Patents Examined by Corbett B Coburn
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Patent number: 11107330Abstract: A system for and method of conducting the operations of a wagering game including player stations that permit a game player to tip a game dealer.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Inventors: Charles Barksdale, Jon Morosky
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Patent number: 11069177Abstract: The user interface associated with the item is improved. The information processor 1 displays the first item display screen 22 in which the first item icons 221 corresponding to the types of the possessed items are displayed in a list correspondingly to the possessed number. The information processor 1 switches the second item display screen 23 to display in which the second item icons 231 corresponding to the possessed items are displayed in a list correspondingly to the expiration date when the first item icon 221 in the first item display screen 22 is operated by being pressed for a long time.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki Oyama, Atsushi Kumita, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
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Patent number: 11068975Abstract: Various systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for validating a bet request based on another bet request. Betting product information about a betting product may be communicated to at least one user. A first request for a first wager associated with the betting product may be received from a first user. A second request for a second wager is received from a second user. The first betting request may be validated. At least one processor may determine that a numerical term associated with the second bet request is within a non-zero range from a corresponding numerical term associated with the validated first bet request. The second bet request may be validated based on this determination. A bet associated with the first bet request and a bet associated with the second bet request may be settled.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2018Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: CANTOR INDEX, LLCInventors: Lee Amaitis, David Anthony Puckeridge, Christopher John Davie, Guy Lain Oliver Riches, Peter Kenneth Lawrey
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Patent number: 11055955Abstract: A table game management system according to the present invention includes: a camera that images a game token placed on a game table; and a management control device that grasps a type (10 points, 20 points, 100 points, 1,000 points, or the like) of the game token placed on the game table based on a color of a side face of the game token imaged by the camera.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: ANGEL PLAYING CARDS CO., LTD.Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
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Patent number: 11045722Abstract: Systems and methods for establishing direct communication between a server system and a video game controller are described. The systems and methods include the video game controller and a computing device. An application is executed by the server system when a session is established by the computing device with the server system. Once the application is executed, the video game controller is used to send an identifier to the server system. The server system verifies the identifier to pair the session with the video game controller. When the video game controller is paired with the session, the video game controller can be used to change a state of a virtual scene that is displayed on the computing device or on a display screen.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLCInventor: Roelof Roderick Colenbrander
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Patent number: 11043139Abstract: Systems and methods for personalized digital goal setting and intervention are provided. Embodiments of the system allow for effective management and implementation of interventions to change behaviors or health statuses of individuals or groups. Systems and methods may include setting a measurement goal relating to a behavior or a health status and generating a marker based on the measurement goal, receiving sensor data, determining that at least one of the measurement goal or the marker is satisfied, and executing a triggering action. The triggering action may include at least one of controlling access to a user device, controlling access to an application stored on a user device, controlling access of a user device to a network, controlling access of a user device to a website, displaying a notification on the user device, or transmitting a command to a remote device, including an instruction to control access to a physical space.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2019Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: Vignet IncorporatedInventors: Praduman Jain, Josh Schilling
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Patent number: 11033825Abstract: A user analysis method of assisting a current user within the videogame, includes: obtaining an indication that a hint is required for a scenario within the videogame; and if so, providing a hint to the current user relating to successful behaviour in the scenario; where providing a hint comprises: obtaining one or more indicators of behaviour for the scenario within the videogame, a difference detecting step comprising detecting a respective difference between the one or more obtained indicators of behaviour and corresponding data derived from a corpus of measured indicators of behaviour previously generated from a subset of other users detected to have a predetermined level of success in the scenario, and the providing step comprising providing a hint to the current user indicating a change in one or more behaviours that reduces a respective difference in the one or more measured indicators of behaviour between the current user and the subset of other users detected to have a predetermined level of successType: GrantFiled: January 5, 2018Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainement Inc.Inventors: Pritpal Singh Panesar, Mohammed Mansoor Nusrat, Nicholas Anthony Edward Ryan, Hugh Alexander Dinsdale Spencer
