Patents Examined by Allen Chan
  • Predictive competitive sports game system
    Patent number: 10748374
    Abstract: A system and method providing a game for users to select predictive statements about a future sporting event that the user believes will become true. A user or gamer initiates the game contest by opening that game site and choosing a particular competitive sporting event from a list of competitive sporting events. The user is then presented with a pool of predictive statements relating to the chosen sporting event. Each contest has multiple users who compete with each other for points. After the conclusion of the competitive sporting event or events, based on the outcome and occurrences during the event, it is determined which of the predictive statements are true, and which are not. Points are awarded to users for true statements and the user with the most points is declared the winner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: STATEMENTGAMES, INC.
    Inventor: Marc P. Saulino
  • Simulation system, processing method, and information storage medium
    Patent number: 10744411
    Abstract: A simulation system includes a processor including hardware. The processor performs: a virtual space setting process of setting a virtual space in which a plurality of objects are arranged; a virtual camera control process of controlling a virtual camera corresponding to a point-of-view of a user wearing a head mounted display; and a display process of generating an image as viewed from the virtual camera in the virtual space as a display image on the head mounted display. In the virtual space setting process, the processor arranges at least one information display object controlled to follow a change in the point-of-view of the user in the virtual space. In the display process, when the information display object and an object in the virtual space have entered into a given positional relationship, the processor performs a change process of a display mode of the information display object or the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: BANDAI NAMCO ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Jun Tamaoki, Haruyoshi Yamamoto, Takashi Aoki
  • Smart system for display of dynamic movement parameters in sport and training
    Patent number: 10737165
    Abstract: A system that wirelessly integrates actual golf equipment, game apparatus, or gaming tool, with a computer and the internet to allow players remotely located from one another to play a competitive real or simulated game. An individual player may opt to play solo or practice to improve basic golfing or sports techniques. The system includes any sports implement or smart golf clubs, a golf ball receptacle and a golf club motion sensing devices, all containing circuits and contact and or noncontact motion sensors coupled with signal processing and radio frequency transmitter circuitry to wirelessly communicate game performance information to a remote receiver-computer. The computer display screen displays player information and visually simulates and controls a game between one or more local computer players or via the internet having similar equipment and remotely located from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Inventors: Wilbert Quincy Murdock, Philip Alister Williams
  • Information processing system and information processing method
    Patent number: 10728740
    Abstract: A handheld terminal 200 performs wireless communication with a game apparatus 103 and determines whether the wireless communication with the game apparatus 103 is possible. The game apparatus 103 performs wireless communication with the handheld terminal 200 and determines whether the wireless communication with the handheld terminal 200 is possible. The game apparatus 103 performs a return home determination process, based on the determination about whether the wireless communication is possible, when the wireless communication with the handheld terminal 200 has become, after having become disabled, enabled again.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Yamashita
  • Fantasy sports data analysis for game structure development
    Patent number: 10722799
    Abstract: In an aspect, fantasy sports data is analyzed to generate and/or manage the delivery of and user experience of fantasy sports games and contests, including timing and payout structure(s) for short-term fantasy contests, such as daily, weekly, etc. fantasy sports contests, that motivate and appeal to contestants and is/are reasonably structured and concisely represented. In yet another aspect, a daily fantasy contest system is provided to automatically adjust to user demand without overshooting profitable levels and offer a variety of different contests, as well as offer contests with guaranteed and non-guaranteed payouts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: OATH INC.
