User interface manager for a skill wagering interleaved game

• US 9,218,714 B2
• Filed: 06/16/2014
• Issued: 12/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Gamblit Gaming, LLC (Hard 8 Games, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Gamblit Gaming, LLC (Hard 8 Games, LLC)
• Inventors: Arnone, Miles, Cire, Frank, Kaylin, Clifford, Meyerhofer, Eric
• Primary Examiner(s): Chan, Allen
• Application Number:
  US14/306,187
• Publication Number:
  US 20150141122A1
• Time in Patent Office: 554 Days
• Field of Search: 463/16, 463/25, 463/42
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3204 Player-machine interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3211 Display 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 17/3237 about the players, e.g. profiling, responsible gaming, strategy/behavior of players, location of players
• 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 17/3244 Payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3286 Type of games

Abstract

Systems and methods for operating a skill wagering interleaved game are disclosed. For example, a user interface manager for a skill wagering interleaved game operates to send a dialog to a player'"'"'s end user device, receive the player'"'"'s responses, and validate that the responses received match the dialog that was sent before providing the responses to the application. Additionally, the system enables pre-authorization of transactions in a game setting, by generating a transaction identifier associated with a game when it is determined that a player is authorized to play the game, and then performing wagers during the game when gaming information is associated with the transaction identifier.

Claims

1. A networked gaming system comprising:

an entertainment game controller connected by a network to a game world operating system controller, wherein the entertainment game controller is constructed to;

communicate to the game world operating system controller via the network, an initialization request including player information of a player;

receive from game world operating system controller via the network a plurality of transaction identifiers;

cache the plurality of transaction identifiers;

associate game world information of an entertainment game executed by the entertainment game controller with a transaction identifier of the plurality of transaction identifiers;

communicate to the game world operating system controller via the network the associated game world information and the associated transaction identifier;

receive from the game world operating system controller a gambling outcome and game world resources;

display the gambling outcome to a player of the entertainment game; and

integrate the game world resources into the entertainment game; and

the game world operating system controller connected to the entertainment game controller by the network, wherein the game world engine controller is constructed to;

receive from the entertainment game controller via the network, the initialization request;

determine whether or not the player is authorized to play a skill wagering interleaved game based on the player information included in the initialization request;

generate the plurality of transaction identifiers to be associated with the skill wagering interleaved game in response to the player being authorized to play the skill wagering interleaved game;

communicate to the entertainment game controller the plurality of transaction identifiers;

receive from the entertainment game controller via the network, the associated game world information and the associated transaction identifier;

determine whether or not the associated transaction identifier is valid;

determine the gambling outcome based on the game world information in response to the transaction identifier being valid;

determine the game world resources; and

communicate to the entertainment game controller via the network, the gambling outcome and the game world resources.

2. The networked gaming system of claim 1, wherein the player information comprises information regarding an identity of the player.

3. The networked gaming system of claim 1, wherein the player information comprises authorization information regarding whether the player is authorized to play the game.

4. The networked gaming system of claim 1, wherein the player information comprises account information of an amount of credits associated with the player.

5. The networked gaming system of claim 1, wherein the game world engine controller is further constructed to:

store the plurality of transaction identifiers in a memory; and

associate the plurality of transaction identifiers with the game world information.