US 12,434,152 B2
Systems and methods for dynamically enabling feature changes in a mobile game
Christopher Eugene Plummer, Venice, CA (US)
Assigned to Activision Publishing, Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed by Activision Publishing, Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 5, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/938,095.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/262,479, filed on Oct. 13, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0113835 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. A63F 13/69 (2014.01); A63F 13/211 (2014.01); A63F 13/428 (2014.01); A63F 13/837 (2014.01); A63F 13/87 (2014.01)
CPC A63F 13/69 (2014.09) [A63F 13/211 (2014.09); A63F 13/428 (2014.09); A63F 13/837 (2014.09); A63F 13/87 (2014.09)] 18 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method for selecting a mode of a video game, the method being implemented in a mobile computing device having a processor and a random access memory, wherein the processor is in data communication with a display and with a storage unit, the method comprising:
identifying a first orientation of the mobile computing device;
executing the video game in a first mode based on the identified first orientation, wherein the first mode is a default mode and is defined by the video game executing with a first plurality of features;
identifying a change to the first orientation of the mobile computing device, wherein said change indicates a player of the video game has physically caused the mobile computing device to adopt a second orientation and wherein the second orientation is different from the first orientation; and
based on the second orientation, stopping the execution of the video game in the first mode and initiating an execution of the video game in a second mode, wherein the second mode is an alternative mode and is defined by the video game executing with a second plurality of features, wherein at least a portion of the first plurality of features is different from at least a portion of the second plurality of features, and wherein the execution of the video game is shorter in the alternative mode than in the default mode.