more user accounts of the user to be stored, wherein the unrevealed balance includes one or more payouts from one or more real-world wagers placed on behalf of the user, the one or more payouts not having been communicated to the user; causing, by the computer system, a revealed balance associated with the one or more user accounts of the user to be stored, wherein the revealed balance is communicated to the user so that the user is aware of the revealed balance and perceives the revealed balance to reflect a true value associated with the one or more accounts; receiving, by the computer system, an indication that a change in value to the revealed balance has occurred, wherein the change in value to the revealed account is communicated to the user so that the user perceives that the true value of the one or more user accounts has changed; updating, by the computer system, the revealed balance based on the change in value; and updating, by the computer system, the unrevealed balance based on an inverse of the change in value so that the true value of the one or more user accounts remains the same despite the user perception that the true value of the one or more user accounts has changed. |
