Patents by Inventor Eric Meyerhofer

Eric Meyerhofer 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: 20210256819
    Abstract: A pari-mutuel based interleaved wagering system is disclosed, including an interactive controller configured to: communicate element request data associated with an interactive application; communicate an element request; receive element instructions comprising elements; and execute the interactive application using the elements; a wager controller constructed to: receive wager request instructions; place wagers; determine wager outcomes for wagers; and communicate wager outcome data; and the application controller constructed to: receive the element request data; scan the element request data to determine the element selection; generate the wager request instructions; instruct the wager controller by communicating the wager request instructions; receive wagering acknowledgment data; associate the wagers with the element selection; receive the wager outcome data; receive the application element request; scan the application element request to determine a request for the selected element; generate virtual cred
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, Frank Cire, Eric Meyerhofer
  • Patent number: 11094164
    Abstract: A hybrid game having a user selectable gambling game is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, Eric Meyerhofer, David Chang
  • Publication number: 20210175267
    Abstract: A skill-based progressive interleaved wagering system is disclosed, including an interactive controller connected to an application controller, and configured to: communicate application telemetry; provide a skill proposition; communicate secondary telemetry; receive and display award information; a wager controller connected to the application controller, and constructed to: receive wager request instructions; determine and communicate the wager outcome; and the application controller connecting the interactive controller and the wager controller, connected to a session controller, and constructed to: receive application telemetry and the wager outcome; receive indication to provide a skill proposition; receive the secondary telemetry; determine whether an award should be awarded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, Eric Meyerhofer, Frank Cire
  • Publication number: 20210174636
    Abstract: An application credit earning interleaved wagering system is disclosed, including an interactive controller configured to: communicate application telemetry; receive wager outcome display instructions; display a wager outcome; receive and display eligible awards; communicate an AC award request comprising an AC award from the eligible awards; and receive AC award instructions comprising the AC award; a wager controller constructed to: receive wager request; communicate wager outcome; and the application controller operatively connecting the interactive controller and the wager controller, the application controller also operatively connected to a patron management server and an AC management device, and constructed to: receive the application telemetry; determine whether to trigger a wager request; communicate the wager request; receive the wager outcome; communicate wager outcome display instructions; communicate the application telemetry; receive an AC value amount; communicate the AC value display instruct
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, Eric Meyerhofer, Frank Cire
  • Publication number: 20210174639
    Abstract: A cooperative disease outbreak interleaved wagering system is disclosed, including an interactive processing device constructed to: provide an interactive application display; communicate session initiation data; receive role assignment data; automatically configure the display; communicate application telemetry data; receive wagering telemetry and application resource data; a wager controller constructed to: receive wager request data; communicate wager outcome data; the process controller operatively connecting the interactive processing device and the wager controller, and constructed to: receive session initiation data; determine number of users and roles available; assign a role to each of the users; associate each of the users with an ability; communicate role assignment data; receive application telemetry data; communicate wager request data; receive wager outcome data; determine and communicate wagering telemetry and application resource data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, Eric Meyerhofer, Caitlyn Ross
  • Publication number: 20210158658
    Abstract: A variable skill objective wagering system is disclosed. The variable skill objective wagering system includes an interactive controller that receives a skill proposition for a skill-based game from a process controller, generates a player presentation based on the skill proposition, detects player interactions of a player with the player presentation, detects a skill outcome based on the player interactions and the skill proposition, and communicates the skill outcome to the process controller. The process controller operatively connected to the interactive controller, wherein the process controller is constructed to generate a random result using a random number generator, determine a skill objective of the skill proposition based on the random result, communicate the skill proposition to the interactive controller; and receive a skill outcome for the skill proposition from the interactive controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Bryce Cire, Frank Cire, Darion Lowenstein, Eric Meyerhofer, Ivan Souffront
  • Publication number: 20210110656
