Device, system and method of interactive gaming and investing

• US 20070233585A1
• Filed: 03/13/2007
• Published: 10/04/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tal David Ben Simon, Tomer Pascal
• Original Assignee: Tal David Ben Simon, Tomer Pascal
• Inventors: Ben Simon, Tal David, Pascal, Tomer
• Application Number:
  US11/717,120
• Publication Number:
  US 20070233585A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/35
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/34 Betting or bookmaking, e.g. Internet betting
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• 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 17/3272 Games involving multiple players
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3288 Betting, e.g. on live events, bookmaking

Abstract

Device, system and method of interactive gaming and investing. For example, a system includes a computing platform to register for sale a stock, wherein the stock corresponds to a real-life sports player and wherein the stock is associated with a real-life price.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a computing platform to register for sale a stock, wherein the stock corresponds to a real-life sports player and wherein the stock is associated with a real-life price.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the computing platform is operably associated with a database able to store information regarding ownership of shares of said stock.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the computing platform comprises a trading interface to transfer one or more shares of said stock from a first user of said system to a second user of said system, and to transfer a price of said one or more shares from an account of said first user to an account of said second user.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the trading interface is to update said database to reflect change of ownership of said one or more shares from said first user to said second user.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the computing platform is to detect that a market demand for said stock is greater than a market supply of said stock, to determine that a market failure exists, and to register for sale new shares of said stock based on a difference calculated between said market demand and said market supply.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

an assignment interface to selectively assign a first sports player to a first position in a fantasy sports team and a second sports player to a second position in said fantasy sports team.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the fantasy sports team is associated with a user of said system having a stock portfolio including at least one share of stock corresponding to said first sports player and at least one share of stock corresponding to said second stock player.

8. The system of claim 7, further comprising:

a game engine to receive information of real-life performance of said first sports player, to convert said information into one or more fantasy points, and to add said one or more fantasy points to fantasy scores of one or more fantasy sports teams which include said first sports player.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the game engine is to determine a winning fantasy sports team out of a plurality of fantasy sports teams based on a comparison of the fantasy scores of said fantasy sports teams.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein said fantasy sports teams virtually compete in a full draft competition in which said first sports player is exclusively assigned to a first fantasy team of said fantasy sports teams, wherein one or more shares corresponding to said first sports player are transferable to a second fantasy team of said fantasy sports teams.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein said fantasy sports teams virtually compete in a competition having a salary cap requiring that a sum of virtual salaries corresponding to sports players of said fantasy sports team be smaller than a maximal value.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the system is to insert a quote of said real-life price of said stock in a media information item.

13. A method comprising:

registering for sale a stock, wherein the stock corresponds to a real-life sports player and wherein the stock is associated with a real-life price.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

storing information regarding ownership of shares of said stock.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

transferring one or more shares of said stock from a first user to a second user; and

transferring a price of said one or more shares from an account of said first user to an account of said second user.

16. The method of claim 15, comprising:

updating the ownership information to reflect change of ownership of said one or more shares from said first user to said second user.

17. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

detecting that a market demand for said stock is greater than a market supply of said stock;

determining that a market failure exists; and

registering for sale new shares of said stock based on a difference calculated between said market demand and said market supply.

18. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

selectively assigning a first sports player to a first position in a fantasy sports team and a second sports player to a second position in said fantasy sports team.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the fantasy sports team is associated with a user having a stock portfolio including at least one share of stock corresponding to said first sports player and at least one share of stock corresponding to said second stock player.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

receiving information of real-life performance of said first sports player;

converting said information into one or more fantasy points; and

adding said one or more fantasy points to fantasy scores of one or more fantasy sports teams which include said first sports player.

21. The method of claim 20, further comprising:

determining a winning fantasy sports team out of a plurality of fantasy sports teams based on a comparison of the fantasy scores of said fantasy sports teams.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein said fantasy sports teams virtually compete in a full draft competition in which said first sports player is exclusively assigned to a first fantasy team of said fantasy sports teams, wherein one or more shares corresponding to said first sports player are transferable to a second fantasy team of said fantasy sports teams.

23. The method of claim 21, wherein said fantasy sports teams virtually compete in a competition having a salary cap requiring that a sum of virtual salaries corresponding to sports players of said fantasy sports team be smaller than a maximal value.

24. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

inserting a quote of said real-life price of said stock in a media information item.

25. An apparatus comprising:

a trading interface to transfer one or more shares of a stock, wherein the stock corresponds to a real-life sports player and wherein the stock is associated with a real-life price, from a first user of said apparatus to a second user of another apparatus.

26. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein said trading interface is to indicate that a price of said one or more shares is transferred from an account of said first user to an account of said second user.

27. The apparatus of claim 25, further comprising:

an assignment interface to selectively assign a first sports player to a first position in a fantasy sports team and a second sports player to a second position in said fantasy sports team.

28. The apparatus of claim 27, wherein the fantasy sports team is associated with a user having a stock portfolio including at least one share of stock corresponding to said first sports player and at least one share of stock corresponding to said second stock player.

29. The apparatus of claim 28, wherein the fantasy sports team virtually competes with one or more other fantasy sports teams in a competition based on a comparison of fantasy scores of fantasy sports teams, and wherein the competition comprises a competition selected from a group consisting of:

a full draft competition in which said first sports player is exclusively assigned to a first fantasy team of said fantasy sports teams, wherein one or more shares corresponding to said first sports player are transferable to a second fantasy team of said fantasy sports teams; and

a competition having a salary cap requiring that a sum of virtual salaries corresponding to sports players of said fantasy sports team be smaller than a maximal value.

30. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein said apparatus is to present a quote of said real-life price of said stock embedded in a media information item.