Patents Assigned to Games
  • System and method for wireless gaming with location determination
    Patent number: 11527129
    Abstract: In accordance with the teachings of the present embodiment, a system and method for wireless gaming with location-dependent gaming functions are provided. In a particular embodiment, the apparatus includes a gaming server; a wireless network at least partially covering a property, the wireless network comprising a plurality of signal detection devices; and a gaming communication device operable to transmit and receive gaming information to and from the gaming server via the wireless network. A location of the gaming communication device on the property is used to alter a game play function, such as a bet option, wager, graphic overlay, permission, or to provide location-dependent advertising or embedded advertising. Based upon the location of the gaming communication device on the property, a predetermined functionality of the gaming communication device may be enabled and/or controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: INTERACTIVE GAMES LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Burman, Dean P. Alderucci
  • Dynamic event-based ranking methods and systems
    Patent number: 11517824
    Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamic events-based ranking servers including a processor. The server also includes a memory communicatively coupled to the processor. The memory includes at least event data, player skill data, and game logic, which is configured to be processed by the processor in order to execute a game with a plurality of players until a game conclusion is reached. The memory further includes event capture logic that is configured to be processed by the processor to identify a plurality of events within the executed game. The events to be captured are done so prior to the game conclusion. Also, the captured event data can relate to the plurality of events. Finally, the memory includes an event update logic, which is configured to be processed by the processor to update player skill data scores in response to the event data captured during the game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Riot Games, Inc.
    Inventors: Yilin He, Sean Szopinski
  • Gaming Machine Installations and Light Panel for use with Gaming Machines
    Publication number: 20220383694
    Abstract: A method and system provide accent lighting at a bank of gaming machines. A plurality of LED panels are provided to be assembled in a number of different configurations for a series of LED panels. An electronic controller coupled to communicate through said data communication interface with the series of LED panels. The electronic controller is programmed to transmit signals to LED drivers of the LED panels, receive a loop-back signal transmitted from a final one of the LED panels, based on timing of said received loop-back signal automatically identify a configuration of the series of LED panels from said number of possible configurations, and transmit commands for activating the LED drivers of the LED panels based on the identified configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: Everi Games, Inc.
    Inventor: Lawrence J. Knipp
  • System and method for convenience gaming
    Patent number: 11514748
    Abstract: A convenience gaming system is provided. The convenience gaming system allows users to access applications via gaming communication devices coupled to a communication network. At least a portion of the network may be wireless. The gaming applications include gambling, financial, entertainment service, and other types of transactions. The system may include a user location determination feature to prevent users from conducting transactions from unauthorized areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: INTERACTIVE GAMES LLC
    Inventors: Lee M. Amaitis, Joseph M. Asher, Howard W. Lutnick, Darrin M. Mylet, Alan B. Wilkins
  • Interactive floor and amusement systems and methods employing same
    Patent number: 11511171
    Abstract: An amusement system features an interactive floor with an array of panels laid out in one or more grids to collectively define an interactive floor surface, an illumination system operable to individually illuminate each panel, and a sensing system operable to detect presence of any participant atop any panel. A base frame of the interactive floor is composed of a plurality of base modules seated on a subfloor, and supporting a respective panel for one or more cells of the interactive floor. The base modules are not directly fastened together, and instead are only intercoupled by perimeter seals applied over peripheral regions of the panels of neighbouring modules. Separation of the modules is constrained by surrounding walls of a room fully occupied by the interactive floor. In gameplay, some panels are distinctively illuminated as hazards to be avoided by participants, subject to penalty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Activate Games Inc.
    Inventor: Adam Schmidt
  • Gaming system, method, and program product for selecting game symbols in a wagering game
    Patent number: 11514761
    Abstract: Multiple different game symbol weighting sets are defined for selection in a given play of a reel-type game. Each game symbol weighting set defines a probability of each reel strip in the reel-type game landing at each particular stop position for that reel strip. By providing multiple different game symbol weighting sets, certain game symbols such as special themed game symbols may be favored for one or more plays of the game to increase the chance of hitting winning symbol combinations using that game symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Everi Games Inc.
