Patents by Inventor Kevin Higgins

Kevin Higgins 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).

  • Publication number: 20240135778
    Abstract: Systems and methods that associate zero, one or more redemption attributes with a ticket voucher, wherein the associated redemption attribute determines one or more channels by which the ticket voucher may be redeemed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2024
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20240127671
    Abstract: Systems and methods that integrate a front money account funded with front money provided by a user with one or more gaming establishment accounts associated with the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Patent number: 11954972
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a system that enables funds automatically transferred into the system from one or more funding sources in anticipation of such funds being used in association with various system components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Jeffery Shepherd
  • Patent number: 11954965
    Abstract: Technology for managing a player session at a gaming table is disclosed. A table management system receives identifying information of a player seated at the gaming table transmitted by a mobile device associated with the player. The identifying information includes a seating position of the player at the gaming table, the seating position determined by the mobile device through interaction with a locating device placed at the seating position at the gaming table. The table management system generates the player session for the player for playing a wagering game at the gaming table using the identifying information of the player transmitted by the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Erik Petersen, Christopher Levin, Eduardo Meza, Jeffery Shepherd
  • Patent number: 11954971
    Abstract: Systems and methods that dynamically assign, responsive to different events occurring, the location of an electronic record associated with an amount of funds accessed from a gaming establishment credit system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Patent number: 11948423
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a system that utilizes an application running on a mobile device to notify a user of the state of an electronic gaming machine in wireless communication with the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Erik Petersen, Kevin Higgins, Christopher M. Levin
  • Patent number: 11948424
    Abstract: In various embodiments, the system and method disclosed herein coordinates the access to persistent data amongst a plurality of disparate entities which otherwise have no player data sharing relationship with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Patent number: 11948428
    Abstract: A system and method that utilize a ticket voucher complete one or more purchases of goods and/or services from a retail establishment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20240105001
    Abstract: A system that utilizes a lighted bezel of a player tracking unit to indicate to a player different wireless connection statuses of a mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Erik B. Petersen, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20240104649
    Abstract: A system that coordinates the issuance of a line of credit or marker for a user based on financial information associated with that user. Following a user, such as a player, applying for a line of credit with a gaming establishment credit system and following the user authorizing access to a financial institution account maintained for the user by a financial institution, the system operates with the financial institution to obtain financial information associated with the financial account. The system utilizes the obtained financial information to determine one or more attributes of the applied for line of credit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Jeffery Shepherd
  • Publication number: 20240105005
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a system that enables funds associated with certain controlling gaming establishment accounts to be accessed by certain other controlled gaming establishment accounts which have a predefined relationship with the controlling gaming establishment accounts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Jeffery Shepherd
  • Publication number: 20240105025
    Abstract: A system may manage a first prize pool based on a plurality of wagers placed at a plurality of electronic gaming machines (EGMs) for a game of chance or skill. A second prize pool may be managed based on a plurality of back-bet wagers placed at the plurality of user computational devices for an outcome of the game of chance or skill. An award can be distributed from the first prize pool in connection with the game of chance or skill to a player at one of the plurality EGMs and an award from the second prize pool can be automatically distributed to a player at one of the user computational devices in response to distributing the award from the first prize pool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Christopher Levin, Jeffery Shepherd
  • Publication number: 20240105006
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a system that utilizes virtual ticket vouchers in association with one or more transactions involving one or more components of a gaming establishment ecosystem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Erik Petersen, Kevin Higgins, Adrian Marcu
  • Publication number: 20240105026
    Abstract: A system may manage a first prize pool based on a plurality of wagers placed at a plurality of electronic gaming machines (EGMs) for a game of chance or skill. A second prize pool may be managed based on a plurality of back-bet wagers placed at the plurality of user computational devices for an outcome of the game of chance or skill. An award can be distributed from the first prize pool in connection with the game of chance or skill to a player at one of the plurality EGMs and an award from the second prize pool can be automatically distributed to a player at one of the user computational devices in response to distributing the award from the first prize pool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Christopher Levin, Jeffery Shepherd
  • Patent number: 11922765
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a system that utilizes a virtual ticket audit device to account for the transfer of virtual ticket vouchers between different components of a gaming establishment ecosystem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Erik Petersen
  • Publication number: 20240071171
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a system that utilizes a primary or central gaming establishment account to accumulate funds from one or more secondary or peripheral gaming establishment accounts and escrow such funds prior to use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20240071174
    Abstract: A processor circuit of a gaming system determines that a game play condition associated with a primary wagering game has been met. Based on a wager amount of a wager for a primary wagering game and a determination that a game play condition has been met, a secondary wagering game comprising a second paytable is executed. Based on a result of the secondary wagering game indicating a winning result, a secondary game is awarded based on the second paytable, wherein a maximum award of the second paytable does not exceed the wager amount. The primary wagering game is also executed, and, based on a result of the primary wagering game indicating a winning result, award a primary game award based on a first paytable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Jeffery SHEPHERD, Kevin HIGGINS
  • Publication number: 20240071165
    Abstract: Systems and methods that utilize an electronic gaming machine to stream one or more events occurring in association with the electronic gaming machine to zero, one or more interested parties whom are remote from the electronic gaming machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Curtis Baker, Kevin Higgins, Dwayne R. Nelson
  • Publication number: 20240071172
    Abstract: A real-time environmental model of a plurality of shared virtual environments (SVEs) is provides, each SVE including a plurality of virtual persons and a plurality of virtual gaming devices. First display data corresponding to a first SVE is transmitted to a first player device, including user display data to render a portion of the first SVE based on a virtual orientation of the first player device and a virtual location of the first player in the first SVE. Second display data corresponding to a second SVE is transmitted to a second player device, including user display data that causes a display device in the second player device to render a portion of the second SVE, including a virtual person associated with the first player, based on a virtual orientation of the second player device and a virtual location of the second player in the second SVE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Dwayne Nelson, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20240071168
    Abstract: A real-time environmental model of a shared virtual environment (SVE) including a plurality of virtual persons and a plurality of virtual gaming devices is provided. Display data corresponding to the SVE is transmitted to a first player device worn by a first player, the display data including user display data that causes a display device in the first player device to render a portion of the SVE based on a virtual orientation of the first player device and a virtual location of the first player in the SVE. A player preference associated with the first player is determined. Based on the player preference, one of an appearance and a behavior of a first virtual person of the plurality of virtual persons in the SVE being displayed by the first player device is modified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Dwayne Nelson, Kevin Higgins