Patents Examined by Werner G Garner
  • Patent number: 11863832
    Abstract: A method for remotely provisioning resources for running a computer application is described. The method includes: causing, using one or more processing units, an initialization of a user interactive video portion of a computer application, the computer application being executed using a remote server; determining a runtime of a static video portion of the computer application and a time required to complete initialization of the user interactive portion using information provided by the remote server; and delaying a start time of displaying the static video portion when the runtime of the static video portion is shorter than the time required to complete the initialization of the user interactive portion. A device that is capable of performing the above method and a server are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Bojan Vukojevic, Franck Diard
  • Patent number: 11861970
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a system and method for substituting images, graphics, video, and other content presented by an Electronic Gaming Machine (EGM during execution of an electronic game. Embodiments can include a mobile application which can be used in the casino environment, for example, and through which players of electronic games may choose different game content either out of a pre-defined set of content that can be updated and/or supplemented over time or by uploading their own such as photographs, icons, graphics, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Stephan Adamek, Alois Mazgan, Michael Russ
  • Patent number: 11857880
    Abstract: A method of mixing audio segments from audio clips to generate a unique stream of non-repeating sound, by: (a) inputting a plurality of audio source clips into an audio system; (b) applying a transfer function system to the plurality of audio source clips to select audio segments of the plurality of audio source clips, or applying a scheduling function system to the plurality of audio source clips to select playback times for the plurality of audio source clips; (c) applying a timeline renderer system to arrange the order of the selected audio segments; (d) applying a track renderer system to generate a plurality of audio playback clip tracks; (e) cross-fading the selected audio segments, thereby generating an audio playback clip having a unique sound stream; and (f) playing the audio playback clip having the unique sound stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SYNAPTICATS, INC.
    Inventors: Erik Rogers, Mark Rogers
  • Patent number: 11854337
    Abstract: A gaming terminal includes an input device, an image sensor, and logic circuitry. The logic circuitry detects user input received at the input device and that is associated with a restricted action, receives, via the image sensor, image data that corresponds to the user input, applies at least one neural network model to the image data to classify pixels of the image data as representing human characteristics including at least one face and at least one pose model, compares, based at least partially on pixel coordinates of (i) the human characteristics within the received image data and (ii) a user input zone within the image data, each of the pose models to the user input zone and the faces, and permits, in response to one of the pose models matching (i) a face of the at least one face and (ii) the user input zone, the restricted action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: LNW Gaming, Inc.
    Inventors: Terrin Eager, Bryan Kelly, Martin Lyons
  • Patent number: 11854341
    Abstract: A gaming device having a processor to control a display to display a set of prize levels having a bottom level, a variable level associated with a variable prize, and an intermediate level. In each of a plurality of game instances, the processor selects a plurality of symbols, control the display to display the selected symbols, determines whether the symbols displayed include increment symbols, upon the symbols displayed including the increment symbols, increments the variable prize by respective amounts of the increment symbols, evaluates symbols displayed for a winning combination, and the symbols displayed including the winning combination, increments from a current prize level to a different prize level in the set of prize levels provided the different prize level is not a top level. At an end of the plurality of game instances, the processor awards a current prize of the current prize level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventor: Billy Tam
  • Patent number: 11850527
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to devices, systems, methods and computer readable media for providing network management of remote card handling, and physical manipulation. More particularly, the disclosure is directed to networked devices, systems, methods and computer program methods for remotely, physically modifying a card while leaving a physical record of the modified card for inspection and validation and delivering the manipulation results to a user, and/or other third parties, for example, scratch lottery cards and ballot cards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: DBEST Limited Liability Company
    Inventor: Dekel Ben Lulu
  • Patent number: 11823530
    Abstract: A game terminal allows a player to participate in the linked transaction including a linked deal within an initial deal via their client account interacting with a management system. The management system manages the execution of the linked transaction including execution of the initial deal, execution of the linked deal, and movement and monitoring of capital during execution of the linked transaction. Initial deal tickets are electronically allocated to player accounts by the management system. The linked deal may be a secondary deal that is lightly linked to the initial deal. In particular, the initial deal may include an access ticket to the linked deal, and the access ticket allows the management system to grant the player a play in the linked deal. Both the initial deal and the linked deal can have prizes, and the management system may resolve those prizes, as necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Powerhouse Gaming, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Andrew Freels, Travis Alan Meyer, Mark Provan Newton, John Lance Wohlfarth
  • Patent number: 11816950
    Abstract: Disclosed are gaming systems, methods and machines for a gaming cabinet configuration. In particular, the gaming systems, methods and machines may incorporate gaming cabinets that include one or more curved or arcuate screens, one or more candles integrated into the gaming cabinet, and/or one or more diffuse lighting elements to provide lighting features or effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (ATI)
    Inventors: Bruce Urban, Dominic DeMarco, Rajendrasinh Jadeja, James Stair, Joseph Kaminkow, Michael Bristol, Daniel Harden, Ariel Turgel, Cheng-Fu Hsieh, Mark Hearn, Elliot Ortiz, Jon Hanlin
  • Patent number: 11810432
    Abstract: Systems and methods of conducting wagering games involving, among other things, a modified Blackjack wagering game including an option to resolve the game prior to a final determination and optional wagers on the final dealer hand score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Golden Dragon Gaming, LLC
    Inventor: Michael Pertgen
  • Patent number: 11810424
    Abstract: A detection system of the present disclosure stores positions and the amount of game tokens that a game participant places on a game table based on a measurement result by a bet chip measuring device in the same persons for each game participant or player positions of the game table. A management control device compares an actual winning rate and a total return amount with figures obtained by a probability statistic calculation at the time of an end of the number of games to determine whether there is a significant difference therebetween and specifies any one of the game participant or the player position, the game table, or a room having the game table where the significant difference is occurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO, LTD.
    Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
  • Patent number: 11766604
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine and a method are provided which generates outcome presentations from a Class 2 or a central determination game outcome. A database stores RNG seeds that correspond to various presentations. To generate the outcome presentations, the RNG seeds are retrieved from the database and random numbers are generated from the RNG seeds. These random numbers are then used to generate the outcome presentations for the Class 2 or central determination game outcome. The RNG seeds may be stored as a series of RNG seeds which may be individually accessed to eliminate certain outcomes or sort certain outcomes prior to presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Edward Hennessy
  • Patent number: 11763623
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine includes a display, a player input device, a credit input mechanism, and a processor programmed to perform operations comprising: (i) display a search pattern matrix to a player on the display, the search pattern matrix includes a plurality of cells that are selectable by the player; (ii) receive an input selection of cells of the search pattern matrix from the player; (iii) search a pay table associated with a wagering game provided by the gaming machine for winning patterns included within the pay table and having at least the same plurality of cells daubed as are indicated by the search pattern matrix; and (iv) display the winning patterns identified by the searching to the player via the display, the displaying including presenting the winning patterns in a matrix display format identifying one or more daubed cells of the associated winning patterns within the matrix display
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED
    Inventors: Rajat Rajput, Sunil Mohan, Rohit Kumar Jain
  • Patent number: 11735010
    Abstract: A gaming machine determines a base outcome and initiates a bonus display sequence including a plurality of bonus outcomes. Prior to displaying any of the bonus outcomes, the machine determines a quantity of free spins and an outcome for each free spin, including an outcome amount, and at least one additional free play outcome including a corresponding outcome amount. The machine identifies i) a plurality of winning outcomes and ii) a plurality of non-winning outcomes and sorts, in ascending order based on the outcome amount, the plurality of winning outcomes in a table stored in memory. The machine displays the winning outcomes in order retrieved from the table, and displays the at least one additional free play outcome when the corresponding outcome amount is equal to or greater than the respective free play outcome of the plurality of winning outcomes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Ryan Cuddy, Lyndsay Nelson
  • Patent number: 11712630
    Abstract: A method for launching interactive content including associating one or more templates with a corresponding one or more activities of an interactive content title and transmitting the one or more templates to a platform server. The method includes selecting and displaying a set of templates generated from the one or more templates received on a user device. The method includes launching the activity in the interactive title based on a template selected by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignees: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Steven Trombetta, Charles Wayne Denison, II, Benedikt Neuenfeldt, Akihiko Kusumoto, Nobukazu Koyama, Atsushi Fuse
  • Patent number: 11710374
    Abstract: A quarantine wallet associated with a user account that support funds to be quarantined for a defined period. A user account server determines that a respective win amount satisfies one or more funds quarantine criteria and removes at least a portion of the win amount satisfying the one or more funds quarantine criteria from access by one or more wallets associated with a user account. The user account server stores the removed portion of the win amount as a quarantined fund amount in a quarantine wallet associated with the user account. The user account server sets a release time for the quarantined funds amount in the quarantine wallet and performs a transfer of the quarantined funds amount to the one or more wallets based on satisfying the release time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Wyllie, Alan Wong
  • Patent number: 11710366
    Abstract: A gaming system and method that provides a changing pattern matching award feature in a gaming environment, which includes a plurality of different patterns that are independently and randomly selectable and displayable by the gaming system during a series of plays of one or more games via one or more electronic gaming machines or other devices of the gaming system or configured to operate with the gaming system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventor: Chris Peterson
  • Patent number: 11694506
    Abstract: A system configured to receive a triggering event occurrence message based on an occurrence of a lottery game promotional message triggering event in association with an electronic gaming machine and a player mobile device of a player, determine whether to communicate a lottery game promotional message to the player mobile device, use player data, player mobile device data, and lottery game data to create the lottery game promotional message, and communicate the lottery game promotional message to the player mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: IGT Global Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Bernd Wenzl
  • Patent number: 11694508
    Abstract: A system comprises a database stored on a server, an application installed on a player device, and a processing device of the server that includes a plurality of units. A hosting unit is configured to prompt a player to access the application. A profile management unit is configured to prompt the player to create an account and to provide personal information associated with the player. A data management unit is configured to receive, encrypt, and store the personal information on the database. An authentication unit is configured to assign the personal information a unique identifier, send it to a third party for authentication, and verify authentication. The data management unit is further configured to separate the personal information into roles and create a cryptographic hash value for each role. A communications unit is configured to send the roles and the cryptographic hash values to the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL GAMING STANDARDS ASSOCIATION
    Inventor: Marco C. Pace
  • Patent number: 11688238
    Abstract: Systems and methods that enable a user to obtain a check in exchange for a redemption of a ticket voucher associated with an amount of funds and/or a withdrawal of an amount of funds associated with a gaming establishment account associated with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Patent number: 11688232
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a computer implemented method performed by a gaming system. In particular, the present disclosure relates to a scheme for further improving a randomness in a game provided by means of the gaming system. The present disclosure also relates to a corresponding gaming system and a computer program product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Play'n Go Marks Ltd
    Inventors: Charlotte Miliziano, Zoltan Horvath