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: 20190221075
    Abstract: An object matching interleaved wagering electronic gaming machine is disclosed. The object matching interleaved electronic gaming machine includes a wager controller operatively connected to an application controller. The wager controller is constructed to receive a request to execute a wager, determine a plurality of results for the wager using a random number generator, and communicate the results for the wager to the application controller. The application controller is operatively connected to an interactive controller and the wager controller. The application controller is constructed to communicate a request to the wager controller to execute the wager, receive the results for the wager from the wager controller, associate the results for the wager with a plurality of graphical display objects, and generate data for the graphical display objects. The interactive controller is operatively connected to the application controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, Eric Meyerhofer, Frank Cire, Caitlyn Ross
  • Publication number: 20190221074
    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: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, Frank Cire, Clifford Kaylin, Eric Meyerhofer, Caitlyn Ross, Dwight Kim
  • Publication number: 20190221082
    Abstract: A gambling hybrid game with a gambling integrated game 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 entertainment system engine provides an entertainment game that includes random events. When a random event occurs in the entertainment game, the entertainment system engine resolves the random event and provides the results of the random event to the game world engine. The game world engine receives the results of the random event and determines gambling results based upon the results of the random event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, Eric Meyerhofer, Frank Cire
  • Publication number: 20190213839
    Abstract: Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention operate a time enabled hybrid game. A time enabled hybrid game includes a real world engine constructed to provide a randomly generated payout of real world credits from at least one wager in a gambling game, an entertainment software engine constructed to execute an entertainment game providing outcomes based upon a player's skillful play of the entertainment game and a game world engine constructed to monitor the output of a clock during the player's skillful play of the entertainment game detect a unit of time based on the monitored output of the clock; and trigger the at least one wager in the gambling game based on the detection of the unit of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, Caitlyn Ross, Eric Meyerhofer
  • Patent number: 10347080
    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: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Gamblit Gaming, LLC
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, Frank Cire, Eric Meyerhofer
  • Patent number: 10347078
    Abstract: An interleaved wagering system including an interactive controller constructed to communicate application telemetry associated with an interactive application provided by the interactive controller. The system also includes a wager controller constructed to communicate a wager result associated with a received wager request. The system also includes the application controller operatively connected to the interactive controller and the wager controller, and constructed to: receive application telemetry; upon receiving application telemetry, determine whether to trigger a supplementary mode based on a threshold value; and communicate a notification to provide a supplementary mode session. The interactive controller is further constructed to: provide the supplementary mode session upon receiving the supplementary mode notification; communicate results of the supplementary mode session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, Frank Cire, Clifford Kaylin, Eric Meyerhofer, Caitlyn Ross
  • Patent number: 10347089
    Abstract: A variable skill reward wagering system is disclosed. The system includes an interactive controller that determines a skill outcome for a user while playing a skill-based game of the interactive controller, and communicate the skill outcome to a process controller. The system further includes a variable skill reward controller determines an amount of credits to add to a variable skill reward pool credit meter datastore, receive the skill outcome for the user from the process controller, and determine a variable skill reward of credits from the variable skill reward pool credit meter datastore for the user based on the skill outcome. The system further includes the process controller that receives the skill outcome from the interactive controller, communicates the skill outcome to the variable skill reward controller, and receives the variable skill reward of credits from the variable skill reward controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Inventors: Eric Meyerhofer, Bryce Cire, Julian Volyn
  • Patent number: 10347083
    Abstract: An electromechanical gaming machine that provides an entertainment game wherein a user controls the movement of a ship across a fixed plane. A user may select a gambling game that uses non-explicit triggers for wagers through the use of an entertainment software engine. A game world engine detects the trigger and then requests a real world engine to resolve the gambling event. The results of the gambling event are communicated to the game world engine which then instructs the entertainment software engine to generate a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Gamblit Gaming, LLC
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, Eric Meyerhofer
  • Patent number: 10347077
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine constructed to receive real credits, including a real world engine configured to provide a randomly generated payout for a gambling game and a game world engine configured to manage an entertainment software engine to provide outcomes based upon a player's skillful execution of an entertainment game are provided. In operation, an amount of real world credits are wagered in the real world engine, a randomly generated payout of real world credits is determined based upon the wagered amount using the real world engine, a number of elements are added that are ascribed to a player and that are scaled according to a scaling ratio set by the game world engine relative to the payout of real world credits using the game world engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Gamblit Gaming, LLC
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, Eric Meyerhofer
  • Publication number: 20190206189
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine including a bill validator/ticket scanner, a ticket printer; an interactive controller operatively connected to an application controller, configured to: communicate application telemetry; receive application resource instructions; determine an application resource to award a user; communicate additional application telemetry; receive application resource availability; determine whether the application resource is made available to the user; a wager controller constructed to: receive input; determine a wager outcome based on the wager request; determine an amount of credit based on the wager outcome and the input credit; and print indicia of the amount of credit on a ticket; and an application controller constructed to: receive application telemetry; determine whether a wager is triggered; communicate the wager request instructions to the wager controller; determine the wager outcome; determine application resources to award based on the wager outcome; communicate the application
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, Frank Cire, Clifford Kaylin, Eric Meyerhofer, Caitlyn Ross
  • Patent number: 10332338
