Parlor game

• US 20060121982A1
• Filed: 01/06/2006
• Published: 06/08/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/1992
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Arachnid Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Arachnid Incorporated
• Inventors: Myers, Thomas P., Rice, Patrick G., Jones, Richard F., Martin, John R.
• Application Number:
  US11/327,224
• Publication Number:
  US 20060121982A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/25
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3295 Games involving skill, e.g. dexterity, memory, thinking
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/38 Ball games; Shooting apparatus

Abstract

A parlor entertainment system includes an entertainment unit, and information management system, and an entertainment information unit. The information management system includes a processor operatively connected to a database. The entertainment information unit is in communication with at least one of the information management system and the entertainment unit. The entertainment information unit is operable to input information regarding the operation of the entertainment unit into the database.

Claims

20-1. The system of claim 1, wherein said information management system is operatively connected to a display screen.

24. A method of managing information related to operation of an entertainment unit, the method comprising:

linking an entertainment information unit to an entertainment unit that is separate and distinct from the entertainment information unit; and

transferring information regarding the operation of said entertainment unit into a centralized database.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein the entertainment unit is a jukebox.

26. The method of claim 24, wherein the entertainment unit is a dart game machine.

27. The method of claim 24, wherein the information regarding operation of the entertainment unit comprises the results of game play at the entertainment unit.

28. The method of claim 24, wherein the entertainment unit is a predictions-based game system.

29. The method of claim 24, wherein the entertainment unit is at least one of a pool table, a foosball table, an air hockey table, a basketball-based game, a football based game, a dart machine, and a hockey-based game.