Real Money Gambling Payouts That Depend on Online Social Activity

摘要

Software on a server and/or client device causes a view in a graphical user interface (GUI) for a game to be displayed to a user. The game is an online gambling game for real money. The software receives input from the user. The input includes a wager and play according to game mechanics for the game. The software calculates a payout from the play. The payout includes a promotional payout that depends at least in part on a measure of social activity associated with the user or a measure of social influence associated with the user. And the software broadcasts the payout to at least one other person who is a social relation of the user.

主权项

1. A method, comprising the operations of:
causing a view a view in a graphical user interface (GUI) for a game to be displayed to a user, where the game is an online gambling game for real money; receiving input from the user, wherein the input includes a wager and play according to game mechanics for the game; calculating a payout from the play, wherein the payout includes a promotional payout that depends at least in part on a measure of social activity or on a measure of social influence associated with the user; and broadcasting the payout to at least one other person who is a social relation of the user, wherein each of the operations is executed by one or more processors.