Patents by Inventor Dwayne Nelson

Dwayne Nelson has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20220406137
    Abstract: Provided are systems for providing ticket and cashless discount offers. As system includes a processor circuit that receives, from a player, a request for a cashout that corresponds to a cash balance held by the player at the end of a gaming session. A cashout bonus status that corresponds to the player and to the gaming session is determined. A bonus portion that is based on the cashout bonus status and the cash balance is determined. The system transmits an offer message to the player. The offer message includes an offer to allocate the bonus portion and the cash balance to be spent with a predefined vendor that is associated with a game provider. If the player accepts the offer, the bonus portion and at least a portion of the cash balance are transferred to an account that is associated with the player and the predefined vendor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Samantha ASCHERI-PHILLIPS, Patrick DANIELSON, Dwayne NELSON
  • Patent number: 11521463
    Abstract: Systems and methods that enable a player to place a wager on a historical horse race, wherein if the wager is determined to be a winning wager, a win amount for the winning wager is randomly selected from a pool of win amounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Dwayne Nelson
  • Publication number: 20220383700
    Abstract: Systems and methods that enable a player to place a wager on a historical horse race, wherein if the wager is determined to be a winning wager, a win amount for the winning wager is randomly selected from a pool of win amounts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Dwayne Nelson
  • Publication number: 20220319274
    Abstract: Gaming systems and methods that enable multiple players to share credit meters on electronic gaming machines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Patrick Danielson, Dwayne Nelson, Vincent Lai
  • Patent number: 11450175
    Abstract: Provided are systems for providing ticket and cashless discount offers. As system includes a processor circuit that receives, from a player, a request for a cashout that corresponds to a cash balance held by the player at the end of a gaming session. A cashout bonus status that corresponds to the player and to the gaming session is determined. A bonus portion that is based on the cashout bonus status and the cash balance is determined. The system transmits an offer message to the player. The offer message includes an offer to allocate the bonus portion and the cash balance to be spent with a predefined vendor that is associated with a game provider. If the player accepts the offer, the bonus portion and at least a portion of the cash balance are transferred to an account that is associated with the player and the predefined vendor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Samantha Ascheri-Phillips, Patrick Danielson, Dwayne Nelson
  • Publication number: 20220245992
    Abstract: A roulette wheel device, and related devices, systems, and methods, includes a base coupled to a table, the base having a circular ball track within a circular rim. The roulette wheel device further includes a circular wheelhead rotatably coupled to the base within the ball track. The wheelhead includes a circular ring having a plurality of pockets, wherein the circular ball track is sloped downwardly toward the circular ring to direct a roulette ball into one of the plurality of pockets. The wheelhead further includes a circular display subassembly including a display device to selectively display graphical elements corresponding to the plurality of pockets. The circular ball track, the circular ring, and the circular display subassembly are substantially concentric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Patrick Danielson, Samantha Ascheri-Phillips, Dwayne Nelson, Vincent Lai
  • Publication number: 20220215724
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a gaming system conducting a streaming session with a plurality of viewer systems through a streaming system. Conducting of the streaming session can comprise receiving media content from a plurality of input devices and providing the media content and game play information of a gambling event to the streaming system. During the streaming session, an indication of an action by a user of one of the viewer systems and indicating a transfer of value from the user of the one of the viewer systems to a participant in the gambling event associated with the gaming system can be received. An indication of the action by the user of the one of the viewer systems can be provided to the participant in the gambling event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Dwayne Nelson, Cameron Filipour, Kevin Higgins
  • Patent number: 11380162
    Abstract: Gaming systems and methods that enable multiple players to share credit meters on electronic gaming machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Patrick Danielson, Dwayne Nelson, Vincent Lai
  • Patent number: 11341811
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to gaming machines, systems, and methods. As an example, a method is disclosed that includes receiving first player information from a player, logging the player into a first game management system with the first player information, providing the player with a query for information, where the query includes a request for information to create a second player account for the player in a second game management system. The method may further include receiving enrollment information, where the enrollment information includes at least some of the first player information stored in connection with a first player account maintained by the first game management system and transmitting the enrollment information to the second game management system, where the enrollment information enables the second game management system to create the second player account for the player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Dwayne Nelson
  • Patent number: 11315382
    Abstract: A roulette wheel device, and related devices, systems, and methods, includes a base coupled to a table, the base having a circular ball track within a circular rim. The roulette wheel device further includes a circular wheelhead rotatably coupled to the base within the ball track. The wheelhead includes a circular ring having a plurality of pockets, wherein the circular ball track is sloped downwardly toward the circular ring to direct a roulette ball into one of the plurality of pockets. The wheelhead further includes a circular display subassembly including a display device to selectively display graphical elements corresponding to the plurality of pockets. The circular ball track, the circular ring, and the circular display subassembly are substantially concentric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Patrick Danielson, Samantha Ascheri-Phillips, Dwayne Nelson, Vincent Lai
  • Publication number: 20220114865
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods for selectively providing live sporting event video at sports gaming devices may include decrypting a first encrypted video signal is decrypted into a first decrypted video signal that includes a first encoded video stream of a first live sporting event. The first encoded video stream may be decoded into a first decoded video stream that includes a first video of the first live sporting event, which may be displayed by a display device along with first wager information to facilitate a user placing a wager on the first live sporting event. In response to receiving an instruction to display a second video of a second live sporting event, a second encrypted video signal may be decrypted into a second decrypted video signal that includes a second encoded video stream of the second live sporting event. The second encoded video stream may be decoded into a second decoded video stream that includes the second video of the second live sporting event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Dwayne NELSON, Steve LEMAY, John HURLEY, Thang DOAN, Chun JIA
