18827599. MATCHMAKING ARCHITECTURE FOR ONLINE GAME PLATFORM (Roblox Corporation)

MATCHMAKING ARCHITECTURE FOR ONLINE GAME PLATFORM

Organization Name

Roblox Corporation

Inventor(s)

Karun Channa of Redwood City CA (US)

Xiaoqiong Wu of Danville CA (US)

Colin Ramsay Dillard of Redwood City CA (US)

Yachao Lu of San Mateo CA (US)

Changran Liu of Mountain View CA (US)

Mathieu Francois Chauvin of San Carlos CA (US)

David Chun Hsiao Kao of Mountain View CA (US)

MATCHMAKING ARCHITECTURE FOR ONLINE GAME PLATFORM

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18827599 titled 'MATCHMAKING ARCHITECTURE FOR ONLINE GAME PLATFORM

Original Abstract Submitted

Matchmaking architecture for online game platforms. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a request from a user device for one or more active game instances of a game platform that currently execute on the game platform and which the user device is able to join. The processor determines particular indexes in a data structure based on the request, which are a subset of a stored plurality of indexes that store identifications of a respective subset of active game instances on the platform. Identifications of a set of candidate game instances are obtained from the particular indexes, and a set of eligible game instances is determined based on the identifications and based on eligibility criteria, the set of eligible game instances being available to join. The user device is caused to connect to one of the eligible game instances.