Ultimate Outcome Dependant Upon Summation Of Plural Card Or Tile Values (e.g., Blackjack, Etc.) Patents (Class 463/12)
  • Patent number: 11727759
    Abstract: An electronic gaming system is capable of providing players with customized subsets of side bets. The system can provide, by the user interface, the player with a player-selectable set of side bets; receive, from the player through the user interface, a selection of a subset of the player-selectable set of side bets for the player to use in a gaming session, with a number of side bets in the subset selected by the player being less than a number of side bets in the player-selectable set of side bets; initiate the gaming session comprising a side bet placed on an enabled side bet; determine an outcome of the gaming session relative to the enabled side bet; and adjust a value of an electronic record associated with an account of the player to reflect the outcome of the gaming session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Matteo Carli, Paul Baskerville, Donald Humphreys
  • Patent number: 11682266
    Abstract: Gaming machines and systems are configured to distribute of viral events, such as viral gaming events, amongst devices. The devices can present the viral events. The devices can, for example, be gaming machines and/or mobile devices. According to one embodiment, once a viral event is triggered, it is presented at one or more first devices at a first time. The viral event spreads to other devices, such as one or more second devices where it can be presented at a later time. The viral event may continue to spread to numerous other devices. Feedback or metrics may be used to control the devices to which the viral event spreads and/or the rate of spread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies, Inc. (ATI)
    Inventor: Binh T. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11508218
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods for enriching modifiable sources of game play items during play of the gaming activity. In a video poker embodiment, cards of the deck(s) that source the poker hand(s) may be modified during play of the poker game. In one embodiment, the deck(s) of cards changes, in some embodiments randomly, and in some embodiments geared towards the probability of the player obtaining a more favorable poker hand outcome, while in yet other embodiments ensuring a higher probability of the player obtaining a more favorable poker hand outcome. Cards in the sourcing deck(s) may be added and/or deleted or otherwise modified to statistically impact the odds of obtaining certain results from the poker game. The deck may be reset to an initial state, or backed off from the modifications, at one time or iteratively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Inventor: Bradley Berman
  • Patent number: 11380170
    Abstract: The disclosed subject matter provides device operate table game systems that integrate live dealer interaction with one or more tangible game pieces at the game table. In one embodiment, a system includes one or more player devices physically coupled to a game table, wherein the one or more player devices respectively provide a player user interface for playing a game at the game table. The system also includes a dealer device coupled to the game table that provides a dealer user interface for playing the game at the game table, wherein the one or more player devices and the dealer device are communicatively coupled. The system further comprises computer executable stored in memory, including a player control component that receives player input commands via the player user interface that control player game moves in association with playing the game, and a game management component that tracks the player game moves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Inventors: Edward Piazza, Kanwarjit Chahal
  • Patent number: 11341821
    Abstract: Methods for providing gaming advice are provided. For example, regarding a blackjack game, one or more first player cards are identified for a first player and one or more second player cards are identified for a second player. The first and second player cards are displayed to the first player. A probability associated with a first one of the plurality of playing options is determined based at least on a set of predetermined statistical blackjack data, the one or more first player cards, and the one or more second player cards. It is then determined, based at least on the determined probability associated with the first playing option, whether to display a first indication corresponding with first advice regarding the first playing option, a second indication corresponding with second advice regarding the first playing option, or a third indication corresponding with third advice regarding the first playing option.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: CANTOR INDEX LLC
    Inventors: Lee M. Amaitis, Joseph M. Asher, James C. Johnson
  • Patent number: 11270547
    Abstract: A contactless game controller includes a direction panel, at least one direction module, a button-simulating panel and at least one button-simulating panel. The direction panel is supported on the game machine and includes at least one direction-indicating window. The direction module is located under the direction panel corresponding to the direction-indicating window and electrically connected to the control box. The button-simulating panel is supported on the game machine and includes at least one button-simulating window. The button-simulating module is located under the button-simulating panel corresponding to the button-simulating window and electrically connected to the control box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Feiloli Electronic Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chi-Ming Tsai, I-Chiang Yang
  • Patent number: 11235227
    Abstract: Embodiments provide for card games such as blackjack that allow at least one card to be dealt from a special deck (e.g., a restricted deck) into a hand, while the remainder of the cards for that hand (and, in some embodiments, other hands involved in the game event) are dealt from a main/conventional deck. In accordance with some embodiments, the at least one card dealt from the special deck is dealt into a hand of the player while in other embodiments it is dealt into the hand of a dealer and/or an opponent player. A special deck may be a deck that includes cards configured to provide an advantage to the player (e.g., in a blackjack game, restricted deck may only include high value cards if being used for a player hand or only low value cards if being used for a dealer hand).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Roxor Gaming, Ltd.
