Patents by Inventor Ragnar Toompere

Ragnar Toompere 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).

  • Patent number: 9858755
    Abstract: Methods and devices are presented for facilitating anonymous gameplay in multi-state, multiplayer games, such as poker. A gaming server may allow players to anonymously join instances of a game. The gaming server may represent an anonymous player to himself or herself using a non-anonymous alias, while the gaming server may represent the anonymous player to the other players or entities using an anonymous alias. Additionally, the gaming server may record events occurring in the game, and provide similarly anonymized versions of these events to other players and entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Cork Group Trading Ltd.
    Inventor: Ragnar Toompere
  • Publication number: 20170309122
    Abstract: Methods and devices are presented for facilitating anonymous gameplay in multi-state, multiplayer games, such as poker. A gaming server may allow players to anonymously join instances of a game. The gaming server may represent an anonymous player to himself or herself using a non-anonymous alias, while the gaming server may represent the anonymous player to the other players or entities using an anonymous alias. Additionally, the gaming server may record events occurring in the game, and provide similarly anonymized versions of these events to other players and entities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventor: Ragnar Toompere
  • Patent number: 9741204
    Abstract: Methods and devices are presented for facilitating anonymous gameplay in multi-state, multiplayer games, such as poker. A gaming server may allow players to anonymously join instances of a game. The gaming server may represent an anonymous player to himself or herself using a non-anonymous alias, while the gaming server may represent the anonymous player to the other players or entities using an anonymous alias. Additionally, the gaming server may record events occurring in the game, and provide similarly anonymized versions of these events to other players and entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Cork Group Trading Ltd.
    Inventor: Ragnar Toompere
  • Publication number: 20170024963
    Abstract: Methods and devices are presented for facilitating anonymous gameplay in multi-state, multiplayer games, such as poker. A gaming server may allow players to anonymously join instances of a game. The gaming server may represent an anonymous player to himself or herself using a non-anonymous alias, while the gaming server may represent the anonymous player to the other players or entities using an anonymous alias. Additionally, the gaming server may record events occurring in the game, and provide similarly anonymized versions of these events to other players and entities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventor: Ragnar Toompere
  • Patent number: 9501895
    Abstract: Methods and devices are presented for facilitating anonymous gameplay in multi-state, multiplayer games, such as poker. A gaming server may allow players to anonymously join instances of a game. The gaming server may represent an anonymous player to himself or herself using a non-anonymous alias, while the gaming server may represent the anonymous player to the other players or entities using an anonymous alias. Additionally, the gaming server may record events occurring in the game, and provide similarly anonymized versions of these events to other players and entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Cork Group Trading Ltd.
    Inventor: Ragnar Toompere
  • Publication number: 20110195766
    Abstract: Methods and devices are presented for facilitating anonymous gameplay in multi-state, multiplayer games, such as poker. A gaming server may allow players to anonymously join instances of a game. The gaming server may represent an anonymous player to himself or herself using a non-anonymous alias, while the gaming server may represent the anonymous player to the other players or entities using an anonymous alias. Additionally, the gaming server may record events occurring in the game, and provide similarly anonymized versions of these events to other players and entities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: WATERLEAF LIMITED
    Inventor: Ragnar Toompere
  • Publication number: 20100210362
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, devices, and systems for on-line multiplayer elimination tournaments. Preferably, a number of client devices join a tournament hosted by a server device. These client devices contend with one another at a game of chance over a series of rounds. At least one client device may be eliminated by each round. After the final round, the client devices remaining share a prize amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2009
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: Waterleaf Limited
    Inventor: Ragnar Toompere
  • Publication number: 20090098920
    Abstract: A method and system for auditing and verifying user spoken instructions for an electronic casino game is provided. A player of the electronic casino game may send a query to a manager of the game instructing the manager to retrieve stored records and extract data to verify whether a gaming function that occurred during game play of the casino game properly corresponds to an instruction spoken by the player. An audit trail enables an operator of the casino game to determine what command was actually spoken by the player, the resulting function performed by a gaming server, and whether the gaming function that was performed corresponds correctly to the spoken command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2007
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Applicant: WATERLEAF LIMITED
    Inventor: Ragnar Toompere
  • Publication number: 20080176618
    Abstract: A method and system for presenting electronic casino games to a player is provided. A player will establish a subscription between a workstation and a gaming server that pertains to a single game category to receive game data pertaining only to the selected game category. The gaming server will then send data pertaining to the selected game category to the workstation at predefined or regular intervals, so as to update the game data. The workstation provides filtering options for the player so that the player can filter out instances of game play not desired. Because the workstation receives the data pertaining to the selected game category, the workstation can perform the filtering, and the player may filter through the game data of this category for as long as the subscription persists.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: WATERLEAF LIMITED
    Inventor: Ragnar Toompere