ONLINE GAMING SYSTEM

• US 20100248843A1
• Filed: 10/24/2007
• Published: 09/30/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Rational Intellectual Holdings Limited
• Original Assignee: Cecure Gaming Limited (PokerStars.com)
• Inventors: Karsten, Peter Olof
• Application Number:
  US12/447,444
• Publication Number:
  US 20100248843A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/43
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3223 Architectural aspects of a gaming system, e.g. internal configuration, master/slave, wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/323 wherein the player is informed, e.g. advertisements, odds, instructions
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3239 Tracking of individual players

Abstract

A method of controlling a game program adapted to operate a game in a device is disclosed. The method comprises accessing configuration data defining one or more states or events which can occur at the device and which are not related to the game program, and specifying for each defined state or event a game action to be performed by the game program in response to the defined state or event. The occurrence of one of the defined states or events at the device is detected, and the game action specified in the configuration data for the detected state or event is performed in response to detection of the defined state or event. Also disclosed is an online gaming system adapted to provide access to a plurality of concurrent multiplayer games, comprising a player allocation component. The allocation component is adapted to access information relating to the history or state of play in one or more of the plurality of games, select one of the plurality of games for the player in dependence on the information, and allocate the player to the selected game.

Claims

1. A device for running a game program adapted to operate a game, comprising:

storage for storing configuration data defining one or more states or events which can occur at the device and which are not related to the game program, and specifying for each defined state or event a game action to be performed by the game program in response to the defined state or event;

a detecting component adapted to detect occurrence of one of the defined states or events at the device; and

a processing component adapted to perform the game action specified in the configuration data for the detected state or event in response to detection of the defined state or event.

2-99. -99. (canceled)