Granted Patent B2

US 8,672,751 · App. 10/193,980 · Granted Mar 18, 2014

Abstract

Claims (24)

1. A system for providing enhanced services to users of a gaming application, comprising at least one computing device operable to perform a method comprising:

receiving a first request for game play from a first user communicatively coupled to the at least one computing device with a first of a plurality of other computing devices;

establishing enhanced services for a user of the gaming application in response to the request for game play, wherein establishing the enhanced services comprises:

executing a gaming application in response to the first request from the first user, wherein execution of the gaming application corresponds at least in part to a start of a first gaming session;

monitoring game events by the first user during at least a portion of the first gaming session;

receiving a second request for game play from the first user;

executing a gaming application in response to the second request from the first user, wherein execution of the gaming application corresponds at least in part to a start of a second gaming session;

monitoring game events by the first user during at least a portion of the second gaming session;

auditing game events in the second gaming session based on game events by the first user during at least a portion of the first gaming session;

generating first statistics information based at least in part on the monitored game events during at least a portion of the first gaming session and generating second statistics information based at least in part on the monitored game events during at least a portion of the second gaming session, and

wherein auditing game events in the second gaming session comprises comparing the first statistics information with the second statistics information.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the first and second statistics information is generated specific to a particular gaming application, the statistics information comprising at least one statistic value.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first statistics information and the second statistics information is generated in real time.

4. A method comprising:

receiving a first request for game play from a first user communicatively coupled to at least one computing device with a first of a plurality of other computing devices;

executing a gaming application in response to the first request from the first user, wherein execution of the gaming application corresponds at least in part to a start of a first gaming session;

monitoring game events by the first user during at least a portion of the first gaming session;

receiving a second request for game play from the first user;

executing a gaming application in response to the second request from the first user, wherein execution of the gaming application corresponds at least in part to a start of a second gaming session;

monitoring game events by the first user during at least a portion of the second gaming session; and

auditing game events in the second gaming session based on game events by the first user during at least a portion of the first gaming session,

generating first statistics information based at least in part on the monitored game events during at least a portion of the first gaming session and generating second statistics information based at least in part on the monitored game events during at least a portion of the second gaming session, and wherein auditing game events in the second gaming session comprises comparing the first statistics information with the second statistics information.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the first and second statistics information is generated specific to a particular gaming application, the statistics information comprising at least one statistic value.

6. The method of claim 4 , wherein at least one of the first statistics information and the second statistics information is generated in real time.

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