Mobile control for electronic gaming machine and tables

• US 10,380,839 B2
• Filed: 08/10/2018
• Issued: 08/13/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LNW Gaming Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Bally Gaming Incorporated (Scientific Games Corporation)
• Inventors: Lyons, Martin S., Kelly, Bryan M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Shah, Milap
• Assistant Examiner(s): Pinheiro, Jason
• Application Number:
  US16/100,617
• Publication Number:
  US 20180350186A1
• Time in Patent Office: 368 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3227 Configuring a gaming machine, e.g. downloading personal settings, selecting working parameters
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/323 wherein the player is informed, e.g. advertisements, odds, instructions
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3239 Tracking of individual players
• 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 17/3288 Betting, e.g. on live events, bookmaking

Abstract

Disclosed is a system and method for enhanced mobile control of electronic gaming machines and tables. In one aspect, statistical information is provided to a player in convenient and useful formats. Also disclosed are approaches to providing convenient transactions that a player can employ to fund game play.

Claims

1. A method for providing play of a game on an apparatus via a mobile device connected to the apparatus by a network, the method comprising:

transmitting from the apparatus to a stream redirector interposed between the apparatus and the mobile device, two or more streams of video and graphical data related to the game, wherein the graphical data includes playing statistics;

resealing and repositioning, by the stream director, the content of the two or more streams of video and graphical data to suit display characteristics of a single touch screen video display incorporated into the mobile device;

assembling, by the screen redirector, the two or more streams of video and graphical data into a single video stream for display on the single touch screen video display;

receiving, at the screen redirector, inputs from the mobile device related to play of the game, the inputs including coordinate data corresponding to touches at the touch screen video display; and

remapping, by the screen director for use by the apparatus, the coordinate data from the mobile device to a coordinate system of the apparatus.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the apparatus comprises a table game.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the table game is Roulette.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising enabling a player to set bet strategy across gaming sessions via the inputs.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising adjusting, by the stream redirector, screen resolution and bitrate of the single video stream to match capabilities of the mobile device and the network.

6. A system for providing play of a game on an apparatus via a mobile device connected to the apparatus by a network, the system comprising:

the apparatus, configured to transmit two or more streams of video and graphical data related to the game, wherein the graphical data includes playing statistics;

the mobile device, the mobile device comprising a single touch screen video display; and

a stream redirector interposed between the apparatus and the mobile device, the stream redirector configured to;

receive the two or more streams of video and graphical data;

rescale and reposition the content of the two or more streams of video and graphical data to match display characteristics of the single touch screen video display;

assemble the two or more streams of video and graphical data into a single video stream for display on the single touch screen video display;

receive inputs from the mobile device related to play of the game, the inputs including coordinate data corresponding to touches at the touch screen video display; and

remap the coordinate data from the mobile device to a coordinate system of the apparatus.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the apparatus comprises a table game.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the table game is Roulette.

9. The system of claim 6, further comprising enabling a player to set bet strategy across gaming sessions via the inputs.

10. The system of claim 6, wherein the stream redirector adjusts screen resolution and bitrate of the single video stream to match capabilities of the mobile device and network.