Patents Examined by Carl V Larsen
  • Patent number: 11083960
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a client server-based system for online token-based games. The system comprises a plurality of game client computing devices configured to play an online token-based game, and a game-based server system comprising central game server configured to connect the players and a protocol manager to provide a plurality of protocols for providing a token based game in a collusion resistant, verifiable and provably fair manner over a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Inventor: Srijan Kumar
  • Patent number: 11069196
    Abstract: A gaming system and method of facilitating personalized wager opportunities based on a user-selected fantasy sports team is disclosed. Players may first select athletes for a fantasy sports team. Based on the projected team score for the fantasy sports team selected by the player, a set of wager opportunities may be generated for that player. The wager opportunities may include a set of benchmark point levels and associated odds for the respective levels. Players can place wagers based on whether the actual total score of the fantasy sports team they selected exceeds one or more benchmark point levels and specify the amount to be wagered for each benchmark point level. Thus, a player can make wagers that are won or lost based on the performance of the player's fantasy team compared to the benchmark point levels, regardless of how other players' fantasy sports teams perform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Inventor: Ryan C. Warren
  • Patent number: 11058956
    Abstract: A method and system is disclosed that permits consent verification within an online gaming platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Roblox Corporation
    Inventor: David Baszucki
  • Patent number: 11052313
    Abstract: Methods and systems for assigning a data center to service a request from a user account include receiving a login request to a cloud gaming server. The login request is examined to identify a user account. A use history of the cloud gaming server is examined to identify a data center. The user account is assigned to the data center to start a session of streaming game play at a server within the data center. The data center is identified without performing a connection testing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
    Inventors: Jason Gustafson, Ryan Hamilton Breed
  • Patent number: 11043082
    Abstract: A gaming system, apparatus, and method are disclosed providing a wagering games, gaming machines, networked gaming systems that provide a persistent gaming mode including a persistent game mode with multiple rounds in which each round includes a randomization of the matrix of symbol locations, a chance to win an award, and a chance to include a persistent feature event. An adjustable meter may be used to allow players to compete for the same bonuses or jackpots no matter what their bet level. A rolling meter shows special features scheduled to appear in future rounds using a rolling group of status indicators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Everi Games, Inc.
    Inventors: Juan Mariscal, Robert Spidale
  • Patent number: 11040263
    Abstract: Provided is a sensing system, a sensor device, and a sensor fixture. The sensing system includes a sensor fixture that has a mode corresponding to an attachment attitude to a target object and a sensor device that is attachable with the attachment attitude to the target object via the sensor fixture. The sensor device includes a sensor unit that senses information regarding the target object, and an acquisition unit that acquires information indicating the attachment attitude based on the mode of the sensor fixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sho Murakoshi
  • Patent number: 11037407
    Abstract: Systems, methods, devices, and non-transitory media of the various embodiments provide games and/or gaming machines that conform to Class II regulations, while producing randomness similar to Class III machines by assigning a set of common numbers to a unique machine map to create one or more randomized patterns which correspond to plurality of symbols outputting a game of chance on the display based at least in part on the one or more randomized patterns, wherein the game of chance is a new game or an existing game including but not limited to poker, keno, video reels, bingo, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Sockeye Software Development, LLC
    Inventors: Todd M. Seymour, Eve Mae Park
  • Patent number: 11020669
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method, apparatus, and system of authenticating a mobile server may have at least one mobile server configured to execute games of chance on a plurality of mobile gaming devices and an authentication server configured to: determine a location of the at least one mobile server; determine a wireless communication means to communicate with the at least one mobile server based on the location of the at least one mobile server; communicate with the at least one mobile server via the determined wireless communication means; and initiate authentication, by an authentication server, of the at least one mobile server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Nguyen Gaming LLC
    Inventor: Binh T. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11020662
    Abstract: A rendering system includes a command server and a plurality of rendering servers. The command server receives a screen transmission request from the client terminal. The command server evaluates, for each of the plurality of rendering servers, at least one of a number of connected terminals, an average transmission rate, a GPU operation rate, a congestion status, and a length of a transfer path to the client terminal. The command server specifies, based on evaluation results, at least one of the plurality of rendering servers to render a screen to be transmitted to the client terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mitsuru Kamiyama
  • Patent number: 11000771
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automated acquisition of gameplay session data of a game application are disclosed. While the game application is executed in a gameplay session, embodiment of the systems and methods can acquire data associated with the game application. The data acquired during the gameplay session may be aggregated and searched across game sessions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: ELECTRONIC ARTS INC.
    Inventors: John Charles Boocher, Matthew David Durfee
  • Patent number: 10994195
    Abstract: A control method performed by a computer including a storage module and configured to control progress of a game played by a user registered in an application, includes storing, in the storage module, identification information of each of a plurality of users in association with registration information indicating whether the user is registered in the application, retrieving a game progress request including identification information of a first user from a first terminal device of the first user, determining whether or not the first user is registered in the application, transmitting display data for displaying a game screen used in the game to the first terminal device when the first user is registered in the application, and transmitting display data for displaying a registration screen for registering the first user in the application to the first terminal device, when the first user is not registered in the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Gree, Inc.
