Method and apparatus for interactive real time distributed gaming

• US 20060089199A1
• Filed: 04/27/2005
• Published: 04/27/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jose Maria De Veigo Fernandes, Kent Wilcoxson Jordan
• Original Assignee: Jose Maria De Veigo Fernandes, Kent Wilcoxson Jordan
• Inventors: Fernandes, Jose Maria de Veigo, Jordan, Kent Wilcoxson
• Application Number:
  US11/115,976
• Publication Number:
  US 20060089199A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/42
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/12 involving interaction between a plurality of game devices, e.g. transmisison or distribution systems protocols for networked virtual reality, networked games H04L29/06034
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/30 Interconnection arrangements between game servers and game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game servers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/80 Special adaptations for executing a specific game genre or game mode
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8011 Ball

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for playing an interactive real time distributed game including receiving at a scoring database a next play prediction for a sporting event from a remote terminal, determining an actual play outcome for the sporting event, transmitting an actual play outcome representation to the remote terminal, and scoring the play prediction based on the actual play outcome and a predetermined offensive scoring ruleset. In one embodiment, the sporting event is a football game.

Claims

1-19. -19. (canceled)

20. An interactive distributed game comprising:

a game server adapted to determine a play-stopped-state and receive a next play prediction during a submit-prediction-mode over a communication interface, wherein said next play prediction is at least one of a yardage and scoring predictions;

a scoring database storing a participant score in a scoring memory; and

a remote terminal adapted to submit said next play prediction to said game server, the remote terminal responsive to an actual play outcome representation to update a participant score based on the actual play outcome and said next play prediction, and further responsive a defensive play outcome to update the participant score.