System and Method of Providing Wagering Opportunities Based on Invitations

• US 20140274326A1
• Filed: 03/13/2014
• Published: 09/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Game Play Network, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Game Play Network, Inc.
• Inventors: Fine, Russell M., Selby, Jamison
• Granted Patent: US 9,092,939 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/25
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/00 Video games, i.e. games using an electronically generated display having two or more dimensions gaming systems which provide a financial reward G07F17/32
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3209 Input means, e.g. buttons, touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3211 Display means
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3225 Data transfer within a gaming system, e.g. data sent between gaming machines and users
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3227 Configuring a gaming machine, e.g. downloading personal settings, selecting working parameters
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3241 Security aspects of a gaming system, e.g. detecting cheating, device integrity, surveillance computer security G06F21/00
• 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 17/326 Game play aspects of gaming systems
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3262 Player actions which determine the course of the game, e.g. selecting a prize to be won, outcome to be achieved, game to be played
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3288 Betting, e.g. on live events, bookmaking

Abstract

The invention relates to systems and methods of placing real-world wagers, obtaining outcomes of the real-world wagers, facilitating user interactions with various interactive media, and revealing the outcomes of the real-world wagers based on invitations to give an appearance that the outcomes of the real-world wagers resulted from the invitations even though the outcomes resulted from the real-world wagers and were determined before the invitations. The system may provide an invitation to participate in a reveal opportunity. For example, the system may invite the user to play a specific game (e.g., “play this game to claim five dollars”), interact with multi-media content (e.g., “watch a video to win ten dollars”), challenge one or more other players (e.g., “challenge another player to win two dollars”), engage in some other objective, and/or otherwise accept an opportunity to reveal at least a portion of a payout that has not yet been revealed.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method of revealing outcomes of real world wagers through one or more invitations such that acceptance of the one or more invitations appear to result in the outcomes, the method being implemented in a computer system having one or more physical processors programmed with computer program instructions that, when executed by the one or more physical processors, cause the computer system to perform the method, the method comprising:

obtaining, by the computer system, an outcome of the real-world wager such that the outcome is predetermined;

providing, by the computer system, an invitation to perform an action to potentially receive a reward if the invitation is accepted, wherein the reward is associated with at least a portion of the outcome such that the portion of the outcome, when revealed to the user, appears to have resulted from an acceptance of the invitation;

determining, by the computer system, whether the invitation was accepted;

responsive to a determination that the invitation was accepted, determining whether to reveal the portion of the outcome; and

responsive to a determination that the invitation was not accepted, not revealing the portion of the outcome to the user and saving the portion of the outcome for a later reveal opportunity for the user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the invitation comprises an invitation to interact with an advertisement, the method further comprising:

receiving an interaction with the advertisement, indicating that the invitation was accepted; and

revealing the portion of the outcome to give an appearance that the portion of the outcome resulted from the interaction with the advertisement.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the invitation comprises an invitation to challenge another player, the method further comprising:

receiving an acceptance of the challenge such that the invitation is accepted, wherein determining whether to reveal the portion of the outcome comprises determining whether the user has defeated the other player.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the invitation comprises an invitation to challenge another player, the method further comprising:

receiving an acceptance of the challenge such that the invitation is accepted, wherein determining whether to reveal the portion of the outcome comprises determining whether the user has defeated the other player.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the invitation comprises an invitation to complete an objective, the method further comprising:

receiving an acceptance of the invitation, wherein determining whether to reveal the portion of the outcome comprises determining whether the user has at least partially completed the objective.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the invitation comprises an invitation to interact with a video.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the invitation comprises an invitation to interact with a audio.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the invitation comprises an invitation to download interactive media.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the invitation comprises an invitation to stream interactive media.