Patents Examined by Allen Chan
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Patent number: 12211354Abstract: A system and method for facilitating the purchase of digital lottery tickets, the validation of digital lottery tickets, and the redemption of digital lottery tickets. The systems and methods provide improved security and protection against fraudulent validation and redemption of digital lottery tickets.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2023Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: IGT Global Solutions CorporationInventors: Zbigniew Brzozowski, Gregory J. Spatuzzi, Thomas K. Oram
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Patent number: 12194381Abstract: Systems and methods are described for creating a non-curated viewing perspective in a video game platform based on a curated viewing perspective. For example, a user may be viewing a gameplay video of a video game. The user may be interested in viewing the same gameplay from a different perspective in the video game. Accordingly, a media guidance application may identify the video game in the video and retrieve video game engine data associated with the video game, to replicate, on a video game console, the gameplay depicted in the video. The user may be able to change the perspective (e.g., in-game position of the camera and the camera angle) within the replicated video game platform, via user commands. In response to receiving a user command to change the curated viewing perspective to a non-curated viewing perspective, the media guidance application may re-render the gameplay from the non-curated viewing perspective.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Adeia Guides Inc.Inventor: Bruce Yen
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Patent number: 12194389Abstract: A system and method configured to provide limited-time events to users in an online game. The system and method may include executing an instance of an online game and effectuating presentation of offers to users to activate a limited-time event within the online game. Activation of the limited-time event may enable users to perform event runs through the limited-time event for a duration. The execution of event runs through the limited-time event in response to user commands received from a client computing platform associated with the user may deplete the virtual resource in an inventory of the user. The system and method may maintain inventories of the users and recharge the virtual resource as a function of time. The performance of users may be assessed and awards may be distributed to the users based on the assessment of their performance during the event runs. The system and method may include effectuating exchanges by the users of virtual items for the first virtual resource.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Kabam, Inc.Inventors: Luc Pieron, Byung Gon Yoo, Thomas Baxter, Dylan Swift
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Patent number: 12186654Abstract: Exemplary arrangements relate to a system that includes at least one wireless dance mat and a base device, as well as a method of operation and communication which provides for rapid and accurate signals indicative of the state of a plurality of pressure sensors in the dance mat. Each pressure sensor is configured to sense pressure resulting from person contact with the dance mat. Transmission controller circuitry is in operative connection with the pressure sensors and a wireless transceiver. The wireless transceiver is operative to transmit wireless signals on a uniform periodic basis and in a sequential order. The exemplary signals each include data corresponding to pressure sensed by each of the pressure sensors at a time of signal transmission, and a position of the respective signal in the sequential order. Data included in the signals received by the base device is usable to determine conditions in which signals are not received and/or signal data has not been accurately received.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: L-TEK SPOLKA Z OGRANICZONA ODPOWIEDZIALNOSCIAInventors: Katarzyna Krupnik, Tomasz Krupnik, Piotr Chmiel
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Patent number: 12175837Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, a physical game element such as a wagering chip or a playing card may be utilized to implement a promotion scheme on an electronic game table (e.g., using RFID or optical imaging technology). During a game it may be determined whether the element is associated with special functionality (e.g., entitles the player to a payout multiplier, special payout table, bonus prize or other benefit). The special functionality may have been previously associated with the element or associated with the element during the game (e.g., dynamically and/or randomly). In accordance with some embodiments a player is not able to readily discern the special functionality by a physical inspection of the physical game element and is only notified of the special functionality once the physical game element is used in a qualifying action (e.g., during a wager at an electronic game table).Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2023Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Walker Digital Table Systems, LLCInventors: Stephen Moore, Michael Russell, Mark Hettinger
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Patent number: 12172075Abstract: Systems and methods are described for imparting dynamic, non-linear and realistic movement and look and feel to a player's/virtual character's first-person limbs and hand-held object model, and procedurally animating a first-person virtual camera such that it simulates the movement of a camera handheld by the player/virtual character. To impart chaotic or random motion to the first-person limbs and hand-held object model a first module defines and implements first and second two dimensional mass-spring-damper systems, each of which is linked to the player's/virtual vector's view vector. Procedural animation or rotational shake is implemented by a second module by applying a coherent noise function to each of the six axes of the first-person virtual camera.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2023Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Activision Publishing, Inc.Inventors: Matthew John Stine, Cody Palmatier Pierson
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Patent number: 12159514Abstract: A gaming system configured to create electronic player sports wagering profiles for un-identified players, track each sports related wager made by each un-identified player, determine if any un-identified player has reached a sports related wager limit for a designated time period, and responsive to determining that an un-identified player has reached the sports related wager limit for the designated time period, initiate a sports wager limit resolution process.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2023Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: IGTInventors: Dwayne R. Nelson, Steven Lemay, Kevin Higgins
