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Television interactive gaming having local storage of game portal

  • US 8,025,571 B2
  • Filed: 10/14/2003
  • Issued: 09/27/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of interactive gaming comprising:

  • transmitting a gaming application from a gaming system to a plurality of receivers via a first communications network, and storing the gaming application at the receiver, wherein each receiver in the plurality of receivers allows for a plurality of users to use the gaming application;

    selecting a game from a plurality of games in the gaming system, wherein each game in the plurality of games is playable from a beginning of the selected game at the time of selection, the time of selection being after a time of transmission;

    initiating the beginning of a game selected from the plurality of games from the gaming application at a time after a time of transmission of the gaming application;

    submitting a user identification;

    generating a plurality of questions per skill level;

    initiating a question answer sequence;

    incrementing through the plurality of questions while progressing through the question answer sequence;

    incrementing each skill level upon completion of the question answer sequence for the plurality of questions;

    calculating a time based score component for each skill level;

    calculating a bonus score component for each skill level based on consecutive correct answers;

    summing the time based score component and the bonus score component in order to determine a total level score for each skill level;

    calculating a real time total user score associated with results of the question answer sequence by summing the total level score for each skill level completed by each user;

    transmitting the real time total user score to the gaming system via a second communications network; and

    transmitting a ranking of real time total user scores to each user via the first communications network.

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