American Express was granted a patent for real-time event gamification.

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    "patent_abstract": "A consumer may enroll in an event gamification system. An event listener may detect an event. The event gamification system may determine that the event qualifies for a game in which the consumer is enrolled. The event gamification system may transmit an achievement notification to the consumer as soon as the event occurs. The game may be displayed in a GUI on a consumer device. The consumer may be rewarded for completing the achievements in the game. Also, a server computer receiving a plurality of data sets that represent visually perceptible elements for a plurality of host web pages, wherein each of the plurality of host web pages displays an active link associated with a product on a merchant web page. The server automatically generating composite web page from: i) the particular data set associated with the particular host web page and the particular set of visually perceptible elements and ii) the related electronic content associated with the product from the merchant web page.",
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