Patents Examined by Jason T Yen
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Patent number: 11969647Abstract: A control assembly adapted for an electronic device is provided, the control assembly includes a mount seat, at least one link component, and two controllers, the mount seat is configured to be installed on the electronic device, the mount seat has a support surface configured to support the electronic device, the link component is connected to the mount seat, the two controllers are configured to electronic communicate with the electronic device, the two controllers are separated from each other and movably connected to the mount seat via the at least one link component, the two controllers are spaced apart from the support surface of the mount seat along a normal direction of the support surface so that an orthogonal projection of the electronic device along the normal direction of the support surface overlaps at least part of each of the two controllers.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: DEXIN CORP.Inventors: Ho Lung Lu, Shih-Hsiung Hsiao
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Patent number: 11957984Abstract: A server computer is connected to a plurality of client computers through a network, and controls objects in a Metaverse accessed by the client computers. The server computer includes a storage unit for storing an object ID specifying an object accessible in the Metaverse by the plurality of client computers and authenticity information associated with the object ID. The authenticity information indicates that the object is genuine. The server computer also includes a communication unit for communicating with each of the client computers. The server computer also includes an enquiry unit for causing the communication unit to transmit the authenticity information corresponding to the object ID to at least one of the plurality of client computers upon receipt of an enquiry request to enquire about the object ID of the object from one of the plurality of client computers.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Activision Publishing, Inc.Inventors: Kiyokuni Kawachiya, Michiaki Tatsubori
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Patent number: 11951401Abstract: A system of classifying game styles may track a play of a user of one or more media content. The tracked play of the user of one or more media content may be analyzed to characterize the play of the user based on one or more categories of user gameplay style. A plurality of categories of user gameplay style may be selected to be displayed as a visual display of the user gameplay style. The visual display of the user gameplay style may be compared to one or more visual displays of characteristics of other media content. A recommendation for other media content that share similar characteristics to the user gameplay style may be generated.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLCInventor: Sarah Karp
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Patent number: 11944907Abstract: A technique presents on a display a computer game character and a first scannable code (SC) scannable by a camera of at least a first user apparatus to cause a server to download to the first user apparatus a photo app operable to generate a photo of a first user and send the photo to the server, which alters the character in accordance with the photo. The character with the face altered is presented along with a second SC that can be scanned to cause the server to download to the first user apparatus a share app operable to select a second user apparatus to send an image of the character with the face altered in accordance with the photo such that the second user apparatus can display the character with the face altered in accordance with the photo. User options may be provided to alter the character or game.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Ken Yoshihiko Hirakawa, Keisuke Saito, Daniel Morales, Dilip Krishnamoorthi, Keith D. Brown, Takuya Kawasaki
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Patent number: 11941941Abstract: Systems and methods for use in providing a random reward associated with at least one game are disclosed. One exemplary method includes receiving, by a gaming server, data representative of gaming activity of a player of the at least one game, providing, by the gaming server, a code associated with the random reward, wherein the code is representative of an entry to win the random reward, receiving, by the gaming server, data representative of a text message including the code, determining whether the player won the random reward based on the received code, and providing a notification indicating whether the player won the random reward.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: VIDEO GAMING TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Christopher John Thacker, Daniel William Milligan
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Patent number: 11938393Abstract: Presented herein is an interactive platform for judging an activity by a participant in an event. The platform includes a client application program downloadable to a mobile device. The program may include a database storing a mobile device identifier (ID), a user ID, user information, and location data of the device. The application may further be configured to display one or more events of the activity as well as an input for receiving a score of the activity from the user. The platform may additionally include a server system connected with the client application programs via a communication network. The server system may be configured for receiving the mobile device ID, the user ID, the user information, and the location data for the client program, and may further be configured to receive the scores from the users, and to adjust the scores according to determined bias of the associated user.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: FANMOUNTAIN LLCInventors: Todd Wanke, James P. Cleary, James Scott Nolan