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Patent number: 12138539Abstract: A computer-readable recording medium including a program which is executed by a computer apparatus to provide a video game comprising a virtual game world presented to a player of the video game, and a plurality of characters in the virtual game world including a first character, and a second character controlled by the player, the program causing the computer apparatus to function as: a state indicator generating unit configured to generate a state indication, wherein the state indication is an indication of an emotional or physical state of the first character; and a coupling indicator generating unit configured to generate a coupling indication, wherein the coupling indication is an indication of a coupling occurring between the emotional or physical state of the first character and an emotional or physical state of the second character.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2020Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: SQUARE ENIX LTD.Inventors: Zak Garriss, Mark Lyons, Jonathan Zimmerman, Andy Weatherl, Todd Bolinger, Zachary Shore, Philip Lawrence
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Patent number: 12131606Abstract: A new type of RFID tag is provided. A gaming chip that incorporates a sticker-type RFID tag comprises: an enclosing member having a predetermined shape for enclosing the RFID tag; a body member that is injection-molded to encapsulate the enclosing member with the RFID tag; and a gaming chip for amusement. The enclosing member consists of a first part and a second part, and at least the first part or the second part has a flat surface to which a sticker-type RFID tag can adhere, and the first part and the second part are combined to form an enclosing member, in which the sticker-type RFID tag is covered by the first part and the second part.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2023Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
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Patent number: 12128311Abstract: A collision data processing method includes: determining, based on a physical engine detecting that a first rigid body having a first physical attribute collides with a second rigid body having a second physical attribute, an initial cutting model from a first model corresponding to the first rigid body and a second model corresponding to the second rigid body based on the first physical attribute and the second physical attribute, capturing, by the physical engine, a collision point between the first rigid body and the second rigid body, and determining normal vector information corresponding to the collision point based on collision data, and determining a first cutting surface in the initial cutting model based on the collision point, the normal vector information, and model information of the initial cutting model, and cutting the initial cutting model based on the first cutting surface to obtain cutting data.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2022Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LTDInventor: Jiaping Yuan
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Patent number: 12128313Abstract: This specification provides a computer-implemented method, the method comprising obtaining a machine-learning model. The machine-learning model is being trained with expert data comprising a plurality of training examples. Each training example comprises: (i) game state data representing a state of a video game environment, and (ii) scored action data representing an action and a score for that action if performed by a video game entity of the video game environment subsequent to the state of the video game environment. An action is performed by the video game entity based on a prediction for the action generated by the machine-learning model. The method further comprises determining whether the action performed by the video game entity was optimal. In response to determining that the action performed by the video game entity was suboptimal, a healed training example is generated.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2023Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: Electronic Arts Inc.Inventors: William Gordon, Kasey Keltner, Shawn Leaf
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Patent number: 12121816Abstract: A method for allocating virtual reward resources performed by an electronic device are provided. The method includes: obtaining behavior information of each virtual character in a target camp during a teamfight of a game, the target camp including at least one virtual character, the behavior information being a behavior applied by each virtual character in the target camp to a virtual object, and the virtual object being a virtual character in at least one of the target camp or an enemy camp; determining, according to the behavior information, contribution information achieved by each virtual character in the target camp during the teamfight; determining, according to the contribution information, a target virtual character and a target virtual reward resource corresponding to the target virtual character from at least one virtual character included in the target camp; and updating attribute information of the target virtual character according to the target virtual reward resource.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Zexian Dong, Chen Liang, Yong Gao, Shenyang Hu, Yongliang Huang, Meng Wang
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Patent number: 12083414Abstract: A card handling apparatus and method of manufacture and assembly is used for creating pre-formed hands for use in casino poker games whereupon the apparatus may be programmed to accommodate a number of different game variations, and a differing number of players, is disclosed. The apparatus comprises an unshuffled card input portal, a shuffled card discharge portal and an elevator having a plurality of card storage nests whose operation utilizes inertial forces. The exploitation of inertial forces allows the apparatus to be operated without the need for the motorized card pusher mechanisms which are prevalent in the prior art, thus creating a card handling apparatus that is more compact and requires less manufacturing cost. In comparison to prior art hand-forming shufflers which typically utilize five or six motors, the preferred embodiment utilizes just two motors. A method of rotating the axis of individual playing cards during nest insertion is also taught.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2024Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Inventor: Charles M. Curley
