ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,692, issued on April 29.
"Classifying gaming activity to identify desirable behavior" was invented by Olga Rudi (San Francisco), Lucie Roberts (San Jose, Calif.) and Rebecca MacDonald (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling online gaming behavior. The method including monitoring at a game server a plurality of game plays of a plurality of players playing a video game in a gaming session over a period of time. The method including extracting features from the plurality of game plays related to a plurality of activities associated with the plurality of game plays, the plurality of activities being contro...