  • Patent number: 11302150
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a gaming system conducting a streaming session with a plurality of viewer systems through a streaming system. Conducting of the streaming session can comprise receiving media content from a plurality of input devices and providing the media content and game play information of a gambling event to the streaming system. During the streaming session, an indication of an action by a user of one of the viewer systems and indicating a transfer of value from the user of the one of the viewer systems to a participant in the gambling event associated with the gaming system can be received. An indication of the action by the user of the one of the viewer systems can be provided to the participant in the gambling event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Dwayne Nelson, Cameron Filipour, Kevin Higgins
  • Patent number: 11282331
    Abstract: A mixed reality system includes a video capture device, a display, a processing device, and a memory coupled to the processing device. The memory includes machine readable instructions for causing the processing device to generate, via the video capture device, a live video signal of a scene associated with a field of view of a user, wherein the scene includes a gaming device displaying a plurality of first gaming elements as part of a wagering game. The memory further includes machine readable instructions for causing the processing device to determine, based on the live video signal, virtual element in real time. The memory further includes machine readable instructions for causing the processing device to display the virtual element to the user, via the display, as part of the scene so that the virtual element is associated with the gaming device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Dwayne Nelson, Patrick Danielson
  • Patent number: 11270551
    Abstract: An augmented reality (AR) viewing device includes a processor circuit and a memory including computer readable instructions that cause the processor circuit to generate an image of the EGM, obtain, based on the image of the EGM, a network address associated with the EGM, transmit a registration message to the network address associated with the EGM, and receive a registration response from the EGM in response to the registration message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventor: Dwayne Nelson
  • Publication number: 20220020244
    Abstract: A gaming system may determine a player status of a player using the gaming device and, based on the determined player status of the player, may provide video of a live sporting event to a display device of the gaming device. The gaming system may select a set of wagers that are associated with defined events in the live sporting event and provide an indication of the set of wagers to the display device. The system may include a wager or other requirement for continuing providing the video. The system may determine whether the player has selected a wager from among the set of wagers which satisfies the wager requirement, and may suspend, continue, or resume providing the video of the live sporting event to the gaming device based on the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Dwayne NELSON, Steven LEMAY
  • Patent number: 11210896
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods for selectively providing live sporting event video at sports gaming devices may include decrypting a first encrypted video signal is decrypted into a first decrypted video signal that includes a first encoded video stream of a first live sporting event. The first encoded video stream may be decoded into a first decoded video stream that includes a first video of the first live sporting event, which may be displayed by a display device along with first wager information to facilitate a user placing a wager on the first live sporting event. In response to receiving an instruction to display a second video of a second live sporting event, a second encrypted video signal may be decrypted into a second decrypted video signal that includes a second encoded video stream of the second live sporting event. The second encoded video stream may be decoded into a second decoded video stream that includes the second video of the second live sporting event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Dwayne Nelson, Steven Lemay, John Hurley, Thang Doan, Chun Jia
  • Patent number: 11205325
    Abstract: In various embodiments, the present disclosure relates generally to gaming systems and methods providing a live craps game and a plurality of electronic gaming machines that facilitate participation in the live craps game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Dwayne Nelson, Alfred Smith, Derrick Price
  • Patent number: 11195334
    Abstract: A live video signal of a scene associated with a field of view of a user may be generated. The scene may include a casino gaming floor that includes multiple wagering stations. A location in the scene and a virtual element may be determined, based on the live video signal of the scene. The virtual element may be displayed to the user in the location in the scene so that the virtual element is in the field of view of the user using an augmented reality (AR) device. An user input that corresponds to the virtual element may be received and an action of the virtual element responsive to receiving the user input may be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Dwayne Nelson, Patrick Danielson
  • Patent number: 11195366
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a gaming token representing a wager amount placed in a game that can provide different sensory feedback responses in response to different sensed contexts associated with the token. Illustratively, a method of facilitating player interaction in a game includes receiving, by a gaming system, a gaming token representing a wager amount placed in a game; receiving, by a processor of the gaming system from a context sensor, input that a context is associated with the gaming token; determining by the processor, from among a plurality of different possible sensory feedback responses, a selected sensory feedback response corresponding to a determined context; and causing, by the processor, the gaming token to produce the processor selected sensory feedback response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Patrick Danielson, Dwayne Nelson, Samantha Ascheri-Phillips
  • Patent number: 11164416
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to media and multimedia synchronization systems and methods. As a non-limiting example, a gaming system and method processes event-related signals from gaming devices to identify a particular occurrence of an event and generates a media content message based on the particular occurrence of the event and transmits the media content message to multiple target gaming devices. The multiple target gaming devices determine which of their output devices is available and causes the available output devices to present, synchronously with the output devices of the other target gaming devices, the media content to collectively provide a selected presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Patrick Danielson, Dwayne Nelson, Samantha Ascheri-Phillips