Patents Examined by Werner G Garner
  • Patent number: 11918902
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for controlling a game play. The method includes rendering a game view on a display of a computing device, the game view including a first area and a second area; displaying one or more first objects in the first area, the one or more first objects configured to execute one or more actions in the first area, the one or more actions being executed at a first execution speed; detecting a selection of a second object in the second area of the display; and changing an execution speed of the one or more actions being executed by the one or more first objects in the first area to a second execution speed while it is detected that the second object is selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Supercell Oy
    Inventors: Rauli Laatikainen, Patrick Corander
  • Patent number: 11922761
    Abstract: A system that interconnects multiple accounts associated with a gaming establishment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Kevin M. Higgins, Jeffery Shepherd, Erik Petersen, Lance Yuan, Mike Zarlenga, Dwayne A. Davis, Sina Miri
  • Patent number: 11908266
    Abstract: System and method for systematically changing the color of lighting associated with a peripheral device (e.g., NFC device) based on the status or condition of the machine (e.g., EGM) to which it is connected and/or the status of another peripheral device connected to the machine. The system and method permit the operator of the machine to program unique illumination schemes corresponding to various machine and/or peripheral conditions. For example, the peripheral device may be illuminated with a unique color for each of a bill validator being offline, a cashbox being near full and a player being near to earning a promotion. The system and method may also be used to visually communicate information related to player tracking, mobile wallet, security issues and any other information concerning a EGM, player or casino.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Inventors: David Kubajak, Mike Nguyen, Chris Blevens
  • Patent number: 11893851
    Abstract: Disclosed are gaming systems, methods and machines that include one or more modular buttons. In particular, a modular button is configured for mounting within a frame or panel. The modular button may be interchangeable, such that various modular buttons may be added, exchanged, and/or removed from the frame. In some examples, the frame may be formed of a metal or other structural material. In some examples, the frame may be formed within a surface of another system, such as a bar-top, a gaming table, or an EGM, as a non-limiting listing of examples. The modular buttons include devices and/or circuitry to enable wireless transfer of power and/or communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies, Inc. (ATI)
    Inventors: Frank Rodriguez, Stephen Shaffer, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11887169
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for facilitating fundraising through the use of user-generated electronic media on a competitive online platform. In various embodiments, a campaign is generated based on a user's request. Each campaign is associated with teams made of groups of users that each have values. A piece of electronic media from a user is received along with a commitment value and selection of a team to support. A user profile is generated based on the associated team, the piece of electronic media, and commitment value. Based on the commitment value, the values for the user profile, team, and campaign are modified. A leaderboard graphical user interface (GUI) associated with the selected team and generated in part on the modified campaign, team, and user profile values is provided for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Fund Duel, Inc.
    Inventors: Linda Hansen, Dana Hansen, Jasmine Hansen Toomalatai, Weston Cann
  • Patent number: 11881076
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a system and method for substituting images, graphics, video, and other content presented by an Electronic Gaming Machine (EGM during execution of an electronic game. Embodiments can include a mobile application which can be used in the casino environment, for example, and through which players of electronic games may choose different game content either out of a pre-defined set of content that can be updated and/or supplemented over time or by uploading their own such as photographs, icons, graphics, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Stephan Adamek, Alois Mazgan, Michael Russ
  • Patent number: 11875635
