US 11,911,693 B2
Inter-vehicle electronic games
Gary Lake-Schaal, Los Angeles, CA (US); Pamela J. Allison, Burbank, CA (US); Lewis S. Ostrover, Los Angeles, CA (US); Gregory I. Gewickey, Simi Valley, CA (US); Ha Nguyen, Fullerton, CA (US); and Prashant Abhyankar, Burbank, CA (US)
Assigned to WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC., Burbank, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/432,799
Filed by WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC., Burbank, CA (US)
PCT Filed Feb. 21, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/019366
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 8, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/172634, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 27, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/808,697, filed on Feb. 21, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0347567 A1, Nov. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. A63F 13/355 (2014.01); A63F 13/79 (2014.01); H04W 4/46 (2018.01); H04W 4/21 (2018.01); H04W 4/08 (2009.01)
CPC A63F 13/355 (2014.09) [A63F 13/79 (2014.09); H04W 4/08 (2013.01); H04W 4/21 (2018.02); H04W 4/46 (2018.02)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method of providing electronic media for a set of passengers, the method comprising:
identifying, by one or more processors, a group of users based on a contemporaneous presence by each user in the group in two or more independently controlled vehicles and further based on an indication of interest by the each user in a communication network-mediated interaction with another of the group of users during the contemporaneous presence and on trip data for the each of the two or more vehicles, wherein the trip data defines one or more criteria selected from the group consisting of: a duration for an interactive media session for play by the group of users in the two or more vehicles, an initial location at which the one or more processors schedule initiation of the session, a terminal location at which the one or more processors schedule termination of the session, and one or more intermediate locations along a route defined by the one or more processors for the conveyance;
at least one of selecting or configuring, by the one or more processors, an interactive media program for play by the each user based at least in part on the trip data for each of the two or more vehicles at least in part by an algorithm that evaluates relationships between user-facing elements of the interactive media and one or more of: the initial location, the terminal location and the one or more intermediate locations; and
providing, by the one or more processors, the interactive media program configured for output by interactive media players, including at least one of the interactive media players in each of the two or more vehicles during the contemporaneous presence.