Data Storage Or Retrieval (e.g., Memory, Video Tape, Etc.) Patents (Class 463/43)
  • Patent number: 11925867
    Abstract: A processor is capable of assessing plural driving assessment items with mutually different details on the basis of driving operations of a vehicle. A game is displayed at a display part of an operation terminal by execution of a game application. The processor assigns modification factors generated in accordance with assessment results of the driving assessment items to a character in the game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masato Endo
  • Patent number: 11925866
    Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for modifying network applications. For instance, remote system(s) may store an application on a first virtual storage device and store a modification for the application on a second virtual storage device. The remote system(s) may then install the application on a virtual server using the first virtual storage device. Additionally, the remote system(s) may receive a request to access the application along with an indication to enable the modification for the application. Based on the request, the remote system(s) may modify the application on the virtual server using the second virtual storage device. The remote system(s) may then launch the application, as modified, on the virtual server. Once the application is launched, the system(s) may provide the application to a user device using the virtual server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Matt Adams, Ryan Panella, Samuel Arthur Sidney Bartlett, Onur Bulut, Robin Andrew Boaz
  • Patent number: 11925874
    Abstract: A modular multi-system gaming console can be configurable for use in conjunction with expansion consoles (also referred to as expansion modules, expansion units, and/or element modules herein) as a gaming console emulator and/or for use as an audio/video converter (e.g., an up-converter), data recorder, or streaming device. Further, the modular multi-system gaming console can evoke the original gaming experience of a game played on original hardware. A modular multi-system gaming console can provide a consistent platform for display, content management, statistical storage and analysis (e.g., high scores, fastest speed runs, etc.), and live streaming and other services (including core services described herein) across a multitude of gaming console platforms. A modular multi-system gaming console can also provide a more authentic game experience via active cartridge reading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: PUSH-RUN HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Bryan Alan Bernal, Eric Christensen, Robert Wyatt
  • Patent number: 11918928
    Abstract: A method for interacting with a playset comprises acquiring, using a sensor on a mobile device, data corresponding to the playset, and selecting a virtual presentation to display on the mobile device based on the data. The method further comprises displaying, on the display, the virtual presentation while the mobile device is mounted with the playset. The virtual presentation comprises virtual content corresponding to at least one of an interior of the playset and a first physical object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan D. Nocon, Janice K. Rosenthal, Michael P. Goslin, Hunter J. Gibson, Dawson M. Dill
  • Patent number: 11921751
    Abstract: Technologies for data capture and data analysis include a system having a knowledge repository in which all input data is stored as objects and relationships between objects, and each object represents at least one container of one or more properties. The knowledge repository is capable of storing the input data according to more than one storage format. The system may also include a user interface providing an input mechanism to obtain the input data, object information that defines one or more of the properties, and relationship information that defines one or more of the relationships. The system includes a controller configured to receive the input data, the object information, and the relationship information from the user interface and to cause the input data to be stored in the knowledge repository as at least one object based on the object information and the relationship information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: BEULAHWORKS, LLC
    Inventors: Site Guo, Robert E. Johnson, Blaine Robert Hilton, David A. Nevill
  • Patent number: 11918894
    Abstract: Methods for tagging content in a video game title during game play executed on a game cloud system, and social sharing methods. One method includes receiving a pause indication during the game play and suspending the game play to hold the video game title in a current frame image, storing the game state, and receiving the tag data that is associated to a location in the current frame image and to a user identifier for the current frame image. The method further includes generating a video recording of the game play having the tag data and generating a mini-game from a portion of the video game title. The mini-game includes a playable portion to enable view of a portion of the video recording for the mini-game and an executable portion to enable the play of game code for the mini-game that is a portion of the video game title.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
    Inventors: David Perry, Michael Taylor, Warren Benedetto, Dominic S. Mallinson
  • Patent number: 11924226
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for identifying a fraudulent device. A device analytics engine receives device data from a computing device, the device data including parameters associated with the computing device. The device analytics engine selects a set of rules in a plurality of rules that indicate at least one parameter in the plurality of parameters in the device data for determining a device identifier. The set of rules are evaluated in an order until the device identifier is determined from the at least one parameter indicated in the set of rules, the device data, and previously stored data from multiple computing devices. A score is generated for the computing device using one or more of the device identifier, device data, a set of rules, and previously receive device data that corresponds to the device identifier. A computing device is identified as a fraudulent computing device based on the score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Anupam Tarsauliya, Ravi Shanker Sandepudi, Yugal Sharma, Sai Krishna Pinna
