Gaming system with privacy features

• US 9,224,268 B2
• Filed: 03/11/2013
• Issued: 12/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LNW Gaming Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Bally Gaming Incorporated (Scientific Games Corporation)
• Inventors: Aoki, Dion, Burke, Mary, Gustafson, Patrick, Jaffe, Joel, Loose, Timothy, Pace, Mark, Perkins, Justin, Savage, Dave, Ward, Matthew, Shah, Tejas
• Primary Examiner(s): Gauthier, Gerald
• Application Number:
  US13/793,271
• Publication Number:
  US 20140162762A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,023 Days
• Field of Search: 273/146, 273/274, 273/292, 273/237, 463/11, 463/12, 463/13, 463/16, 463/18, 463/20, 463/25, 463/31, 463/39, 463/42, 463/17, 463/21, 463/27, 463/29, 463/36, 463/46, 726/26, 705/34, 705/44, 715/757, 725/131, 709/204
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3211 Display means
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3213 Details of moving display elements, e.g. spinning reels, tumbling members
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3218 wherein at least part of the system is portable
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/322 Casino tables, e.g. tables having integrated screens, chip detection means
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3223 Architectural aspects of a gaming system, e.g. internal configuration, master/slave, wireless communication
• 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 17/3246 involving coins and/or banknotes
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3288 Betting, e.g. on live events, bookmaking
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/34 depending on the stopping of moving members in a mechanical slot machine, e.g. "fruit" machines

Abstract

A wagering game system includes a peripheral device with a peripheral device display and at least one processor configured to execute at least one application to display information on the peripheral device display. The system also includes a wagering game terminal with a terminal display configured to display a wagering game and a player-accessible interface configured to allow a player to communicatively couple the peripheral device to the wagering game terminal. The at least one application includes a wagering game application relating to the wagering game displayed on the terminal display of the wagering game terminal, and the at least one processor of the peripheral device executes the wagering application to display, on the peripheral device display, wagering game information relating to the wagering game.

Claims

1. A wagering game system, comprising:

a peripheral device including a peripheral device display and at least one processor configured to execute at least one application to display information on the peripheral device display; and

a wagering game terminal including a terminal display configured to display a wagering game and a player-accessible interface configured to allow a player to communicatively couple the peripheral device to the wagering game terminal,

wherein the at least one application includes a wagering game application relating to the wagering game displayed on the terminal display of the wagering game terminal, and the at least one processor of the peripheral device executes the wagering application to display, on the peripheral device display, wagering game information relating to the wagering game, and

wherein the at least one processor of the peripheral device executes the wagering game application to display, on the peripheral device display, at least one of credit information, wager information, award information, monetary information, and player information, the at least one of credit information, wager information, award information, monetary information, and player information being restricted to being displayed on the peripheral device display.

2. The wagering game system of claim 1, wherein the peripheral device includes an input interface configured to receive instructions from the player to customize the wagering game.

3. The wagering game system of claim 2, wherein, in response to the instructions, the at least one processor of the peripheral device executes the wagering game application to display, on the peripheral device display, at least one of credit information, award information, monetary information, and player information.

4. The wagering game system of claim 1, wherein the wagering game application includes a player'"'"'s account application, and the at least one processor of the peripheral device executes the player'"'"'s account application to log the player into the wagering game terminal under a player'"'"'s account.

5. The wagering game system of claim 1, wherein the wagering game application includes a player'"'"'s account application, and the at least one processor of the peripheral device executes the player'"'"'s account application to store and display information relating to another wagering game that provides an award based on a plurality of outcomes from one or more wagering games.

6. The wagering game system of claim 1, wherein the wagering game application includes a money transfer application that is electronically coupled to a monetary account, and the at least one processor of the peripheral device executes the money transfer application to transfer money between the wagering game terminal and the monetary account, the wagering game terminal receiving portions of the money from the player for wagers for the wagering game or awarding other portions of the money to the player for outcomes of the wagering game.

7. The wagering game system of claim 1, wherein the peripheral device further includes at least one of a tactile output device and an audio output device, and the at least one processor of the peripheral device executes the wagering application to further provide the wagering game information via at least one of the tactile output device and the audio output device.

8. The wagering game system of claim 1, wherein the interface is a docking station that is configured to receive the peripheral device and establish communications between the peripheral device and the wagering game terminal.

9. The wagering game system of claim 8, wherein the peripheral device, when received by the docking station, provides a secondary display for the wagering game at the bottom of the terminal display.

10. The wagering game system of claim 1, wherein the interface is a wireless interface.

11. The wagering game system of claim 1, wherein the terminal display and the peripheral device display combine to display the wagering game.

12. A wagering game terminal, comprising:

a terminal display configured to display a wagering game; and

a player-accessible interface configured to allow a player to communicatively couple a peripheral device to the wagering game terminal, the peripheral device including a peripheral device display and at least one processor configured to execute a wagering game application relating to the wagering game and to display, on the peripheral device display, wagering game information relating to the wagering game, the wagering game information including private information and non-private information, the private information including at least one of credit information, wager information, award information, monetary information, or player information,

wherein, in response to the execution of the wagering game application on the peripheral device, the terminal display displays the wagering game in combination with the peripheral device displaying the wagering game information, the private information being restricted to display on only the peripheral device display.

13. The wagering game terminal of claim 12, wherein the at least one of credit information, wager information, award information, monetary information, and player information is classified as private information in response to player selection.

14. The wagering game terminal of claim 12, wherein the peripheral device includes an input interface configured to receive instructions from the player to customize the wagering game, and the terminal display displays the wagering game according to the instructions.

15. The wagering game terminal of claim 14, wherein, in response to the instructions, the terminal display is restricted from displaying at least one of credit information, award information, monetary information, and player information.

16. The wagering game terminal of claim 12, wherein the wagering game application includes a player'"'"'s account application, and the at least one processor of the peripheral device executes the player'"'"'s account application to log the player into the wagering game terminal under a player'"'"'s account.

17. The wagering game terminal of claim 12, wherein the wagering game application includes a money transfer application that is electronically coupled to a monetary account, and the at least one processor of the peripheral device executes the money transfer application to transfer money between the wagering game terminal and the monetary account, the wagering game terminal receiving portions of the money from the player for wagers for the wagering game or awarding other portions of the money to the player for outcomes of the wagering game.

18. The wagering game terminal of claim 12, wherein the peripheral device further includes at least one of a tactile output device and an audio output device, and the at least one processor of the peripheral device executes the wagering application to further provide the wagering game information via at least one of the tactile output device and the audio output device, the terminal display displaying the wagering game to correspond with the peripheral device further providing the wagering game information via at least one of the tactile output device and the audio output device.

19. The wagering game terminal of claim 12, wherein the interface is a docking station that is configured to receive the peripheral device and establish communications between the peripheral device and the wagering game terminal.

20. The wagering game system of claim 19, wherein the peripheral device, when received by the docking station, provides a secondary display for the wagering game at the bottom of the terminal display.

21. The wagering game system of claim 12, wherein the interface is a wireless interface.