Patents by Inventor Gene Estep

Gene Estep 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: 20090054151
    Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method that includes monitoring, at a game topper, a signal transmitted between a gaming device and a remote gaming management system, associating at least a portion of the signal with media, and outputting the media to a user of the gaming device using the game topper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2008
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Inventors: Gene Estep, Fredrick C. Combs
  • Publication number: 20080058105
    Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method that includes receiving a first report having a human-readable format for display to a user and a second report having a protocol-encoded format that requires additional processing to a human-readable format before display to a user. Each report has gaming information associated with one or more electronic gaming machines (EGMs). The method also includes identifying, for the first and second reports, formatting topologies that specify locations of the gaming information within the reports, extracting and aggregating the gaming information from the first and second reports using the identified formatting topologies, and outputting at least a portion of the aggregated gaming information in a uniform format for use in reporting gaming activity for the one or more EGMs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Inventors: Fredrick C. Combs, Gene Estep