Patents by Inventor Bethany Trainor
Bethany Trainor has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11551506Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes providing a real-time environmental model of a shared virtual environment (SVE) that includes a plurality of virtual players. Display data corresponding to the SVE is transmitted to each player device. The data includes user display data that causes a display in the player device to render a portion of the SVE based on a virtual orientation of the player device and a virtual location of the virtual player in the SVE. Sensory feedback data is then transmitted to the plurality of VR devices that causes each VR device to provide a sensory indication associated with the SVE to the respective player. The sensory indication is indicative of a benefit that will be provided to a subset of the plurality of players at a predetermined future time. At the predetermined future time, the benefit is then provided to the subset of the plurality of players.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: IGTInventors: Scott Caputo, Fayez Idris, Bethany Trainor, Paolo Werbrouck
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Publication number: 20210049860Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes providing a real-time environmental model of a shared virtual environment (SVE) that includes a plurality of virtual players. Display data corresponding to the SVE is transmitted to each player device. The data includes user display data that causes a display in the player device to render a portion of the SVE based on a virtual orientation of the player device and a virtual location of the virtual player in the SVE. Sensory feedback data is then transmitted to the plurality of VR devices that causes each VR device to provide a sensory indication associated with the SVE to the respective player. The sensory indication is indicative of a benefit that will be provided to a subset of the plurality of players at a predetermined future time. At the predetermined future time, the benefit is then provided to the subset of the plurality of players.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2020Publication date: February 18, 2021Inventors: Scott Caputo, Fayez Idris, Bethany Trainor, Paolo Werbrouck
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Publication number: 20190197819Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes providing a real-time environmental model of a shared virtual environment (SVE) that includes a plurality of virtual players. Display data corresponding to the SVE is transmitted to each player device. The data includes user display data that causes a display in the player device to render a portion of the SVE based on a virtual orientation of the player device and a virtual location of the virtual player in the SVE. Sensory feedback data is then transmitted to the plurality of VR devices that causes each VR device to provide a sensory indication associated with the SVE to the respective player. The sensory indication is indicative of a benefit that will be provided to a subset of the plurality of players at a predetermined future time. At the predetermined future time, the benefit is then provided to the subset of the plurality of players.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventors: Scott Caputo, Fayez Idris, Bethany Trainor, Paolo Werbrouck
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Patent number: 9990807Abstract: A community gaming system including a central controller and a plurality of gaming terminals each with a graphical user interface operating. The system determines that a bonus event is triggered and which of the terminals qualify. The central controller transmits a trigger signal to each of the qualified gaming terminals in the sequence in turn, in response to which each qualified gaming terminal initiates scrolling of a bonus event graphic across its respective graphical user interface such that as the bonus event graphic scrolls across the graphical user interface of one of the qualified gaming terminals to reach an edge of that graphical user interface a next one of the qualified gaming terminals in the sequence then initiates scrolling of that bonus event graphic across its graphical user interface. The bonus event graphic appears to scroll across successive graphical user interfaces of the sequence of terminals.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2015Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: IGT CANADA SOLUTIONS ULCInventors: Francois Leger, Bethany Trainor, Isabelle Marie Arsenault
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Patent number: 9984534Abstract: Electronic gaming machines with an interactive bonus game. A touch sensitive display device provides an interactive game environment with prize symbols, a pointer, and a selection game zone with masked or covered selector game symbols. A player input device detects player interaction commands to select the game symbols to move the pointer relative to the prize symbols. A graphical animation effect represents movement of the pointer relative to the prize symbols.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2016Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: IGT CANADA SOLUTIONS ULCInventor: Bethany Trainor
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Patent number: 9886815Abstract: A computer-implemented method for enhancing game components in a gaming system using various three-dimensional enhancements. The three-dimensional enhancements may involve stacks of gaming components to provide and integrate additional symbols, multi-faceted gaming components, multi-faceted gaming surfaces running multiple games in parallel, items animating to simulate real-world physics, merging components, shapes to push up or down gaming components to create stacks, and so on. Further example three-dimensional enhancements are described.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2014Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: IGT CANADA SOLUTIONS ULCInventors: Khaled Adams, Bethany Trainor, Francois Leger, William George Amos
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Patent number: 9824524Abstract: An electronic gaming machine, an electronic gaming system, and a computer-implemented method are disclosed. The electronic gaming machine comprises: at least one processor; at least one persistent data store; at least one receiver to receive game data for storage in the at least one persistent data store; and a display device configured with a user interface to display a portion of the game data as a first matrix of at least one of a row and a column of game components in accordance with a set of game rules for a given game, each one of the game components having an original symbol associated thereto, and at least a second matrix of at least one of a row and a column of game components in accordance with the set of game rules for the given game, each game components having an original symbol associated thereto.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: IGT CANADA SOLUTIONS ULCInventors: Brian Comeau, Bethany Trainor, Francois Romeo Leger
