Providing and controlling embeddable gaming content

• US 9,478,101 B2
• Filed: 11/27/2015
• Issued: 10/25/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/28/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LNW Gaming Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Bally Gaming Incorporated (Scientific Games Corporation)
• Inventors: Allen, