Patents Examined by Eric M. Thomas
  • Game processing program, game processing method, and game processing device
    Patent number: 11318372
    Abstract: A game processing device includes a scene determination portion, a sound recognition portion, a conformity determination portion, and an action controller. The scene determination portion determines whether a scene is an input scene in which sound input information can be input. The sound recognition portion, at an input scene, recognizes sound that is input as the sound input information. The conformity determination portion determines a degree of conformity between (a) the sound input information that is recognized and (b) reference information. The action controller changes an action effect according to the degree of conformity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Masato Nozaki
  • Unlocking game content based on amounts of collaborative gameplay
    Patent number: 11318387
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to unlocking game content for users of an online game based on amounts of collaborative gameplay. Groups of users interacting with the online game cooperatively are identified and amounts of cooperative gameplay engaged in by the individual groups are quantified. Content in the online game is made available to the groups of users based on the quantified amounts of cooperative gameplay. In implementations, the quantification of the amount of cooperative gameplay engaged in by the groups is made independent from achievement and/or successful accomplishment of any game objective in the online game by the groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Kabam, Inc.
    Inventors: Clifford J. Harrington, Kent Wakeford
  • Method and system for fantasy sports drafting
    Patent number: 11305197
    Abstract: A system and method for drafting and managing a fantasy sports team. A method for managing a fantasy sports leagues, tournaments or contests on a plurality of remote devices having instructions stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium, the devices being communicatively connected to a network, comprising pairing user-ranked lists to draft for each position independently. A system for managing a fantasy sports team, comprising a plurality of remote devices having instructions stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium, the devices being communicatively connected to a database over a network, wherein the system is configured to draft players for each position from user-ranked lists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Inventor: Mitchell Frazier
  • Information processing device, data acquisition method, and program
    Patent number: 11298613
    Abstract: An information processing device connected to a wireless LAN constituted by an access point, the information processing device acquiring application data from another information processing device connected to the wireless LAN. The information processing device includes a device detection section and a recording processing section. The device detecting section detects the other information processing device connected to the wireless LAN. The recording processing section, after the device detecting section has detected the other information processing device connected to the wireless LAN, acquires the application data from the other information processing device via a cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Akitsugu Tsuchiya, Masaki Takahashi, Shigeru Enomoto
  • Electronic device for facilitating user interactions with graphical user interface
    Patent number: 11278802
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display screen and a computing hardware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Supercell Oy
    Inventors: Jon Franzas, Timur Haussila, Touko Tahkokallio
  • Substitute currency for gaming, inspection device, and manufacturing method of substitute currency for gaming, and management system for table games
    Patent number: 11270554
    Abstract: A detection system including a control device detecting fraud performed in a game table by using a result of an image analysis performed by an image analyzing device. A substitute currency for gaming used for this detection system has a multi-layer structure in which a plurality of plastic layers having different colors are stacked, a coloring layer is included at least in the middle, and white layers or thin-color layers (may be layers having a color thinner than that of the coloring layer; not illustrated in the drawing) are stacked on both sides of the coloring layer disposed in the middle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
  • Gaming system and method providing keno game with lottery game feature
    Patent number: 11250672
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide gaming systems and methods that provide a keno game with a lottery game feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Bradford Brown, Ronald Papson, Christina Harmon, Mark Bansemer, David Daniels
  • Gaming system providing multi-player elimination tournament
    Patent number: 11250670
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to gaming systems and methods of operating such gaming systems that provide multi-player elimination tournaments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Raymond Dickenson, Daniel Lund
  • Augmented gaming with item gifting and online gameplay
    Patent number: 11241628
    Abstract: A system and methods for augmented gaming with item gifting and online gameplay, that combines physical games and objects with online functionality to produce an augmented-reality gaming experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Inventor: Chad Sterling Millard
  • Systems and methods for modular electronic gaming machines
    Patent number: 11238693
    Abstract: A modular electronic gaming machine is provided. The modular electronic gaming machine includes a structural core including a gaming controller and a plurality of coupling mechanisms including a first coupling mechanism. The first coupling mechanism comprises an electrical connector. The first coupling mechanism is configured to couple to a first peripheral device to provide electrical power and structural support to the first peripheral device. The first coupling mechanism is configured to releasably couple to the first peripheral device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank Rodriguez, Bruce Urban, Dominic DeMarco, James Stair, Martin Holland, Martin Mirakhour
  • Method and apparatus for providing a computer implemented game
    Patent number: 11235252
    Abstract: A first user device is provided. Via the user interface a first computer implemented game within a messaging application can be selected. The first computer implemented game is related, but different, to second computer implemented game. Game play in one of the first and second computer implemented game is dependent on game play in the other of the first and second computer implemented games.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: KING.COM LTD.
