Mobile gaming alert

• US 8,150,956 B2
• Filed: 02/09/2009
• Issued: 04/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/09/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CFPH LLC (Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P.)
• Original Assignee: CFPH LLC (Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P.)
• Inventors: Alderucci, Dean P., Plott, Charles, Miller, Mark
• Primary Examiner(s): BOUTAH, ALINA A
• Application Number:
  US12/367,566
• Publication Number:
  US 20100205255A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,149 Days
• Field of Search: 709223-224, 709/206, 463/42
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3227 Configuring a gaming machine, e.g. downloading personal settings, selecting working parameters
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/323 wherein the player is informed, e.g. advertisements, odds, instructions
• 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 17/3288 Betting, e.g. on live events, bookmaking
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations

Abstract

Various embodiments of alerts on mobile devices are described. Other embodiments are described.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a processor of a processing device, a datastream describing news;

extracting, by the processor, one or more descriptions of current events from the datastream;

identifying, by the processor, event matches based on the one or more descriptions of current events and event descriptions associated with a plurality of games;

identifying, by the processor, alert registration data associated with each game in the plurality of games, wherein the alert registration data includes a list of mobile devices registered to receive alerts regarding each game in the plurality of games;

determining, by the processor, a number of mobile devices registered to receive alerts for each game in a subset of the plurality of games, wherein the subset comprises a game and at least one other game;

determining, by the processor, an estimate of the correlation among user interests in the subset of the plurality of games based at least in part on the count, wherein determining the estimate of the correlation among user interests in the subset of the plurality of games comprises maintaining a coincidence matrix for the plurality of games;

storing, by the processor, the estimates of the correlations; and

transmitting, by the processor, data describing event matches to a mobile device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the data describing event matches includes information identifying a game and information regarding the current event, including the time when the current event is scheduled to occur.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising identifying, by the processor, mobile devices that are registered to receive alerts regarding event matches.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the transmitted data also includes lists of mobile devices that are registered to receive alerts regarding event matches.

6. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the data describing event matches includes information identifying a game and information regarding the current event, including the time when the current event is scheduled to occur.

5. An apparatus comprising:

a data storage device storing gaming preferences that include data indicative of one or more games and data identifying at least one mobile device registered to receive alerts regarding the games, wherein a game includes a wager, an event with a plurality of possible outcomes, and a payout associated with each outcome; and

a processing device configured to;

receive a datastream describing news;

extract one or more descriptions of current events from the datastream;

identify event matches based on the one or more descriptions of current events and event descriptions associated with a plurality of games;

identify alert registration data associated with each game in the plurality of games, wherein the alert registration data includes a list of mobile devices registered to receive alerts regarding each game in the plurality of games;

determine a number of mobile devices registered to receive alerts for each game in a subset of the plurality of games, wherein the subset comprises a game and at least one other game;

determine an estimate of the correlation among user interests in the subset of the plurality of games based at least in part on the count, wherein determining the estimate of the correlation among user interests in the subset of the plurality of games comprises maintaining a coincidence matrix for the plurality of games;

store the estimates of the correlations; and

transmit data describing event matches to a mobile device.

7. The apparatus of claim 5, further comprising identifying, by the processor, mobile devices that are registered to receive alerts regarding event matches.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the transmitted data also includes lists of mobile devices that are registered to receive alerts regarding event matches.