Patents Examined by Adetokunbo O Torimiro
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Patent number: 12042723Abstract: An exemplary method of controlling a server that can provide a game can include associating a user with a group; determining, based on information related to activity of the user in at least one of the game and an event within the game, information related to activity of the group with which the user is associated; and providing a bonus to the group based on the information related to activity of the group.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2022Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: GREE, Inc.Inventor: Shinji Mizuno
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Patent number: 12042733Abstract: Provided is a control method of a game executed by an information processing device, the method including: storing a plurality of first game media associated with a first player and a plurality of second game media associated with a second player, the plurality of first game media being associated with ability information, placing one or more first selection game media; producing an effect corresponding to the ability information selected; placing one or more second selection game media; converting at least a part of the one or more first selection game media placed in the field from the first parameter state to the second parameter state; and changing a use status of the ability information associated with the one or more first selection game media converted from the first parameter state to the second parameter state.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2021Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: GREE, INC.Inventors: Keiya Ohashi, Akiyoshi Maeda
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Patent number: 12046100Abstract: A system which enables a user to customize the user interface of a gaming terminal to present different content at different times and responsive to different triggering events.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2018Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: IGTInventors: Patrick Danielson, Dwayne R. Nelson, Samantha Ascheri-Phillips
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Patent number: 12039840Abstract: Gaming machines and games are configured with one or more wheel events or features. The wheel events or features may comprise main games or bonus games, or may comprise entertaining representations of outcomes of other games or events. The wheel events comprise the selection of one or more segments of a wheel having associated awards. Wheel events may have various entertaining configurations, such as morphing wheels, symbols that reveal awards and the like.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2022Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Inventor: Ronnie W. Harris
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Patent number: 12036470Abstract: User action data characterizing action by a player in a game environment executing at a user client is received at a server. The game environment is created by the user client separate from the server. Data characterizing a selected viewing position is received. The selected viewing position is different than a player viewing position. The selected viewing position characterizes a viewing location within the game environment. A recreated game environment is generated from the user action data at the server. A video stream of the recreated game environment is generated. The video stream includes video from a perspective of the selected viewing position. The video stream is transmitted to a viewing client. Related apparatus, systems, articles, and techniques are also described.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2023Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: Skillz Platform Inc.Inventor: Andrew Paradise
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Patent number: 12033460Abstract: Provided is a server that includes a processor circuit and a memory coupled to the processor circuit. The memory includes computer program instructions that, when executed by the processor circuit, cause the server to perform operations including receiving user interest data that includes data corresponding to user-specific interests of a user. Operations may include comparing the user interest data to a gaming opportunity that is provided by a gaming operator that operates gaming devices. Operations may include responsive to determining that the user interest data corresponds to the gaming opportunity, causing a targeted offer message that corresponds to the gaming opportunity to be sent to the user.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: IGTInventor: Ethan Edsall
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Patent number: 12027013Abstract: A fraud detection system which detects fraud in a game of performing collection and redemption of chips in accordance with a win or lose result includes a camera which captures an image of chips contained in a chip tray of a dealer, an image analyzing apparatus which analyses the image captured by the camera to detect an amount of the chips contained in the chip tray, a card distribution device which determines a win or lose result of a game, and a control device which compares the win or lose result of the game and the amount of the chips contained in the chip tray before and after collection and redemption of the chips to detect fraud.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
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Patent number: 12020540Abstract: A fraud detection system which detects fraud in a game of performing collection and redemption of chips in accordance with a win or lose result includes a camera which captures an image of chips contained in a chip tray of a dealer, an image analyzing apparatus which analyses the image captured by the camera to detect an amount of the chips contained in the chip tray, a card distribution device which determines a win or lose result of a game, and a control device which compares the win or lose result of the game and the amount of the chips contained in the chip tray before and after collection and redemption of the chips to detect fraud.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2022Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
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Patent number: 12020535Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system for using the odds data from a first wagering network to calculate and adjust wager odds for a second wagering network by receiving the odds data from the first wagering network, such as how many wagers placed, how many users on the wagering market, how much money was wagered and adjusting the odds of an upcoming wager market on a second wagering network depending on the odds data received from the first wagering network.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2021Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: AdrenalineIPInventors: Casey Alexander Huke, John Cronin, Joseph W. Beyers, Michael D'Andrea
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Patent number: 12008869Abstract: Systems and methods for providing, conducting and modifying wagering games involving standard playing cards to include multiple sources of randomly ordered one or more decks of standard playing cards, either remotely or locally, and electronically or virtually provided cards, or through physical card shuffling sources, from which a player may select to receive cards in the wagering game for any purpose, such as to form initial or final hands in the wagering game.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2022Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Inventor: Robert Ring
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Patent number: 12008859Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to gaming devices that provide audio-visual animated characters in response to game play. The character has a personality that may be encouraging, taunting or another quality. A plurality of expressions of the personality is presented, between one extreme and another, dependent upon the history of game outcomes.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2022Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: Acres TechnologyInventor: John F. Acres