    Inventor: Brian Watkins
  • Gaming Machines and Gaming Machine Control Methods with Multiple Bonus Feature Paths
    Publication number: 20220375306
    Abstract: A method includes conducting a base portion of a game in which the base portion result may include a first trigger condition or a second trigger condition. Where the base portion result includes the first trigger condition, the method includes conducting a first bonus feature which may include activations of reels defining a first array of game symbol locations. Where the base portion result includes the second trigger condition, the method includes causing the display system to display a selection from among a number of different additional bonus feature options at least one of which comprises a reel-type bonus feature which includes activations of reels defining a second array of game symbol locations larger than the first array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: Everi Games Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Slomiany, Justine Klein, Juan Mariscal
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20220362670
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to allow reserved content to be used at the proper timing. The information processing device of the present invention comprises a trade information storage unit that stores trade information for each user in which trade-away content and trade-for content set in association with each other; a user information storage unit that stores user information in which a user's possessed content and reserved content are set; a selection unit that selects reserved content that is the same as the designated trade-for content and is not the same as the possessed content, from among the user's reserved content based on the user information, as a result of an operation performed by the user to designate trade-for content that the user wants to acquire in a trade; and a notification unit that notifies the user that the selected reserved content can be acquired without a trade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA GAMES DOING BUSINESS AS SEGA GAMES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takahiro OTOMO
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20220362669
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to allow reserved content to be used at the proper timing. The information processing device of the present invention comprises a trade information storage unit that stores trade information for each user in which trade-away content and trade-for content set in association with each other; a user information storage unit that stores user information in which a user's possessed content and reserved content are set; a selection unit that selects reserved content that is the same as the designated trade-for content and is not the same as the possessed content, from among the user's reserved content based on the user information, as a result of an operation performed by the user to designate trade-for content that the user wants to acquire in a trade; and a notification unit that notifies the user that the selected reserved content can be acquired without a trade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA GAMES DOING BUSINESS AS SEGA GAMES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takahiro OTOMO
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAKING A CUSTOM MINIATURE FIGURINE USING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) SCANNED IMAGE AND A PRE-SCULPTED BODY
    Publication number: 20220366654
    Abstract: A system and method for making a custom miniature figurine using a 3D scanned image and a pre-sculpted body is described herein. The system includes a database, a server, a computing device, an automated distributed manufacturing system, and a 3D printing apparatus. An application of the computing device utilizes a camera of the computing device to scan a head of a user, create a 3D representation of the head of the user from the scans, combine the 3D representation of the head of the user with a pre-sculpted digital body and/or accessories selected by the user to create a work order, and transmit the work order to the automated distributed manufacturing system. The automated distributed manufacturing system performs digital modeling tasks, assembles a digital model, and transmits the digital model to the 3D printing apparatus. The 3D printing apparatus creates the custom miniature figurine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: HOPLITE GAME STUDIOS INC
    Inventors: Michael J. Elices, Raisa Da Silva
  • APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING THE DISPLAY OF PRIZES AT A GAMING MACHINE
    Publication number: 20220366757
    Abstract: Controlling a gaming machine includes displaying a starting graphic that includes both one or more prize-contributing numerical values and one or more non-contributing numerical values. The non-contributing numerical values may precede, follow, or both precede and follow the respective prize-contributing numerical value. Once the starting graphic is displayed, each of the non-contributing numerical values is replaced with a respective non-numerical graphic to ultimately reveal at the gaming machine the one or more prize-contributing numerical values. A prize is then awarded which includes a prize value defined by either a combination of the prize-contributing numerical values where more than one prize-contributing numerical value is included in the starting graphic or by the sole prize-contributing numerical value where only one prize-contributing numerical value is included in the starting graphic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: Everi Games, Inc.
