Plural Matches Create Pattern (e.g., Bingo, Etc.) Patents (Class 463/19)
  • Patent number: 12205440
    Abstract: Rather than typical slot type games where specific matching combinations of symbols along paylines through a row-by-column grid or matrix indicate the outcome of the game, a slot type concatenation game concatenates value symbols along a payline to form a numerical outcome. Non-value symbols may be omitted and/or ignored. Further, the payline may be indicated by the presence of a trigger symbol, which may allow the payline to change between different plays of the slot type concatenation game. Further, the slot type concatenation game may be user-configurable. Users may be allowed to indicate the number of the symbol reels that may include value symbols that will be concatenated along a payline defined by the trigger symbol. Users may be allowed indicate the denomination set that is used to configure the symbol reels with value symbols, such as from one or more value symbol tables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Marks, John Milliner, III, Hua Xu
  • Patent number: 12190679
    Abstract: Memory-efficient techniques for assigning credit values to credit symbols in games of chance are provided. Such techniques allow such credit values to be displayed in ascending or descending order while still allowing for control of the rate at which the credit values grow (or decrease) in value. Moreover, such techniques allow the particular sequences of credit values that are assigned to be dynamically generated from one game to the next, thereby avoiding potentially repetitive use of a limited number of pre-defined credit value sequences to assign credit values or the need for large numbers of pre-defined credit value sequences that may unnecessarily consume memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Delekta, Allon Englman
  • Patent number: 12183157
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine includes a display device, a memory device, and a processor. The processor displays a matrix of symbol positions formed by a plurality of reels. The processor also displays a bingo card. The processor determines an outcome that includes a first plurality of symbols to display in the matrix of symbol positions and evaluates the outcome to determine a win amount. The processor populates the matrix of bingo positions with the first prize symbol to a bingo position of the matrix of bingo positions corresponding to a position of the prize symbol in the matrix of symbol positions. The processor evaluates the matrix of bingo positions to determine whether a predefined winning pattern is formed and, in response, determines an award value based at least in part on numerical values of prize symbols forming the predefined winning pattern in the matrix of bingo positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Daniel Marks, Hua Xu
  • Patent number: 12165464
    Abstract: A gaming device is provided that includes a plurality of game windows, each game window having an identical array of symbol positions displayed therein. Symbols are selected for each column of symbol positions, and the columns are then each evaluated to determine if the selected symbols for a column meet a predetermined criterion, e.g., all symbols for the column being the same. If the selected symbols for a column meet the criterion, and the selected symbols of the corresponding column in the other display window do not, the corresponding column may be caused to change its selected symbols to match those in the column that has the selected symbols that meet the criterion. If all of the columns have selected symbols that meet the criterion after such evaluations and potential selected symbol changes are performed, then an award may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Oliver Crispino, Natalie Bryant
  • Patent number: 12148266
    Abstract: A systems method and devices are provided. A system includes a processor circuit and a memory including machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor circuit, cause the processor circuit to perform operations described herein. Such operations include receiving a wager for a wagering game at a gaming device. The wagering game includes multiple game symbol positions and multiple paylines, each payline associated with a subset of game symbol positions. Operations include receiving from a player and via a graphical user interface, a selection of a feature that is provided after the wager is complete and determining a first prize outcome of the feature. Operations include receiving, after determining the first prize outcome of the feature, a second chance selection from a plurality of second chance options for the player to earn a second prize outcome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Patrick Brimmer, Adrian Wotton
  • Patent number: 12145075
    Abstract: The invention involves an method, which includes providing a plurality of game cards, each having a grid of tiles formed in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. Each tile corresponds to a defined result chosen from a plurality of defined results. The method includes selecting a tile from each of the plurality of game cards, and comparing the defined result of the selected tile to a selected one of the plurality of defined results. The selected one of the plurality of defined results is selected in response to an occurrence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: THIS SPACE LLC
    Inventor: Robert Bugh
  • Patent number: 12094304
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system and method for administering a wagering game and an integrated broadcast announcement. The wagering game is facilitated by a wagering sub-system that communicates with a plurality of gaming machines over a wide area network so that each gaming machine presents a unique wagering game session having a random wagering game result. The integrated broadcast announcement is provided by a video presentation sub-system that is communicatively coupled to the wagering sub-system and at least one stationary monitor over the wide area network. The video presentation sub-system integrates a first wagering game session result associated with a first gaming machine, a second wagering game session result associated with a second gaming machine, and commentary about the first and second wagering game session results into the integrated broadcast announcement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Pilot Games, Inc.