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Patent number: 11941947Abstract: A column and row matrix of play positions each having an open state and locked state, the open state for display of a random game symbol received during play of a game and the locked state for holding a game symbol having an award, for creating a win row or win column of award game symbols during sequential plays of the game, which game symbols in the win row after award are removed and award game symbols vertically higher in the matrix cascade to a lower play position having an open state for re-arranging the matrix for subsequent play of the game. A method of re-arranging a matrix game for play is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Inventor: Steven Wesley Davis
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Patent number: 11938401Abstract: An audio playing method and apparatus, a terminal and a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium are disclosed in this application. The method may include obtaining behavior information or appearance information of a virtual object; in response to detecting that the behavior information or the appearance information satisfies a play triggering condition, obtaining an audio resource matching the play triggering condition, the play triggering condition being determined according to attribute information of the virtual object; and playing the audio resource matching the play triggering condition.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Xiayu Wu, Dan Wu
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Patent number: 11935368Abstract: A lottery ticket dispensing method provides different types of lottery tickets in a jurisdiction and includes providing first lottery tickets for sale from a dispenser for a first type of lottery game. Upon a player making a selection of one of the first lottery tickets for purchase, a controller in communication with the dispenser determines whether one or more other lottery games are available for play within the jurisdiction. The method assigns one or more companion games from the available other lottery games based on the player's selection of the first lottery ticket and predefined filter values. The companion games are presented to the player as a suggestion or recommendation for an additional lottery ticket purchase. Upon the player selecting one of the companion games for purchase, the additional lottery ticket is provided to the player from the dispenser.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Scientific Games, LLCInventors: Susan Emily Rolfs, Todd George Stover, Jacob Ezra Kreider, Richard Colin DiCroce, Kent D. Christensen
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Patent number: 11931651Abstract: A graphical user interface for electronic games is disclosed. The interface comprises a current weapon panel configured to display a first weapon in an active state, and a plurality of spare weapon panels configured to display weapons in the inactive state. The plurality of spare weapon panels is arranged in accordance with the panel ranking values assigned to each spare weapon panel. The selection of any one of the spare weapon panels results in a corresponding weapon in the inactive state, which is displayed on the selected spare weapon panel, being switched to the active state and promoted to the current weapon panel, and the first weapon being switched to the inactive state and relegated to a spare weapon panel. The weapons in the inactive state are dynamically ordered and displayed on the plurality of spare weapon panels according to the panel ranking value of the spare weapon panels and the predicted weapon ranking value.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Garena Online Private LimitedInventor: Chen Lu
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Patent number: 11925875Abstract: An interactive electronic toy and a method for providing a challenge to a user using the toy. The toy includes a housing and a plurality of buttons, each button associated with at least one illuminator and with at least one pressure sensor. The method includes receiving a selection of a specific challenge, said specific challenge being selected from a challenge repository associated with the interactive electronic toy, and providing to the user instructions for completing said specific challenge. The method further includes receiving a challenge response from the user, in which the user responds to said specific challenge by at least one of moving the housing of the interactive electronic toy and depressing at least one of the plurality of buttons, providing feedback to the user, based on said received challenge response.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: FLYCATCHER CORP LTDInventors: Shay Chen, Shachar Limor
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Patent number: 11928939Abstract: A coin-operated arcade game system, comprising a physical see-through game box, an external game control panel, an internal color game display, a hopper for ball dropping coupled with a hopper sensor for detecting said ball dropping, a flat tray, a sweeper, a ball funnel, an internal ball purveyor, a prize pickup bin, a microprocessor, a graphics processing unit (GPU), a memory component, a circuit board, an audio output device, a gameplay, and a prize package. The game control panel further comprises a coin input device operable to accept a coin from a player. The color game display is operable to display a graphical interface of the gameplay in response to a coin input. The microprocessor, GPU, and circuit board, together, provide and control the gameplay, which comprises a graphical interface that in turn comprises a left virtual wheel and a right virtual wheel, a left virtual X sign and a right virtual X sign, a prize drop progress bar, a prize ticket counter, a ball counter, and a coin counter.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Inventors: Tan Chee Wooi, Huang Zehang
