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Television interactive gaming

  • US 20040198495A1
  • Filed: 10/14/2003
  • Published: 10/07/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of interactive gaming comprising the steps of a. transmitting a gaming portal from a gaming system to a plurality of users via a first communications network;

  • b. initiating a game from the gaming portal;

    c. submitting a user identification;

    d. generating a plurality of questions for a skill level;

    e. initiating a question answer sequence;

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

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

    h. iteratively repeating steps c-f until at least one of a user exits the game and each skill level is complete;

    i. calculating a time based score component for each skill level;

    j. calculating a bonus score component for each skill level;

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

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

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

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

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