US 12,472,440 B2
Systems and methods for shared control of benefit-producing virtual territory through the exchange of fungible digital articles
Cameron Thacker, Sherman Oaks, CA (US)
Assigned to Mythical, Inc., Sherman Oaks, CA (US)
Filed by Mythical, Inc., Sherman Oaks, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/890,948.
Application 17/890,948 is a continuation of application No. 17/695,662, filed on Mar. 15, 2022, granted, now 11,511,198.
Prior Publication US 2023/0294003 A1, Sep. 21, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A63F 13/795 (2014.01); A63F 13/335 (2014.01); A63F 13/56 (2014.01)
CPC A63F 13/795 (2014.09) [A63F 13/335 (2014.09); A63F 13/56 (2014.09)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system configured to control distributions produced in or by benefit-producing virtual territories in an online gaming platform, the system comprising:
the online gaming platform including one or more hardware 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 players, and implement in-game actions in the instance of the game in response to in-game action instructions for the in-game actions by the players, wherein the players include a first player and a second player;
receive an instruction from a first set of players to obtain rights to distributions associated with a particular virtual territory in the game, wherein individual ones of the distributions include one or more in-game benefits produced in and/or by the particular virtual territory, wherein the first set of players includes the first player;
determine whether the first set of players controls the particular virtual territory;
responsive to determining the first set of players controls the particular virtual territory, exchange the rights to the distributions for a particular amount of fungible digital articles, wherein the fungible digital articles are implemented as tradeable fungible tokens on a permanent registry that implements a blockchain, and wherein ownership of the rights to the distributions is recorded on the blockchain;
determine whether to provide a first distribution of a first set of one or more in-game benefits to the first set of players, in accordance with the ownership of the rights to the distributions being recorded on the blockchain as the first set of players, wherein determining includes verifying whether the first set of players continues to control the particular virtual territory, wherein the first set of one or more in-game benefits includes the one or more in-game benefits produced in and/or by the particular virtual territory;
responsive to a first determination that the first set of players continues to control the particular virtual territory, provide the first distribution of the first set of one or more in-game benefits to the first set of players; and
responsive to a second determination that the first set of players no longer controls the particular virtual territory, decline to provide the first distribution of the first set of one or more in-game benefits to the first set of players.