US 12,115,446 B2
Providing virtual items based on location-based actions
Kathleen Auterio, San Francisco, CA (US); Deniz Ersever, San Francisco, CA (US); Nathan Arthur Etter, San Jose, CA (US); Hardik Kheskani, San Jose, CA (US); Serena Lam, San Francisco, CA (US); Amitt Mahajan, San Francisco, CA (US); Christopher Joseph Makarsky, San Francisco, CA (US); Jay Monahan, Los Gatos, CA (US); Donald C. Mosites, San Francisco, CA (US); Benjamin Mullin, San Francisco, CA (US); Matthew Adam Ocko, Palo Alto, CA (US); Brian Reynolds, Lutherville, MD (US); Shantanu Talapatra, San Francisco, CA (US); Justin Waldron, Oakville, CT (US); Ian Wang, San Francisco, CA (US); and Jackson Wang, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Zynga Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Zynga Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/945,426.
Application 17/945,426 is a continuation of application No. 17/114,325, filed on Dec. 7, 2020, granted, now 11,471,759.
Application 17/114,325 is a continuation of application No. 16/393,769, filed on Apr. 24, 2019, granted, now 10,881,954.
Application 16/393,769 is a continuation of application No. 15/793,736, filed on Oct. 25, 2017, granted, now 10,300,377.
Application 15/793,736 is a continuation of application No. 13/435,627, filed on Mar. 30, 2012, granted, now 9,895,608.
Application 13/435,627 is a continuation of application No. 13/174,717, filed on Jun. 30, 2011, granted, now 9,220,985.
Prior Publication US 2023/0226442 A1, Jul. 20, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A63F 13/32 (2014.01); A63F 13/00 (2014.01); A63F 13/216 (2014.01); A63F 13/27 (2014.01); A63F 13/30 (2014.01); A63F 13/85 (2014.01)
CPC A63F 13/32 (2014.09) [A63F 13/00 (2013.01); A63F 13/216 (2014.09); A63F 13/27 (2014.09); A63F 13/30 (2014.09); A63F 13/85 (2014.09); A63F 2300/40 (2013.01); A63F 2300/57 (2013.01); A63F 2300/575 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving an indication of a performance of a location-based action by a player of a computer-implemented game;
responsive to and conditional upon the receiving of the indication of the performance of the location-based action by the player of the computer-implemented game, automatically adding a virtual item to an inventory of a player character of the player of the computer-implemented game, the virtual item being usable within the computer-implemented game by the player character of the player of the computer-implemented game, wherein the virtual item is one of a set of virtual items; and
providing the player with an incentive reward based on the player collecting each of the set of virtual items.