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine for pari-mutuel interleaved wagering. Operation of the electronic gaming machine includes receiving pari-mutuel wagering parameters for a wager from a pari-mutuel server, generating an interactive thematic graphical display using the pari-mutuel wagering parameters, displaying the thematic graphical display to a user, receiving a placement of a wager from the user, communicating the placement of the wager as a wager request to a pari-mutuel server, receiving from the pari-mutuel server, a pari-mutuel gambling outcome of the wager, determining a wager outcome from the pari-mutuel gambling outcome, generating interactive application resources and events using the wager outcome, and generating the interactive thematic graphical display using the interactive application resources and events.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, Eric Meyerhofer, Frank Cire, Marcus Yoder, Caitlyn Ross
  • Patent number: 10950091
    Abstract: A combined proposition wagering system, including a wireless device constructed to: provide an interactive application display; communicate initialization data; communicate skill outcome; receive wager results; update a wagering user interface; a chance-based controller constructed to: receive incoming credit data; receive wager requests; determine a wager outcome; update one or more credit meters; and communicate updated credit meter data; the process controller operatively connecting the wireless device and the chance-based controller, and constructed to: receive initialization data; determine object values by assigning each outcome to one or more objects associated with the interactive application; communicate wager request; receive wager outcome; determine billiard combined outcome; communicate combined outcome data; receive updated credit meter data; generate and communicate the wagering telemetry data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Gamblit Gaming, LLC
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, Eric Meyerhofer, Michael Walker
  • Patent number: 10922924
    Abstract: A selectable intermediate result interleaved wagering system is disclosed. The system includes an interactive controller operatively connected to an application controller, and constructed to: communicate application telemetry; receive an intermediate offer; communicate an indication to accept the intermediate offer; receive an application resource associated with the intermediate offer; and receive a wager outcome. The system also includes a wager controller operatively connected to the application controller, the wager controller constructed to: receive the wager request; generate a wager outcome; and communicate the wager outcome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Gamblit Gaming, LLC
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, David Chang, Frank Cire, Eric Meyerhofer
  • Patent number: 10909806
    Abstract: Systems and methods for operating an adapted skill wagering interleaved game are disclosed. An adapted skill wagering game is provides a entertainment game and a gambling game. The entertainment game is provided by an entertainment system and is managed by a game world operating system. The gambling game is provided by a real credit operating system. The entertainment system also provides a game world interface that uses game world variable that describe a game state of the entertainment game to determine when a gambling event is triggered. In response to a determination that a gambling event being triggered, the game world interface of the entertainment system sends a trigger to the real credit operating system to perform a gambling event in the gambling game. The real credit operating system then performs the gambling event and resolves any wagers on the outcome of the gambling event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Gamblit Gaming, LLC
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, Frank Cire, Eric Meyerhofer
  • Patent number: 10909802
    Abstract: A gambling hybrid game with dynamic wager updating is disclosed. The gambling hybrid game includes an entertainment system engine that provides an entertainment game to a user, a real world engine that provides gambling games to one or more users, and a game world engine that monitors the entertainment game and provides gambling games when appropriate. The gambling hybrid game during the course of game play may dynamically update a wager amount to be placed on a gambling event in the gambling game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Gamblit Gaming, LLC
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, Eric Meyerhofer, David Chang
  • Patent number: 10909804
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine including an interactive processing device, a process controller and a wager controller that operate together to provide an interactive application, trigger a wager request based on user input, generate bonus items based on a wager result, allow additional input by a user, and generate a bonus item event based on the user inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Gamblit Gaming, LLC
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, Eric Meyerhofer, Timothy Isaacson, Edvard Toth, Carlos Schulte
  • Patent number: 10909805
    Abstract: A dynamic multi-currency interleaved wagering system is disclosed. The system includes an interactive controller operatively connected to an application controller, the interactive controller constructed to: receive identification of valid currency types; present the valid currency types; receive identification of a chosen currency type chosen; communicate the chosen currency type and application telemetry; and receive an application resource. The system also includes a wager controller operatively connected to the application controller, the wager controller constructed to: generate and communicate a wager outcome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Gamblit Gaming, LLC
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, Frank Cire, Clifford Kaylin, Eric Meyerhofer, Caitlyn Ross, Dwight Kim
  • Publication number: 20210027578
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine configured to: provide an interactive application including fungible objects; receive and distribute user input; a wager controller constructed to: receive wager request instructions; determine a wager outcome; transmit the wager outcome; receive fungible object data comprising a fungible object; determine the fungible object; and transmit the fungible object to the application controller; and the application controller operatively connecting the interactive controller and the wager controller, the application controller constructed to: receive the user input; determine whether to trigger a wager; when a wager is triggered, generate a wager request; transmit the wager request to the wager controller; transmit the fungible object to the interactive controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, Eric Meyerhofer