    Inventors: Robeson Mandela Reeves, Hans Elias, Marlon James Dublin, Alexander Sandford Todd Young, Zachary David Philip Boswell
  • Patent number: 11232674
    Abstract: A detection system including a control device detecting fraud performed in a game table by using a result of an image analysis performed by an image analyzing device is included. A substitute currency for gaming used for this detection system has a multi-layer structure in which a plurality of plastic layers having different colors are stacked, a coloring layer is included at least in the middle, and white layers or thin-color layers (may be layers having a color thinner than that of the coloring layer; not illustrated in the drawing) are stacked on both sides of the coloring layer disposed in the middle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
  • Patent number: 11201850
    Abstract: Disclosed is a domain filter capable of determining an n-gram distance between a seed domain and each of a plurality of candidate domains. The domain filter loads a seed domain n-gram for the seed domain and a candidate domain n-gram for each candidate domain in memory, compares the seed domain n-gram and the candidate domain n-gram to identify any identical grams, removes any identical grams from the seed domain n-gram, and determines how many grams are left in the seed domain n-gram, representing the n-gram distance between the seed domain and the candidate domain. The domain filter then compares n-gram distances thus determined with a predetermined threshold, eliminates any candidate domain having an n-gram distance from the seed domain that exceeds the predetermined threshold, and provides remaining candidate domains to a downstream computing facility such as a user interface or an analytical module operating in an enterprise computing environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Proofpoint, Inc.
    Inventors: Harold Nguyen, Ali Mesdaq, Kevin Dedon, Michael Fox, Gaurav Dalal
  • Patent number: 11195380
    Abstract: To bring the excitement to the people (majority, who are not experts in games), we present the examples, described here, for one person to be able to bet on and be part of the deal and excitement for a third party, as his agent, proxy, or shadow. Some other examples are: one-link connectivity for easy registration and betting, connection and integration of social networks, Game of skills and/or chance, TV show integration, Player vs player situations, One-click betting/linking/functioning/triggering or OCB, Tipster scheme, a website belonging to our platform, Charity scheme, Pari-mutuel betting in our environment (all bets of a type in a pool, where any winning can be shared, after the house or casino deduction for fees), Proposition betting in our environment, and Multiple leg/parameter situation (where only a subset of decisions is relied upon on a 3rd party, and the rest are decided by the 1st party, herself).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Inventor: Sean Malek
  • Patent number: 11183021
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to an apparatus, system, computer readable storage media, and/or method that involve or otherwise facilitate a card game or secondary card game played on a gaming device. The card game may be structured to use similar rules to a blackjack-styled card game. The card game may be played against an opponent, such as a computer, dealer, or another player. Alternatively, the card game may include the display of one or more cards and a process to determine if a total value of the cards meets a predefined criterion. A win against an opponent or satisfaction of the predefined criterion may progress the card game to another round of play. These rounds of play may continue until an opponent wins, or until the predefined criterion is not satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Inventor: Bradley Berman
  • Patent number: 11176771
    Abstract: Forms of interaction with an electronic system, such as for games of chance, games of skill, and combinations thereof are described herein. A system is provided for effecting defined game play and prizing structure parameters in an electronic entertainment environment. The system may include an input far receiving the parameters, a memory coupled to the input for storing the parameters, a processing system coupled to the storage for generating game play to effect the defined parameters, storage for recording information regarding particular game play events and an interface for at least presenting game play events to users of the electronic entertainment system. In one mode of operation, one or more mandated parameters are externally imposed, and variable parameters are selected such that the mandated parameters are met globally, and such that the user experience is optimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: MILESTONE ENTERTAINMENT, LLC
    Inventors: Randall M. Katz, Gary Dawson
  • Patent number: 11100746
    Abstract: A methodology and apparatus for providing casino game signage for a casino game which incorporates display information that is dynamically interchangeable between game specific and game non-specific information responsive to automatic detection of game play status at the game table. At least one electronic display is provided at respective casino game tables, and selected display information is wirelessly transmitted, and/or manually delivered, thereto. The display information which is displayed is dynamically selected based upon a sensor automatically detecting the status of play of the game, being game specific during play and selectively game specific and game non-specific during game play inactivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: VISUALIMITS, LLC
