Patents Assigned to Rational Intellectual Holdings Limited
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Patent number: 11425204Abstract: Disclosed is a computer-implemented method of (and system for) operating instances of a game having a plurality of game positions that can be occupied by players, such as a poker-type game. The method comprises assigning a player a plurality of weights relating to game positions, where each weight indicates a bias towards placement of the player at a game position. When a player has played in a first game at a given position, the weights are updated to indicate an altered bias towards placement at each position. The player is then assigned to a second game based on the updated weights.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: RATIONAL INTELLECTUAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Serguei Bourenkov, Vadim Sheikhman, Dmitri Ligoum
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Patent number: 10964169Abstract: Disclosed is a computer-implemented method of (and system for) operating instances of a game having a plurality of game positions that can be occupied by players, such as a poker-type game. The method comprises assigning a player a plurality of weights relating to game positions, where each weight indicates a bias towards placement of the player at a game position. When a player has played in a first game at a given position, the weights are updated to indicate an altered bias towards placement at each position. The player is then assigned to a second game based on the updated weights.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Rational Intellectual Holdings LimitedInventors: Serguei Bourenkov, Vadim Sheikhman, Dmitri Ligoum
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Patent number: 10922918Abstract: A method of assigning a player-entry to a table so that said player-entry can participate in a hand of a particular card game at said table, wherein there is a plurality of players each having one or more respective player-entries for participating in a respective hand of said card game, wherein a player-entry that is actively participating in a hand of said card game may fold out of turn from said hand so as to no longer be actively participating in said hand, the method comprising: for a first player-entry of a first player, identifying an assignable table for said first player-entry from a plurality of tables for said card game, wherein a table is an assignable table for a particular player-entry if the assignment of said particular player-entry to said table cannot itself provide any player with further information about a hand in which an already assigned player-entry of said player is actively participating in addition to information about said hand that is available to said player only by virtue of theType: GrantFiled: March 5, 2019Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: Rational Intellectual Holdings LimitedInventors: John Aaron Davidson, Darse Raymond Billings
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Patent number: 10672231Abstract: Disclosed is a computer-implemented method of (and system for) operating instances of a game having a plurality of game positions that can be occupied by players, such as a poker-type game. The method comprises assigning a player a plurality of weights relating to game positions, where each weight indicates a bias towards placement of the player at a game position. When a player has played in a first game at a given position, the weights are updated to indicate an altered bias towards placement at each position. The player is then assigned to a second game based on the updated weights.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2013Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: RATIONAL INTELLECTUAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Serguei Bourenkov, Vadim Sheikhman, Dmitri Ligoum
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Patent number: 10535231Abstract: Disclosed is a computer-implemented method of (and system for) operating instances of a game having a plurality of game positions that can be occupied by players, such as a poker-type game. The method comprises assigning a player a plurality of weights relating to game positions, where each weight indicates a bias towards placement of the player at a game position. When a player has played in a first game at a given position, the weights are updated to indicate an altered bias towards placement at each position. The player is then assigned to a second game based on the updated weights.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2017Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Rational Intellectual Holdings LimitedInventors: Serguei Bourenkov, Vadim Sheikhman, Dmitri Ligoum
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Patent number: 9852587Abstract: Disclosed is a computer-implemented method of (and system for) operating instances of a game having a plurality of game positions that can be occupied by players, such as a poker-type game. The method comprises assigning a player a plurality of weights relating to game positions, where each weight indicates a bias towards placement of the player at a game position. When a player has played in a first game at a given position, the weights are updated to indicate an altered bias towards placement at each position. The player is then assigned to a second game based on the updated weights.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2015Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: RATIONAL INTELLECTUAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Serguei Bourenkov, Vadim Sheikhman, Dmitri Ligoum
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Patent number: 9542079Abstract: Methods, computer devices, and computer readable media containing instructions for executing such methods are provided for the modification of digital images having a plurality of visual elements.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2014Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: RATIONAL INTELLECTUAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Sergey Ignatchenko, Victor Gavrysh, Dmitri Ligoum