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Patent number: 9824525Abstract: An electronic gaming machine, a system and a method for providing game components with 3D enhancement are disclosed. The machine includes one processor, one persistent data store, one receiver to receive game data, and a display device configured with a user interface to display: a portion of the game data as at least one of a row and a column of game components along a plane in accordance with a set of game rules for a given game; and at least one of the game components as a multi-faceted game component, wherein the multi-faceted game components are displayed in a 3D configuration in relation to the plane of the display device, wherein the at least one processor is configured to associate at least one additional symbol with at least one facet of the multi-faceted game component; and integrate the at least one additional symbol into the given game.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: IGT CANADA SOLUTIONS ULCInventor: Bethany Trainor
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Patent number: 9805540Abstract: An electronic gaming machine, a system and a method for providing game components with 3D enhancement are disclosed. The machine includes at least one processor, one persistent data store, one receiver to receive game data, and a display device configured with a user interface to display a portion of the game data as at least one of a row and a column of game components along a plane in accordance with a set of game rules for a given game, each one of the game components having an original symbol associated thereto, and at least two additional game components to provide a 3D enhancement in relation to the plane of the display device, wherein the at least one processor is configured to merge the at least two additional game components to provide at least one additional symbol, and integrate the at least one additional symbol into the given game.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2014Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: IGT CANADA SOLUTIONS ULCInventors: Francois Romeo Leger, Bethany Trainor
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Patent number: 9779578Abstract: An electronic gaming machine, system and method for providing game components with 3D enhancement are provided. The machine includes: one persistent data store; one receiver to receive game data for storage in the persistent data store; at least one processor configured to, using a portion of the game data, generate a multi-faceted gaming surface having a plurality of facet gaming surfaces, wherein each facet gaming surface comprises at least one of a row and a column of game components along a plane in accordance with a set of game rules for a given game; and a display device configured with a user interface to display the multi-faceted gaming surface in three-dimensions in relation to the plane of the display device; wherein the at least one processor is configured to run multiple instances of the given game in parallel on different facet gaming surfaces of the multi-faceted gaming surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2014Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: IGT CANADA SOLUTIONS ULCInventors: Vicky Leblanc, Bethany Trainor
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Publication number: 20160275748Abstract: Electronic gaming machines with an interactive bonus game. A touch sensitive display device provides an interactive game environment with prize symbols, a pointer, and a selection game zone with masked or covered selector game symbols. A player input device detects player interaction commands to select the game symbols to move the pointer relative to the prize symbols. A graphical animation effect represents movement of the pointer relative to the prize symbols.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2016Publication date: September 22, 2016Inventor: Bethany TRAINOR
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Patent number: 9373216Abstract: A computer-implemented method for enhancing game components in a gaming system using various three-dimensional enhancements. The three-dimensional enhancements may involve stacks of gaming components to provide and integrate additional symbols, multi-faceted gaming components, multi-faceted gaming surfaces running multiple games in parallel, items animating to simulate real-world physics, merging components, shapes to push up or down gaming components to create stacks, and so on. Further example three-dimensional enhancements are described.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: IGT CANADA SOLUTIONS ULCInventors: Bethany Trainor, Francois Leger, William George Amos, Vicky Leblanc, Khaled Adams, Franz Pierer
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Publication number: 20160093171Abstract: A community gaming system including a central controller and a plurality of gaming terminals each with a graphical user interface operating. The system determines that a bonus event is triggered and which of the terminals qualify. The central controller transmits a trigger signal to each of the qualified gaming terminals in the sequence in turn, in response to which each qualified gaming terminal initiates scrolling of a bonus event graphic across its respective graphical user interface such that as the bonus event graphic scrolls across the graphical user interface of one of the qualified gaming terminals to reach an edge of that graphical user interface a next one of the qualified gaming terminals in the sequence then initiates scrolling of that bonus event graphic across its graphical user interface. The bonus event graphic appears to scroll across successive graphical user interfaces of the sequence of terminals.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2015Publication date: March 31, 2016Applicant: GTECH Canada ULCInventors: Francois LEGER, Bethany TRAINOR, Isabelle Marie ARSENAULT
