Patents by Inventor Jay Chun

Jay Chun 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).

  • Patent number: 9940782
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to systems and methods, which may receive gaming data from one or more gaming tables. The systems and methods may obtain gaming data from one or more gaming tables via a network interface based on at least one of a searching structure and a search algorithm. The systems and methods may compare betting criterion to the gaming data. The systems and methods may initiate at least one of a wager based on a comparison of the betting criterion to the gaming data and a display of data related to a search result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Fresh Idea Global Limited
    Inventor: Jay Chun
  • Patent number: 9940777
    Abstract: A system in a casino for playing a game, the system comprising: a network of betting terminals linked to a plurality of game tables, first players playing a first game at each of the game tables, at least one first game being a live baccarat game, wherein each of the betting terminals comprises a mechanism to display a plurality of first games occurring at the game tables in the casino so as to allow a second player at each one of the betting terminals to switch to different game tables, place bets at different first games at a same time, place a separate jackpot wager bet on a jackpot game based on the first games being played live at the game tables and select betting options, wherein the system includes a display part having a screen for showing game number and respective amounts available for betting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventor: Jay Chun
  • Patent number: 9940778
    Abstract: A system for monitoring and playing a plurality of live casino table games, comprising: a plurality of dealer game tables; a plurality of electronic handheld devices remotely located from the game tables configured to display a video of at least one game taking place at the plurality of game tables; a gaming server; and a network operatively coupling the gaming server to the game tables and the electronic handheld devices; wherein each electronic handheld device includes a display part comprising: a player wagering display area having a touch screen input configured to display a plurality of touch screen results bars that allow a player to switch between the plurality of the game table's videos in response to touching the touch screen results bar to provide a selected touch screen results bar; a video display area configured to display a video of at least one game taking place at the plurality of game tables, wherein the video being displayed corresponds to the selected touch screen results bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventor: Jay Chun
  • Patent number: 9931562
    Abstract: An automated playing card retrieval system is used with a physical gaming table that hosts live wager-based games. The system includes a movable receiving component that receives dealt physical playing cards and an automated card removal component that removes the cards to a discard region after the game. The movable receiving component can be a mechanized tray, can display card(s) to player(s) seated away from the table during game play, and can receive cards at a first position, move to a second position where cards are removed, and move to a third position where cards are displayed at a position elevated from and at a substantially non-parallel angle to the table surface. Additional system components can include an automated card return component that returns cards to another location for a future game, a robotic dealer, an automated card shuffler, a card shoe, and/or the table itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Fresh Idea Global Limited
    Inventor: Jay Chun
  • Patent number: 9916735
    Abstract: Remote gaming cash voucher printing systems facilitate partial cash voucher payouts of cash value balances on electronic gaming terminals, such as to provide tips. Systems can include electronic gaming tables that host wager-based table games facilitated by live human dealers, cash voucher printers at the gaming tables, remotely located electronic gaming terminals that provide remote play at the electronic gaming tables, and a remote print server coupled with the gaming tables and gaming terminals. The remote print server debits a cash value of a partial monetary payout request from a gaming terminal credit balance, and routes the request from the gaming terminal to a gaming table printer for issuance of a cash voucher. The remote print server can communicate with an existing TITO server and emulate authorized TITO requests in some arrangements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventor: Jay Chun
  • Publication number: 20180053372
    Abstract: Gaming table systems include electronic gaming tables, gaming terminals, and a system server. A system or table can be configured to administer a live wager-based table game involving an initial shared hand that is shared by multiple live players. Each player can make different live game decisions regarding discarding physical playing items from the initial shared hand, and game outcomes include final hands that vary by player depending upon the different decisions. The live table game can be draw poker, which can involve dealing five physical cards face up for the initial shared hand and five additional cards face down for a first set of replacement cards before any live game player decisions. A second set of replacement cards can provide a second play from the same initial shared hand. Methods of providing the draw poker game can include preventing further user inputs prior to revealing the face down cards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventors: Jay CHUN, Daryn KIELY
  • Publication number: 20170361208
    Abstract: An automated playing card retrieval system is used with a physical gaming table that hosts live wager-based games. The system includes a movable receiving component that receives dealt physical playing cards and an automated card removal component that removes the cards to a discard region after the game. The movable receiving component can be a mechanized tray, can display card(s) to player(s) seated away from the table during game play, and can receive cards at a first position, move to a second position where cards are removed, and move to a third position where cards are displayed at a position elevated from and at a substantially non-parallel angle to the table surface. Additional system components can include an automated card return component that returns cards to another location for a future game, a robotic dealer, an automated card shuffler, a card shoe, and/or the table itself.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventor: Jay Chun
  • Publication number: 20170345261
    Abstract: An electronic device or entertainment gaming machine comprising: at least one betting terminal having a software program or plurality of software programs that allow at least a second player to place a bet on a jackpot if a first player declines the right to place a bet on the jackpot, wherein the second player is at a betting terminal that is apart from the conventional casino table game and the first player is playing at a conventional casino table game and is granted a right of first refusal to place a bet on jackpot by virtue of the first player's bet on the conventional casino table game, wherein the outcome of the jackpot is determined according to a combination of cards or dice in the conventional casino table game.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventor: Jay Chun
  • Publication number: 20170316637