  • Patent number: 11911662
    Abstract: This application discloses a method to use sensors for games of skill relating to physical exercise. The method may employ the use of sensors that can collect data, including location using GPS, sense barometric pressure, steps walked, blood oxygen levels, navigational directions, gyroscopic movement, heart rate, and many other data types. Players may challenge other players to competitions wherein the players make a challenge wherein a winning player is rewarded a wager. Data collected by the sensors may be used for metrics to determine the winning player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Wunup LLC
    Inventor: Blake Richards
  • Patent number: 11911688
    Abstract: A game employing user-modifiable game components, such as cards in a collectable card game, employs various features to provide user-modifiability, including sleeves, transparent cards, stickers, and other elements. Electronic versions of the game and various other features are included, including tracking of history associated with such components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: WIZARDS OF THE COAST LLC
    Inventors: Frank Gilson, Cormac Russell, Paul Sottosanti, Randy Buehler, Ramon Arjona, Karl Robert Gutschera, Brandon Anthony Bozzi, Aaron Joel Forsythe
  • Patent number: 11911691
    Abstract: A display device includes an external device interface to which an external device is input, a display configured to output a screen, and a processor configured to sense an input of the external device, determine whether a content type provided from the external device is a game, obtain game genre information of a game when the content type is the game, and control an output brightness of the screen output through the display by increasing or decreasing an input brightness of the screen input from the external device by a predetermined value based on the game genre information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yongjae Jo, Sungdae Ahn
  • Patent number: 11911676
    Abstract: The utility model relates to the technical field of throwing toys, and discloses a structure of a lighting effect structure for a sandbag game board. The lighting effect structure for a sandbag game board includes a lighting effect assembly, a sandbag board configured to mount the lighting effect assembly, and a remote control configured to remotely control the lighting effect assembly. The lighting effect assembly for a sandbag game board includes a hole light strip, a board light strip, a sensing detection module configured to detect that a sandbag enters a hole, a vibration detection module configured to detect that the sandbag hits a board, and a voice playback module configured to perform voice prompt in cooperation with the sensing detection module and the vibration detection module. The hole light strip is embedded in an inner part of a hole on the sandbag board, and the board light strip is embedded at an outer edge of the sandbag board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Inventor: Wanghui Xiong
  • Patent number: 11915220
    Abstract: An apparatus for dynamic credit card reader mode management is provided, the apparatus including: a point-of sale (POS) terminal, configured to accept employee login credentials via a magnetic stripe card, to display menu items for selection, to add selected menu items to an order, and to accept payment for the order, where the payment may be obtained via swipe, dip, or tap, the POS terminal including: a first card reader, configured to read first provided cards when enabled; a second card reader, configured to read second provided cards when enabled; and a dual reader controller, coupled to the first and second card readers, configured to determine one or more workflow states of the POS terminal, and configured to dynamically control modes of the first and second card readers according to the one or more workflow states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Toast, Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Hanley, Stephen Kirk, Chance Ashley Kirsch
  • Patent number: 11908285
    Abstract: Networked gaming systems and methods with location-based restrictions. A gaming system includes a game administration server, a communication interface, and a memory containing program instructions to cause at least one processor of the game administration server to estimate a current location of a player using the gaming system, dynamically create a customized list of available games for a player at the current location based on a location of a player gaming client being used by the player, present the customized list of available games to the player gaming client through the communications interface, receive, from the player gaming client through the communications interface, a selection of a game by the player from the customized list of available games, initiate the game on a gaming server, and compensate the player with player winnings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: AG 18, LLC
    Inventors: Jordan Simons, Nicholas Koustas, John Mix, Alexander Oxman
  • Patent number: 11910062
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating and displaying groupings of content recommendations using personas are provided. The system determines content for each of the plurality of personas. The determined content for each of the plurality of personas comprises content that shares a common genre or theme for each persona. The system populates each of the plurality of personas using the determined content for each of the plurality of personas. The system then causes display of at least some of the plurality of personas on a viewing device of a user. The at least some of the plurality of personas is selected for the user based on device data corresponding to the user, whereby the device data indicates user preferences and interactions with previous content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: OPENTV, INC.