    Inventors: Justin Thaler, Maxim Sviridenko, Edo Liberty, Prerit Uppal, Ron Belmarch, Jerry Shen
  • Enhanced electronic gaming machines and methods for same providing merged game matrices with merged symbol set
    Patent number: 10720015
    Abstract: A method of merging a plurality of games into a single game on a gaming machine. A display displays first and second games. A game controller determines if a wager has been placed, and if the wager placed includes a base game wager and a game enhancement wager. Upon determining that the wager placed includes a base game wager and a game enhancement wager, the game controller merges the first and second games and a plurality of display positions into a merged game. The merged game selects symbols from the first game and the second game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Gary Joseph Penacho, Thomas Tuomey, Bradley Hendricks
  • Merged game matrices on an electronic gaming machine
    Patent number: 10713882
    Abstract: A method of playing a feature game on a gaming machine. A display displays a first game and a second game. A game controller determines if a merging condition occurs, and if a merging condition occurs, animates a merging of the first game and the second game into a merged game at the display. The merged game has a plurality of display positions from the first game, the second game, and a set of additional display positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Gary Joseph Penacho, Thomas Tuomey
  • Wagering game wearables
    Patent number: 10699520
    Abstract: A wagering game system and its operations are described herein. In some embodiments, the operations can include detecting that one or more wearable computers are within a proximity range to a wagering game machine. In some examples, the operations further include determining one or more characteristics associated with the one or more wearable computers in response to the detecting that the one or more wearable computers are within the proximity range to the wagering game machine. In some examples, the operations further include providing a feature associated with a wagering game based on the one or more characteristics of the one or more wearable computers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: SG Gaming, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael R. Bytnar, Michael Vincent Dicillo, Patrick M. Gustafson, Jeremy Michael Hornik, Gary John Oswald, Richard Barry Robbins, Nickey C. Shin, Jesse M. Smith, Simon Edward Sunblade, Jamie W. Vann, Muthu Velu, Matthew J. Ward, Steven J. Zoloto, Dale Robert Buchholz, Mark B. Gagner, Craig Joe Sylla
  • System and logic for establishing a wager for a game
    Patent number: 10699529
    Abstract: In a particular embodiment of the present invention, a system for establishing a wager associated with a game comprises a processor that receives information about a wager offer, wherein the wager offer is associated with an online game. The processor also receives information about a wager acceptance. The wager offer and the wager acceptance combine to form a wager, wherein the wager is associated with at least one wager parameter. The system further comprises a memory communicatively coupled to the processor and that stores information associated with the at least one wager parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: INTERACTIVE GAMES LIMITED
    Inventors: Fergus A. Leen, Sam B. Lawrence, David G. McNally, Clive Hetherington, David M. McDowell, Kevin R. O'Neal
  • System for establishing a wager for a game
    Patent number: 10699528
    Abstract: In a particular embodiment of the present invention, a system for establishing a wager associated with a game comprises one or more web servers that provide access to an online game for a plurality of users. The system further comprises one or more processors that receive information about a wager offer, wherein the wager offer is associated with the online game. The one or more processors also receive information about a wager acceptance. The wager offer and the wager acceptance combine to form a wager, wherein the wager is associated with at least one wager parameter. The system further comprises a memory communicatively coupled to the one or more processors and that stores information associated with the at least one wager parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: INTERACTIVE GAMES LIMITED
    Inventors: Fergus A. Leen, Sam B. Lawrence, David G. McNally, Clive Hetherington, David M. McDowell, Kevin R. O'Neal
  • Reusable video game camera rig framework
    Patent number: 10688392
    Abstract: A reusable video game camera rig framework is described herein. The framework may include instruction sets for controlling a virtual camera rig, which is used to set a position and orientation of a virtual camera within a virtual area of a video game. The instruction sets may be reusable in a variety of different camera contexts, such as a first person camera, a third person camera, a top-down camera, and many others. The instruction sets may also be reusable in a variety of different video game contexts, such as combat games, sports games, fantasy games, racing games, and many others. The instruction sets may be both modifiable and extendible to different camera and game contexts, for example allowing developers to easily generate new camera behaviors for their games and also to modify existing available camera behaviors to better match their particular camera and game contexts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy Hardiman, Christopher Roby
  • Massive multi-player compute
    Patent number: 10688391
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing processing resources of an online game include executing the online game for one or more users. Each user is provided access to virtual locations in a gaming world of the online game. A compute is assigned for processing gaming interactivity of the one or more users in the gaming world. A number of users accessing a region within a virtual location are determined. When the number of users exceeds a predefined limit for the compute assigned to the users in the region, the region is divided into a plurality of sub-regions and additional compute is assigned for the region so that the compute and the additional compute can process gaming interactivity for the users in each of the sub-regions defined in the gaming world.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
    Inventor: Kelvin Yong
  • Server device, control method for the same and computer-readable recording medium
    Patent number: 10681004
    Abstract: A program configured to offer a reward to a user who has registered a simple access means, such as a shortcut, for accessing a predetermined screen is disclosed. The program may cause a computer to receive an access request from a terminal device used by a user; determine based on a character string, which may be contained in a URL of an access destination of the received access request, whether or not the user's terminal device has a simple access means to the URL registered thereupon; and offer a benefit or reward to the user operating the terminal device used to perform the access request when the simple access means is determined to be registered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Yuki Ino
  • Gaming machine, method and program for providing a game
    Patent number: 10679468
    Abstract: To provide a gaming machine that can provide a new type of game that maintains or improves the interest of a player, and a method and program for providing a game. In the gaming machine 1, by removing symbols of a particular type and moving a following symbol, the ratio of symbols of types other than the particular type becomes higher in the symbol array formed on the display unit 27, and it is easier for the symbol array to configure a winning combination. Because the chance of winning is higher after the particular type of symbol is removed in this manner, it is possible to provide a new type of game where the interest of the player can be maintained or improved after the symbols are removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Konami Gaming, Inc.