    Abstract: A gaming system comprising a plurality of betting terminals and a computer server comprising: a plurality of betting terminals for selecting and playing one or more live casino game(s) being played at a plurality of tables; each of the plurality of betting terminals has at least one first portion of a first screen for displaying the one or more live-casino game(s) to said player wherein the one or more live casino game(s) is a game offered in at least one casino resort, wherein a results history for each table is displayed in at least one first portion of a first screen to provide a results history display, and a switching mechanism for selecting, switching and playing one or more casino slot machine game(s) adapted to allow the player to switch between the live casino games according to at least the results history display for each table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventor: Jay Chun
  • Publication number: 20170309121
    Abstract: Various aspects described or referenced herein are directed to different methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing automated money laundering detection, notification, and reporting techniques implemented at casino gaming networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicants: FRESH IDEA GLOBAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Jay Chun, Binh Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20170309116
    Abstract: A method and system for playing casino jackpot games is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventor: Jay Chun
  • Publication number: 20170256129
    Abstract: Remote live table gaming systems can include player terminal(s), electronic gaming table(s), and/or a remote server. Electronic devices can function as remote player terminals, and can have an outer housing, a controller located therewithin, input and output component(s), and a communications interface to an outside gaming network having other functionally similar gaming device(s), gaming table(s), and a remote server. The controller and/or server can facilitate the remote play of live table games at physical gaming tables. Remote game play can include asynchronous and individually paced tournament play, switching between different tournament tables on demand, and play of non-tournament table games simultaneously. Portable computing devices can be used as player terminals and can permit players to play in actual or practice play-along modes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventor: Jay Chun
  • Publication number: 20170236369
    Abstract: Systems and methods for conducting multiple remote wagering games in a live table game system or similar system wherein the gaming symbols which are randomly generated as a result of a live table game are used to resolve the live table game and simulate play and resolve wagering outcomes of one or more remote wagering games which differ from the live table game.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventor: Jay Chun
  • Patent number: 9734663
    Abstract: Various aspects described or referenced herein are directed to different methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing automated money laundering detection, notification, and reporting techniques implemented at casino gaming networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignees: Fresh Idea Global Limited
    Inventors: Jay Chun, Binh Nguyen
  • Patent number: 9734658
    Abstract: A system and method for providing multiple synchronous games for multiple plays from a live table game located in a casino includes a physical game table, a physical game system for playing a live table game in connection with the physical game table to generate a single live game data sequence by a live dealer operating the physical game system, a game server to receive the single live game data sequence and generate multiple synchronous games from the single live game data sequence, and one or more electronic gaming terminals in communication with the game server, each of the one or more electronic gaming terminals having a display to display the multiple synchronous games and an input mechanism to input one or more wagers on the multiple synchronous games.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventor: Jay Chun
  • Patent number: 9710995
    Abstract: A method with the steps of: playing a Sic Bo felt table game according to a set of conventional rules, allowing at least a first player to place a bet on the Sic Bo felt table game, allowing at least a second player to place a bet on the jackpot at a betting terminal where the second player can be the same as or different from the first player, determining the outcome of the Sic Bo felt table game according to a set of conventional casino game rules including a Sic Bo payout, and determining, by the betting terminal, the outcome of the jackpot according to a combination of dice thrown in the Sic Bo felt table game, and a separate jackpot wager bet that is only accepted at at least one live table game contributing to one jackpot pool having a jackpot pool payout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventor: Jay Chun
  • Patent number: 9704348
    Abstract: An electronic device or entertainment gaming machine comprising: at least one betting terminal having a software program or plurality of software programs that allow at least a second player to place a bet on a jackpot if a first player declines the right to place a bet on the jackpot, wherein the second player is at a betting terminal that is apart from the conventional casino table game and the first player is playing at a conventional casino table game and is granted a right of first refusal to place a bet on jackpot by virtue of the first player's bet on the conventional casino table game, wherein the outcome of the jackpot is determined according to a combination of cards or dice in the conventional casino table game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventor: Jay Chun
  • Publication number: 20170178441
    Abstract: A system and method for providing multiple synchronous games for multiple plays from a live table game located in a casino includes a physical game table, a physical game system for playing a live table game in connection with the physical game table to generate a single live game data sequence by a live dealer operating the physical game system, a game server to receive the single live game data sequence and generate multiple synchronous games from the single live game data sequence, and one or more electronic gaming terminals in communication with the game server, each of the one or more electronic gaming terminals having a display to display the multiple synchronous games and an input mechanism to input one or more wagers on the multiple synchronous games.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventor: Jay Chun
  • Publication number: 20170161988
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to systems and methods, which may receive gaming data from one or more gaming tables. The systems and methods may obtain gaming data from one or more gaming tables via a network interface based on at least one of a searching structure and a search algorithm. The systems and methods may compare betting criterion to the gaming data. The systems and methods may initiate at least one of a wager based on a comparison of the betting criterion to the gaming data and a display of data related to a search result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventor: Jay Chun
  • Publication number: 20170161993
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to systems and methods, which may receive a video stream from one or more gaming tables. The systems and methods may display the video stream from the one or more gaming tables on the electronic gaming device and generate gaming options based on data relating to the one or more gaming tables. The gaming options may be based on predetermined betting structures relating to future game play results. The systems and methods may display the gaming options.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventor: Jay Chun