| CPC A63F 13/69 (2014.09) [A63F 13/335 (2014.09); A63F 13/47 (2014.09); A63F 13/55 (2014.09); A63F 13/79 (2014.09)] | 20 Claims |
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1. A system configured to provide ledger-specific utilities, in instances of games within an online gaming platform, for unique digital articles that are associated with in-game user-controllable characters, the system comprising:
one or more processors configured by machine-readable instructions to:
execute, within the online gaming platform, an instance of a game to facilitate presentation of the game to users, and implement in-game actions in the instance of the game in response to action requests for the in-game actions by the users, wherein the presentation of the game is based on views of the game that are determined during execution of the instance of the game, wherein the users include a first user;
manage user accounts associated with the users, wherein the user accounts include account inventories of virtual items, wherein the user accounts include a first user account associated with the first user, wherein the first user account includes a first account inventory of one or more virtual items, wherein the first user controls the one or more virtual items in the first account inventory, wherein the first account inventory includes a first unique digital article that is associated with a first in-game user-controllable character;
receive, on behalf of the first user, a first recordation request to record ownership of the first unique digital article on a first decentralized ledger;
receive, on behalf of the first user, a first action request to use the first unique digital article in a first manner of usage in the instance of the game, wherein the first manner of usage is grouped under at most one of (i) a first type of unique digital article usage and (ii) a second type of unique digital article usage, wherein the first type of unique digital article usage includes display of the first in-game user-controllable character in the first account inventory, and wherein the second type of unique digital article usage includes interactive gameplay in the instance of the game using the first in-game user-controllable character;
subsequent to the first manner of usage being grouped under the first type of unique digital article usage, respond to the first action request by permitting the first action request; and
subsequent to the first manner of usage being grouped under the second type of unique digital article usage:
(i) determine whether the first decentralized ledger on which the ownership of the first unique digital article has been recorded is a private permissioned decentralized ledger;
(ii) responsive to determining the first decentralized ledger on which the ownership of the first unique digital article has been recorded is the private permissioned decentralized ledger, respond to the first action request by permitting the first action request; and
(iii) responsive to determining the first decentralized ledger on which the ownership of the first unique digital article has been recorded is a public decentralized ledger, respond to the first action request with a response, wherein the response notifies the first user that the first user is not permitted to use the first unique digital article according to the first action request.
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