Game of chance systems and methods

• US 10,535,230 B2
• Filed: 06/23/2014
• Issued: 01/14/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CFPH LLC (Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P.)
• Original Assignee: CFPH LLC (Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P.)
• Inventors: Lutnick, Howard W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Torimiro, Adetokunbo O
• Application Number:
  US14/311,871
• Publication Number:
  US 20140370958A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,031 Days
• Field of Search: 273292, 273309, 463 12, 463 13, 463 20, 463 22, 463 25, 463 39, 463 16
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/322 Casino tables, e.g. tables having integrated screens, chip detection means
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3223 Architectural aspects of a gaming system, e.g. internal configuration, master/slave, wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3232 wherein the operator is informed
• 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 17/3241 Security aspects of a gaming system, e.g. detecting cheating, device integrity, surveillance computer security G06F21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3276 wherein the players compete, e.g. tournament
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3279 wherein the competition is one-to-one, e.g. match
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3288 Betting, e.g. on live events, bookmaking
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3293 Card games, e.g. poker, canasta, black jack
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/34 depending on the stopping of moving members in a mechanical slot machine, e.g. "fruit" machines

Abstract

Some embodiments include receiving, by a computing device from a player, a wager defined by outcomes of a plurality of parlays, in which each parlay includes a respective plurality of games. Some embodiments include for each parlay of the plurality of parlays, determining, by the computing device, whether an outcome of the parlay is a winning outcome for the player based on outcomes of the respective plurality of games. Some embodiments include determining, by the computing device, whether the wager is a winning wager based on a number of winning outcomes for the player determined from the plurality of parlays.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a plurality of sensing devices configured to detect outcomes from a plurality of sets of a same number of roulette games and communicate the outcomes though the communication link, in which sets of the plurality of sets are consecutive and mutually exclusive; and

a computing device configured to;

receive the outcomes, from the plurality of sensing devices through a communication link;

aggregate the outcomes from each set of the plurality of sets of the same number of roulette games, in which aggregating the outcomes includes making a respective comparison for each set of the plurality of sets of at least one of reds and blacks in the roulette games and wins and losses in the roulette games;

receive, from a mobile client device over a communication network, a wager defined by the aggregated outcomes from the sets;

determine a series of roulette games including a first plurality of sets from the plurality of sets of the same number of roulette games, in which a number of roulette games of the series is equal to the same number multiplied by a number of the first plurality of sets;

for each set of the first plurality of sets in the series of roulette games, determine whether a suboutcome of the wager is a winning suboutcome based on the aggregated outcomes of the roulette games in the respective set of the first plurality of sets; and

determine whether the wager is a winning wager based on a number of winning suboutcomes determined from the first plurality of sets.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, in which whether a suboutcome is determined to be a winning suboutcome is based on determining whether the outcomes of the games of a respective set satisfy a condition selected by a player.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, in which the condition includes a comparison between a number of outcomes of one type to a number of outcomes of another type.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, in which the comparison includes at least one of a greater than, a less than, and an equal to, in which the condition includes at least one of a number of a particular outcome, and a number of results have a first parameter.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, in which the comparison includes a greater than and in which the first characteristic includes outcomes that are red in roulette, and the second characteristic includes outcomes that are black in roulette.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, in which the roulette games include common games for which at least some are used to determine results of wagers by a plurality of other players.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, in which the identity of the series of roulette games is determined out of a larger ongoing sequence of roulette games in response to the placement of the wager such that a first game in the series occurs as a next game in the sequence of roulette games.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, in which the computing device is configured to:

receive the number of the first plurality of sets selected by a player.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, in which each sensing device includes a camera.

10. The apparatus of claim 1, in which whether each suboutcome is a winning suboutcome is based on whether a comparison is true for a respective roulette game.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, in which whether the wager is a winning wager is based on whether every suboutcome is a winning suboutcome.

12. The apparatus of claim 3, in which each comparison includes at least one of a greater than, a less than, and equal to.

13. The apparatus of claim 1, in which whether a suboutcome is determined to be a winning outcome is based on whether there are more reds than blacks in a set of roulette games.

14. The apparatus of claim 1, in which whether a suboutcome is determined to be a winning outcome is based on whether there are more blacks than reds in the set of roulette games.