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Patent number: 11992764Abstract: A game program causes a computer to set, if it is determined that a point based on a first action of the character of each of an own player and another player is greater than or equal to a predetermined value, a specific period from a time when an instruction to input a second action has been first accepted from the own player or the other player as a cooperation accepting period, to accept the instruction to input the second action up to a maximum number of times set for each cooperation player from a cooperation player other than the player who has instructed input of the second action, among the own player and the other player, during the cooperation accepting period, and to vary an effect of the second action in accordance with the number of times of the instruction to input the second action.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2022Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: GREE, Inc.Inventors: Nariaki Wada, Yoichi Shoda
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Patent number: 11995945Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide an improved display system for a gaming system comprising a bank of gaming machines. In particular embodiments, the display system comprises display elements that are spatially arranged relative to one another in a manner such that when an animation is displayed on the display elements, the spatial arrangement of the display elements relative to each other interacts with the animation to provide a greater apparent depth in the animation. In some embodiments, the display system further comprises a display element positioned between each pair of adjacent gaming machines and controlled to display a graphical representation indicative of a level of a jackpot, which representation is updated as players place wagers on the gaming machines. Methods for operating the gaming system comprising elements of the improved display system are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2022Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty LimitedInventors: Igor Suslik, Matthew Chan
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Patent number: 11983988Abstract: This invention is an engine that allows, for any play in an “in play” or single play betting game, that both calculates “basic odds” (calculated by using historical database mining) and at least one more odds making formula to calculate odds on at least one outcome of a single play in a live event, crossing at least two different odds making formulas to create crossed odds. Then utilizes artificial intelligence to correlate the crossed odds with the final odds on similar historical plays in which odds were calculated. Then utilizes machine learning after the outcome of the play is known to correlate the odds generated by each odds making formula with the most profitable odds calculated on previous similar plays.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: AdrenalineIPInventors: Casey Alexander Huke, John Cronin, Joseph W. Beyers, Michael D'Andrea
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Patent number: 11972663Abstract: A processor circuit receives a sports wager entry including a predetermined number of base wagers and a predetermined number of available points. Separately, for each base wager of the predetermined number of base wagers, the processor circuit receives a base wager selection, the base wager selection associated with a predetermined point value. The processor circuit receives a point value adjustment selection and adjusts the predetermined point value by the selected point value adjustment to generate an adjusted point value, wherein a sum of the selected point value adjustments for the predetermined number of base wagers does not exceed the predetermined number of available points. The processor circuit displays, at the display device, an indication of the adjusted point value. The processor circuit stores a sports wager entry record comprising the base wager selections and the adjusted point values for the sport wager entry.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: IGTInventors: Mark Dufty, Michael Bailey
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Patent number: 11967204Abstract: The application determines what the typical wager is. The application flags a new wager is uncommon. The application notifies the user of the uncommon wager.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: AdrenalineIPInventor: John Cronin
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Patent number: 11961364Abstract: A fraud detection system which detects fraud in a game of performing collection and redemption of chips in accordance with a win or lose result includes a camera which captures an image of chips contained in a chip tray of a dealer, an image analyzing apparatus which analyses the image captured by the camera to detect an amount of the chips contained in the chip tray, a card distribution device which determines a win or lose result of a game, and a control device which compares the win or lose result of the game and the amount of the chips contained in the chip tray before and after collection and redemption of the chips to detect fraud.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
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Patent number: 11957981Abstract: Provided is one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media including computer-program instructions, which when executed by a system, cause the system to: cause a terminal device to display, in a first area of a game screen of a game, a plurality of items associated with progress of the game in such a manner that at least some of the plurality of items are excluded from a first view; extract a specific item from the plurality of items, based on a status of the game; cause the terminal device to display, in the game screen, the specific item in a second area in the first view; and execute an operation based on an item selected from the plurality of items or the specific item.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: GREE, INC.Inventors: Junsei Kuninobu, Ikuhiro Maeda, Gaku Mizukami, Yui Takeda
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Patent number: 11961367Abstract: An electronic gaming device is described. The electronic gaming device includes a display device including a first display area and a second display area and at least one processor configured to execute instructions. The instructions, when executed, cause the at least one processor to determine a first game outcome and cause display of a first game outcome amount in the first display area. The instructions also cause the at least one processor to cause display of the first game outcome amount in the second display area, the second display area including a plurality of past game outcome amounts. The instructions further cause the at least one processor to determine a second game outcome, provide a second game outcome amount, and, based upon the second game outcome including a trigger event, provide a past game outcome amount of the plurality of past game outcome amounts.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.Inventors: T. Grant Bolling, Jr., Kevin Walsh
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Patent number: 11954974Abstract: A system, method, and non-transitory computer medium for processing a payment for a wager in connection with a wagering event. The system may receive, over a communications interface, a wager on a wagering event from a player via an input device. The system may monitor progress of the wagering event. The progress of the wagering event may include at least a current status. The system may determine that the wager is active and that the wagering event is in progress. The system may determine an amount of a cash out offer and that the player accepts the cash out offer at the determined amount. The system may transmit, over the communications interface, the amount of the cash out offer to the first input device.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Inventor: Bernard J. Marantelli