SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SELECTING INTERACTIVE MEDIA USED TO REVEAL OUTCOMES OF REAL WORLD WAGERS

• US 20140274327A1
• 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., TUNG, Douglas W.
• Granted Patent: US 9,224,262 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 selecting and placing real-world wagers responsive to one or more wager triggers, obtaining outcomes of the real-world wagers, and revealing the outcomes of the real-world wagers through select interactive media to give an appearance that the outcomes of the real-world wagers resulted from user interactions with the interactive media even though the outcomes resulted from the real-world wagers and were determined before the user interactions. The system may select a given interactive media application (or interactive media) to reveal a value (e.g., a payout) based on various factors to customize which application or media is used to provide a given reveal.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method of selecting interactive media applications to reveal outcomes of real world wagers, 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:

processing, by the computer system, an initiation of a real-world wager;

obtaining, by the computer system, one or more wager parameters that specify the real world wager;

placing, by the computer system, the real-world wager based on the one or more wager parameters;

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

adding, by the computer system, the outcome to an unrevealed balance associated with the user;

identifying, by the computer system, at least one interactive media application from among a plurality of interactive media applications, wherein the at least one interactive media application obtains user interactions with the at least one interactive media application and reveals at least a portion of the unrevealed balance via the user interaction after the outcome has been predetermined to give an impression that the user won the portion of the unrevealed balance based on the user interaction; and

revealing, by the computer system, the portion of the unrevealed balance via the at least one interactive media application.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the portion of the unrevealed balance comprises an amount of a cash payout that is to be revealed.

3. The method of claim 2, the method further comprising:

receiving, from the at least one first interactive media application, an indication of a maximum amount of payout that the at least one first interactive media application is able to provide for the user; and

selecting the at least one first interactive media application based on the indication.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one interactive media application comprises a game such that the revealed portion of the unrevealed balance appears to have resulted from the user interaction with the game.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the revealed portion of the unrevealed balance appears to have resulted from receipt of the media content.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one interactive media application is identified based on whether the at least one interactive media application is being promoted.

7. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising:

determining a number of reveals to reveal the portion of the unrevealed balance, wherein the at least one interactive media application is identified based on whether the at least one interactive media application can handle a number of reveals to reveal the portion of the unrevealed balance.

8. A system of selecting reveal mechanisms to reveal outcomes of real world wagers, the system comprising:

one or more physical processors programmed with computer program instructions that, when executed by the one or more physical processors, cause the one or more physical processors to;

process an initiation of a real-world wager;

obtain one or more wager parameters that specify the real world wager;

place the real-world wager based on the one or more wager parameters;

determine an outcome of the real-world wager such that the outcome is predetermined;

adding, by the computer system, the outcome to an unrevealed balance associated with the user;

identify at least one reveal mechanism from among a plurality of reveal mechanisms, wherein the at least one reveal mechanism is used to reveal at least a portion of the unrevealed balance via a user interaction with the interactive media after the outcome has been predetermined; and

reveal the portion of the unrevealed balance via the at least one interactive media application.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the portion of the unrevealed balance comprises an amount of a cash payout that is to be revealed.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the one or more physical processors are further programmed to:

determine the amount of the cash payout that is to be revealed, wherein the at least one reveal mechanism is identified based on the amount of the cash payout.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the one or more physical processors are further programmed to:

determine a maximum payout that the reveal mechanism can handle, wherein the at least one reveal mechanism is identified based on the maximum payout and the amount of the cash payout.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the interactive media comprises a game such that the revealed portion of the unrevealed balance appears to have resulted from the user interaction with the game.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the revealed portion of the unrevealed balance appears to have resulted from receipt of the media content.

14. The system of claim 8, wherein the at least one reveal mechanism is identified based on one or more reveal parameters, the one or more reveal parameters comprising:

an indication of a when a reveal may occur, an amount of the reveal, a number of reveals to make, a geo-location associated with the reveal, and/or a promotion associated with the reveal.

15. A computer implemented method of providing different reveal mechanisms to reveal outcomes of real world wagers, 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, a first outcome of a first real-world wager associated with a first user, wherein the first user is associated with a first user preference that indicates a preference to receive a direct reveal of real-world wager outcomes;

communicating, by the computer system, the first outcome to the user via an alert or a user interface used to directly communicate the first outcome based on the first user preference;

obtaining, by the computer system, a second outcome of a second real-world wager associated with a second user, wherein the second user is associated with a second user preference that indicates a preference to receive a reveal of the first outcome through a user interaction with interactive media;

obtaining, by the computer system, the user interaction with the interactive media; and

revealing, by the computer system, at least a portion of the second outcome based on the user interaction to give an appearance that the second outcome resulted from the user interaction.