    Abstract: A mobile support system for providing wagering game play to a plurality of mobile devices is provided. The system is configured to receive a play request for the wagering game from a mobile device, where the play request includes a wager amount and represents placement of a wager for an instance of game play of the wagering game. The system generates an instance of game source data for the wagering game and identifies a game play data set used for the play request. Prior to performing a withdrawal transaction of the wager amount for the play request, the system generate a wager outcome for the play request by comparing the game source data with the game play data set. After determining the wager outcome for the play request, the system causes the withdrawal transaction of the wager amount to be performed, thereby completing a placement of the wager amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ashish Gupta, Sina Miri, Yuval Mekler, Mayank Agarwal, Vinay Khandelwal, Pardeep Rathee, Nitin Varshney, Milind Shrivastava
  • Patent number: 11865448
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for acquiring position information about a head-mounted display; performing information processing using the position information about the head-mounted display; generating and outputting data of an image to be displayed as a result of the information processing; and generating and outputting data of an image of a user guide indicating position information about a user in a real space using the position information about the head-mounted display, where the generating and outputting data of the image of the user guide includes determining whether to display the user guide in response to certain criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Shoichi Ikenoue, Tatsuo Tsuchie, Tetsugo Inada, Masaki Uchida, Hirofumi Okamoto
  • Patent number: 11863832
    Abstract: A method for remotely provisioning resources for running a computer application is described. The method includes: causing, using one or more processing units, an initialization of a user interactive video portion of a computer application, the computer application being executed using a remote server; determining a runtime of a static video portion of the computer application and a time required to complete initialization of the user interactive portion using information provided by the remote server; and delaying a start time of displaying the static video portion when the runtime of the static video portion is shorter than the time required to complete the initialization of the user interactive portion. A device that is capable of performing the above method and a server are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Bojan Vukojevic, Franck Diard
  • Patent number: 11861970
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a system and method for substituting images, graphics, video, and other content presented by an Electronic Gaming Machine (EGM during execution of an electronic game. Embodiments can include a mobile application which can be used in the casino environment, for example, and through which players of electronic games may choose different game content either out of a pre-defined set of content that can be updated and/or supplemented over time or by uploading their own such as photographs, icons, graphics, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Stephan Adamek, Alois Mazgan, Michael Russ
  • Patent number: 11857880
    Abstract: A method of mixing audio segments from audio clips to generate a unique stream of non-repeating sound, by: (a) inputting a plurality of audio source clips into an audio system; (b) applying a transfer function system to the plurality of audio source clips to select audio segments of the plurality of audio source clips, or applying a scheduling function system to the plurality of audio source clips to select playback times for the plurality of audio source clips; (c) applying a timeline renderer system to arrange the order of the selected audio segments; (d) applying a track renderer system to generate a plurality of audio playback clip tracks; (e) cross-fading the selected audio segments, thereby generating an audio playback clip having a unique sound stream; and (f) playing the audio playback clip having the unique sound stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SYNAPTICATS, INC.
    Inventors: Erik Rogers, Mark Rogers
  • Patent number: 11854337
    Abstract: A gaming terminal includes an input device, an image sensor, and logic circuitry. The logic circuitry detects user input received at the input device and that is associated with a restricted action, receives, via the image sensor, image data that corresponds to the user input, applies at least one neural network model to the image data to classify pixels of the image data as representing human characteristics including at least one face and at least one pose model, compares, based at least partially on pixel coordinates of (i) the human characteristics within the received image data and (ii) a user input zone within the image data, each of the pose models to the user input zone and the faces, and permits, in response to one of the pose models matching (i) a face of the at least one face and (ii) the user input zone, the restricted action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: LNW Gaming, Inc.
