System and method of revealing sponsored and other items through mock reveals

摘要

The invention relates to systems and methods of selecting and placing real-world wagers responsive to one or more wager triggers, obtaining outcomes of the real-world wagers, facilitating user interactions with various interactive media, and revealing the outcomes of the real-world wagers through the interactive media to give an appearance that the outcomes of the real-world wagers resulted from the user interactions. Alternatively or additionally, the system may provide mock reveals that are not driven by wagering mechanics. For example, the system may provide reveals that are tied to promotions provided by a partner promotions provider, virtual items (e.g., certain in-game items) that the system is promoting to sell, and/or other item that is not tied to a real-world wager. The system may provide such mock reveals to facilitate promotional campaigns, retain users, and/or otherwise make the gaming experience more enjoyable for the user.

主权项

1. A computer implemented method of allocating items, to a user account balance associated with a user, that are to be revealed through an interactive media application, 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:
identifying, by the computer system, an item to be revealed to the user; allocating, by the computer system, the item to the user account balance, wherein the user account balance includes a plurality of items allocated to the user; selecting, by the computer system, the item from among the plurality of items to be revealed to the user; selecting, by the computer system, the interactive media application from among a plurality of interactive media applications in which to reveal the item based on one or more parameters that specify a manner in which to reveal the item; transmitting, by the computer system, information that specifies a reveal of the item to the interactive media application; receiving, by the computer system, back from the interactive media application, information indicating whether the item was revealed through the interactive media application; and updating, by the computer system, the user account balance based on the information received back from the interactive media application.