    Inventors: Perry Stasi, Ryan McClellan
  • Patent number: 10936994
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an apparatus and method for conducting a transaction—such as the purchase of goods and services—including the collection, conversion, storage, tagging and the integration of a live inventory system, mark-up, mark-down system, live auction, and bartering system in an interactive software application, virtual world, social network, commercial and/or game application, which provides a real world experience to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Inventor: Frances Barbaro Altieri
  • Patent number: 10878664
    Abstract: An entertainment machine is provided. The machine provides a unique operation, wagering strategy, and structure. The entertainment machine provides optional and unique features, namely side bets. Such side bets may enhance pay out options as well as adjusting overall house edge in the game play. The entertainment machine may include networked embodiments to allow for multi-player engagement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Inventor: Brandon Zyxnfryx
  • Patent number: 10733848
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a gaming system and method providing a wagering game with a bonus card feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventor: Ernest W. Moody
  • Patent number: 10699524
    Abstract: A gaming system and method which provides and tracks bonus sequence eligibility points accumulated by players playing the gaming devices in the gaming system. The gaming system maintains, for one or more players, a plurality of progressive awards, wherein for a specific player, one or more of the progressive awards is based, at least in part, on the quantity of accumulated bonus sequence eligibility points associated with or accumulated by that player. If a player forfeits a bonus sequence eligibility point (due to player inactivity) or otherwise loses a bonus sequence eligibility point (due to not winning a provided bonus sequence), the gaming system contributes at least part of a value of such forfeited or lost bonus sequence eligibility points to increase a bonus sequence award maintained by the gaming system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Ryan W. Cuddy, Eric Satterlie
  • Patent number: 10553077
    Abstract: A method for managing horseracing bets. The method includes receiving one or more bets. Each bet comprises a selection of five horse races selected from a plurality of horse races scheduled to be run at a track in a day, a selection of a respective horse for each of the five horse races selected and a bet amount. The method also includes combining each bet amount to form a betting pool and determining an amount of a total payout for the day based at least in part on the betting pool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: CANTOR INDEX LLC
    Inventor: Kenneth L. Miller
  • Patent number: 10535229
    Abstract: A gaming machine. A memory stores a first set of symbols including first, second, and third symbols, and a second set of replacement symbols. A symbol selector selects symbols from the set of symbols, displays the selected symbols, and selects a replacement symbol to replace a selected third symbol in response to the third symbol being selected. A value assigner randomly assigns a prize value to a selected first symbol. An outcome evaluator determines if the selected symbols include a defined number of first symbols, and triggers a feature game when a defined number of first symbols are selected. Until an end condition is met in the feature game, the symbol selector causes the display to retain a selected first symbol, remove a selected second symbol, and replace the removed second symbol with a symbol selected from the feature game set of symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED
    Inventor: Scott Christopher Olive
  • Patent number: 10490030
    Abstract: A system which can implement an electronic version of pai gow poker using an electronic gaming system. The game utilizes a 53 card deck comprising a standard 52 card deck plus a joker. The joker can be used as a “bug” which can be used to complete a straight, flush, straight flush, or act as a suitless ace. If the dealer's hand is an ace-high pai gow (or in another embodiment a king-high or lower pai gow), then the player's main wager automatically pushes and the game ends for that player. Otherwise, if the player loses the pai gow game then the player loses the main wager, but if the player wins the pai gow game the player wins a payout on the main wager without paying any commission to the house (casino).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Le Gaming LLC
    Inventor: Johnny Le
  • Patent number: 10398988
    Abstract: A system and method for dynamically valuating players during a fantasy draft are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method comprises storing, in an electronic device, a list of players, each player associated with a base value, receiving one or more player sections, and determining one or more adjusted values for a respective one or more particular players based at least in part on the base values of the particular players and the player selections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: J. Nathaniel Sloan