    Inventors: Jon Weaver, Warren R. White, Anthony M. Morelli, William D. Hermansen
  • Patent number: 12073681
    Abstract: A system and method for allowing wagers to be made on a game and awarding a payout as a function of an outcome of the game is provided. The game may played by a game server, located at a gaming facility, which is located at a predefined geographic location. A remote device may be provided at a location outside of the predefined geographic location. An agent, in communication with the game server and the remote device, may receive instructions from a patron via the remote device to place a wager on a game and for instructing the server to place the wager in response to receiving the instructions from the patron.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: THE CLARKSON VIRGIN ISLANDS TRUST
    Inventors: Arthur O. Rogers, Gavin Clarkson
  • Patent number: 12051305
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods for providing heightened anticipation in poker games and other gaming activities where game indicia locations track across poker deals or other gaming events. In a poker context, card positions of a current poker hand(s) may be randomly or otherwise identified, and those card positions of a subsequent poker hand(s) will be accorded some heightened value and/or other enrichment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Inventor: Bradley Berman
  • Patent number: 12027011
    Abstract: Implementations of the present disclosure may include systems and methods for providing an improved bingo game based on player defined custom bingo cards and mapping the player defined custom bingo cards to simulate other games, such as, but not limited to, wheel based games such as roulette, dice games, and other suitable games. Implementations of the system and method may include receiving messages comprising one or more player wager selections from the plurality of electronic player interfaces, wherein the one or more player wager selections comprise one or more player selected game patterns. Implementations of the system and method may include creating one or more custom bingo cards based on the one or more player selected game patterns received in the one or more player wager selections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Incredible Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Russell Witt, Cory Allan Pratt, Anthony Peter DeFeo, David James Kamner
  • Patent number: 12010109
    Abstract: Methods and systems for transmitting content during a networked conference. In an embodiment, a method is provided for secure access to online events. The method includes receiving a request from a user to access an online event, obtaining a user email address, an event identifier and an event passcode, and hashing the user email address, the event identifier and the event passcode to generate a ticket hash value. The method also includes forming a secure ticket that comprises the ticket hash value, and transmitting the secure ticket to the user. The method also includes receiving the secure ticket from the user when the user want to access the event, hashing the user email address, the event identifier, and the event passcode to generate a confirming hash value, and comparing the two hash values and granting event access to the user if the two hash values match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Wei Li
  • Patent number: 11995961
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for conducting a multiple choice, skill-based bingo game. One object of the system is to facilitate single player or multi-player bingo games utilizing specialized bingo cards and a random number generator generating outcomes based on (i) a subset of bingo balls formed of groups of like numbers including a group of strikes or (ii) rolls of a plurality of dice including at least one outcome deemed a strike.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Inventor: Robert Williams
  • Patent number: 11978305
    Abstract: A pool of game outcomes is generated on a smart card that is associated with a gaming machine. The pool of game outcomes is identical to a previously generated pool of game outcomes. A seed is created and a pool of game outcomes is generated using the seed, a pseudorandom number generator (pRNG), game rules, and a pool size. The seed, a game identifier associated with the game rules, and the pool size are stored in a database that is remote from the smart card. The seed, the game identifier, and the pool size are usable for audit purposes to recreate the pool of game outcomes using the same pRNG and the same game rules that are used to generate the original pool of game outcomes. A memory of the smart card associated with the gaming machine is loaded with the seed. The smart card includes same pRNG that is used to generate the original pool of game outcomes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TAPCENTIVE, INC.