    Inventors: Crx K. Chai, Alex Fishman, Danielle Maslow Zimmerman, Robert Chen, David Daniel Kempe, Colin Shengcai Zhao
  • Patent number: 11908267
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine includes a display device and a processor configured to execute instructions stored in a memory, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to generate a game-state-retention sign based upon a plurality of game variables representing a state of a wagering game, where the game-state-retention sign includes a first two-dimensional machine-recognisable image that encodes the plurality of game variables. When executed, the instructions also cause the processor to display the game-state-retention sign on the display device for image capture by a handheld player device, where the handheld player device is configured to display a game-continuation sign generated from the game-state-retention sign for resuming play of the wagering game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventor: Natalie Bryant
  • Patent number: 11904247
    Abstract: A content image display section displays a content image. A system image display section superimposes a system image on the content image and displays the images in response to a user operation. The system image display section is provided with a chat information display section for displaying information related to a voice chat. A member display section displays members of one voice chat room in which the user stays. A chat list display section displays a list of a plurality of voice chat rooms in which the user stays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Shogo Suzuki, Takuma Oiwa, Masashi Takeuchi, Hiroki Hirakawa, Steven Trombetta
  • Patent number: 11900736
    Abstract: A mobile device for use in an electronic logging device (ELD) system may include a processor and one or more memories which store, singularly or in combination, one or more instructions, which when executed by the processor cause the mobile device to carry out one or more operations. The one or more operations may include reading a machine readable code configured to be coupled to a vehicle, connecting to an ELD dongle based, at least in part, on the machine readable code, receiving data from the ELD dongle, and generating one or more mobile device reports based, at least in part, on the received data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Stoneridge, Inc.
    Inventors: Fabio B. Nista, Anderson Fernandes, Stuart Adams, Leandro Martins Salado
  • Patent number: 11900406
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of controlling a probability of a probability-based item provision system, which includes measuring an amount of use of an item provision system during a first time interval, comparing the measurement result with a first threshold, and changing the probability of the item provision system within a predetermined range during a second time interval after the first time interval, based on a result of the comparing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: NEXON KOREA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Dong Soo Yeo
  • Patent number: 11878239
    Abstract: A gaming system may allow for a user to capture and/or edit simulation state data of gameplay in a video game such that a replay of the gameplay may be rendered and/or shared. The gaming system may receive simulation state data and a request. The simulation state data may include simulation state(s) which include a model and pose state of an avatar corresponding to a player in a game simulation of a video game previously rendered as rendered view(s). The request may request a replay of the simulation state data with modification(s). The gaming system may modify the simulation state data to generate modified simulation state data and render, based on the modified simulation state data, replay view(s) that differ from the previously rendered view(s). The gaming system may then output the replay view(s) to a display of a computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Electronic Arts Inc.
    Inventors: Clayton W. Vaught, Cullen J. Waters, Jr., James Lawrence Ricker
  • Patent number: 11881081
    Abstract: Systems and methods for synchronizing client data structures with session events are disclosed. The system can establish a session responsive to a request from a host client device associated with a host player profile. The system can configure the host player profile to share records of events performed via the host player profile during the session, and can receive requests to join the session, each request associated with a respective viewer player profile. The system can receive a request from a viewer to permit automatic population of records corresponding to events performed via the host player profile during the session. The system can detect an event performed via the host player profile during the session, and generate a record corresponding to the event in the viewer player profile, which is used to enable performance of a corresponding event having the same event parameters via the viewer player profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: DK Crown Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Jordan Mendell, Edward Zaleski, Ethan Haskell
  • Patent number: 11878242
    Abstract: This application discloses a method for displaying a virtual environment picture performed by a computer device. The method includes: displaying a first virtual environment picture obtained by observing a virtual environment by using a first observation position; displaying, in response to receiving a first directional instruction generated by a first directional operation, a directional skill indicator pointing to a first direction; and in accordance with a determination that a length of the directional skill indicator is greater than a distance threshold in the first virtual environment picture, displaying a second virtual environment picture obtained by observing the virtual environment by using a second observation position, the second virtual environment picture including the directional skill indicator, and the second observation position being in the first direction of the first observation position or in a surrounding region in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jiacheng Wei, Xun Hu, Shandong Su, Xiangyu Zhang, Yong Zhang, Kang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11872493
    Abstract: An information processing program causes a computer to realize: an obtaining unit that obtains item possession information indicating whether or not a player possesses a first item, which can be obtained by executing predetermined processing in a game, first item information indicating the first item managed in association with the processing, and executable processing information indicating the processing that can be executed by the player; and an output-information generating unit (319) that generates output information for reporting that the first item can be obtained in a display screen displaying information concerning the first item not possessed by the player in the case where it is determined, on the basis of the item possession information, that the player does not possess the first item and it is determined, on the basis of the first item information and the executable processing information, that the player can execute processing by which the first item can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: CYGAMES, INC.
