Method for establishing a wager for a game

• US 10,522,003 B2
• Filed: 05/22/2014
• Issued: 12/31/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Interactive Games Limited (BGC Group, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Interactive Games Limited (BGC Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Leen, Fergus A., Lawrence, Sam B., McNally, David G., Hetherington, Clive nmi, McDowell, David M., O'Neal, Kevin R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Duffy, David
• Application Number:
  US14/285,191
• Publication Number:
  US 20150024832A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,049 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3223 Architectural aspects of a gaming system, e.g. internal configuration, master/slave, wireless communication
• 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 17/323 wherein the player is informed, e.g. advertisements, odds, instructions
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3234 about the performance of a gaming system, e.g. revenue, diagnosis of the gaming system
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3237 about the players, e.g. profiling, responsible gaming, strategy/behavior of players, location of players
• 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 17/3255 Incentive, loyalty and/or promotion schemes, e.g. comps, gaming associated with a purchase, gaming funded by advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3276 wherein the players compete, e.g. tournament
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3286 Type of games
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3293 Card games, e.g. poker, canasta, black jack

Abstract

In a particular embodiment of the invention, a system for establishing a wager associated with a game comprises a processor that receives information about a wager offer, wherein the wager offer is associated with an online game. The processor also receives information about a wager acceptance. The wager offer and the wager acceptance combine to form a wager, wherein the wager is associated with at least one wager parameter. The system further comprises a memory communicatively coupled to the processor and that stores information associated with the at least one wager parameter.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a network interface;

a memory;

at least one processor to;

transmit, via the network interface, to a plurality of remote devices, a plurality of gaming applications, each gaming application being configured to render a betting window upon execution, in response to a game event triggered during gameplay resulting from execution of each gaming application, and to change a state of the gameplay;

update, via the network interface, the plurality of remote devices on game events triggered during the plurality of gaming applications in real-time;

receive, via the network interface, data representing a first wager offer from a first device;

search information associated with a first user of the first device stored in the memory;

validate the first wager offer based on the information associated with the first user;

search information associated with a second user of a second device stored in the memory;

validate the information associated with the second user;

forward, via the network interface, the first wager offer to the second device, in response to validating the information associated with the second user;

receive, via the network interface, data representing an acceptance of the first wager offer from the second device; and

filter event information generated by the plurality of gaming applications to identify one or more events that relates to the first wager offer;

determine an outcome of the first wager offer based on the one or more events filtered from the event information generated by the plurality of gaming applications; and

cause the betting window displayed on respective screens of the first device and the second device to generate an update regarding the outcome of the first wager offer.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, in which the at least one processor is further configured to communicate, via the network interface, indicia of the outcome of the first wager offer to the first device and the second device.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to monitor characteristics of user interaction with the plurality of gaming applications.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to generate information associated with each user interacting with one of the plurality of gaming applications based on the monitored characteristics.

5. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the information associated with each user interacting with a given gaming application comprises at least one of event information, statistics information, and wager records.

6. A method comprising:

transmitting, by at least one processor, to a plurality of remote devices, a plurality of gaming applications over a network each gaming application being configured to render a betting window upon execution, in response to a game event triggered during gameplay resulting from execution of each gaming application , and to change a state of the gameplay;

updating, by the at least one processor, the plurality of remote devices in real-time on game events triggered during gameplay resulting from execution of the plurality of gaming applications;

receiving, by the at least one processor, data representing a first wager offer from a first device via the network;

searching, by the at least one processor, information associated with a first user of the first device stored in a memory;

validating, by the at least one processor, the first wager offer based on the information associated with the first user;

searching, by the at least one processor, information associated with a second user of a second device stored in the memory;

validating, by the at least one processor, the information associated with the second user;

forwarding, by the at least one processor, the first wager offer over the network to the second device, in response to validating the information associated with the second user;

receiving, by the at least one processor, data representing an acceptance of the first wager offer from the second device during a game;

filtering, by the at least one processor, event information generated by the plurality of gaming applications to identify one or more events that relates to the first wager offer;

determining, by the at least one processor, an outcome of the first wager offer based on the one or more events filtered from the event information generated by the plurality of gaming applications; and

causing, by the at least one processor, the betting window displayed on respective screens of the first device and the second device to generate an update regarding the outcome of the first wager offer.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising communicating, by the at least one processor, indicia of the outcome of the first wager offer to the first device and the second device via the network.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising monitoring, by the at least one processor, characteristics of user interaction with the plurality of gaming applications.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising generating, by the at least one processor, information associated with each user interacting with the plurality of gaming applications based on the monitored characteristics.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the information associated with each user comprises at least one of event information, statistics information, and wager records.