Patents by Inventor Richard Jay Schneider

Richard Jay Schneider 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).

  • Escrow accounts for use in distributing payouts with minimal interruption to game play
    Patent number: 8753194
    Abstract: A gaming machine includes configured to communicate with a remote server, and further configured to detect a reportable event during play of a game by a player, wherein the reportable event is associated with a winning outcome having an associated award amount. The processor also receives an acknowledgement of the reportable event from the player, and transmits the acknowledgement of the reportable event and the award amount to the remote server for use in generating a taxable accrual log.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Richard Jay Schneider, Thomas O. Mikulich
  • ESCROW ACCOUNTS FOR USE IN DISTRIBUTING PAYOUTS WITH MINIMAL INTERRUPTION TO GAME PLAY
    Publication number: 20120122555
    Abstract: A gaming machine includes configured to communicate with a remote server, and further configured to detect a reportable event during play of a game by a player, wherein the reportable event is associated with a winning outcome having an associated award amount. The processor also receives an acknowledgement of the reportable event from the player, and transmits the acknowledgement of the reportable event and the award amount to the remote server for use in generating a taxable accrual log.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Inventors: Richard Jay Schneider, Thomas O. Mikulich
  • Gaming apparatus and method including a player interactive bonus game
    Patent number: 6089976
    Abstract: A gaming apparatus and method including a primary game and a player interactive bonus game actuated by a qualifying outcome of the primary game and including a bonus award display showing a multiplicity of images displayed on a video monitor from which a player selects until achieving a pair of matched bonus awards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2000
    Assignee: Casino Data Systems
    Inventors: Richard Jay Schneider, Rex Carlson
  • Gaming machine currency apparatus and method therefore
    Patent number: 6068101
    Abstract: A gaming machine and method including a housing having a door which exposes a currency mechanism along a medial portion thereof and located between a side wall and a monitor. This strategic location of the currency mechanism allows clearance for an underlying coin hopper so as to minimize the need for an external currency mechanism and to provide access to the coin hopper in a much more maintenance friendly manner for tending to the coin hopper and currency mechanisms, e.g. for filling, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2000
    Assignee: Casino Data Systems
    Inventors: Robert M. Dickenson, Richard Jay Schneider, Joseph Wesley Cole, Linn A. McKay
  • Gaming device
    Patent number: D404077
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Assignee: Casino Data Systems
    Inventors: Robert M. Dickenson, Richard Jay Schneider, Joseph Wesley Cole, Paul Burnell
  • Electronic game housing
    Patent number: D424122
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2000
    Assignee: Casino Data Systems
    Inventors: Robert M. Dickenson, Richard Jay Schneider, Joseph Wesley Cole, Linn A. McKay