    Inventors: Keisuke Nakahara, Takuya Okazawa
  • Patent number: 11875423
    Abstract: A platform for wagering on sporting events that includes two novel features that may be implemented separately or in combination. First, by selecting the outcome of a number of sporting events, the participant is in effect wagering on the outcome of each selected sporting event individually and each combination of the selected sporting events. Secondly, point spreads may be listed as whole integers (or even a range), creating the possibility that the outcome of the sporting event will match the point spread exactly. Participants are therefore given the option to select that the outcome of the sporting event will match the point spread exactly (sometimes referred to as a “push”), increasing the odds of a correct prediction and increasing the potential payout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: GAMEDAYMATCH LLC
    Inventor: William E. Hogwood
  • Patent number: 11865453
    Abstract: A simulation system includes a processor including hardware. The processor is configured to perform an information acquiring process of acquiring position information about a user moving in a real space; a game process for a game played by the user; a virtual space setting process of setting a virtual space; a display process of generating, as a virtual space image, a display image in which an image of a user character corresponding to the user is displayed at a position in the virtual space corresponding to a position of the user in the real space; and a change process of changing, when a change condition is determined to be satisfied, at least one of the image of the user character corresponding to the user, an image of another user character corresponding to the other user, and an image of an disposed object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: BANDAI NAMCO ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Kunito Komori, Hirofumi Motoyama
  • Patent number: 11869309
    Abstract: A system which makes available game outcome data to a player to enable the player to access a post-play reproduction of a game outcome previously determined utilizing the game outcome data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Dwayne R. Nelson, Bruno Rittner, Matthew Hiu, Shuangliang Zheng
  • Patent number: 11865454
    Abstract: An example of an information processing apparatus acquires action data based on an output of a sensor according to a fitness action performed by a player, and executes a game event. In the game event, the information processing apparatus designates at least one type of fitness event from among a plurality of types of fitness events. Each fitness event causes the player to perform a fitness action. During the game event, the information processing apparatus executes a fitness event that causes the player to perform a fitness action corresponding to the designated fitness event until an ending condition is satisfied. The information processing apparatus determines whether or not the achievement condition has been satisfied, based on the action data acquired during the fitness event. The information processing apparatus repeats designation and execution of the fitness event until it is determined that the achievement condition has been satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Suzuki, Masaki Wada
  • Patent number: 11865455
    Abstract: A strategy system is described that generates a strategy guide for a gameplay session at an arcade machine. To do so, the strategy system leverages a game-specific hash generated by a hashing system, which includes data describing a log of events that occurred during the gameplay session. The strategy guide includes a summary of the gameplay session curated based on a combination of a particular user associated with the gameplay session, a rulebook describing gameplay event scoring, and the specific event sequence described in the game-specific hash. The game-specific hash and the strategy guide are configured for output based on various considerations, such as display capabilities and network connections of the computing devices implementing the strategy system and/or the hashing system as well as characteristics of a computing device at which the strategy guide is output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Paradigm Tilt LLC
    Inventor: Anthony Michael van Winkle
  • Patent number: 11857883
    Abstract: A method for gaming assistance. Information relating to game plays of player for a gaming application is received at a back-end server. A current game context of a first game play of a first player is determined from the information. Historical expert game contexts of expert game plays of experts that have played the gaming application are determined from the information. An assistance query related to the first game play is received. The current game context of the first player is compared to the historical expert game contexts to determine at least one expert having a corresponding historical expert game context that matches the first game context. A first expert is assigned to the first player for obtaining assistance. A communication session is generated between a device of the first expert and a device of the first player to enable the first expert to render assistance to the first player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
    Inventors: Warren Benedetto, Landon Noss, Andrew Herman, Tom Srisook, Chad Rolinski, Parsa Shirazi
  • Patent number: 11854008