    Abstract: A modular interactive application interleaved wagering system is disclosed. Such a system includes an interactive controller constructed to generate a user interface of a wagering application, generate a user interface of an interactive application, combine the user interfaces into a combined user interface displayed to a user, detect user interactions with the combined user interface and communicate the user interactions to an application controller, receive from the application controller a wager outcome, and display to the user using the wagering user interface of the combined user interface, the wager outcome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Gamblit Gaming, LLC
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, Frank Cire, Eric Meyerhofer
  • Publication number: 20190180561
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine for authenticating skill interleaved wagers is disclosed. The electronic gaming machine uses an interactive controller, a process controller and a wager server to authenticate skill level demonstrated by a user of the interactive application by generating simulated application telemetry data, comparing it to the application telemetry data, and then authorizing wagers based on the authentication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, Eric Meyerhofer, Clifford Kaylin, Frank Cire
  • Patent number: 10319178
    Abstract: A distributed component interleaved wagering system is disclosed. The system includes an interactive controller operatively connected to a component manager controller, the interactive controller constructed to: communicate an initialization indication; receive an identification of accessible components; communicate application telemetry and an identification of chosen components from the identification of accessible components; and receive application resources based on the communicated application telemetry. The system also includes the identified wager controller operatively connected to the component manager controller, the identified wager controller constructed to communicate a generated wager outcome, the generated wager outcome based on a wager request received from the component manager controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Gamblit Gaming, LLC
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, Eric Meyerhofer
  • Patent number: 10319193
    Abstract: A mobile device for a gaming system is disclosed, the mobile device providing an interactive controller configured to: communicate application telemetry; receive a wager outcome; receive an application resource; initiate a bonus goal; communicate additional application telemetry; receive and display bonus wager outcome; a wager controller constructed to: receive the wager request; determine a wager outcome; communicate the wager outcome; receive bonus wager request; determine a bonus wager outcome; and communicate bonus wager outcome; and the application controller operatively connecting the mobile device and the wager controller, the application controller constructed to: receive application telemetry; determine whether to trigger a wager; communicating wager request; receive and communicate the wager outcome; determine and communicate the application resource; communicate a bonus goal offer; receive additional application telemetry; determine whether the bonus goal is achieved; generate and communicate bonu
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Gamblit Gaming, LLC
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, David Chang, Frank Cire, Eric Meyerhofer
  • Patent number: 10319180
    Abstract: Interactive applications of an interleaved wagering system are disclosed. The interleaved wagering system includes an interactive controller that provides an interactive application as an entertainment game to a user, a wager controller that provides gambling games to one or more users, and an application controller that monitors the entertainment game and provides gambling games when appropriate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Gamblit Gaming, LLC
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, Frank Cire, Clifford Kaylin, Eric Meyerhofer, Caitlyn Ross
  • Patent number: 10319179
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine including, an application controller, providing skill-based entertainment games, distributing application telemetry, receiving a wager outcome, and providing a display of the received wager outcome; a wager controller receiving a wager request, determining a wager outcome, and distributing the wager outcome; and an application controller operatively connecting the interactive controller and the wager controller, distributing application telemetry, distributing the wager request, receiving the wager outcome, receiving, second application telemetry; and distributing the wager outcome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Gamblit Gaming, LLC
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, Frank Cire, Clifford Kaylin, Eric Meyerhofer
  • Patent number: 10311675
    Abstract: A level-based multiple outcome wagering system is disclosed. The level-based multiple outcome wagering system includes an interactive controller constructed to control a multilevel wagering session, generate a graphical display of a plurality of actionable elements, wherein the graphical display is a representation of a level of a multilevel wagering proposition presented to a user during the multilevel wagering session, display the graphical display to a user, receive the user's selection of a selected actionable element selected from the plurality of actionable elements, and communicate data of the selected actionable element to a process controller. The process controller is constructed to communicate with the interactive controller and determine from the data of the selected actionable element, a chance outcome selected from the group including a prize awarded to the user, an advancement to a next level of the multilevel wagering proposition, and a termination of the multilevel wagering session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Gamblit Gaming, LLC
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, Eric Meyerhofer, Timothy Isaacson
  • Patent number: 10304285
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine constructed to receive credits from a plurality of users, is disclosed, comprising an interactive controller and a process controller operatively connecting the interactive controller to a wager server, which generate a multi-user interactive application, allow for the purchase of virtual avatars, generate goal values, and accept user input through a user interface to award application elements and adjust the characteristics of the virtual avatars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Gamblit Gaming, LLC
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, Eric Meyerhofer, Zachary Foley
  • Patent number: 10304284
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine that provides a gambling game and an entertainment game, including: a real world engine, an entertainment software engine, and a game world engine; the system constructed to provide a randomly generated payout of real world credit from a wager in a gambling game, wagers triggered during an entertainment game; and to collect parameter data indicative of player performance during the player's skillful execution of the entertainment game at each of a plurality of difficulty settings, the parameter data indicative of the player's actions during the player's skillful execution of the entertainment game and indicative of a rate of accumulation of game world credit during the entertainment game; and select a difficulty setting from the plurality of difficulty settings for the skill based entertainment game based upon the collected parameter data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Gamblit Gaming, LLC
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, Eric Meyerhofer, Frank Cire
  • Patent number: 10304289
    Abstract: A multi-state opportunity interleaved wagering system is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Gamblit Gaming, LLC
    Inventors: Miles Arnone, Frank Cire, Clifford Kaylin, Eric Meyerhofer, David Chang, Caitlyn Ross