  • Publication number: 20210019988
    Abstract: An outcome selector interactive wagering system is disclosed. The outcome selector interactive wagering system includes an interactive controller that receives an interactive objective for an interactive wagering game from a process controller, generates a player presentation based on the interactive objective, detects player interactions of a player with the player presentation, detects an interactive objective achievement based on the player interactions and the interactive objective, and communicates the interactive objective achievement to the process controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Bryce Cire, Frank Cire, Eric Meyerhofer
  • Patent number: 10891828
    Abstract: An electromechanical gaming machine including: a real world controller connected to a game world controller, and constructed to: accept a gambling game trigger; provide a randomly generated payout of credits; the game world controller connected to the real world controller and connected by a network to an entertainment software controller executing a multiplayer entertainment game, the game world controller constructed to: receive a plurality of players' actions taken; and trigger the wager in the gambling game based on the actions, the game world controller utilizing a head to head gambling controller constructed to: detect a latch event and enter the plurality of players into a gambling session; parameterize wager terms of the wager made; trigger the wager in the gambling game during the session; distribute the payout of credits; determine the payout of resources utilized by the plurality of players; and distribute the payout of resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Gamblit Gaming, LLC
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, Eric Meyerhofer, Caitlyn Ross
  • Patent number: 10885745
    Abstract: A pari-mutuel based interleaved wagering system is disclosed, including an interactive controller configured to: communicate element request data associated with an interactive application; communicate an element request; receive element instructions comprising elements; and execute the interactive application using the elements; a wager controller constructed to: receive wager request instructions; place wagers; determine wager outcomes for wagers; and communicate wager outcome data; and the application controller constructed to: receive the element request data; scan the element request data to determine the element selection; generate the wager request instructions; instruct the wager controller by communicating the wager request instructions; receive wagering acknowledgment data; associate the wagers with the element selection; receive the wager outcome data; receive the application element request; scan the application element request to determine a request for the selected element; generate virtual cred
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Gamblit Gaming, LLC
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, Frank Cire, Eric Meyerhofer
  • Patent number: 10885747
    Abstract: Systems and methods for operating a screen activity moderated skill wagering interleaved game are disclosed. A screen activity moderated skill wagering game is provides an entertainment game and a gambling game. The entertainment game is provided by an entertainment system and is managed by a game world operating system. The gambling game is provided by a real credit operating system. The screen activity moderated skill wagering interleaved game also provides screen activity moderation to adjust gambling activity based on the level of screen activity within the entertainment game. During periods of high intensity game play within the entertainment game, the screen activity moderated skill wagering interleaved game in some embodiments adjusts the gambling activity within the gambling game inversely based on the level of screen activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Gamblit Gaming, LLC
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, Eric Meyerhofer, Frank Cire, Scott Shimmin, Caitlyn Ross
  • Patent number: 10885739
    Abstract: A parallel AI hybrid game that allows a player to play an entertainment game of skill against an Artificially Intelligent Non-Player Character (AI NPC) which is modified by wagering results. In operation, the player and the AI NPC utilize different respective pseudo random or random number generators to generate respective wagering outcomes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, Frank Cire, Scott Shimmin, Eric Meyerhofer, David Chang, Clifford Kaylin
  • Publication number: 20200402352
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine, including an interactive controller configured to: communicate application telemetry; receive and display a wager outcome; a wager controller constructed to: receive wager request instructions comprising a wagering mechanic and state; place the wagering mechanic into a first state; determine a math module and RNG; generate the wager outcome; communicate a request for an update of credit meters; determine to transition the wagering mechanic to a second state; and communicate wager outcome data; and the application controller operatively connecting the interactive controller and the wager controller, and constructed to: receive the application telemetry; determine whether to trigger a wager request; generate the wager request instructions; receive the wager outcome and updated state; store the updated state; determine application resources to award the interactive controller; and communicate the wager outcome.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, Eric Meyerhofer, Frank Cire, Clifford Kaylin