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Patent number: 11928984Abstract: Techniques described herein provide intelligent context-based testing. One or more implementations receive an image that includes content. In turn, some implementations process the image to extract test information from the content, such as questions, answers, learning material, and so forth. By analyzing the test information, various implementations determine one or more characteristics associated with the test information, and dynamically generate new test information based on the determined one or more characteristics. As one example, some implementations obtain new content by searching for content that includes the one or more characteristics and generate new test information based on the new content and the extracted test information.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Thinkster Learning Inc.Inventors: Ramesh Panuganty, Swapna Panuganty, Rajesh Ananth Elayavalli, Srikanth Ryali, Nikhil Ravindra Acharya
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Patent number: 11922775Abstract: An electronic method of operating a gaming system. The method includes selecting a plurality of symbols, displaying the selected symbols, and upon the displayed symbols including one or more designated symbols, retaining each displayed designated symbol for a subsequent game round at a respective symbol display position at which the designated symbol is displayed. The method also includes, in the subsequent game round, selecting, a plurality of symbols from the symbol data, upon a further designated symbol being selected for display at a symbol display position at which the retained designated symbol is displayed, modifying the retained designated symbol to indicate that a win containing the retained designated symbol will be increased, and upon the selected symbols in the subsequent game round corresponding to a winning outcome incorporating the modified retained designated symbol, making an award of an award value corresponding to the winning outcome modifier by the increase.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRALIA PTY LTD.Inventors: Liam Sanders, Matthew Chan
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Patent number: 11918918Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, analyzing data to identify that the data is associated with an online game, translating, based on the analyzing, a first address associated with the data to a second address that is different from the first address, and transmitting the data to a communication device using the second address. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Michael R. Albrecht, Oliver Spatscheck
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Patent number: 11918921Abstract: Embodiments of various games are described. One example embodiment includes a plurality of wheels on which players may place a bet. A different number of wheels may be used from game to game.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: CFPH, LLCInventors: Mark A. Miller, Dean P. Alderucci
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Patent number: 11911701Abstract: Implementations described herein relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media to automatically present suitable content for a particular audience. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method receiving virtual experience content associated with a first virtual experience associated with a first target audience and including content that is restricted as not viewable by a second target audience, receiving at least one content alternative, generating a first rating for the received virtual experience content and a second rating for the at least one content alternative, and automatically providing only one of the received virtual experience content or the at least one content alternative to user devices based on the first rating and the second rating.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Roblox CorporationInventors: Daniel Jakob Cassel, Matthew Dean, Alevtina Stolpnik, Alex Michael Quartulli, Craig Harris Collins, Jr., Gavin Fynbo, Chen Zou
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Patent number: 11911693Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing electronics games for play by a group of users in two or more moving vehicles. The method includes maintaining data structures of media program data, user profile data and vehicle profile data, receiving user and vehicle state information, identifying a group of users based on contemporaneous presence in two or more vehicles or common participation in a game or other group experience for related trips at different times, and selecting, configuring or creating media program for play at media players. An apparatus or system is configured to perform the method, and related operations.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Gary Lake-Schaal, Pamela J. Allison, Lewis S. Ostrover, Gregory I. Gewickey, Ha Nguyen, Prashant Abhyankar
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Patent number: 11908270Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a system that enables a mobile device running a mobile device application to communicate with different gaming establishment components and modify the mobile device application functionality and/or the mobile device application appearance based on different data received from different gaming establishment components.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: IGTInventors: Kevin Higgins, Erik Petersen, Christopher M. Levin
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Patent number: 11904241Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure disclose a virtual item control method and apparatus, a terminal, and a non-transitory storage medium, and belong to the field of computer technologies. The method includes: displaying a plurality of item icons after a press operation on a throw button is detected; controlling, in response to the press operation moving to the target item icon and a duration reaches a target duration, a virtual object to hold a target virtual item corresponding to the target item icon; controlling, in response to a movement of the press operation, the virtual object to aim at a target position; and controlling, in response to a release of the press operation, the virtual object to throw the target virtual item to the target position.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Shengyu Wu, Cong Tian, Meng Qiu, Jingjing He, Dancheng Zou, Boyi Liu, Weijian Cui, Yi Li