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: 20230421400
    Abstract: A gaming system and method selects a subset of gaming devices to operate in a digital ledger validation mode to validate a set of data records defining a digital ledger, allocates, to each gaming device, a respective work unit, receives, at an electronic address associated with the gaming server, an electronic record defining a reward, tracks play activity at each of the plurality of gaming devices, and, based on the tracked play activity, selects a player from among multiple players to receive the reward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Dwayne Nelson, Kevin Higgins
  • Patent number: 11854346
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Erik Petersen, Kevin Higgins, Adrian Marcu
  • Publication number: 20230401925
    Abstract: A system that provides a player a benefit based on location data associated with the player and game play history data associated with the player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Sina Miri, Dwayne Davis, Kevin Higgins, Matt Christopher Levin, Erik Petersen
  • Publication number: 20230401929
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine (“EGM”) includes a processor circuit and a memory coupled to the processor circuit. The memory includes machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor circuit, cause the EGM to perform operations. The operations include determining a user has earned a comp. The operations further include increasing a progressive award based on the comp. The operations further include outputting an indicator of the progressive award.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Jeffery SHEPHERD, Kevin HIGGINS
  • Patent number: 11842605
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Patent number: 11842599
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Curtis Baker, Kevin Higgins, Dwayne R. Nelson
  • Publication number: 20230394931
    Abstract: A gaming system configured to create electronic player sports wagering profiles for un-identified players, track each sports related wager made by each un-identified player, determine if any un-identified player has reached a sports related wager limit for a designated time period, and responsive to determining that an un-identified player has reached the sports related wager limit for the designated time period, initiate a sports wager limit resolution process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Dwayne R. Nelson, Steven Lemay, Kevin Higgins
  • Patent number: 11837047
    Abstract: A system can be capable of receiving electronic ticket issuance information from a first gaming device, where the electronic ticket issuance information includes an identifier of the first gaming device that issued an electronic ticket, a time that the electronic ticket was issued, and an electronic ticket value associated with an issued state of the electronic ticket. The system may further be capable of tracking a status of the electronic ticket to determine that the electronic ticket has transitioned from the issued state to a redeemable state, determining that the electronic ticket has been presented for redemption and, in response thereto, causing the electronic ticket value to change to a second electronic ticket value associated with a redeemed state of the electronic ticket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Jeffery Shepherd
  • Publication number: 20230386291
    Abstract: A first transceiver of a gaming device receives a validation request from a mobile device. The gaming device determines that the mobile device is authorized to provide remote input to the gaming device and provides a token to the mobile device. A signal strength threshold for a second transceiver of the gaming device is modified from a first signal strength threshold associated with a first distance between the second transceiver and the mobile device to a second signal strength threshold associated with a second distance greater than the first distance. The second transceiver receives a remote connection request from the mobile device. In response to determining that the remote connection request meets the second signal strength threshold and that the remote connection request comprises the token, the gaming device allows the mobile device to provide remote input instructions to the gaming device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Kevin HIGGINS, Erik PETERSEN, Dwayne NELSON
  • Patent number: 11830309
    Abstract: Systems and methods that provides zero, one or more non-fungible tokens to a player in addition to any awards provided to that player in association with a play of a game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Dwayne R. Nelson, Kevin Higgins, Ethan Edsall
  • Publication number: 20230377413
    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: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Patent number: 11816953
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Patent number: 11816951
    Abstract: A system that facilitates the transfer of an amount funds between one or more gaming establishment accounts associated with a player and one or more gaming table components associated with a gaming establishment gaming table currently associated with the player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins, Erik Petersen
  • Publication number: 20230360481
    Abstract: Systems and methods employing a ticket voucher handling device, such as an electronic gaming machine or a ticket voucher redemption kiosk, that issues and/or redeems ticket vouchers associated with different ticket voucher systems corresponding to different activities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Dwayne R. Nelson, William Brosnan, Steven G. LeMay, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20230360482
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a system that provides zero, one or more benefits to a consumer in association with the consumer utilizing an instrument associated with a qualifying financial account to purchase goods and/or services, wherein an amount of any benefits may be disproportionate to the value of the purchased goods and/or services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Jeffery Shepherd, Dwayne A. Davis, Andrew Fisher
  • Patent number: 11804107
    Abstract: Systems and methods which utilize a player account to place one or more wagers on one or more sporting event wagering opportunities remote from a gaming establishment sports book such as in association with a hotel room system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Dwayne R. Nelson, Steven LeMay, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20230338858
    Abstract: A system that enables a gaming establishment retail system to operate with a hotel system to utilize a hotel room folio to complete one or more purchases of goods and/or services from a retail establishment associated with a gaming establishment. Upon a subsequent event occurring in association with the hotel system, the hotel system operates with an external funding source to settle the hotel room folio using a designated payment instrument.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Jeffery Shepherd
  • Publication number: 20230343171
    Abstract: A system that, responsive to a request to transfer an amount of funds to a gaming device, facilitates a first transfer of an amount of funds from a gaming establishment account and/or a second transfer of an amount of funds associated with a line of credit to the gaming device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20230343173
    Abstract: A system that, responsive to an occurrence of a cashout event at a gaming device, transfers funds from the gaming device to a gaming establishment account and/or to a gaming establishment credit system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Patent number: 11790729
    Abstract: Systems and methods that modify one or more parameters associated with a progressive award based on one or more parameters of a gaming device associated with the progressive award.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Erik Petersen, Kevin Higgins