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Patent number: 9251650Abstract: Disclosed is a computer-implemented method of (and system for) operating instances of a game having a plurality of game positions that can be occupied by players, such as a poker-type game. The method comprises assigning a player a plurality of weights relating to game positions, where each weight indicates a bias towards placement of the player at a game position. When a player has played in a first game at a given position, the weights are updated to indicate an altered bias towards placement at each position. The player is then assigned to a second game based on the updated weights.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2013Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: RATIONAL INTELLECTUAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Serguei Bourenkov, Vadim Sheikhman, Dmitri Ligoum
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Publication number: 20150221185Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention comprise a poker gaming system in which a user can select a number of user hands and a number of dealer hands to play against. Cards are dealt to both the user and the dealer. The user may place an initial bet based on his hand(s) and the likelihood that his hand(s) are better than each of the dealer's hands. The player may also have the option to place side bets in which the user may receive bonuses based on his hand(s). After the user places his bets, the dealer's hands are revealed. The user's hand(s) are compared to each of the dealer's hands, and payouts are determined.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2014Publication date: August 6, 2015Applicant: RATIONAL INTELLECTUAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Vlad Dunaevsky, Serge Bourenkov
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Publication number: 20150143288Abstract: Methods, computer devices, and computer readable media containing instructions for executing such methods are provided for the modification of digital images having a plurality of visual elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2014Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicant: RATIONAL INTELLECTUAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Sergey IGNATCHENKO, Victor GAVRYSH, Dmitri LIGOUM
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Patent number: 8992327Abstract: A method of controlling a game program adapted to operate a game in a device is disclosed. The method comprises accessing configuration data defining one or more states or events which can occur at the device and which are not related to the game program, and specifying for each defined state or event a game action to be performed by the game program in response to the defined state or event. The occurrence of one of the defined states or events at the device is detected, and the game action specified in the configuration data for the detected state or event is performed in response to detection of the defined state or event.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Rational Intellectual Holdings LimitedInventor: Peter Olof Karsten
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Publication number: 20150019744Abstract: Disclosed is a computer-implemented method of (and system for) operating instances of a game having a plurality of game positions that can be occupied by players, such as a poker-type game. The method comprises assigning a player a plurality of weights relating to game positions, where each weight indicates a bias towards placement of the player at a game position. When a player has played in a first game at a given position, the weights are updated to indicate an altered bias towards placement at each position. The player is then assigned to a second game based on the updated weights.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2013Publication date: January 15, 2015Applicant: RATIONAL INTELLECTUAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Serguei Bourenkov, Vadim Sheikhman, Dmitri Ligoum
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Patent number: 8891904Abstract: Methods, computer devices, and computer readable media containing instructions for executing such methods are provided for the modification of digital images having a plurality of visual elements.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2013Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Rational Intellectual Holdings LimitedInventors: Sergey Ignatchenko, Victor Gavrysh, Dmitri Ligoum
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Patent number: 8864588Abstract: A method of controlling a game program adapted to operate a game in a device is disclosed. The method comprises accessing configuration data defining one or more states or events which can occur at the device and which are not related to the game program, and specifying for each defined state or event a game action to be performed by the game program in response to the defined state or event. The occurrence of one of the defined states or events at the device is detected, and the game action specified in the configuration data for the detected state or event is performed in response to detection of the defined state or event.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2012Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Rational Intellectual Holdings LimitedInventor: Peter Olof Karsten
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Publication number: 20130343674Abstract: Methods, computer devices, and computer readable media containing instructions for executing such methods are provided for the modification of digital images having a plurality of visual elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2013Publication date: December 26, 2013Applicant: RATIONAL INTELLECTUAL HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Sergey IGNATCHENKO, Victor GAVRYSH, Dmitri LIGOUM
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Patent number: 8483514Abstract: Methods, computer devices, and computer readable media containing instructions for executing such methods are provided for the modification of digital images having a plurality of visual elements.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2011Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Rational Intellectual Holdings LimitedInventors: Sergey Ignatchenko, Victor Gavrysh, Dmitri Ligoum