Interactive electronic game systems, methods, and devices

• US 8,719,086 B1
• Filed: 07/01/2013
• Issued: 05/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2013
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mitesh Gala
• Original Assignee: Mitesh Gala
• Inventors: Gala, Mitesh, Gala, Tejal Mitesh, Gala, Avinash Mitesh, Gala, Veer Mitesh
• Primary Examiner(s): Suhol, Dmitry
• Assistant Examiner(s): YEN, JASON TAHAI
• Application Number:
  US13/933,039
• Time in Patent Office: 309 Days
• Field of Search: 463/42, 463/17, 705/14.1, 705/14.25, 705/14.52, 340/539.13
• US Class Current: 705/14.25
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0209 Incentive being awarded or redeemed in connection with the playing of a video game
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0222 During e-commerce, i.e. online transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3255 Incentive, loyalty and/or promotion schemes, e.g. comps, gaming associated with a purchase, gaming funded by advertisements

Abstract

The disclosure herein provides interactive electronic game systems, methods, and devices. An interactive electronic game system comprises a user information database, an ordering engine, a prize engine, a game engine, and one or more computers, wherein the ordering engine comprises an identification receiver and an order processor, and the one or more computers comprises a computer processor and an electronic storage medium.

Claims

1. An interactive electronic game system for determining prizes to award to users and managing redemption of the prizes, the interactive electronic game system comprising:

a user information database configured to store data relating to users of the interactive electronic game system, the data comprising past prize redemption information and past non-prize order information;

a prize engine configured to determine a prize to award to a user of the interactive electronic game system, wherein determining the prize to award to the user comprises applying prize determination rules to at least the past prize redemption information or the past non-prize order information stored in the user information database;

a game engine configured to generate at least one configuration parameter for an interactive electronic game and to electronically communicate with an electronic user access point system to communicate the at least one configuration parameter to the user access point system, wherein the interactive electronic game is configured to be playable by a user of the electronic user access point system, and the interactive electronic game is configured to indicate to the user using the electronic user access point system the determined prize;

wherein the prize engine is further configured to electronically communicate with an ordering system, the ordering system configured to process user prize redemption requests and user non-prize orders, wherein the prize engine is configured to transmit a message to the ordering system to enable the ordering system to process a redemption of the determined prize for the user;

wherein the prize engine is further configured to electronically communicate with the user access point system, the user access point system being located at a same business location as the ordering system, wherein a request by either the ordering system or the user access point system to redeem the determined prize must be confirmed by the prize engine prior to enabling the ordering engine to process a redemption of the determined prize; and

one or more computers configured to operate the prize engine and game engine, wherein the one or more computers comprises a computer processor and an electronic storage medium.

2. The interactive electronic game system of claim 1, wherein the at least one configuration parameter comprises information relating to the determined prize.

3. The interactive electronic game system of claim 1, wherein the request by either the ordering system or the user access point system to redeem the determined prize comprises information enabling an identification of the ordering system.

4. The interactive electronic game system of claim 3, wherein the information enabling the identification of the ordering system comprises information received by the user access point system by scanning a code associated with or displayed by the ordering system.

5. The interactive electronic game system of claim 1, wherein the message transmitted to the ordering system to enable the ordering system to process a redemption of the determined prize is generated in response to a request from the ordering system to enable redemption of the determined prize.

6. The interactive electronic game system of claim 5, wherein the request from the ordering system to enable redemption of the determined prize comprises information enabling an identification of the user access point system.

7. The interactive electronic game system of claim 6, wherein the information enabling the identification of the user access point system comprises information received by the ordering system by scanning a code associated with or displayed by the user access point system.

8. The interactive electronic game system of claim 1, wherein the interactive electronic game is configured to illustrate a fisherman attempting to catch a fish, wherein the interactive electronic game is further configured to indicate to the user the determined prize only after the interactive electronic game has illustrated a fish being caught by the fisherman.

9. A computer-implemented method for determining prizes to award to users and managing redemption of the prizes, the computer-implemented method comprising:

accessing, by a computer system, in an electronic database, data relating to a user of the computer system, the data comprising past prize redemption information and past non-prize order information;

determining, by the computer system, a prize to award to the user, wherein determining the prize comprises applying prize determination rules to at least the past prize redemption information or the past non-prize order information stored in the electronic database;

generating, by the computer system, at least one configuration parameter for an interactive electronic game;

transmitting, by the computer system, the at least one configuration parameter over a computer network to a customer display system, enabling the customer display system to present the interactive electronic game to the user, wherein the interactive electronic game is configured to be playable by the user and to indicate to the user the determined prize;

communicating, by the computer system, electronically with an ordering system, the ordering system configured to process user prize redemption requests and user non-prize orders, to indicate to the ordering system that the determined prize may be redeemed for the user; and

receiving electronically, by the computer system, a request to redeem the determined prize, wherein the request to redeem the prize is received electronically from a user access point system separate from the ordering system, wherein the user access point system is located at a same business location as the ordering system when the request to redeem the prize is electronically received;

wherein the computer system comprises a computer processor and an electronic storage medium.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein the at least one configuration parameter comprises information relating to the determined prize.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein the customer display system comprises a portable electronic device.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein the customer display system comprises a customer-facing electronic display located at a same business location as the ordering system.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein the request to redeem the determined prize comprises information enabling an identification of the ordering system, and wherein the information enabling the identification of the ordering system comprises information received by the electronic user access point system separate from the ordering system by scanning a code associated with the ordering system.

14. A computer-readable, non-transitory storage medium having a computer program stored thereon for causing a suitably programmed computer system to process by one or more processors computer-program code by performing a method for determining prizes to award to users and managing redemption of the prizes when the computer program is executed on the suitably programmed computer system, the method comprising:

accessing, by the computer system, in an electronic database, data relating to a user of the computer system, the data comprising past prize redemption information and past non-prize order information;

determining, by the computer system, a prize to award to the user, wherein determining the prize comprises applying prize determination rules to at least the past prize redemption information or the past non-prize order information stored in the electronic database;

generating, by the computer system, at least one configuration parameter for an interactive electronic game;

transmitting, by the computer system, the at least one configuration parameter over a computer network to a customer display system, enabling the customer display system to present the interactive electronic game to the user, wherein the interactive electronic game is configured to be playable by the user and to indicate to the user the determined prize;

communicating, by the computer system, electronically with an ordering system, the ordering system configured to process user prize redemption requests and user non-prize orders, to indicate to the ordering system that the determined prize may be redeemed for the user; and

receiving electronically, by the computer system, a request to redeem the determined prize, wherein the request to redeem the prize is received electronically from a user access point system separate from the ordering system, wherein the user access point system is located at a same business location as the ordering system when the request to redeem the prize is electronically received;

wherein the computer system comprises a computer processor and an electronic storage medium.

15. The computer-readable, non-transitory storage medium of claim 14, wherein the at least one configuration parameter comprises information relating to the determined prize.

16. The computer-readable, non-transitory storage medium of claim 14, wherein the customer display system comprises a portable electronic device.

17. The computer-readable, non-transitory storage medium of claim 14, wherein the customer display system comprises a customer-facing electronic display located at a same business location as the ordering system.

18. The computer-readable, non-transitory storage medium of claim 14, wherein the request to redeem the determined prize comprises information enabling an identification of the ordering system, and wherein the information enabling the identification of the ordering system comprises information received by the electronic user access point system separate from the ordering system by scanning a code associated with the ordering system.