Patents by Inventor Timothy Ems

Timothy Ems 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: 8588944
    Abstract: Electronic entertainment scoring is provided. The electronic entertainment scoring includes creating an event record for an event, receiving a request from a device to electronically participate in scoring the event, and generating an event card including event data for the event. The event data includes an event date, event parties, and a scoring mechanism. The electronic entertainment scoring also includes transmitting the event card to the device subject to the request. The event card is configured to enable features of an application on the device. The electronic entertainment scoring also includes entering an identifier of a user of the device in the event record, tracking score values submitted by the device in the event record via the identifier, and transmitting, to the device, a summation of accumulated score values received from other devices that are electronically participating in the scoring of the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: The Mohegan Tribe of Indians of Connecticut
    Inventors: Charles William Scharnagle, III, George Wood, Timothy Ems, Michael Spellman