Patents by Inventor Guy Iain Oliver Riches
Guy Iain Oliver Riches 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).
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Patent number: 8342942Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for creating and managing bets. In an exemplary embodiment, a first betting session may be started. Betting product information may be communicated to at least one user. A plurality of bet requests for wagering on at least one betting product may be received from the at least one user. Each of the plurality of bet requests may comprise at least one betting term from the betting product information. One of the bet requests may be validated. Another of the bet requests may be validated based on a term associated with the other bet request being within a range from a corresponding term associated with the validated bet request. A betting instrument may be created for each validated bet request. Bets associated with the betting instruments may be settled.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2006Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Cantor Index, LLCInventors: Lee Amaitis, David Anthony Puckeridge, Christopher John Davie, Guy Iain Oliver Riches, Peter Kenneth Lawrey
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Publication number: 20120306155Abstract: A method of managing a blackjack game is provided. A blackjack game bet comprising a bet against a house entity on a blackjack hand is received from a player. A pair of cards is determined for a hand for the house entity, and another pair of cards is determined for a hand for the player. The odds of the occurrence of one or more subsequent events are determined based at least in part on one or more of the pair of cards selected for the house entity's hand and one or more of the pair of cards selected for the player's hand. The odds for an additional bet are determined based at least on the determined odds for the one or more subsequent events, and the additional bet is offered to the player at the determined odds for the additional bet.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2012Publication date: December 6, 2012Inventors: Joseph M. Asher, Lewis C. Findlay, Guy Iain Oliver Riches
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Publication number: 20120302334Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a wager in a financial market environment are provided. A first interface may be displayed to a first user at a first time. The first interface may comprise a plurality of moving lines and corresponding values associated with a financial market. The first interface may also display betting icons for selecting to bet that, at the designated future time, the value of the financial market will be either above or below the displayed value of each line. After receiving a wager from the first user, the values corresponding to the lines may be updated based on current market information. A second interface may display to a second user betting lines, corresponding updated values associated with the financial market, and corresponding betting icons. The second interface may also display icons for betting that, at the designated future time, the value of the financial market will be either above or below the updated value of each line.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2012Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: CANTOR INDEX, LLCInventors: Lee AMAITIS, Christopher John DAVIE, Guy Iain Oliver RICHES
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Publication number: 20120231865Abstract: The invention provides a system and method for creating and facilitating the exchange of wagering-based transferable financial instruments. The instruments may be used to embody multiple various positions based upon the ultimate outcomes of uncertain future contingent events, including but not limited to outcomes of games of skill and chance. The invention further provides systems and platforms for monitoring, displaying information, and facilitating trading as to such instruments among multiple investment market participants, and a hosting or house participant, for time-variable buying and selling of such instruments.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2012Publication date: September 13, 2012Applicant: CANTOR INDEX LLCInventors: Joseph M. ASHER, Dominic CROSTHWAITE, Howard W. LUTNICK, Guy Iain Oliver RICHES
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Publication number: 20120231871Abstract: The invention provides a system and method for creating and facilitating the exchange of wagering-based transferable financial instruments. The instruments may be used to embody multiple various positions based upon the ultimate outcomes of uncertain future contingent events, including but not limited to outcomes of games of skill and chance. The invention further provides systems and platforms for monitoring, displaying information, and facilitating trading as to such instruments among multiple investment market participants, and a hosting or house participant, for time-variable buying and selling of such instruments.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2012Publication date: September 13, 2012Applicant: CANTOR INDEX LLCInventors: Joseph M. ASHER, Dominic CROSTHWAITE, Howard W. LUTNICK, Guy Iain Oliver RICHES
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Patent number: 8246048Abstract: A method of managing a blackjack game is provided. A blackjack game bet comprising a bet against a house entity on a blackjack hand is received from a player. A pair of cards is determined for a hand for the house entity, and another pair of cards is determined for a hand for the player. The odds of the occurrence of one or more subsequent events are determined based at least in part on one or more of the pair of cards selected for the house entity's hand and one or more of the pair of cards selected for the player's hand. The odds for an additional bet are determined based at least on the determined odds for the one or more subsequent events, and the additional bet is offered to the player at the determined odds for the additional bet.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2008Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Cantor Index, LLCInventors: Joseph M. Asher, Lewis C. Findlay, Guy Iain Oliver Riches