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments may include a system that may receive, from a user device associated with a user, authentication rule(s), each authentication rule associated with respective merchant(s) and comprising respective required authentication factor(s) for completing a transaction with the respective merchant(s). The system may identify a user has navigated to a merchant webpage and may determine at least one rule of the authentication rule(s) associated with the merchant. The system may identify first required authentication factor(s) corresponding to the at least one rule, and may cause the user device to display, via a GUI, the first required authentication factor(s). The system may receive, via the user device, authentication information associated with the user. The system may determine whether the authentication information satisfies the first required authentication factor(s). Responsive to making that determination, the system may enable the user to complete a transaction via the merchant webpage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventor: Abel Fletcher
  • Patent number: 11850516
    Abstract: A system and method for dynamically determining parameters of crafting activities for individual users in a virtual space are disclosed. The crafting activity parameters may be determined based on rate of usage of the virtual space by the users. In some examples, a user usage rate of the virtual space may be determined to measure an amount of time a user spend in the virtual space during a period of real-world time. Based on the determined user usage rate of the virtual space, crafting activity parameters may be determined, for example, to balance differences in time spent in the virtual space by the users. In some implementations, for such determinations of the crafting activity parameters, one or more user normalization standards may be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Kabam, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Curtis, James Koh, Kellen Christopher Smalley, Michael C. Caldarone
  • Patent number: 11850517
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a gaming system with particular features are provided herein. In particular, a gaming system can provide nested object packages. In some embodiments, the gaming system can monitor user monitoring service calls in third party platforms and implement associated features. In some embodiments, the gaming system can receive developer modifications and schedule multiple updates of the gaming system. In some embodiments, the gaming system can determine inter squad dynamics based on character traits. In some embodiments, the gaming system can provide modified game data to a first set of users and unmodified game data to a second set of users. In some embodiments, the gaming system can generate actions for groups of characters based on user swipes. In some embodiments, the gaming system can implement a player proxy for a player. In some embodiments, the gaming system can use search nodes and agents to map territories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Carbonated Inc.
    Inventors: Travis Boatman, Christopher Carlson, Frank Austin Keller, Kolbe Launchbaugh, Lloyd Tullues, Nikolaas Van Wonterghem
  • Patent number: 11839823
    Abstract: A game program instructions executable by a processor to perform operations comprising: placing a predetermined number of nonplayer characters in a battle space; controlling the battle between the nonplayer character and the playing character in the battle space; rendering the battle state with a virtual camera and displaying on the display; the operations further comprising: counting the number of playing characters placed in the battle space; excluding a defeated nonplayer character from battle when the nonplayer character is defeated; relocating the excluded nonplayer character to the battle space after a predetermined respawn time elapsed; calculating the respawn time according to the counted number of playing characters and controlling the time to reposition the excluded nonplayer character to the battle space based on the respawn time calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Hiraro
  • Patent number: 11833431
    Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling a computer and the like that cause players to effectively use possessed game contents in a game and increase the attractiveness of the game. The computer includes a storage unit that stores one or more game contents possessed by a player and a game content group, the one or more game contents each having a parameter value, the game content group being composed by using at least one of the one or more game contents, and makes a game proceed based on an instruction from a player. The method includes the steps of modifying the parameter value of a common game content in the game content group possessed by the player and being the same type as the one or more game contents other than the game content group, and processing an event by using the game content group whose parameter value is modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Takashi Shiratori
  • Patent number: 11823533
    Abstract: Gaming systems and methods for determining which features, if any, to activate in association with one or more plays of a game based on a current value of a progressive award.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventor: Ginese Weyant
  • Patent number: 11813529
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a process to predict an outcome of a competition includes receiving time-stamped position information of participant(s), the time-stamped position information captured by a telemetry tracking system during the competition. The process includes calculating while the competition is ongoing a covariate parameter for each of one or more participants at a point in time, where each respective covariate parameter is derived from the time-stamped position information of a corresponding participant at the point in time. The process includes predicting the outcome of the competition, as of the point in time, based at least in part on (i) a difference between a calculated competitor strength of the first competitor the second competitor based on historical data associated with the competitors, and (ii) the calculated first covariate parameter(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Tempus Ex Machina, Inc.