    Inventors: Terrin Eager, Bryan Kelly, Martin Lyons
  • Patent number: 11854341
    Abstract: A gaming device having a processor to control a display to display a set of prize levels having a bottom level, a variable level associated with a variable prize, and an intermediate level. In each of a plurality of game instances, the processor selects a plurality of symbols, control the display to display the selected symbols, determines whether the symbols displayed include increment symbols, upon the symbols displayed including the increment symbols, increments the variable prize by respective amounts of the increment symbols, evaluates symbols displayed for a winning combination, and the symbols displayed including the winning combination, increments from a current prize level to a different prize level in the set of prize levels provided the different prize level is not a top level. At an end of the plurality of game instances, the processor awards a current prize of the current prize level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventor: Billy Tam
  • Patent number: 11850527
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to devices, systems, methods and computer readable media for providing network management of remote card handling, and physical manipulation. More particularly, the disclosure is directed to networked devices, systems, methods and computer program methods for remotely, physically modifying a card while leaving a physical record of the modified card for inspection and validation and delivering the manipulation results to a user, and/or other third parties, for example, scratch lottery cards and ballot cards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: DBEST Limited Liability Company
    Inventor: Dekel Ben Lulu
  • Patent number: 11823530
    Abstract: A game terminal allows a player to participate in the linked transaction including a linked deal within an initial deal via their client account interacting with a management system. The management system manages the execution of the linked transaction including execution of the initial deal, execution of the linked deal, and movement and monitoring of capital during execution of the linked transaction. Initial deal tickets are electronically allocated to player accounts by the management system. The linked deal may be a secondary deal that is lightly linked to the initial deal. In particular, the initial deal may include an access ticket to the linked deal, and the access ticket allows the management system to grant the player a play in the linked deal. Both the initial deal and the linked deal can have prizes, and the management system may resolve those prizes, as necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Powerhouse Gaming, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Andrew Freels, Travis Alan Meyer, Mark Provan Newton, John Lance Wohlfarth
  • Patent number: 11816950
    Abstract: Disclosed are gaming systems, methods and machines for a gaming cabinet configuration. In particular, the gaming systems, methods and machines may incorporate gaming cabinets that include one or more curved or arcuate screens, one or more candles integrated into the gaming cabinet, and/or one or more diffuse lighting elements to provide lighting features or effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (ATI)
    Inventors: Bruce Urban, Dominic DeMarco, Rajendrasinh Jadeja, James Stair, Joseph Kaminkow, Michael Bristol, Daniel Harden, Ariel Turgel, Cheng-Fu Hsieh, Mark Hearn, Elliot Ortiz, Jon Hanlin
  • Patent number: 11810432
    Abstract: Systems and methods of conducting wagering games involving, among other things, a modified Blackjack wagering game including an option to resolve the game prior to a final determination and optional wagers on the final dealer hand score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Golden Dragon Gaming, LLC
    Inventor: Michael Pertgen
  • Patent number: 11810424
    Abstract: A detection system of the present disclosure stores positions and the amount of game tokens that a game participant places on a game table based on a measurement result by a bet chip measuring device in the same persons for each game participant or player positions of the game table. A management control device compares an actual winning rate and a total return amount with figures obtained by a probability statistic calculation at the time of an end of the number of games to determine whether there is a significant difference therebetween and specifies any one of the game participant or the player position, the game table, or a room having the game table where the significant difference is occurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO, LTD.
    Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
  • Patent number: 11766604
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine and a method are provided which generates outcome presentations from a Class 2 or a central determination game outcome. A database stores RNG seeds that correspond to various presentations. To generate the outcome presentations, the RNG seeds are retrieved from the database and random numbers are generated from the RNG seeds. These random numbers are then used to generate the outcome presentations for the Class 2 or central determination game outcome. The RNG seeds may be stored as a series of RNG seeds which may be individually accessed to eliminate certain outcomes or sort certain outcomes prior to presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Edward Hennessy
  • Patent number: 11763623
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine includes a display, a player input device, a credit input mechanism, and a processor programmed to perform operations comprising: (i) display a search pattern matrix to a player on the display, the search pattern matrix includes a plurality of cells that are selectable by the player; (ii) receive an input selection of cells of the search pattern matrix from the player; (iii) search a pay table associated with a wagering game provided by the gaming machine for winning patterns included within the pay table and having at least the same plurality of cells daubed as are indicated by the search pattern matrix; and (iv) display the winning patterns identified by the searching to the player via the display, the displaying including presenting the winning patterns in a matrix display format identifying one or more daubed cells of the associated winning patterns within the matrix display
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED
    Inventors: Rajat Rajput, Sunil Mohan, Rohit Kumar Jain