    Inventor: David C. Wentker
  • Patent number: 11978316
    Abstract: A gaming machine provides a base game from which a feature game is triggered when a determined number of configurable symbols are displayed in a base game outcome. When the feature game is triggered, the configurable symbols are held in place on the display and the player is provided with more spins during the feature game in which to collect additional configurable symbols. Any additional configurable symbols are retained on the display during subsequent spins until the feature game is completed. The configurable symbols include mystery symbols whose value is not determined until the mystery symbol is displayed. A first valuation game, such as a wheel spin, is used to determine the value for the mystery symbols. At the end of the feature game, the player is awarded a prize based on the values carried by the configurable symbols. A second valuation game, such as a wheel spin, is used to provide an enhanced award if the player collects a determined number of configurable symbols during the feature game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Daniel Marks, Hua Xu
  • Patent number: 11951408
    Abstract: A computer device configured to: (a) render a game level in which a game board comprises a plurality of user selectable game elements of at least two types; (b) detect that a user has caused two user selectable game elements of the same type to be removed; (c) execute a refill process to refill vacancies on the game board after the game elements have been removed; (d) detect that a user has attained at least one objective of the game level by causing removal of certain user selectable game elements after a refill process; (e) access from a store a first portion of an object to be rendered on the display, the first portion associated with the at least one objective of the game level; and (f) in an environment view, render the first portion of the object within a representation of the virtual environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: KING.COM LTD.
    Inventors: Miguel Navio, Marta Cortinas, Michele Airoldi
  • Patent number: 11954978
    Abstract: In an electronic gaming device, a boost stage uses a metamorphic graphical element. The boost stage starts when predetermined condition such as a “near-miss” condition occurs and provides an additional opportunity to satisfy a trigger condition for a supplemental feature. The metamorphic graphical element indicates how many times the predetermined condition has occurred since the supplemental feature was last triggered. When the boost stage starts, the state of the metamorphic graphical element can advance to a higher state value, visually indicating the additional opportunity to satisfy the trigger condition for the supplemental feature. For the boost stage, if the previous result (associated with the predetermined condition) is enhanced enough to satisfy the trigger condition, the supplemental feature is triggered and the metamorphic graphical element is reset. Otherwise, the boost stage finishes but the advanced state value of the metamorphic graphical element is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Inventors: Christmas Uberuaga, Allon Englman
  • Patent number: 11935364
    Abstract: An electronic gaming system is capable of forming a multi-player group to play a game; receiving, from a first gaming device, first game play information for a first game played by a first player member of the multi-player group on the first gaming device; determining that the first game play information comprises a first winning outcome corresponding to a first winning outcome; in response, allocating the first winning outcome among the first and second player members; and notifying a second gaming device of the second player member that the second player member has received the second portion of the first winning outcome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Fei Yi, Wei Gong
  • Patent number: 11935074
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a casino patron engagement system that facilitates engagement among casino employees and casino patrons to engender patron loyalty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Eugene Bond, Gandalf Hudlow, Jie Zhou, Lu Zhao, Wei Yan, Wei Gong, Sina Miri, John E. Burden
  • Patent number: 11922763
    Abstract: A gaming machine is described herein. The gaming machine includes a control unit programmed display a game screen including a primary game area and a bonus feature event area. The control unit displays the plurality of credit prize symbols in the bonus feature event area with each credit prize symbol being associated with a corresponding special symbol and having an associated credit value. The control unit spins and stops the plurality of virtual reels to display an outcome of the game and determines an amount of credits based on the credit value of each displayed credit prize symbol that is associated with the special symbol displayed in the outcome of the primary game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Konami Gaming, Inc.