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Patent number: 8240669Abstract: A method of managing a blackjack game is provided. A blackjack game bet comprising a bet against a house entity on a blackjack hand is received from a player. A pair of cards is determined for a hand for the house entity, and another pair of cards is determined for a hand for the player. The odds of the occurrence of one or more subsequent events are determined based at least in part on one or more of the pair of cards selected for the house entity's hand and one or more of the pair of cards selected for the player's hand. The odds for an additional bet are determined based at least on the determined odds for the one or more subsequent events, and the additional bet is offered to the player at the determined odds for the additional bet.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2008Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Cantor Index, LLCInventors: Joseph M. Asher, Lewis C. Findlay, Guy Iain Oliver Riches
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Patent number: 8204808Abstract: Computer graphics processing systems and methods are provided for the presentation of graphic objects or text in a wagering environment. In at least one embodiment, the systems and methods present graphic objects on a graphic user interface screen that includes at least one of a plurality of betting lines, including a reference betting line, such as a market betting line having a value that corresponds to a value of a reference variable associated with an object, a high line having a value corresponding to an amount above the reference variable value, a low line having a value corresponding to an amount below the reference variable value, etc. The market, high, and low lines may be arranged spatially on the interface screen based at least on the values of each of the lines. The interface screen includes a least one computer generated graphic object associated with each of the betting lines that is selectable for submitting at least one of an up bet request and a down bet request.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2006Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Cantor Index, LLCInventors: Lee Amaitis, David Anthony Puckeridge, Christopher John Davie, Guy Iain Oliver Riches, Peter Kenneth Lawrey
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Patent number: 8147313Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a wager in a financial market environment are provided. A first interface may be displayed to a first user at a first time. The first interface may comprise a plurality of moving lines and corresponding values associated with a financial market. The first interface may also display betting icons for selecting to bet that, at the designated future time, the value of the financial market will be either above or below the displayed value of each line. After receiving a wager from the first user, the values corresponding to the lines may be updated based on current market information. A second interface may display to a second user betting lines, corresponding updated values associated with the financial market, and corresponding betting icons. The second interface may also display icons for betting that, at the designated future time, the value of the financial market will be either above or below the updated value of each line.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2009Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: Cantor Index LLCInventors: Lee Amaitis, Christopher John Davie, Guy Iain Oliver Riches
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Publication number: 20120066149Abstract: A method for providing a wager in a financial market environment is provided that includes presenting an opportunity to make a wager that is based on a moving market line associated with a financial market. An end user is given an opportunity to bet on whether a financial market value will be above or below the moving market line at a designated time. The wager may be accepted from the end user. The wager may be monitored in order to determine whether the financial market value was above or below the moving market line at the designated time.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2011Publication date: March 15, 2012Inventors: Christopher John DAVIE, Guy Iain Oliver Riches
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Patent number: 8128474Abstract: Computer graphics processing systems and methods are provided for the presentation of graphic objects or text in a wagering environment. In at least one embodiment, the systems and methods present graphic objects on a graphic user interface screen that includes at least one of a plurality of betting lines, including a reference betting line, such as a market betting line having a value that corresponds to a value of a reference variable associated with an object, a high line having a value corresponding to an amount above the reference variable value, a low line having a value corresponding to an amount below the reference variable value, etc. The market, high, and low lines may be arranged spatially on the interface screen based at least on the values of each of the lines. The interface screen includes a least one computer generated graphic object associated with each of the betting lines that is selectable for submitting at least one of an up bet request and a down bet request.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2006Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Cantor Index, LLCInventors: Lee Amaitis, David Anthony Puckeridge, Christopher John Davie, Guy Iain Oliver Riches, Peter Kenneth Lawrey
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Patent number: 8086510Abstract: Computer graphics processing systems and methods are provided for the presentation of graphic objects or text in a wagering environment. In at least one embodiment, the systems and methods present graphic objects on a graphic user interface screen that includes at least one of a plurality of betting lines, including a reference betting line, such as a market betting line having a value that corresponds to a value of a reference variable associated with an object, a high line having a value corresponding to an amount above the reference variable value, a low line having a value corresponding to an amount below the reference variable value, etc. The market, high, and low lines may be arranged spatially on the interface screen based at least on the values of each of the lines. The interface screen includes a least one computer generated graphic object associated with each of the betting lines that is selectable for submitting at least one of an up bet request and a down bet request.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2006Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: Cantor Index, LLCInventors: Lee Amaitis, David Anthony Puckeridge, Christopher John Davie, Guy Iain Oliver Riches, Peter Kenneth Lawrey