  • Patent number: 10366576
    Abstract: In a table game system provided by the present invention, a card shoe used in a table game can be used to calculate periods associated with the progress of the game handled by a dealer, particularly periods from the time when a card is drawn from a card accommodating section to the time when a result of the game is displayed, such as a game play period, and other periods excluding the play period which includes a bet period and a bet settlement period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: ANGEL PLAYING CARDS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
  • Patent number: 10332356
    Abstract: A system comprises a client operable to communicate a bet regarding a spin of a virtual roulette wheel. The system further comprises a controller communicably coupled to the client and operable to determine a result of the spin of the virtual roulette wheel, the result based at least in part upon one or more digits of at least one financial market indicator at a configurable point in time. The system is further operable to determine an outcome of the bet based at least in part on the determined result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: CFPH, LLC
    Inventors: Dean P. Alderucci, Lee M. Amaitis
  • Patent number: 10311681
    Abstract: A gaming system for enabling enhancement of wagering outcomes includes: a) multiple gaming sites having a game play surface with a light display element on the game play surface at a player position; b) a processor; c) a player input control at the player position, the player input control in communication with the processor; and d) a random number generator in communication with the processor. The light display on the game play surface at the player hand position has lights, and a power source in communication with the lights; the processor, in response to random selections for the light display element at the player position, is configured to direct that the lights at the player hand position are randomly lit. Lights may also be present at a dealer hand position. The lights indicate at least one of an immediate award, multiplier or bonus event, including a progressive jackpot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Inventor: Mark A. Litman
  • Patent number: 10269215
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electronic gaming machine comprising a display for displaying a game. The game comprises game symbols and predetermined winning combinations of randomly selected game symbols award prizes to a player. An electronic game controller controls the display of the game symbols on the display. In response to a trigger event, a prize value for a bonus prize symbol is randomly determined and the player is awarded a bonus prize based on the prize value and the number of the bonus prize symbols that are displayed in the game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Ainsworth Game Technology Limited
    Inventor: Sujay Prabhu
  • Patent number: 10242534
    Abstract: A gaming machine configured to play one of a plurality of games. The gaming machine includes a display that has a first display area to display a carousel of first representations of a number of the games, and a second display area to display a matrix of second representations of the number of the games. A game controller controls the first display area to display the carousel and the second display area to display the matrix. In response to having received a player input at one display area of the first display area and the second display area, the game controller controls the one display area to highlight one representation in the one display area and highlights a corresponding another one representation in another one of the first display area and the second display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Natalie Bryant, Kevan Rush, Kenneth Mark Upton
  • Patent number: 10242532
    Abstract: A system for playing blackjack requires a player or electronic system to: (i) receive a first bet from a player; (ii) deal an initial two-card hand to the player; (iii) deal one or more additional cards to the player; (iv) determine whether a sum total value of the initial two-card hand and the one or more additional cards exceeds twenty-one; (v) if so, offer the player an opportunity to place an additional bet; (vi) receive, from the player, the additional bet; (vii) in response receiving the additional bet, deal a final card to the player (optionally from a shoe that is different from that used for the initial hand); (vii) subtract a value of the final card from the sum total value to yield a new value; and (ix) based on the new value, determine whether the player has a winning hand, a push, or a losing hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Double-Back Jack, LLC
    Inventors: Steven L. Russell, James L. Cook, III
  • Patent number: 10140819
    Abstract: Various embodiments include determining a value of a statistic describing cards that have been dealt from a deck, and modifying the rules of a game based on the statistic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: CFPH, LLC
    Inventors: Lee Amaitis, Kevin Burman, Manu Gambhir