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Patent number: 11027206Abstract: An electronic device may be configured to present a user interface via which a user can select from a plurality of commands associated with a particular video game. In response to a selection of one of the plurality of commands, the electronic device may transmit the selected one of the plurality of commands to a user interface device. The selected command may cause said user interface device to transmit a corresponding one or more simulated user inputs to a game console. The selection of the command may occur automatically in response to detection, by audio processing circuitry, of an occurrence of the particular audio clip in an audio signal output by the game console.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc.Inventors: Richard Kulavik, Shobha Devi Kuruba Buchannagari, Kevin Arthur Robertson
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Patent number: 11023515Abstract: A system for providing media content to an occupant of a vehicle may include a user interface configured to provide the media content to the occupant and a controller coupled to the user interface and to a database configured to store media content. The controller may be configured to receive vehicle navigation data, select a subset of media content from the media content stored in the database based on the vehicle navigation data, and provide the subset of media content through the user interface.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2016Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Faraday & Future Inc.Inventors: Nicholas William Dazé, Matthew Joseph Coburn, Eric Ryan Evenchick, Sethu Hareesh Kolluru, Luke Michael Ekkizogloy, Carlos John Rosario, Xiufeng Song
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Patent number: 11024189Abstract: Some embodiments of a virtual coaching platform can analyze user and coach characteristics to determine suggested coaching partnerships. Some virtual coaching platform embodiments can implement whole-person dimensionalities used to track progress and provide coaching resources and guidance. In some implementations, the virtual coaching platform can provide six whole-person dimensions including: centered, aware, agile, includes, elevates, and drives. Some virtual coaching platform embodiments can select a subset of the dimensionalities to update using determined associations between a user and the dimensionalities. Some virtual coaching platform embodiments can implement a motivational matrix to assess a user in a readiness versus clarity domain and provide coaching suggestions based on a corresponding type.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2017Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: BetterUp, Inc.Inventors: Alexi Robichaux, Eduardo Medina, Ryan Sonnek
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Patent number: 11024116Abstract: Dynamic, automatic establishment of social distancing on electronic gaming machines (EGMs). An electronic notice of a game play triggering event that takes place at a first EGM is sent to a control system, and in response to receiving the electronic notice, the control system automatically temporarily deactivates other EGMs that are within a first deactivation zone adjacent to the first EGM. Thereafter, at cessation of game play on the first EGM, the deactivated EGMs are reactivated by the control system. The first EGM may optionally be deactivated to allow the first EGM to be cleaned before the first EGM is activated and made available for additional game play.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2020Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: TABLE TRAC, INC.Inventor: Chad B. Hoehne
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Patent number: 11023303Abstract: A method includes generating registration data, wherein the registration data comprises at least a tag-individual correlator and a status, receiving a status change indication, for at least one tag, wherein the at least one tag is identified by a tag unique identifier; correlating the tag unique identifier and the tag-individual correlator in the registration data; and updating the status in the registration data for the status change indication.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Zebra Technologies CorporationInventors: Rodrigo Alonso, Anthony R. Brown, James J. O'Hagan, Michael A. Wohl
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Patent number: 11007438Abstract: A first game process that proceeds independently of a second game process related to opponents for a user is performed. State data indicating a second game state of the second game process related to each of a plurality of the opponents is sequentially acquired, and a display image including a first image reflecting a first game state of the first game process and a plurality of second images reflecting the second game states indicated by the state data is sequentially generated. At least one policy is selected on the basis of an operation by the user, a target is specified from among the plurality of the opponents on the basis of the selected policy, and an instruction that changes a game state of the target is made if a game state of the user satisfies a predetermined condition.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryuichi Nakada, Kuniaki Ito
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Patent number: 10967275Abstract: A recording medium that stores a game program processing the progress of a puzzle game and a battle game is provided. When executed on a computer including an input surface capable of detecting a touch operation of a user, the game program executes instructions. The instructions include determining whether or not a puzzle selected by the touch operation satisfies predetermined conditions, determining whether or not puzzles selected by the touch operation by drawing a locus on the input surface have the same attribute as one of the predetermined conditions, and displaying a game content for use in the battle game on a screen of the puzzle game when it is determined that the predetermined conditions are satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: GREE, INC.Inventors: Yusuke Hisaoka, Akinori Adachi, Megumi Ishikawa
