System and method of timing wagers in an integrated wagering and interactive media platform

• US 10,304,283 B2
• Filed: 12/16/2016
• Issued: 05/28/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Game Play Network, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Game Play Network, Inc.
• Inventors: Fine, Russell M., Marshall, David M., Tung, Douglas W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Laneau, Ronald
• Application Number:
  US15/381,290
• Publication Number:
  US 20170148265A1
• Time in Patent Office: 893 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/00 Video games, i.e. games using an electronically generated display having two or more dimensions gaming systems which provide a financial reward G07F17/32
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3209 Input means, e.g. buttons, touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3211 Display means
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3225 Data transfer within a gaming system, e.g. data sent between gaming machines and users
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3227 Configuring a gaming machine, e.g. downloading personal settings, selecting working parameters
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3241 Security aspects of a gaming system, e.g. detecting cheating, device integrity, surveillance computer security G06F21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3244 Payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/326 Game play aspects of gaming systems
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3262 Player actions which determine the course of the game, e.g. selecting a prize to be won, outcome to be achieved, game to be played
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3288 Betting, e.g. on live events, bookmaking

Abstract

The invention relates to systems and methods of selecting and placing real-world wagers responsive to one or more wager triggers, obtaining outcomes of the real-world wagers, facilitating user interactions with various interactive media, and revealing the outcomes of the real-world wagers through the interactive media to give an appearance that the outcomes of the real-world wagers resulted from the user interactions even though the outcomes resulted from the real-world wagers and were determined before the user interactions. A real-world wager may be initiated by one or more wager triggers that cause the real-world wager to be placed. The one or more wager triggers may include, without limitation, acquisition of a token, user selection or initiation of interactive media (e.g., selection of a game to play), an occurrence of an event in the interactive media (e.g., based on a user controlled or other in-game action), and/or other events.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method of triggering wagers through an interactive media application, the method being implemented in a computer system having one or more physical processors programmed with computer program instructions that, when executed by the one or more physical processors, cause the computer system to perform the method, the method comprising:

obtaining, by the computer system, physiological condition information that indicates a physiological condition of a user associated with a user device;

causing, by the computer system, a wager to be placed on behalf of the user based on the physiological condition information;

obtaining, by the computer system, an outcome of the wager;

updating, by the computer system, a user account balance associated with the user based on the outcome of the wager; and

causing, by the computer system, a reveal specification to be transmitted to the user device, wherein the reveal specification indicates at least a portion of the user account balance to be revealed to the user through the interactive media application.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the interactive media application comprises a first game, and wherein the wager is placed on behalf of the user before gameplay of the first game is initiated for the user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the interactive media application comprises a first game, and wherein the wager is placed on behalf of the user while the first game is played by the user.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the interactive media application comprises a first game, and wherein the wager is placed on behalf of the user before a given session in which the first game is played by the user.

5. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising:

initiating, by the computer system, the interactive media application based on timing information associated with availability of the outcome.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the timing information indicates whether the outcome has been determined.

7. The method of claim 5, the method further comprising:

determining, by the computer system, based on the timing information, an estimated time at which the outcome will become available, wherein the interactive media application is initiated based on the estimated time.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the interactive media application comprises a first game, the method further comprising:

providing, by the computer system, a reveal opportunity in the first game, wherein the portion of the user account balance is revealed to the user based on a user interaction satisfying one or more conditions associated with the reveal opportunity.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein causing the wager to be placed on behalf of the user comprises:

causing, by the computer system, the wager to be placed on behalf of the user through a third party wagering system.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the wager is associated with a plurality of potential events, at least one of which corresponds to a winning outcome of the wager, wherein causing the wager to be placed comprises selecting a first one of the plurality of potential events.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the user account balance is associated with a first balance representative of a revealed portion of the user account balance and a second balance representative of an unrevealed portion of the user account balance, and wherein updating the user account balance based on the outcome comprises:

incrementing, by the computer system, the second balance based on a payout of the outcome.

12. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising:

receiving, by the computer system, back from the interactive media application, information relating to an amount revealed to the user, in response to a user interaction, through the interactive media application; and

updating, by the computer system, the user account balance based on the information received back from the interactive media application.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the user account balance is associated with a first balance representative of a revealed portion of the user account balance and a second balance representative of an unrevealed portion of the user account balance, and wherein updating the user account balance based on the information received back from the interactive media application comprises:

decrementing, by the computer system, the second balance based on the amount revealed to the user; and

incrementing, by the computer system, the first balance based on the amount revealed to the user.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the physiological condition relates to a heartbeat of the user, a level of perspiration of the user, and/or a blood glucose level of the user.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the physiological condition information is obtained from a wearable device.

16. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising:

obtaining, by the computer system, a threshold value associated with the physiological condition information; and

determining, by the computer system, that the physiological condition information exceeds the threshold value, wherein the wager is further caused to be placed on behalf of the user based on the determination that the physiological condition information exceeds the threshold value.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein the portion of the user account balance is revealed to the user in response to a user input with a physical input associated with a user interaction with the interactive media application to give the appearance that the user won the revealed portion based on the user interaction.

18. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising:

obtaining, by the computer system, location information from the user device, wherein the wager is further caused to be placed on behalf of the user based on the location information.

19. A system of triggering wagers through an interactive media application, the system comprising:

a computer system comprising one or more physical processors programmed with computer program instructions that, when executed by the one or more physical processors, cause the computer system to;

obtain physiological condition information that indicates a physiological condition of a user associated with the user device;

cause a wager to be placed on behalf of the user based on the physiological condition information;

obtain an outcome of the wager;

update a user account balance associated with the user based on the outcome of the wager; and

cause a reveal specification to be transmitted to the user device, wherein the reveal specification indicates at least a portion of the user account balance to be revealed to the user through the interactive media application.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the interactive media application comprises a first game, and wherein the wager is placed on behalf of the user before gameplay of the first game is initiated for the user.

21. The system of claim 19, wherein the interactive media application comprises a first game, and wherein the wager is placed on behalf of the user while the first game is played by the user.

22. The system of claim 19, wherein the interactive media application comprises a first game, and wherein the wager is placed on behalf of the user before a given session in which the first game is played by the user.

23. The system of claim 19, wherein the computer system is further programmed to:

initiate the interactive media application based on timing information associated with availability of the outcome.

24. The system of claim 23, wherein the timing information indicates whether the outcome has been determined.

25. The system of claim 23, wherein the computer system is further programmed to:

determine, based on the timing information, an estimated time at which the outcome will become available, wherein the interactive media application is initiated based on the estimated time.

26. The system of claim 19, wherein the interactive media application comprises a first game, and wherein the computer system is further programmed to:

provide a reveal opportunity in the first game, wherein the portion of the user account balance is revealed to the user based on a user interaction satisfying one or more conditions associated with the reveal opportunity.

27. The system of claim 19, wherein to cause the wager to be placed on behalf of the user, the computer system is further programmed to:

cause the wager to be placed on behalf of the user through a third party wagering system.

28. The system of claim 19, wherein the wager is associated with a plurality of potential events, at least one of which corresponds to a winning outcome of the wager, wherein causing the wager to be placed comprises selecting a first one of the plurality of potential events.

29. The system of claim 19, wherein the user account balance is associated with a first balance representative of a revealed portion of the user account balance and a second balance representative of an unrevealed portion of the user account balance, and wherein to update the user account balance based on the outcome, the computer system is further programmed to:

increment the second balance based on a payout of the outcome.

30. The system of claim 19, wherein the computer system is further programmed to:

receive back from the interactive media application information relating to an amount revealed to the user, in response to a user interaction, through the interactive media application; and

update the user account balance based on the information received back from the interactive media application.

31. The system of claim 29, wherein the user account balance is associated with a first balance representative of a revealed portion of the user account balance and a second balance representative of an unrevealed portion of the user account balance, and wherein to update the user account balance based on the information received back from the interactive media application, the computer system is further programmed to:

decrement the second balance based on the amount revealed to the user; and

increment the first balance based on the amount revealed to the user.

32. The system of claim 19, wherein the physiological condition relates to a heartbeat of the user, a level of perspiration of the user, and/or a blood glucose level of the user.

33. The system of claim 19, wherein the physiological condition information is obtained from a wearable device.

34. The system of claim 19, wherein the computer system is further programmed to:

obtain a threshold value associated with the physiological condition information; and

determine that the physiological condition information exceeds the threshold value, wherein the wager is further caused to be placed on behalf of the user based on the determination that the physiological condition information exceeds the threshold value.

35. The system of claim 19, wherein the portion of the user account balance is revealed to the user in response to a user input with a physical input associated with a user interaction with the interactive media application to give the appearance that the user won the revealed portion based on the user interaction.

36. The system of claim 19, wherein the computer system is further programmed to:

obtain location information from the user device, wherein the wager is further caused to be placed on behalf of the user based on the location information.