TABLE GAME PLAY USING PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICES

• US 20180315272A1
• Filed: 07/02/2018
• Published: 11/01/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fresh Idea Global Limited
• Original Assignee: Fresh Idea Global Limited
• Inventors: CHUN, Jay
• Granted Patent: US 10,460,555 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 9/24 Electric games; Games using electronic circuits not otherwise provided for video games A63F13/00; computerized gaming systems G07F17/32
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3218 wherein at least part of the system is portable
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/322 Casino tables, e.g. tables having integrated screens, chip detection 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 17/323 wherein the player is informed, e.g. advertisements, odds, instructions
• 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 17/3276 wherein the players compete, e.g. tournament
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3293 Card games, e.g. poker, canasta, black jack

Abstract

Table game systems can include player terminal(s), electronic gaming table(s), and/or a remote server. A player terminal can have an outer housing, a controller located therewithin or thereabout, input and output component(s), and a communications interface to an outside gaming network having other functionally similar gaming device(s), gaming table(s), and a remote server. The controller and/or server can facilitate providing table game information to a player, which information can include table game tournament information. A player terminal can facilitate asynchronous and individually paced tournament play, switching between different tournament tables on demand, and play of tournament and/or non-tournament table games thereat simultaneously. Portable computing devices can be used as player terminals and can permit players to play in actual or practice play-along modes.

Claims

1. A gaming system, comprising:

a system server located remotely from and in communication with a plurality of electronic gaming tables, the system server being adapted to facilitate providing gaming data from multiple table games at different gaming tables from the plurality of electronic gaming tables to a player located remotely from all of the plurality of electronic gaming tables, with the player using a portable electronic device adapted to function as a player terminal for any of the plurality of electronic gaming tables; and

at least one server communication interface coupled to the system server and adapted to facilitate the routing of game data from the multiple table games from the different gaming tables to the portable electronic device,

wherein each of the plurality of electronic gaming tables includes at least;

a physical surface adapted for the play of a table game that includes a live dealer and the use of one or more physical game components, the live dealer manipulates the one or more physical game components that provide random game data for the live table games,

a table controller adapted to control a plurality of gaming table functions, and

a table communication interface coupled to the table controller and adapted to facilitate routing of data between the table controller and the system server, and

wherein the multiple table games are able to be different games operated by different live dealers at the different gaming tables,

wherein the plurality of electronic gaming tables are adapted to provide live table games involving wager based games, and

wherein said gaming system is adapted to facilitate play, by the player using the portable electronic device, in the live table games with respect to other players that can also be playing the live table games.

2. The gaming system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the other players can play the live table games via a portable electronic device adapted to function as a player terminal for any of the plurality of electronic gaming tables.

3. A method of facilitating player participation in a first live table game at a first physical gaming table that includes a live dealer and one or more physical game components by using a remotely located portable computing device, the method comprising:

providing a software component to the portable computing device, the software component being adapted to permit the portable computing device to function as a player terminal for the first live table game that takes place at the first physical gaming table that includes a live dealer and one or more physical game components;

accepting a player using the portable computing device, wherein the player and the portable computing device are both located remotely from the first physical gaming table;

providing information regarding the first live table game to the remotely located portable computing device;

administering the first live table game on the first physical gaming table, wherein the live dealer manipulates the one or more physical game components that provide random game play data for the live table games; and

permitting the player to participate in the first live table game by using the portable computing device while the player and the portable computing device are remotely located from the first physical gaming table,

wherein the first live table game provided at the first physical gaming table is one game of a plurality of ongoing wager based table games at a plurality of physical gaming tables, and

wherein play for the first live table game is independent of play of other of the ongoing wager based table games such that the player is permitted to play the first live table game at his or her own pace, is not required to play in every individual table game, and is not required to play concurrently with the other of the ongoing wager based table games being played by other players.