  • Patent number: 10092821
    Abstract: Card-handling devices may include a randomizer configured to randomize ordering of playing cards in a set of playing cards. An output may be configured to present a group of cards at a time from the randomizer for removal from the card-handling device. An image capturer may be positioned and configured to capture image data of at least a portion of each playing card handled by the randomizer, the image data comprising at least a suit and a rank of each playing card. A nontransitory memory device may be operatively connected to the randomizer and to the image capturer, the nontransitory memory device configured to store at least the image data and group assignment data of each playing card in each group of cards presented for removal by the output. A display may be operatively connected to the nontransitory memory, the display configured to display a history of the image data and group assignment data of each playing card in each group of cards presented for removal by the output upon request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Bally Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Lynn C. Hessing, Daniel J. Mahoney, Steven J. Blad, Thompson A. Baker
  • Patent number: 10089820
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing hybrid keno or lotto games to online players. A keno or lotto server receives electronic indications of actual keno or lotto balls drawn by a person or a ball drawing machine from a set of physical keno or lotto balls and eliminates electronic keno or lotto ball values from an electronic set of keno or lotto ball values corresponding to the physical keno or lotto balls stored in a memory. The game server further randomly selects electronic keno or lotto ball values from the electronic set of keno or lotto ball values stored in memory, less any electronic ball values corresponding to physical keno or lotto balls already drawn by the person or ball drawing machine. Finally, electronic keno or lotto ball values not already drawn by the live person or ball drawing machine are provided to the online players.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Uplay1
    Inventor: Bruce Merati
  • Patent number: 10032334
    Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods to administer non-wagering entertainment games suitable for play on personal electronic devices and corresponding wager-based games available on electronic game machines within a regulated casino environment in a manner that permits users to earn benefits for play on one platform based on participation on the other platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Circle Eight Games Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Cuddy, Christopher Lundy, Lyndsay Berger, Frederick G. Nesemeier, Gary F. Nesemeier
  • Patent number: 10032335
    Abstract: A fraud detection system which detects fraud in a game of performing collection and redemption of chips in accordance with a win or lose result includes a camera which captures an image of chips contained in a chip tray of a dealer, an image analyzing apparatus which analyzes the image captured by the camera to detect an amount of the chips contained in the chip tray, a card distribution device which determines a win or lose result of a game, and a control device which compares the win or lose result of the game and the amount of the chips contained in the chip tray before and after collection and redemption of the chips to detect fraud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: ANGEL PLAYING CARDS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
  • Patent number: 10026260
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, a plurality of outcomes are generated and used to create a video presentation of representative outcomes (e.g., for a roulette game) for one or more players. The video presentation is recorded onto a tangible medium (e.g., DVD or CD-ROM) or otherwise provided to one or more players (e.g., a player may access the video presentation online). This allows one or more players to purchase a video presentation of (e.g., predetermined) outcomes in a jurisdiction in which gambling is legal yet view the presentation at the player's convenience (e.g., from any jurisdiction and at any time). At least one player who is associated with such a video presentation may subsequently redeem it for a redemption value associated therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventor: Jay S. Walker
  • Patent number: 10008072
    Abstract: Systems and methods of operating a major progressive jackpot linked to wagering games having different jackpot triggers with different probabilities. The major jackpot winning probabilities may be normalized such that players may have substantially the same odds to win the major progressive jackpot regardless on the wagering game being played. During game play, the gaming stations may be randomly selected to participate for a chance to win the major progressive jackpot according to an eligibility probability, which may be inversely proportional to the probability of a jackpot trigger for the wagering game administered by the gaming station. Players may be informed of whether the current round of game play is eligible for the major progressive jackpot after wagers are placed and before the current round of game play.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Bally Gaming, Inc.