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Publication number: 20150348359Abstract: An electronic gaming machine, an electronic gaming system, and a computer-implemented method are disclosed. The electronic gaming machine comprises: at least one processor; at least one persistent data store; at least one receiver to receive game data for storage in the at least one persistent data store; and a display device configured with a user interface to display a portion of the game data as a first matrix of at least one of a row and a column of game components in accordance with a set of game rules for a given game, each one of the game components having an original symbol associated thereto, and at least a second matrix of at least one of a row and a column of game components in accordance with the set of game rules for the given game, each game components having an original symbol associated thereto.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2014Publication date: December 3, 2015Applicant: GTECH Canada ULCInventors: Brian Comeau, Bethany Trainor, Francois Romeo Leger
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Publication number: 20140335940Abstract: An electronic gaming machine, a system and a method for providing game components with 3D enhancement are disclosed. The machine includes at least one processor, one persistent data store, one receiver to receive game data, and a display device configured with a user interface to display a portion of the game data as at least one of a row and a column of game components along a plane in accordance with a set of game rules for a given game, each one of the game components having an original symbol associated thereto, and at least two additional game components to provide a 3D enhancement in relation to the plane of the display device, wherein the at least one processor is configured to merge the at least two additional game components to provide at least one additional symbol, and integrate the at least one additional symbol into the given game.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2014Publication date: November 13, 2014Inventors: Francois Romeo LEGER, Bethany TRAINOR
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Publication number: 20140335938Abstract: An electronic gaming machine, a system and a method for providing game components with 3D enhancement are disclosed. The machine includes one processor, one persistent data store, one receiver to receive game data, and a display device configured with a user interface to display: a portion of the game data as at least one of a row and a column of game components along a plane in accordance with a set of game rules for a given game; and at least one of the game components as a multi-faceted game component, wherein the multi-faceted game components are displayed in a 3D configuration in relation to the plane of the display device, wherein the at least one processor is configured to associate at least one additional symbol with at least one facet of the multi-faceted game component; and integrate the at least one additional symbol into the given game.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2014Publication date: November 13, 2014Inventor: Bethany TRAINOR
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Publication number: 20140335939Abstract: An electronic gaming machine, system and method for providing game components with 3D enhancement are provided. The machine includes: one persistent data store; one receiver to receive game data for storage in the persistent data store; at least one processor configured to, using a portion of the game data, generate a multi-faceted gaming surface having a plurality of facet gaming surfaces, wherein each facet gaming surface comprises at least one of a row and a column of game components along a plane in accordance with a set of game rules for a given game; and a display device configured with a user interface to display the multi-faceted gaming surface in three-dimensions in relation to the plane of the display device; wherein the at least one processor is configured to run multiple instances of the given game in parallel on different facet gaming surfaces of the multi-faceted gaming surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2014Publication date: November 13, 2014Inventors: Vicky LEBLANC, Bethany TRAINOR
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Publication number: 20140323202Abstract: A computer-implemented method for enhancing game components in a gaming system using various three-dimensional enhancements. The three-dimensional enhancements may involve stacks of gaming components to provide and integrate additional symbols, multi-faceted gaming components, multi-faceted gaming surfaces running multiple games in parallel, items animating to simulate real-world physics, merging components, shapes to push up or down gaming components to create stacks, and so on. Further example three-dimensional enhancements are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2014Publication date: October 30, 2014Inventors: Khaled ADAMS, Bethany TRAINOR, Francois LEGER, William George AMOS
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Publication number: 20140187309Abstract: A computer-implemented method for enhancing game components in a gaming system using various three-dimensional enhancements. The three-dimensional enhancements may involve stacks of gaming components to provide and integrate additional symbols, multi-faceted gaming components, multi-faceted gaming surfaces running multiple games in parallel, items animating to simulate real-world physics, merging components, shapes to push up or down gaming components to create stacks, and so on. Further example three-dimensional enhancements are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2013Publication date: July 3, 2014Inventors: Bethany TRAINOR, Francois LEGER, William George AMOS, Vicky LEBLANC, Khaled ADAMS, Franz PIERER
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Publication number: 20060079313Abstract: A method and system is provided for conducting a wagering game. A spin result is determined, the spin result including a set of symbols positioned within a set of symbol positions. The symbol positions may be arranged in rows and columns or another arrangement. The spin results and associated symbol positions may be displayed on a viewable display area. A prize associated with the spin result may be awarded. The wagering game may include a first trigger condition, a second trigger condition and an end condition. If the spin result meets the first trigger condition, additional symbol positions may be added. If the spin result meets the second trigger condition, symbol positions may be removed. If the spin result meets the end condition, the wagering game ends. If the spin result does not meet the end condition, the wagering game continues by determining a next spin result.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2005Publication date: April 13, 2006Inventors: Bethany Trainor, P. Alexander