    Inventor: Masaya Matsuda
  • Patent number: 11915549
    Abstract: A system that synchronizes data between multiple accounts associated with a gaming establishment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Jeffery Shepherd
  • Patent number: 11900771
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to gaming systems, machines, and methods and, in particular, hidden symbol tracking. As an example, an electronic gaming machine is described that includes a set of reels, where each reel in the set of reels includes a plurality of symbol regions with at least one symbol provided therein, and where a first reel in the set of reels includes a hidden symbol that is capable of different presentations based upon having different lighting conditions applied thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Kyle Rothchild, Thomas Humphrey, Matthew Palazzetti, Cullen O'Day
  • Patent number: 11881080
    Abstract: A system includes a first game machine, a second game machine, and a session server. The session server includes a processor configured to at least receive, from the first game machine, a request from a player to enable restoration of a game, and in response to receiving the request to enable restoration of the game, register a session identifier in association with a player account of the player. The processor is also configured to store the session identifier in association with the player account to a session identifier database, and receive, from the second game machine and in response to a player request to restore the game, at least player account information associated with the player account. In addition, the processor is configured to retrieve the session identifier from the session identifier database in response to receiving the player account information, and determine, based upon the session identifier, whether to enable restoration of the game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: John Leslie Boesen, Chi We Chim
  • Patent number: 11847890
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine includes a display device, a memory device, and a processor. The processor displays a matrix of symbol positions formed by a plurality of reels. The processor also displays a bingo card. The processor determines an outcome that includes a first plurality of symbols to display in the matrix of symbol positions and evaluates the outcome to determine a win amount. The processor populates the matrix of bingo positions with the first prize symbol to a bingo position of the matrix of bingo positions corresponding to a position of the prize symbol in the matrix of symbol positions. The processor evaluates the matrix of bingo positions to determine whether a predefined winning pattern is formed and, in response, determines an award value based at least in part on numerical values of prize symbols forming the predefined winning pattern in the matrix of bingo positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Daniel Marks, Hua Xu
  • Patent number: 11833422
    Abstract: This document relates to techniques for addressing disruptions that prevent applications from receiving user input, prevent users from providing input to an application, and/or prevents or impacts users from receiving application output. One example method involves detecting a disruption to an interactive application during interaction by a user with the interactive application, generating automated user inputs, and providing the automated user inputs to the interactive application during the disruption to the interactive application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Mohamed Musbah, Matthew Mitchell Dixon, Geoffrey Jacoby Gordon, Mahmoud Adada, Soroush Mehri, Andrew James McNamara, Jonathan David Morrison
  • Patent number: 11826647
    Abstract: Gaming systems that provide a tile selection and award determination sequence for a gaming environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: David Twomey, Raymond Latham
  • Patent number: 11801438
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide an electronic gaming machine, systems and methods with a wheel feature mode dependent on base game outcomes. Specifically, a gaming machine comprises a user interface, a display device, and a game controller. The wheel feature mode is triggered during a base game based on wheel feature mode trigger conditions. The wheel feature mode animates a graphical user interface to present a spinning feature wheel that provides credit value awards, dependent on base game outcomes (e.g., one or more base game bingo pattern outcomes), through a sequence of player-initiated feature wheel spins. If one or more winning base game outcomes remain in the base game, the wheel feature mode continues with each wheel slice value reset, such that the minimum wheel slice value is equal to or greater than the previous spinning feature wheel credit value award which continues until no winning base game outcomes remain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies, Inc. (ATI)
    Inventors: David Marsh, Karl Roelofs, Ryan North
  • Patent number: 11794093
    Abstract: A centralized gaming system is provided. The centralized gaming system includes a thin gaming device providing game play in a communal game and a central gaming server configured to: store a ball call for the communal game on behalf of the thin gaming device and at least one legacy gaming device; receive an outcome request message from the thin gaming device; allocate a bingo card to the game instance associated with the outcome request message from a card pool of predetermined bingo cards; evaluate the allocated bingo card based on a current state of the ball call of the communal game; determine a reward value based on the evaluation of the allocated bingo card; and transmit an outcome results message to the thin gaming device in response to the outcome request message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Donovan Meyer, Jeremiah O'Hara, Thomas Rizos, Jennifer Pinder, James Urbaniak
  • Patent number: 11790728
