AIRCRAFT GAMING

• US 20060229121A1
• Filed: 04/03/2006
• Published: 10/12/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sg Gaming, Inc. (Scientific Games Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sg Gaming, Inc. (Scientific Games Corporation)
• Inventors: Mednick, Cary M., Rasmussen, James M., Canterbury, Stephen A., Englman, Allon
• Application Number:
  US11/278,446
• Publication Number:
  US 20060229121A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/16
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3202 Hardware aspects of a gaming system, e.g. components, construction, architecture thereof

Abstract

Aircraft gaming machines, systems, and methods are presented. The gaming machines execute gaming applications and receive power from the aircraft. The gaming systems may include gaming stations interfaced to gaming servers within the aircraft, portable gaming machines capable of downloading gaming applications from gaming servers within the aircraft, gaming displays and controls interfaced to gaming servers within the aircraft, and kiosks adapted to dispense a gaming application on removable storage media. The removable storage media later interfaced to processing devices within the aircraft for purposes of wagering on gaming applications that execute off the storage media. The methods acquire value from players within an aircraft, execute gaming applications within the aircraft, and dispense value based on outcomes of the gaming applications.

Claims

1. A gaming machine, comprising:

a display;

a processor adapted to execute wagering gaming applications, wherein the processor is interfaced to the display; and

a power supply, which is supplied from an aircraft to the display and the processor.

2. The gaming machine of claim 1 further comprising:

a value input device adapted to accept player-provided value; and

a value output device adapted to dispense gaming-provided value.

3. The gaming machine of claim 2 further comprising, one or more player controls adapted to receive gaming selections from a player, wherein the gaming selections are associated with the wagering gaming applications.

4. The gaming machine of claim 3, wherein the one or more player controls are integrated into the display to provide a touch screen interface for receiving the gaming selections.

5. The gaming machine of claim 1, wherein the processor is interfaced to one or more additional displays and is adapted to execute selective ones of the wagering gaming applications for each of the one or more additional displays.

6. The gaming machine of claim 5, wherein the processor is remote from the display and the one or more additional displays within the aircraft and is interfaced via a network within the aircraft.

7. A gaming system, comprising:

one or more processors for executing wagering gaming applications within an aircraft, wherein the one or more processors are integrated into or accessible from a video system of the aircraft;

a plurality of displays, wherein each display is accessible from a selective location within the aircraft; and

a plurality of remote control devices for interacting with the wagering gaming applications and for viewing results of the wagering gaming applications, wherein each remote control device is associated with one of the plurality of displays.

8. The gaming system of claim 7, wherein the gaming system is powered from a 115 volt power supply acquired from the aircraft.

9. The gaming system of claim 7, wherein a number of the displays are portable and may be moved from one of the selective locations within the aircraft to another one of the selective locations within the aircraft.

10. The gaming system of claim 9, wherein the portable displays connect to the video system via network connections within the aircraft.

11. The gaming system of claim 10, wherein the network connections are at least one of wired and wireless within the aircraft.

12. The gaming system of claim 7, wherein each of the remote control devices is coupled to one of the displays.

13. The gaming system of claim 7 further comprising a portable device for wirelessly interacting with the one or more processors to play the wagering gaming applications executing on the one or more processors.

14. The gaming system of claim 13, wherein the portable device continues play of the wagering game applications outside the aircraft.

15. The gaming system of claim 13, wherein the portable device is adapted to play different wagering game applications processing on different processors external to the aircraft while inside the aircraft.

16. A method, comprising:

simultaneously presenting a game of chance to selective displays within an aircraft;

collecting wagers for the game of chance from players interacting with controls which are interfaced to the selective displays;

acquiring a value from each of the players;

determining an outcome for the game of chance; and

crediting one or more accounts associated with one or more of the players who win the game of chance in response to the outcome.

17. The method of claim 16 further comprising, associating each of the accounts to one of the players in response to a display identifier.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein collecting further includes receiving the wagers via the controls that are integrated into the displays as touch screen controls.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein collecting further includes receiving the wagers via the controls that are provided on remote control devices.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein acquiring further includes at least one of:

debiting the value from a selective one of the accounts;

acquiring the value as loyalty points from a loyalty account of a selective one of the players;

acquiring the value as a reward certificate inputted by a selective one of the players via the controls;

acquiring the value as currency via a value input device from a selective one of the players;

acquiring the value from a credit card account associated with a selective one of the players; and

acquiring the value from a selective on of the accounts in response to a key inputted by a selective one of the players via the controls.