    Inventor: Daisuke Nakamura
  • Play device for a rebound sport
    Patent number: 10668354
    Abstract: A play device for a rebound sport with a play area is provided, on which a ball can be played by a player to rebound from an impact position in accordance with a predetermined set of rules of the rebound sport, which includes a sensor system configured to detect two-dimensional first coordinates of the impact position and to transfer the two-dimensional first coordinates to a computing unit configured to determine two-dimensional second coordinates, a size and/or a shape of a target field depending on the first coordinates in accordance with a predetermined specification and to control a projector to project the target field to be optically perceptible by the player on a projection area, wherein the ball can be played by the player on the target field to rebound from the target field in accordance with the set of rules of the rebound sport.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: FUN WITH BALLS GMBH
    Inventor: Markos Aristides Kern
  • Monitoring fitness using a mobile device
    Patent number: 10653918
    Abstract: Athletic performance monitoring and tracking may provide multiple ways in which to track athletic movement and activity. Workouts may also be tagged with various parameters including mood, weather, terrain, athletic equipment, friends used and the like. Workout information may be shared to social messaging and networking outlets. Workout information shared may include map information including images of maps, interactive maps, links to maps, route information and the like and/or combinations thereof. Additionally or alternatively, an application may be configured to execute within a context of a social networking system to facilitate athletic activity data transfer and generation of workout entries in the social networking site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Kwamina Crankson, Kristen Laina White, Michael Levi Orenstein, Michael T. Hoffman, Jason Nims
  • Gulf club configuration detection system
    Patent number: 10653932
    Abstract: Methods and systems for detecting configuration states of a golf club and adjustment systems of a golf club, such as a shaft connection system. A golf club configuration detection system captures configuration data from the adjustment system of the golf club by a configuration detection device, such as a camera, a barcode scanner, or an RFID scanner. The captured configuration data is compared to reference configuration data to determine a configuration state of the adjustment system. Swing data and ball-flight data are tracked for golf-ball strikes with the golf club in the detected configuration state. Recommendations for configuration states may be generated based on the tracked data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: ACUSHNET COMPANY
    Inventors: Leonidas Amarant, Felipe Marcelino, William Souza, Charles Hightower, Idris Screen
  • System and method for managing dynamic opt-in experiences in a virtual environment
    Patent number: 10646784
    Abstract: Implementations of the present disclosure are directed to a method, a system, and an article for incentivizing users of an online game. An example computer-implemented method can include: providing an online game on a client device of a user; providing on the client device a first request for content to be presented on the client device; determining that at least a portion of the content has been presented on the client device and, in response, providing the user with a first reward for the online game; providing on the client device a plurality of second requests, wherein each second request comprises a respective task for the user to perform; determining that one of the second requests has been selected and that at least a portion of the respective task has been performed and, in response, providing the user with a respective second reward for the online game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Cognant LLC
    Inventors: Ethan Anderson, Yonatan Ellert, Rohan Verma, Sophia Cao, Matt Holland
  • Monitoring fitness using a mobile device
    Patent number: 10646750
    Abstract: Athletic performance monitoring and tracking may provide multiple ways in which to track athletic movement and activity. Workouts may also be tagged with various parameters including mood, weather, terrain, athletic equipment, friends used and the like. Workout information may be shared to social messaging and networking outlets. Workout information shared may include map information including images of maps, interactive maps, links to maps, route information and the like and/or combinations thereof. Additionally or alternatively, an application may be configured to execute within a context of a social networking system to facilitate athletic activity data transfer and generation of workout entries in the social networking site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Kwamina Crankson, Kristen Laina White, Michael Levi Orenstein, Michael T. Hoffman, Jason Nims
  • Identifying a specially designated object to faciliate dynamic promotions related to use of the object
    Patent number: 10643429
    Abstract: 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 card 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 card table).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Walker Digital Table Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Moore, Michael Russell, Mark Hettinger