System and method for generating targeted newsletters
a technology of targeted newsletters and newsletters, applied in the field of newsletters, can solve the problems of requiring a significant time investment, too much information to sort through, and a large amount of information to achieve a comprehensive search on the intern
Inactive Publication Date: 2013-02-21
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The system provides focused, relevant information to players, reducing the need for extensive research and improving the relevance of advice by tailoring content to the player's current situation, enhancing gameplay experience.
Problems solved by technology
Internet-based role-playing games have become increasingly complex.
As with much of the Internet, for many people there is too much information to sort through.
In addition, a comprehensive search on the Internet requires a significant time investment, even with search engines.
Furthermore, a less experienced gamer may not know for what terms to search.
The problem with providing such advice via a magazine or a website is that game players have to sift through information unrelated to their character, their character's level, or their character's position or location.
Such games may be very complex and therefore there may be an abundance of information to provide to game players, with much of the information not being useful to any particular game player at a particular time.
Progressing through these levels can take several weeks of online playtime (and months of real time).
To summarize, offering all of the available information known about game play leads to an encyclopedic database, requiring considerable research efforts on the part of the player, while offering occasional articles from scattered types of game play will have a very low hit rate on article relevance, and in some cases may be out of date.
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[0014]A solution for providing game related information to game players is to provide a set of advisory articles offered a few at a time, but only provide articles that are relevant to the player's current in-game character type and level. Such game related information could be provided in a periodic newsletter customized to the player's current situation. In one approach, the player may sign up for the newsletter as a particular character type and level (perhaps a Warlock at Level 8), and the newsletter for Warlocks can be sent periodically, at increasing levels. Such approach would lack synchronization and would quickly become frustrating, as the newsletter would either lag behind or run in advance of the player's progress. In a second approach, the player could use a controlling website to ask for new newsletters as the player progresses. The second approach would provide more synchronized information, but is likely to miss items if the player does not remember to do queries.
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A system and a method of providing a targeted newsletter is provided. The method includes monitoring a game while a game player plays the game on a game computer, collecting game related information, uploading the game related information to a remote server, generating a newsletter on the remote server that is tailored for the game player based on the game related information, and transferring the newsletter to the game player.
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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION(S)[0001]This Patent Application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11 / 764,788, filed on Jun. 18, 2007, entitled “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING TARGETED NEWSLETTERS,” which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60 / 814,164, filed on Jun. 16, 2006 and entitled “TARGETED NEWSLETTER,” the entire content of both of which is hereby expressly incorporated by reference.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]1. Field of the Invention[0003]The present invention relates to a newsletter, and more particularly, to a newsletter targeted to a particular game player and customized based on information related to the particular game player's character.[0004]2. Description of Related Art[0005]Internet-based role-playing games have become increasingly complex. In order to play the game effectively, game players must spent much time playing the game and researching the game to learn particular details of the game that ma...
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IPC IPC(8): A63F9/24
CPCA63F13/12A63F2300/407A63F2300/535G06Q20/201A63F2300/57G06Q20/20A63F2300/5506A63F13/30A63F13/79A63F13/85
InventorMACRAE, DOUGLASWESTBERG, THOMASO'KEEFE, JOHN
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