    Inventors: Zbigniew Czyzewski, E. Damian Bless, Jeremy Halter
  • Patent number: 9965924
    Abstract: A method and system for implementing a multi-zone blackjack game, wherein a starting zone value is only zero and a game objective is to reach a numerical value in a maximum amount of zones. In the method and system, a gaming operator device receives an initial wager from a player, reveals each card to a player and receiving an input from the player regarding which zone area to place each card in, determines which zone or zones card placement is permitted, repeats the step of revealing and receiving and the step of determining until a determination is made that card placement is not permitted, and resolves the wager according to a predetermined pay scale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Inventor: Ahmnon D. Moskowitz
  • Patent number: 9842459
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing hybrid bingo games to online players. A bingo server receives electronic indications of actual bingo balls drawn by a person or a ball drawing machine from a set of actual bingo balls and eliminates electronic bingo ball values from an electronic set of bingo ball values corresponding to the actual bingo balls stored in a memory. The game server further randomly selects electronic bingo ball values from the electronic set of bingo ball values stored in memory, less any electronic ball values corresponding to actual bingo balls already drawn by the person or ball drawing machine. Finally, electronic bingo ball values not already drawn by the live person or ball drawing machine are provided to the online players.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Uplay1
    Inventor: Bruce Merati
  • Patent number: 9833690
    Abstract: Systems and methods related to the play of games that include interim betting. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: CFPH, LLC
    Inventors: Lee Amaitis, Kevin Burman
  • Patent number: 9799171
    Abstract: A system comprises a client operable to communicate a bet regarding a spin of a virtual roulette wheel. The system further comprises a controller communicably coupled to the client and operable to determine a result of the spin of the virtual roulette wheel, the result based at least in part upon one or more digits of at least one financial market indicator at a configurable point in time. The system is further operable to determine an outcome of the bet based at least in part on the determined result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: CFPH, LLC
    Inventors: Dean P. Alderucci, Lee M. Amaitis
  • Patent number: 9576433
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method and system for providing card game services. The method includes entering a virtually implemented game room to play a card game provided over the Internet, participating in the card game according to predetermined rules of the card game, setting a betting action depending on a situation of the card game in advance during the card game, and playing the game by automatically entering the set betting action on a relevant turn. The system includes at least one user terminal for playing a card game over an Internet, and a game provision server for implementing a virtual game room, enabling a betting action to be selected during the game through input from the user terminal, and automatically taking the selected betting action on a relevant turn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: NHN Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Ki Yong Kim, Tae Jong Lee
  • Patent number: 9536396
    Abstract: Methods for providing gaming advice are provided. For example, regarding a blackjack game, one or more first player cards are identified for a first player and one or more second player cards are identified for a second player. The first and second player cards are displayed to the first player. A probability associated with a first one of the plurality of playing options is determined based at least on a set of predetermined statistical blackjack data, the one or more first player cards, and the one or more second player cards. It is then determined, based at least on the determined probability associated with the first playing option, whether to display a first indication corresponding with first advice regarding the first playing option, a second indication corresponding with second advice regarding the first playing option, or a third indication corresponding with third advice regarding the first playing option.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: CANTOR INDEX LLC
    Inventors: Lee M. Amaitis, Joseph M. Asher, James C. Johnson
  • Patent number: 9536392
    Abstract: A bingo system having individual bingo player terminals on which players purchase bingo cards at varying costs and play bingo, coupled to backend computer systems called bingo game managers (BGMs). The BGMs manage bingo game play in two modes, banked and non-banked. Non-banked mode forms bingo games from requests at the same wager level, and forms bingo sessions from bingo games where a bingo session uses a single bingo ball draw. Each wager level has at least one prize pool associated with it; each prize pool is constructed such that it guarantees a given percentage hold to an operator and further enables realistic mimicking of highly complex games such as 5-reel 9-payline slots for use in post-bingo-play displays. Banked mode uses no pools; bingo prizes are generated using an RNG and game template or paytable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Bally Gaming, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert A. Luciano, Jr., Warren R. White, Loren T. Nelson, Walter Eisele, Dale Hermansen, Mark Matthews
  • Patent number: 9524606
    Abstract: A methodology and apparatus for providing casino game signage for a casino game which incorporates display information that is dynamically interchangeable between game specific and game non-specific information responsive to automatic detection of game play status at the game table. At least one electronic display is provided at respective casino game tables, and selected display information is wirelessly transmitted, and/or manually delivered, thereto. The display information which is displayed is dynamically selected based upon a sensor automatically detecting the status of play of the game, being game specific during play and selectively game specific and game non-specific during game play inactivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Visualimits, LLC
    Inventors: Perry Brian Stasi, Ryan Patrick McClellan
  • Patent number: 9472056