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine includes a display device, a memory device, and a processor. The processor displays a matrix of symbol positions formed by a plurality of reels. The processor also displays a bingo card. The processor determines an outcome that includes a first plurality of symbols to display in the matrix of symbol positions and evaluates the outcome to determine a win amount. The processor populates the matrix of bingo positions with the first prize symbol to a bingo position of the matrix of bingo positions corresponding to a position of the prize symbol in the matrix of symbol positions. The processor evaluates the matrix of bingo positions to determine whether a predefined winning pattern is formed and, in response, determines an award value based at least in part on numerical values of prize symbols forming the predefined winning pattern in the matrix of bingo positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Daniel Marks, Hua Xu
  • Patent number: 11769373
    Abstract: A gaming machine includes a processor configured to execute instructions, which when executed, cause the processor to at least control a display device to display a first subgame and a second subgame during a multi-game bingo game, evaluate a first bingo card to determine a first outcome for the first subgame, and evaluate a second bingo card to determine a second outcome for the second subgame. The instructions also cause the processor to control the display device to display the first outcome for the first subgame and the second outcome for the second subgame, and evaluate a game ending win (GEW) bingo card to determine whether a game ending win has been achieved by a player of the electronic gaming machine, where the GEW bingo card is different from the first bingo card and the second bingo card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Casey, Eric Telaak
  • Patent number: 11769376
    Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for repurposing existing Class III electronic gaming device components for use in Class II electronic gaming device systems, as the terms “Class II” and “Class III” are defined in the regulations relating to the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of the United States of America.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Inventor: James R. Acres
  • Patent number: 11766615
    Abstract: Gaming systems that provide a tile selection and award determination sequence for a gaming environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: David Twomey, Raymond Latham
  • Patent number: 11741779
    Abstract: The presently disclosed subject matter includes a system and a method for executing an interactive live game, wherein the system comprising: a game server configured to execute an interactive game including generating game events, to associate the game events with sync data and to transmit the game events and sync data to a player's device, at least one camera positioned in a live studio configured to capture a video of a live studio and to live stream the captured video; a game renderer configured to receive data indicative of the executed interactive game from the game server, to determine game display data; a video processor configured to receive the captured video, receive the game display data, and to create a live game video stream; thereby facilitating the player's device to create composited synchronous video comprising the live game video stream and data pertains to the game events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: PLAYTECH SOFTWARE LIMITED
    Inventors: Ori Gal Hartstein, Kevin Kilminster, Edo Haitin
  • Patent number: 11724186
    Abstract: This document relates to techniques for addressing disruptions that prevent applications from receiving user input, prevent users from providing input to an application, and/or prevents or impacts users from receiving application output. One example method involves detecting a disruption to an interactive application during interaction by a user with the interactive application, generating automated user inputs, and providing the automated user inputs to the interactive application during the disruption to the interactive application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Mohamed Musbah, Matthew Mitchell Dixon, Geoffrey Jacoby Gordon, Mahmoud Adada, Soroush Mehri, Andrew James McNamara, Jonathan David Morrison
  • Patent number: 11721165
    Abstract: There is provided a gaming system, gaming machine, and method that utilize an electronic display device configured to display a plurality of symbol-bearing reels and a base game array. The base game array has a first configuration. The reels are spun and stopped to populate the base game array with symbols from the stopped reels. In response to the symbols including a combination of bonus-triggering symbols, the display device is configured to display a bonus game array having a second configuration different than the first configuration. The bonus-triggering symbols are randomly redistributed from the base game array to the bonus game array for use in a bonus game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: LNW Gaming, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Milosevich, John R. Vallejo, George Bouvier
  • Patent number: 11687740
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and method for determining a presence and/or type of an object positioned on a platform. The system may include: a tag reader configured to determine a type of an object, the object including a tag readable by the tag reader; a load cell configured to detect the presence of the object on a platform, the object having a known weight; and the platform including at least one face for receiving the object. The platform is communicatively coupled to the load cell and the tag reader. The presence of the object is detected by the load cell housed in the platform when the object is position on the at least one face of the platform. The type of the object is determined by the tag reader housed in the platform when the object is in physical proximity to the platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: PATENTLY MODERN, INC.
