Sorting games of chance

• US 8,834,255 B2
• Filed: 09/13/2012
• Issued: 09/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/05/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CFPH LLC (Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P.)
• Original Assignee: CFPH LLC (Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P.)
• Inventors: Lutnick, Howard W., Alderucci, Dean P., Gelman, Geoffrey M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Pandya, Sunit
• Application Number:
  US13/613,800
• Publication Number:
  US 20130122996A1
• Time in Patent Office: 733 Days
• Field of Search: 463/9, 463 12- 13, 463 16- 27, 463 39- 43
• US Class Current: 463/20
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3209 Input means, e.g. buttons, touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/323 wherein the player is informed, e.g. advertisements, odds, instructions
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3234 about the performance of a gaming system, e.g. revenue, diagnosis of the gaming system
• 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 17/3269 Timing aspects of game play, e.g. blocking/halting the operation of a gaming machine
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3288 Betting, e.g. on live events, bookmaking

Abstract

In various embodiments a display may allow a secondary player to select a game of an appropriate primary player.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

determining, by a computing device, at least one criterion for a gaming device;

determining, by the computing device, at a first point in time a first gaming device that meets the at least one criterion;

determining, by the computing device, at a second point in time after the first point in time a second gaming device that meets the at least one criterion;

determining, by the computing device, at a third point in time after the second point in time a third gaming device that meets the at least one criterion; and

facilitating, by the computing device, presentation of an image which includes visual representations of the first, second, and third gaming devices, the image further including a first arrow pointing from the first gaming device to the second gaming device and a second arrow pointing from the second gaming device to the third gaming device.

3. The method of claim 1 further including receiving an indication of at least one of:

(a) an outcome generated at the first gaming device;

(b) an outcome generated at the second gaming device;

(c) an outcome generated at the third gaming device;

(d) a payout made at the first gaming device;

(e) a payout made at the second gaming device; and

(f) a payout made at the third gaming device.

9. The method of claim 1, in which the first arrow and the second arrow are arranged to show a progression of the at least one criterion over time.

2. The method of 1 in which the at least one criterion can be met by only a single gaming device at any one time.

4. The method of 1 in which determining at least one criterion for a gaming device includes determining that a gaming device must have made the highest payout of any gaming device in a casino in the last hour.

5. The method of 1 in which determining at least one criterion for a gaming device includes determining that a gaming device must have had the longest streak of consecutive outcomes that were winning for a player of any gaming device in a casino in the last hour.

6. The method of 1 in which presenting an image includes presenting a visual representation of a casino floor, the image including visual representations of the first, second, and third gaming devices, the image further including a first arrow pointing from the first gaming device to the second gaming device and a second arrow pointing from the second gaming device to the third gaming device.

7. The method of 1 further including generating, based on the first, second and third gaming devices, a prediction of a fourth gaming device that will meet the at least one criterion, in which an indication of the fourth gaming device is included in the image.

8. The method of 1 further including generating, based on the locations of the first, second and third gaming devices, a prediction of a location of a fourth gaming device that will meet the at least one criterion, in which an indication of the fourth gaming device is included in the image.

10. An apparatus comprising:

a computing device; and

a non-transitory medium having stored thereon a plurality of instructions that when executed by the computing device cause the apparatus to;

determine at least one criterion for a gaming device;

determine at a first point in time a first gaming device that meets the at least one criterion;

determine at a second point in time after the first point in time a second gaming device that meets the at least one criterion;

determine at a third point in time after the second point in time a third gaming device that meets the at least one criterion; and

facilitating presentation of an image which includes visual representations of the first, second, and third gaming devices, the image further including a first arrow pointing from the first gaming device to the second gaming device and a second arrow pointing from the second gaming device to the third gaming device.