Electronic game system, method of managing and regulating said system

• US 6,117,011 A
• Filed: 01/27/1998
• Issued: 09/12/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Lydia Vladimirovna Nesterenko
• Original Assignee: Lvov, Denis Ernestovich
• Inventors: Lvov, Denis Ernestovich
• Primary Examiner(s): Young, Lee
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, BINH AN DUC
• Application Number:
  US09/000,321
• Time in Patent Office: 959 Days
• Field of Search: 463/25, 463/29, 463/40, 463/42, 463/43, 364/410.1, 364/411.1, 364/138, 364/146, 340/323 R, 340/825.31, 273/148 B
• US Class Current: 463/25
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements

Abstract

An electronic gaming system is disclosed that includes a central computer station, a plurality of peripheral computer stations, and a data exchange network for coupling the peripheral computer stations to the central computer station. The central computer station includes an administrative subsystem, a player'"'"'s registration subsystem, a game accounts managing subsystem, an information tabulating, storing and searching subsystem, a game recording subsystem, a scoring subsystem, a wagering and betting subsystem, an executive gaming subsystem, an electronic payment subsystem, an information protection subsystem, a secure communications subsystem, and a game selection subsystem. Each of the peripheral computer stations include a subsystem for admitting and registering players with the central computer station and a gaming interface subsystem. To ensure security of the electronic gaming system, a player seeking to enter the system transmits an encoded message from their peripheral computer station to the central computer station that includes a set of key attributes associated with the player. The central computer station decodes and compares the transmitted set of key attributes with individual information previously stored in the information protection subsystem in order to identify each player during registration based upon the set of key attributes transmitted by each player. The system may automatically control money transactions with each player'"'"'s bank accounts based upon the player'"'"'s scoring and wagers in each selected game.

Claims

1. An electronic gaming system comprising:

a central computer station including;

an administrative subsystem including an administrator computer for administrative personnel to administer the electronic gaming system,

a players registration subsystem coupled to said administrative subsystem for registering all current players,

a game accounts managing subsystem coupled to said administrative subsystem for managing the players'"'"' accounts and performing transactions with the players'"'"' bank accounts,

an information tabulating, storing and searching subsystem coupled to said administrative subsystem for processing information pertaining to the players and gaming situations,

a game recording subsystem coupled to said administrative subsystem for recording gaming situations,

a scoring subsystem coupled to said administrative subsystem for scoring by the results of a game,

a wagering and betting subsystem coupled to said administrative subsystem for enabling players to place wagers and bets pertaining to a game,

an executive gaming subsystem coupled to said administrative subsystem, said executive gaming subsystem including a database that is accessed to realize and control gaming situations,

an electronic payments subsystem coupled to said administrative subsystem,

an information protection subsystem coupled to said administrative subsystem for protecting any data exchanged within the system by encoding/decoding the exchanged data,

a secure communications subsystem coupled to said administrative subsystem for preventing unauthorized access to communications within the system,

a game selection subsystem coupled to said administrative subsystem for enabling a player to select a game in which the player wishes to participate, and

a data exchange subsystem coupled to said administrative subsystem for enabling the administrative subsystem to exchange data with other system components;

a data exchange network including a communications station coupled to said data exchange subsystem of said central computer station; and

a plurality of peripheral computer stations coupled to said central computer station through said data exchange network, each of said peripheral computer stations including a subsystem for admitting and registering players with said central computer station, and a gaming interface subsystem.

2. The electronic gaming system as defined in claim 1, wherein said central computer station and said peripheral computer stations include mailing subsystems.

3. The electronic gaming system as defined in claim 1, wherein said secure communications subsystem comprises a personal communications subsystem.

4. The electronic gaming system as defined in claim 3, wherein said peripheral computer stations are connected by electronic communications with said administrator computer and are connected between each other through said personal communications subsystem.

5. The electronic gaming system as defined in claim 4, wherein any two or more arbitrarily formed groups of said peripheral stations are interconnected by electronic communications through said personal communications system.

6. The electronic gaming system as defined in claim 1, wherein said game selection subsystem includes a database having data for describing and selecting different types of gaming situations in any combination of games for players.

7. The electronic gaming system as defined in claim 6, wherein said information tabulating, storing and searching subsystem includes a database having data for describing and forming players teams and players rating by any preset player criterion.

8. The electronic gaming system as defined in claim 1, wherein said information tabulating, storing and searching subsystem includes a database having data for describing and forming players teams and players rating by any preset player criterion.

9. The electronic gaming system as defined in claim 1, wherein said peripheral computer stations include computers and modems for both players and bank and/or other deposit game accounts.

10. The electronic gaming system as defined in claim 1, wherein said central computer station further includes consists of a terminal and a server of said administrative subsystem connected to a modem device.

11. The electronic gaming system as defined in claim 1, wherein said peripheral computer stations are interconnected in any arbitrary combination by means of said central computer station and a data transmission network.