    Inventor: Scott Slomiany
  • Gaming machine and method with numerical basis for prizes in reels
    Patent number: 11501602
    Abstract: A gaming machine and method for operating a slot machine game in which virtual or mechanical reels include numbers from which a prize amount is produced by concatenation. In response to a wager activation by a player, the reels display conduct a base game including spinning the reels and stopping to produce a respective randomly selected outcome having a plurality of symbols including single digit numbers which are positive numbers and zero, double digit numbers which are positive and double zero, and blank symbols. A prize amount associated with the outcome is identified by concatenating the single and double digit numbers and ignoring the blank symbols along a designated payline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Everi Games, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles A. Medford, Daniel W. Eulenfeld
  • Activity-factored team formation in multiplayer online gaming
    Patent number: 11484801
    Abstract: In various examples, the present system tracks gameplay timeframes for when a user is engaged in an instance of gameplay. The system can then determine one or more typical timeframe(s) for when the user engages in gameplay. In some embodiments, the user can access a team matching UI and request to be matched with other user accounts and/or to be presented with a list of other user accounts who might be a good match for the user, such as those associated with similar typical timeframes for gameplay. Based on the request from the user, a set of user accounts available to be matched can be ranked based, at least in part, on a similarity between gameplay timeframes associated with the user and each of the user accounts in the set of user accounts. Using the ranking, the system can generate a team of users with similar typical gameplay timeframes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Riot Games, Inc.
    Inventors: Rahul Tripathi, Jonathan Blair Moormann, Tomasz Mozolewski, Jordan Braman Checkman, Cody Bryant Germain, Lawrence Lihuan Xie, Wenbin Xiang
  • Method and Apparatus for Remote Game Play With Real-Time Commentary
    Publication number: 20220339547
    Abstract: This invention allows the players of multiplayer games like poker, chess, backgammon, go, board games, and video games to play the game online while commenting on the game and explaining their strategies to an online audience without sharing that information with their opponents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: Good Beat Games, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert M. Zeidman
  • Lottery ticket dispensing method and system with additional purchase recommendation capability
    Patent number: 11482080
    Abstract: A lottery ticket dispensing method provides an inventory of lottery tickets in an automated dispenser, the inventory comprising lottery tickets for a plurality of different lottery games. Upon a player making a selection of a lottery ticket from the dispenser, with a controller in communication with the dispenser, one or more companion lottery games for the lottery ticket selected by the player are assigned from the different lottery games in the inventory based on predefined filter values. The method verifies that the designated companion lottery games have lottery tickets available in the inventory and then presents one or more of the verified designated companion lottery games to the player as a suggestion or recommendation for an additional lottery ticket purchase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Scientific Games, LLC
    Inventors: Susan Emily Rolfs, Todd George Stover, Jacob Ezra Kreider, Richard Colin DiCroce, Kent D. Christensen
  • Systems and methods that enable customizable teams for multi-player online games
    Patent number: 11478714
    Abstract: The field of the invention relates to multi-user online gaming systems, and more particularly to systems and methods that enable customizable teams for online active games. In an embodiment, the system includes an online game session server system communicatively coupled to a network for access by a plurality of users to establish a plurality of real-time interactive games sessions, wherein each game session includes at least one team and wherein the at least one team may be established in accordance with a preferred composition defined by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Riot Games, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Lin, Tom Cadwell
  • System and method for providing a computer-generated environment
    Patent number: 11471775
    Abstract: A method comprises: providing a three dimensional computer-generated environment and providing a controllable character within the three dimensional computer-generated environment; receiving user input and controlling the character based at least on the received user input; and providing a three dimensional computer-generated virtual reality device in the three dimensional computer-generated environment for generating a virtual reality environment for the controllable character.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Build A Rocket Boy Games Ltd.
    Inventor: Leslie Peter Benzies
  • Game box
    Patent number: D971017
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Distrix Games LLC
    Inventor: Matthew E. H. Petering
  • Tile
    Patent number: D972649
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: SPIDERMIND GAMES LTD
    Inventors: Michael Starkey, Christopher Jonathon Lunn
  • Tile
    Patent number: D972650
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: SPIDERMIND GAMES LTD
    Inventors: Michael Starkey, Christopher Jonathon Lunn