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Publication number: 20110130189Abstract: The invention provides a system and method for creating and facilitating the exchange of wagering-based transferable financial instruments. The instruments may be used to embody multiple various positions based upon the ultimate outcomes of uncertain future contingent events, including but not limited to outcomes of games of skill and chance. The invention further provides systems and platforms for monitoring, displaying information, and facilitating trading as to such instruments among multiple investment market participants, and a hosting or house participant, for time-variable buying and selling of such instruments.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2011Publication date: June 2, 2011Inventors: Joseph M. Asher, Dominic Crosthwaite, Howard W. Lutnick, Guy Iain Oliver Riches
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Patent number: 7937318Abstract: A method for providing a wager in a financial market environment is provided that includes presenting an opportunity to make a wager that is based on a moving market line associated with a financial market. An end user is given an opportunity to bet on whether a financial market value will be above or below the moving market line at a designated time. The wager may be accepted from the end user. The wager may be monitored in order to determine whether the financial market value was above or below the moving market line at the designated time.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2010Date of Patent: May 3, 2011Assignee: Cantor Index, LLCInventors: Christopher John Davie, Guy Iain Oliver Riches
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Publication number: 20110066534Abstract: A method for providing a wager in a financial market environment is provided that includes presenting an opportunity to make a wager that is based on a moving market line associated with a financial market. An end user is given an opportunity to bet on whether a financial market value will be above or below the moving market line at a designated time. The wager may be accepted from the end user. The wager may be monitored in order to determine whether the financial market value was above or below the moving market line at the designated time.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2010Publication date: March 17, 2011Inventors: Christopher John Davie, Guy Iain Oliver Riches
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Patent number: 7835961Abstract: A method for providing a wager in a financial market environment is provided that includes presenting an opportunity to make a wager that is based on a moving market line associated with a financial market. An end user is given an opportunity to bet on whether a financial market value will be above or below the moving market line at a designated time. The wager may be accepted from the end user. The wager may be monitored in order to determine whether the financial market value was above or below the moving market line at the designated time.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2004Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: Cantor Index LLCInventors: Christopher John Davie, Guy Iain Oliver Riches
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Publication number: 20100173698Abstract: A method for providing a wager in a financial market environment is provided that includes presenting an opportunity to make a wager that is based on a moving market line associated with a financial market. An end user is given an opportunity to bet on whether a financial market value will be above or below the moving market line at a designated time. The wager may be accepted from the end user. The wager may be monitored in order to determine whether the financial market value was above or below the moving market line at the designated time.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2010Publication date: July 8, 2010Inventors: Christopher John DAVIE, Guy Iain Oliver Riches
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Patent number: 7711628Abstract: A method for providing a wager in a financial market environment is provided that includes presenting an opportunity to make a wager that is based on a moving market line associated with a financial market. An end user is given an opportunity to bet on whether a financial market value will be above or below the moving market line at a designated time. The wager may be accepted from the end user. The wager may be monitored in order to determine whether the financial market value was above or below the moving market line at the designated time.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2004Date of Patent: May 4, 2010Assignee: Cantor Index LLCInventors: Christopher John Davie, Guy Iain Oliver Riches
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Patent number: 7693781Abstract: An apparatus for providing a financial instrument comprises a memory operable to store a plurality of predefined states wherein each of the predefined states corresponds to at least one potential outcome of a probabilistic event. The memory further stores a plurality of predefined termination criteria wherein each predefined state corresponds to at least one predefined termination criteria. The memory further stores a financial instrument that is allocated a value based at least in part upon one of the plurality of predefined states. A processor is coupled to the memory and facilitates the transfer of the financial instrument.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2007Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Assignee: Cantor Index LLCInventors: Joseph M. Asher, Dominic Crosthwaite, Howard W. Lutnick, Guy Iain Oliver Riches
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Publication number: 20100009743Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a wager in a financial market environment are provided. A first interface may be displayed to a first user at a first time. The first interface may comprise a plurality of moving lines and corresponding values associated with a financial market. The first interface may also display betting icons for selecting to bet that, at the designated future time, the value of the financial market will be either above or below the displayed value of each line. After receiving a wager from the first user, the values corresponding to the lines may be updated based on current market information. A second interface may display to a second user betting lines, corresponding updated values associated with the financial market, and corresponding betting icons. The second interface may also display icons for betting that, at the designated future time, the value of the financial market will be either above or below the updated value of each line.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2009Publication date: January 14, 2010Inventors: Lee Amaitis, Christopher John Davie, Guy Iain Oliver Riches