    Inventors: Erik Schwartz, Michael Naquin, Christopher Brown, Steve Xing, Pawel Czarnecki, Charles D. Ebersol
  • Patent number: 11816961
    Abstract: In various embodiments, players may compete in a gaming context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: CFPH, LLC
    Inventor: Howard W. Lutnick
  • Patent number: 11816958
    Abstract: Gaming systems and methods for determining which features, if any, to activate in association with one or more plays of a game based on a current value of a progressive award.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventor: Ginese Weyant
  • Patent number: 11813521
    Abstract: Some implementations of this application are directed to a server system including one or more CPUs, a plurality of GPUs, main dynamic memory storing programs and data for use by the CPUs and/or GPUs during program execution, a static memory pool stored in a non-volatile memory, and a memory controller configured to manage the static memory pool. Each of the GPUs includes a local cache and is configured to access the static memory pool via the memory controller. The server system executes a plurality of gaming sessions for a gaming title in parallel on the one or more CPUs. Each of the plurality of gaming sessions is associated with a static data item stored in the static memory pool, and requires a graphics operation executable by a respective GPU using the static data item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Paul Lalonde, Paul Leventis, Jean-François Roy
  • Patent number: 11810429
    Abstract: A primary game having a plurality of outcomes is provided to a first player of a first gaming device. In response to one of the plurality of outcomes, a first game asset for a secondary game is provided to the first player. The secondary game includes a contest between the first player having the first game asset and a second player having a second game asset, and an outcome of the contest of the secondary game is based at least in part on comparing a first asset value of the first game asset and a second asset value of the second game asset. In some examples, the secondary game may be a fantasy sports game, a deck building card game, or a scavenger hunt game, in which some or all of the assets are obtained via the primary game(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Dwayne Nelson, Christina Spaulding, Alison Kenney
  • Patent number: 11806619
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable recording medium having stored thereon instructions to be executed on by a game server, the game server and corresponding method which cause the game server to perform the steps of: provide a networked multiplayer battle game over a network, storing a battle history including an identifier of an opponent with whom a user has battled in the multiplayer battle game; determining, based on the battle history and an identifier of an opponent with whom a battle begins, a procedure for conducting the battle in the battle game to be one of a first mode for conducting the battle based on user operations and a second mode for conducting the battle with fewer user operations than in the first mode, and conducting the battle with the determined procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventors: Masahito Maeda, Yasushi Mikawa
  • Patent number: 11806627
    Abstract: An item can be provided to a user by a lottery and the item odds can be changed in accordance with a prescribed condition. A control method, performed by a server device connected via a communication line to a terminal device operated by a user, can be initiated by selecting a lottery mode from among a plurality of lottery modes. Following the selection of the lottery mode, the system may hold a drawing from among a plurality of types of items on the basis of the selected lottery mode, and, following the holding of the drawing, may ensure that the won item is provided to the user via the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Takayuki Sano
  • Patent number: 11806625
    Abstract: A method for emulating a disc swap operation during a play of a legacy game is described. The method includes receiving a user input during the play of the legacy game, determining that the disc swap operation is to be executed based on the user input, and identifying one or more emulated processing unit (PU) code instructions that are included within the disc swap operation during the play of the legacy game. The method further includes compiling, during the play of the legacy game, one or more basic blocks from the one or more emulated PU code instructions, and emulating the disc swap operation. The operation of emulating the disc swap operation includes executing a swap patch emulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
    Inventors: Ernesto Corvi, George Weising, David Thach
  • Patent number: 11804154
    Abstract: The present invention provides a smart interactive display device, a smart interactive display system, and an interactive display method thereof. The method comprises steps of: a sensing device sensing a body signal emitted by a human body, outputting a sensing signal correspondingly, and transmitting the sensing signal to a control unit; the control unit driving an image extraction unit to start according to the sensing signal for extracting an image and uploading the image to an artificial intelligence unit; the control unit obtaining a corresponding message corresponding to an analysis result produced by the artificial intelligence unit by analyzing the image; and the control unit outputting an assigned information content assigned by the corresponding message to the display device for playing. By enabling interaction with users, the smart interactive display system can be more friendly to users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: AmTRAN Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kuo Chih Lo
  • Patent number: 11801444
    Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that has a memory to store instructions and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein responsive to executing the instructions, the processor performs operations that include defining a group of perspectives around an avatar controlled by a player of a video game, detecting a current trigger during the video game, recording a trigger clip of game content for each perspective in the group of perspectives resulting in a group of trigger clips, wherein each trigger clip of the group of trigger clips is a portion of game content that includes the current trigger from each perspective of the group of perspectives, and providing the group of trigger clips over a communication network to a gaming device utilized by the player. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: STEELSERIES ApS
    Inventors: Jeffrey Nicholas Mahlmeister, Thane Kurt Woidan, Thomas J. Panfil, Tino Soelberg
  • Patent number: 11786827
    Abstract: This application discloses a map switching method in a virtual game environment performed at a computer device. The method includes: launching a process corresponding to a round of racing game for a client at the computer device, the round of racing game having a plurality of virtual maps that are spliced together and including a first virtual map and a second virtual map that is connected to the first virtual map through a first teleporter; obtaining a travel position of a first virtual racing car in a first virtual map, the first virtual racing car being controlled by a first account logged into the client; and teleporting the first virtual racing car from the first virtual map to the second virtual map in the round of racing game when the travel position reaches the first teleporter in the first virtual map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Haiyuan Guo, Yan Xia, Wei Sun, Lei Zheng, Jing Liu
  • Patent number: 11790733
    Abstract: A system for modifying video of a live sporting event to include details of a micro market wager. A wagering platform that offers wagers on micro markets inside of a sporting event can produce personalized content for each user around highlights of their wagering experience. The modified video can be shared with the user's contacts and the user can receive shared modified videos from their contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: AdrenalineIP
    Inventors: Casey Alexander Huke, John Cronin, Joseph W. Beyers, Michael D'Andrea, Harrison Grant, Michael Baker
  • Patent number: 11786824
    Abstract: Implementations described herein relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media to automatically detect prohibited content. For example, a method can include receiving data associated with a game hosted on a gaming platform, the data indicative of at least one developer, at least one user, and game content, automatically assigning a classification to the game with a machine learning model, the classification based on the data indicative of the at least one developer, at least one user, and game content, determining whether the classification of the game meets a safety threshold, and based on determining that the classification of the game does not meet the safety threshold, identifying the game as having prohibited content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Roblox Corporation
    Inventors: Matt Kaufman, Shyna Khurana, Dean Neal Browne, Arthur Remy Malan
  • Patent number: 11786820
    Abstract: A non-fungible token (NFT) platform operates by: accessing, via a network interface, a plurality of game NFTs, each of the plurality of game NFTs including a playable instance of an associated game that is accessible by a user of a client device; generating, via a processor, display data associated with a customized collection display that contains the plurality of game NFTs; sending, via the network interface, the display data associated with a customized collection display to the client device for display via a graphical user interface associated with the client device; receiving, via the graphical user interface, a selection of one the plurality of game NFTs for play of the associated game; and facilitating, via the network interface, play of the associated game in conjunction with the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Galiant Arts, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Meyers, Bruce E. Stuckman, John W. Howard, Brian G. Howard, Gregory Meador
  • Patent number: 11779848
    Abstract: A system and method for facilitating implementation of events in an online game are disclosed. Award information may be received from user. The received award information may define a type of in-game award to be distributed to players of the online game. The award information may include information indicate a corresponding award handler for determine and/or distributing the instances of the award to the players. Event information may be received from user. The received event information may specify details for implementing an event in the online game. The received event information may include event award information indicating one or more instances of an award of an award type defined by the received award information. The event information may be used to automatically implement the event in the online game, and the instances of the award may be distributed to the participating players in accordance with the event award information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Kabam, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff Howell, Benjamin Talbot, Thierry Tremblay, Dan Stovell
  • Patent number: 11771985
    Abstract: A method for dramatizing video gaming is disclosed. The method includes receiving over a network from a client device contextual data corresponding to game play of a player playing a gaming application. The method includes identifying an event of dramatic significance is occurring or likely will occur in the game play based on the contextual data and historical data of a plurality of game plays relating to the gaming application. The method includes generating information dramatizing the event of dramatic significance. The method includes surfacing the information in connection with the game play.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
    Inventors: Warren Benedetto, Landon Noss