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Patent number: 12057225Abstract: The present disclosure provides an exercise assistive device. The present disclosure also provides a method for estimating stamina level and a method for adjusting the method according to a user's anaerobic energy level and aerobic energy level. The present disclosure further provides the several types and applications of the exercise assistive device.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2022Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: BOMDIC INC.Inventors: Shih-Heng Cheng, Hsin-Fu Kuo
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Patent number: 12042739Abstract: A method of gradually revealing an image using cube puzzles is provided. A first image is divided into a plurality of blocks. Each block can have one or more arbitrary colors. A second image is then generated from the first image where each block of the second image corresponds to one or more blocks of the first image. The blocks of the second image are unicolor blocks with colors that are selected from one of the six colors of a cube puzzle. Groups of adjacent blocks of the second image with the same number of rows and columns as the sides of the cube puzzles are assigned to participants to match to the color of the blocks on the sides of their cube puzzles. Once each participant matches the colors of an assigned region on a side of the corresponding cube puzzle, the matched region is reveled to all participants.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2022Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: 22nd Solutions, LLCInventors: Mehdi Hatamian, David Garrett, Marcy Garrett
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Patent number: 12033667Abstract: In various examples, durations of relatively high user activity within a gameplay session may be determined from user input events using a running user activity measurement. Once a duration is identified, it may be further analyzed to merge the duration with one or more other durations and/or to determine or predict whether the duration would be of sufficient interest for further action. A user interest score for an identified duration may be computed based on a set of the user input events that occur in the duration and used to determine and/or predict whether the duration would be of sufficient interest for further action. In some cases, an action may be performed based on determining the user interest score is greater than a statistical value that is computed from user interest scores of multiple identified durations.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2021Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: NVIDIA CorporationInventor: Prabindh Sundareson
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Patent number: 12033139Abstract: The present invention provides a system for trading and crafting the said non-fungible digital tokens, and playing a fantasy game using the non-fungible digital tokens, over a computer network. The system includes a blockchain network including a register for storing information related to the non-fungible digital tokens. The system further includes a minting module configured to mint the tokens. Further, the system includes a bundle generator module configured to generate bundles of the minted tokens. The system further includes a fantasy application that includes a trading module facilitates the users to buy and sell the tokens. The application further includes a crafting module that is configured to facilitate the users to craft the tokens of higher rarity using the tokens of lower rarity. The application includes a fantasy team generator module for allowing the users to create a fantasy team using said tokens and play the fantasy game.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2022Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: M-League LTD.Inventors: Ritika Chatterjee, Arunav Vaish
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Patent number: 12014607Abstract: A dice shaker device and method for providing a randomized state of at least one die. The dice shaker device includes a dice plate, a dice plate actuator configured to apply a reciprocating force to the dice plate, a casing, a circumferential ridge surface extending around an outer perimeter of the dice plate, and a dice rolling space at least partly defined by the casing, the dice plate, and the circumferential ridge surface. The circumferential ridge surface can be arranged in parallel with an upper surface of the dice plate, and the circumferential ridge surface can have a width that is equal to or less than half a width of the at least one die that the dice shaker device is arranged to provide a randomized state of.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2023Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: Evolution Malta LimitedInventors: Aleksejs Blinov, Aleksejs Mescerjakovs
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Patent number: 12005354Abstract: A system and method for launching gameplay from streaming content is provided. Information regarding media content may be stormed in memory. Such media content may have at least one or more trigger points and each trigger point may be associated with a set of game data specific to a gameplay scene within an interactive title. The media content may be streamed to a user device over a communication network. A selection of one of the at least one or more trigger points may be received over the communication network from the user device. Identifying the set of game data associated with the selected trigger point may be identified and the interactive title for gameplay may be launched by the user device based on the identified set of game data associated with the selected trigger point.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2023Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventor: Alexander Jarzebinski
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Patent number: 12005353Abstract: A virtual object selection method is described. The method includes displaying, on a user interface, a display picture corresponding to a virtual environment and a first virtual object located in the virtual environment. Further, the method includes obtaining a set execution range of a first operation of the first virtual object in the virtual environment, and determining a priority execution range of the first operation in the virtual environment, the priority execution range being within the set execution range and smaller than the set execution range. In addition, the method includes selecting a second virtual object from the priority execution range as a target virtual object corresponding to the first operation. Apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable medium counterpart embodiments are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2021Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Yulin Wan, Xun Hu, Shandong Su