    Inventors: Kim Ahlstrom, Patrik Stymne, Joakim Brunnestom
  • Systems and methods for gated media access based on collections of unique digital articles
    Patent number: 11229848
    Abstract: Systems and methods to providing gated media access based on collections and/or combinations of unique digital articles in an online gaming platform are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may execute instances of a game; manage user accounts associated with the users, including a first and a second user account associated with a first and a second user; receive, from the first user, a first access request to access particular media content, wherein the access requires ownership of a first and a second (type of) unique digital article (as recorded on an immutable ledger); permit the first access request (and other similar requests) as long as the first user is the registered owner of the first and second (type of) unique digital articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Inventor: Rudy Koch
  • Inspection device for detecting fraud
    Patent number: 11232674
    Abstract: A detection system including a control device detecting fraud performed in a game table by using a result of an image analysis performed by an image analyzing device is included. A substitute currency for gaming used for this detection system has a multi-layer structure in which a plurality of plastic layers having different colors are stacked, a coloring layer is included at least in the middle, and white layers or thin-color layers (may be layers having a color thinner than that of the coloring layer; not illustrated in the drawing) are stacked on both sides of the coloring layer disposed in the middle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
  • Wrist worn monitoring device
    Patent number: 11185753
    Abstract: A wrist worn muscle movement monitoring device includes a wrist strap; a sensor that responds to muscle movement at a wrist wearing the wrist strap; and monitoring circuitry connected to the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Inventor: Theodore Weissenburger Caldwell
  • Systems and methods to enable administrators to incentivize in-game user behaviors and in-game user activities via group agreements that govern user groups within an online game
    Patent number: 11179638
    Abstract: Systems and methods to enable administrators to incentivize one or both of particular in-game user behaviors and particular in-game user activities via group agreements that govern user groups within an online game are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Mythical, Inc.
    Inventors: John Linden, Rudy Koch
  • Bet contract exchange
    Patent number: 11176781
    Abstract: Systems and computer-implemented methods for a bet exchange. The bet exchange receives bet orders from users and matches bet-for orders with bet-against orders to generate instances of standardized bet contracts. The bet-for orders are bets on a bet event occurring, and bet-against orders are bets on a bet event not occurring. The bet events have a standardized payout amount, which is used to determine a value to transfer to the trader that made the bet-for order when the bet event occurs, or to the trader that made the bet-against order when the bet event does not occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: THE BET EXCHANGE LLC
    Inventor: Robert J. Cullen
  • System and method for granting remote access to a video game executed on a video game console or network client
    Patent number: 11130055
    Abstract: Systems for granting remote access to, and methods of playing, a video game executing on a video game console coupled to a computer network or video games executing on hosting clients of a computer network. One embodiment of the system includes: (1) a stream distributor configured to receive a video stream conveying a view of a gamespace of the video game from the video game console via the computer network and transmit the video stream toward a remote client via the computer network and (2) a response receiver associated with the stream distributor and configured to receive a response stream from the remote client via the computer network and transmit the response stream toward the video game console.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Nvidia Corporation
    Inventor: Andrew Fear
  • Non-transitory storage medium having stored therein information processing program, information processing device, information processing system, and information processing method
    Patent number: 11123638
    Abstract: A game device includes: a first determination unit which determines a first condition that the NPC inside a virtual space is present in the azimuth range set using the PC as the reference inside the virtual space; a second determination unit which determines a second condition that the NPC inside the virtual space has a predetermined positional relationship with the PC; a processing target decision unit which decides an NPC as a processing target when there is the NPC that satisfies both the first condition and the second condition and decides an NPC that satisfies the second condition as the processing target when there is no NPC that satisfies both the first condition and the second condition; and an information processing unit which performs information processing with respect to the decided NPC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Kitazono, Yasuhiko Matsuzaki
  • Information processing device, information processing method, and program
    Patent number: 11128972
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing device, control method, and program that are capable of showing presence of a virtual object in a real space. [Solution] The information processing device includes: a calculation unit configured to calculate a localization position of a sound source of a virtual object relative to a user on the basis of information on the virtual object and information on a state of the user, the virtual object causing the user to feel as if the virtual object exists in a real space through sound image localization; and a sound image localization unit configured to perform a sound signal process of the sound source such that a sound image is localized at the calculated localization position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kentaro Kimura, Tomohiko Gotoh, Shunsuke Mochizuki
  • System and method for utilizing mobile device to track gaming data
    Patent number: 11113926
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a system that utilizes an application running on a mobile device to collect game-based data regarding a player's experience at a gaming establishment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Sina Miri, Dwayne A. Davis, Kevin Higgins, Matt Christopher Levin, Erik Petersen