    Inventors: Midori Moriyama, Shuhei Sato
  • Patent number: 10981070
    Abstract: A service may be provided to a set of people when the people satisfy a proximity criterion. In one example, that set of people comprises users of a particular application and/or registrants with a particular system. A location monitor may determine people's location based on position data received from those people's devices (which may be obtained pursuant to appropriate permission in order to respect the device owners' interest in privacy). When the location monitor determines, based on people's positions, that a proximity criterion has been satisfied, the location monitor may cause a service to be provided that would not otherwise have been provided if the proximity criterion had not been satisfied. By providing additional service when a proximity criterion is satisfied, a reward in the virtual world is used to encourage people to gather in the physical world.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventor: Adam Paul Isgreen
  • Patent number: 10974134
    Abstract: A monocular unit permits visualization of image data received from an imaging device associated with a mobile computing device. The image data is displayed on a display of the mobile computing device. A trigger unit indicates a trigger actuation, where the trigger unit includes a trigger and a trigger bar, and where the trigger bar is moved by actuation of the trigger. A mounting component mounts the mobile computing device in relation to the monocular unit and the trigger unit. Adjustment wheels permit adjustment of the position of the mobile computing device in relation to the monocular unit, the trigger unit, and the mounting component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Incyte Corporation
    Inventor: Ivan Arbouzov
  • Patent number: 10967249
    Abstract: The present invention provides a gaining device for playing a game of laser tag. The gaining device includes a controller configured to control and coordinate functions between various components thereof. The gaining device includes an aiming unit configured to generate infrared light signals and a receiver configured to detect the generated infrared light signals. The gaining device includes a targeting unit configured to generate a vibration when the receiver in the targeting unit detects infrared light signals. The gaining device further includes one or more lights configured to indicate one or more states of the aiming unit and targeting unit. The controller is configured to engage the aiming unit and targeting unit in a stealth mode in which the one or more lights are switched off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Bulk Unlimited Corp.
    Inventor: Isamar Margareten
  • Patent number: 10967248
    Abstract: Methods and systems that facilitate generating and presenting a crossword puzzle. Methods include obtaining, from a content source, a plurality of data items. Using the plurality of data items, a dictionary of clue-word pairs are generated. A crossword layout is generated using a random crossword layout generator. The generated crossword layout is input to a model that outputs a likelihood that the input crossword layout results in a valid crossword. If the likelihood that the crossword layout results in a valid crossword puzzle satisfies a first threshold, a plurality of words in a set of clue-word pairs from among the plurality of clue-word pairs is inserted into the crossword layout. If the plurality of words inserted into the crossword layout results in a valid crossword puzzle, the crossword puzzle is provided to a user on a user device using the set of clue-word pairs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Adam Lelkes, Colin Keogh, Regis McHugh Gaughan, III, Katrina Tempero, Cong Yu, Vinh Quoc Tran, Ziad Raymond Sultan
  • Patent number: 10953318
    Abstract: An electronic game subscribes to events—such as a physical gesture or appearance of the user, certain spoken user commands, or the like—identified by a game mediation infrastructure. The game mediation infrastructure receives user input data received from the user's client device, analyzes the data, and determines whether one of the events subscribed to by the electronic game has occurred. If so, the game mediation infrastructure notifies the electronic game of the occurrence of the event, and the electronic game alters the state of the game accordingly. The electronic game may additionally and/or alternatively use an API of the game mediation infrastructure to cause alteration of a user interface of a game mediator component in which the electronic game is displayed, based on actions taking place within the game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Gameroom, Inc.
    Inventors: Selcuk Atli, Jason Liang, Jordan Howlett
  • Patent number: 10946272
    Abstract: A portable gaming device includes a game console housing including a handle, a trigger, a screen holder, and a display device coupled to the screen holder. The display device includes a display. The portable gaming device also comprises a processing circuit internally coupled to the game console housing including a processor, a memory, and a network interface, wherein the processing circuit is in communication with the display device. The processing circuit generates a user interface to be displayed on the display, determines a position of the game console housing, and updates the user interface based on the determined position of the game console housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Arkade, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua Allan Fuchs, Joel Abraham Kort, Charles Michael Seltzer, Bob Steven Berns
  • Patent number: 10936086
    Abstract: A system for inputting information by utilizing an extension key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: TP-I CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taeun Park, Sangjung Shim, Hee-Myong Ro, Eun-soo Park, Minsub Shim
  • Patent number: 10930119
    Abstract: Systems and methods for wagering games that award prizes for reaching numerical objectives. A system for a multi-zone twenty-one (21) themed game whereby if the player achieves twenty-one (21) in a plurality of zones a payout is awarded. A top payout is awarded for twenty-one (21) in all of the zones and a subordinate payout is awarded for twenty-one (21) in greater than fifty percent of the plurality of zones. Scratch-off lottery games with adding themes, such that a payout is awarded if a line contains the numerical objective twenty-one (21) a payout is awarded and if a player reaches a numerical objective in the maximum amount of lines a top payout is awarded. A table game of twenty-one (21) in a plurality of zones for reaching numerical objectives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Inventor: Ahmnon D. Moskowitz
  • Patent number: 10905949
    Abstract: A human interface device (HID)-compatible portable gaming device includes a display; a position sensor; a joystick; and a processor in communication with the display, the joystick, and the position sensor. The processor has programmed instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to receive a first signal from the position sensor indicating a change in orientation of the portable gaming device, receive a second signal from the joystick indicating a change in position of the joystick, assign a first weight to the first signal and a second weight to the second signal; aggregate the first signal with the second signal based on a weighted sum of the weighted first signal and the weighted second signal to obtain a third signal, and update a user interface on the display according to the third signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Arkade, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua Allan Fuchs, Joel Abraham Kort, Charles Michael Seltzer, Bob Steven Berns