    Inventors: Alex Fleetwood, George Buckenham, Tim Burrell-Saward, Chris Shaw, Lyall Mccarthy, Elies Dekoninck
  • Patent number: 11678014
    Abstract: Creative intent input describing emotion expectations and narrative information relating to media content is received. Expected physiologically observable states relating to the media content are generated based on the creative intent input. An audiovisual content signal with the media content and media metadata comprising the physiologically observable states is provided to a playback apparatus. The audiovisual content signal causes the playback device to use physiological monitoring signals to determine, with respect to a viewer, assessed physiologically observable states relating to the media content and generate, based on the expected physiologically observable states and the assessed physiologically observable states, modified media content to be rendered to the viewer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Scott Daly, Poppy Anne Carrie Crum, Evan David Gitterman, Shane Mario Ruggieri
  • Patent number: 11615674
    Abstract: A gaming machine and method include a monetary input device, a user interface configured to: enable a player to select a wager for a game of chance having a skill-based activity, to interact with the game of chance using a gaming input device. A processor is programmed to enable the player to win a prize based at least in part on input from the gaming input device, and to set at least one parameter of the skill-based activity or the gaming input device to a first difficulty for winning the prize during a first game of a gaming session including a plurality of games, and to adjust the parameter to modify the difficulty to a second difficulty for winning the prize during a subsequent game of the gaming session to maintain a predetermined percentage or percentage range of money or credits returned to the player (RTP) during the gaming session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Gaming Arts, LLC
    Inventors: David Colvin, Eric D. Colvin
  • Patent number: 11574518
    Abstract: A jackpot machine with surround audio is provided. The jackpot machine includes a processor to process at least one audio to generate at least one 3D surround audio, a sending means to send the generated at least one 3D surround audio to a headphone worn by a player, and a display showing at least one graphical representation of a prize. The at least one graphical representation of the prize is associated with the at least one audio, and is perceived by the player to audibly and visually move around the player in accordance with the generated at least one 3D surround audio and the at least one graphical representation of the prize shown on the display respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Creative Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Wong Hoo Sim, Teck Chee Lee
  • Patent number: 11557178
    Abstract: An electronic gaming device includes a display device configured to display an electronic game that includes a dynamic wheel feature, a storage device storing a weighted table for the dynamic wheel feature, a processor programmed to: activate the dynamic wheel feature including displaying a wheel where each wheel section identifies an award; display an initial spin of the wheel; provide an initial award value by identifying a first entry in the weighted table indicating an initial award value; remove wheel sections from the displayed wheel that have award values that are less than or equal to the initial award value; perform a second spin of the wheel; and provide a second award value by identifying a second entry in the weighted table based on the third random number and which has an associated award value that is greater than the initial award value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Cuddy, Lyndsay Berger, Edgar Portigal
  • Patent number: 11557168
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine includes a processor configured to control a display device to display a matrix of award symbol display positions, in which at least some of the award symbol display positions include an award symbol. The processor is also configured to control the display device to display at least one selection indicium within the matrix, determine a starting award symbol display position and an ending award symbol display position within the matrix, randomly determine a path between the starting award symbol display position and the ending award symbol display position, control the display device to display the at least one selection indicium traversing the randomly determined path between the starting award symbol display position and the ending award symbol display position, and in response to the at least one selection indicium stopping on the ending award symbol display position, provide an award associated with the ending award symbol display position to a player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Katie Azbill, Zachary Smith
  • Patent number: 11551525
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods for providing heightened anticipation in poker games and other gaming activities where game indicia locations track across poker deals or other gaming events. In a poker context, card positions of a current poker hand(s) may be randomly or otherwise identified, and those card positions of a subsequent poker hand(s) will be accorded some heightened value and/or other enrichment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Inventor: Bradley Berman