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Patent number: 10957160Abstract: An electronic gaming machine includes a game controller that executes instructions stored in a memory which cause the game controller to display, on a display of the gaming machine, a plurality of jackpots and a plurality of bonus meters. The instructions also cause the game controller to display, on the display, a plurality of player selectable symbols and to receive a player selection of at least one of the player selectable symbols. In response to receiving the player selection, the selected a jackpot symbol is revealed in place of the selected player selectable symbol, and the game controller adds a prize amount to the bonus meter of the jackpot corresponding to the revealed jackpot symbol. When at least a predefined number of jackpot symbols are revealed, both of a value of the jackpot corresponding to the jackpot symbols and an accumulated value of the associated bonus meter are awarded to a player.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty LimitedInventors: Dinh Toan Tran, Oliver Crispino, Upinder Dhaliwal, Nicholas O'Sullivan
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Patent number: 10946287Abstract: A computer device comprises a user interface configured to display time information associated with a feature. The time information indicates when the feature will change from one of being available and unavailable to the other of being available and unavailable. The time information changes at a first rate. At least one processor is configured, in response to a user interaction via the user interface, to cause the user interface to display content, the time information being configured to change at a second different rate while the content is displayed.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: KING.COM LTD.Inventor: Johan Acevedo
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Patent number: 10918949Abstract: This disclosure presents systems and methods to provide sports-based interactive experiences. The interactive experiences may be facilitated by providing users' views of virtual content related to a particular sport. The systems and methods may utilize action sequence information and/or other information. The action sequence information may specify anticipated sequences of output signals generated by sensors coupled to real-world items of playing equipment. The output signals in the anticipated sequences of output signals may be associated with anticipated control signals for controlling the virtual content.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2019Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventor: Timothy M. Panec
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Patent number: 10922989Abstract: In one aspect, a computerized process useful for implementing and managing an intelligent personal assistant (IPA) in an educational context, includes the step of providing an IPA. The IPA interacts with a set of users via one or more smart-speaker systems. The IPA causes the one or more smart-speaker systems to play an IPA message. The IPA message comprises an educational-related information to a set of parents of a student in an education institution. The IPA stores the IPA message for replay of the educational-related information in a student's home to the student or the student's parents. The method converts the educational-related information to an electronic mall format. The method electronically communicates the electronic mail formatted educational-related information to an electronic mail account of at least one parent of the student. The method implements an IPA dashboard, wherein the IPA dashboard enables the teacher to view and update the educational information.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2018Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Inventors: Aparna Nalinkumar Ramanathan, Deepak Ramanathan
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Patent number: 10905951Abstract: A mobile game driving method includes executing an emulator for causing a mobile game to be compatible in a personal computer, creating, by the emulator, a virtual terminal, executing the mobile game through the virtual terminal, displaying an interface screen of the mobile game in a basic mode, executing a multi-display function to simultaneously display at least two of a plurality of interface screens including the interface screen of the mobile game, and changing the basic mode to a multi-mode according to execution of the multi-display function and displaying at least two interface screens in different regions in the multi-mode.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2018Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: NHN ENTERTAINMENT CORP.Inventor: Dongjin Lee
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Patent number: 10888772Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: performing information processing on the basis of data received from a device that detects a target object; generating an image to be displayed as a result of the information processing; determining that a user needs to be warned when the target object moves out of a play area set in an object space in reference to a detection field of the device, the determining including causing the generating to superpose a warning image on the image to be displayed; and transmitting data of the image generated by the image generating section to a display device, where the determining includes setting positions of boundary surfaces of the play area with respect to boundary surfaces of the field of the device within a predetermined range from the user.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Shoichi Ikenoue, Yuji Nakamura, Yoshihiko Suwa