    Abstract: A gaming system is provided having a display and a game controller. The system implements a game wherein random events are caused to be displayed on the display and, if a predefined winning event results, the system awards a prize. A feature game of the gaming system includes a series of prize outcomes and a series of intervening games, which provide a player with a chance of advancing to a subsequent prize outcome in the event of a winning outcome in an intervening game. A monitoring means may be provided for monitoring and indicating the number of non-winning game outcomes and triggering a penalty event in the event of the non-winning outcomes exceeding a threshold number. In another aspect, a prize outcome of a feature is a progressive prize and a progressive prize modifier for modifying the progressive prize before awarding the prize.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Naomi Hall, Scott Olive
  • Patent number: 9472063
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to gaming systems and methods for providing a card game that employs multiple-sided playing cards. In various embodiments, the gaming system enables a player to play one or more games which utilize one or more sets or decks of multiple-sided playing cards or multiple-sided tiles. In such embodiments, a first side of each multiple-sided playing card is associated with one of a plurality of playing cards from a first set or deck of playing cards for a first game and a second side of each multiple-sided playing card is associated with one of a plurality of playing cards from a second, different set or deck of playing cards for a second, different game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Mark C. Nicely, Ana Rollins, Colin Ferris, John Grime, Bryan D. Wolf
  • Patent number: 9466178
    Abstract: Methods and gaming units for conducting a wagering game and an associated progressive jackpot in a gaming network having a plurality of operatively coupled gaming units are described. A progressive jackpot award amount may be determined in part based on the amount of the player's wager for the occurrence of the wagering game in relation to a maximum wager amount that may be made on one of the gaming units in the gaming network. The progressive jackpot pool may include a main pool and a reserve pool. Portions of players' wagers being added to the progressive jackpot pool may be apportioned between the main pool and the reserve pool based on calculation performed at the gaming network, with the apportionment being at least partially determined by the amount in the main pool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Ali M. Saffari, Bryan D. Wolf, Diane Wanex, Richard E. Michaelson
  • Patent number: 9412257
    Abstract: A first data taking section takes first detection results from a first wireless tag reader which detects the come and go of an electronic cassette into and out of a first service zone, and also takes second detection results from a second wireless tag reader which detects the come and go of an electronic cassette into and out of a second service zone. A first alert controller drives a first speaker to start an alert when the first alert controller determines on the basis of the first detection results that the electronic cassette has gone out the first service zone. After the start of alerting, the first alert controller stops driving the first speaker to interrupt the alert when first alert controller determines that the electronic cassette has come in either the first service zone or the second service zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Tajima, Jun Enomoto, Takeshi Kuwabara, Yasufumi Oda, Syo Shimizukawa, Fumito Nariyuki, Hiroaki Yasuda, Haruyasu Nakatsugawa
  • Patent number: 9367986
    Abstract: A gaming machine (10) has a display (14) and a game controller arranged to control images displayed on the display (14). The game controller is arranged to play a game wherein one or more random events arc caused to be displayed on the display (14) and, if a predefined winning event results, the machine (10) awards a prize which is credited to a credit meter of the machine (10). The credit meter includes two meter displays, a first meter display (42.1) indicating credit which is available for expenditure in the machine (10) to play at least one game and a second meter display (42.2) indicating credit set aside by at least one of a player and the game controller and which credit is unavailable to the player for wagering on a game but which is only available by termination of a playing session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRALIA PTY LTD
    Inventors: Nicholas Luke Bennett, Natalie Bryant, Peter Stathis
  • Patent number: 9336643
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for playing an auxiliary progressive jackpot game associated with a base, live casino table game. The invention extends to an apparatus for administering the auxiliary game and notifying players of game occurrences including jackpot winners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: TCS JOHN HUXLEY AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED
    Inventors: Simon McLaren Witty, Harley David Jackson
  • Patent number: 9293004
    Abstract: A system comprises a client operable to communicate a bet regarding a spin of a virtual roulette wheel. The system further comprises a controller communicably coupled to the client and operable to determine a of the spin of the virtual roulette wheel, the based at least in part upon one or more digits of at least one financial market indicator at a configurable point in time. The system is further operable to determine an outcome of the bet based at least in part on the determined .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: CFPH, LLC
    Inventors: Dean P. Alderucci, Lee M. Amaitis
  • Patent number: RE46505
    Abstract: A system and method including card game dispensing shoe includes a scanner that discerns the value and suit of each card dispensed, and includes a CPU and a memory storing data such as rules for dealing cards, data representing player strategy criteria and card inventory data. The CPU, with the scanner data and wagering data can determine player proficiency in regards to player strategies, can determine whether the card inventory is in favor of the player, determine player first card advantage and can, on a floating basis, determine permitted deck penetration. The system and method can be incorporated into games to be broadcast over a communications network such as the Internet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Bally Gaming, Inc.
    Inventor: Otho D. Hill