  • Patent number: 11544995
    Abstract: Systems and methods that enable a user, such as a player, to manage persistent data, such as game state data, remote from any electronic gaming machine, such as via a mobile device executing a mobile device application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventor: Patrick Danielson
  • Patent number: 11527135
    Abstract: Gaming systems that provide an award digit covering and uncovering feature for a gaming environment, wherein when an award triggering event occurs, the part of the award provided to the player is based on which digits of the award are covered and which digits of the uncovered at the time of the occurrence of the award triggering event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventor: Darren Maya
  • Patent number: 11514756
    Abstract: An electronic gaming system is capable of forming a multi-player group to play a game; receiving, from a first gaming device, first game play information for a first game played by a first player member of the multi-player group on the first gaming device; determining that the first game play information comprises a first winning outcome corresponding to a first winning outcome; in response, allocating the first winning outcome among the first and second player members; and notifying a second gaming device of the second player member that the second player member has received the second portion of the first winning outcome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Fei Yi, Wei Gong
  • Patent number: 11511189
    Abstract: Gaming systems that provide a tile selection and award determination sequence for a gaming environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: David Twomey, Raymond Latham
  • Patent number: 11508220
    Abstract: Gaming systems and methods for providing a game and/or game feature in which images are divided in parts to form symbols or symbol parts, with the symbol parts being included in separate reels or groups from which they are randomly selected for display on a game screen, such as an array or grid formed by rows and columns. A winning or award outcome is determined based on the random game results displaying a completed image formed of the randomly displayed matching symbol parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Inventor: Aimin Cong
  • Patent number: 11493972
    Abstract: A system including a first Type-C port and a second Type-C port includes a mainboard and a sub-board. The mainboard includes battery terminals for connection to a battery, the first Type-C port, a primary switch-mode charger connected to the battery terminals and connected to the Type-C port, and an embedded controller. The sub-board includes the second Type-C port, and a secondary charging component connected to the second Type-C port and connected to the mainboard via a flexible connector. The embedded controller is configured to control the primary switch-mode charger and the secondary charging component for charging the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: David Schneider
  • Patent number: 11468742
    Abstract: Systems and method for providing a slot-type game in which a game outcome is reached that includes an active area and an inactive area, with any awards being determined by the position of randomly generated symbols in the active area, the active area increasing in size to include additional positions of randomly generated symbols from the inactive area responsive to an occurrence of a triggering event, wherein the triggering event is based on the satisfaction of a preset criteria associated with the active area of the game outcome, may result in enhanced awards and may be triggered one or more instances thereafter by the satisfaction of the preset criteria associated with the increased active area, each instance of being triggered resulting in the active area increasing in size until a maximum active area is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Inventor: Aimin Cong
  • Patent number: 11420108
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine and a method are provided which generates outcome presentations from a Class 2 or a central determination game outcome. A database stores RNG seeds that correspond to various presentations. To generate the outcome presentations, the RNG seeds are retrieved from the database and random numbers are generated from the RNG seeds. These random numbers are then used to generate the outcome presentations for the Class 2 or central determination game outcome. The RNG seeds may be stored as a series of RNG seeds which may be individually accessed to eliminate certain outcomes or sort certain outcomes prior to presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Edward Hennessy
  • Patent number: 11373477
    Abstract: On a network of electronic gaming machines, data regarding the performance of the machines or the players of the machines is collected and processed to make predictions of future jackpots and recommendations of games to play. The predictions and recommendations are delivered via at least one virtual persona that communicates with players or potential players via displays in a casino or on a web browser, via smartphone. Players can conduct conversations with the persona using cellular telephone, text messaging, or other types of Internet communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: ACRES TECHNOLOGY
    Inventor: John F. Acres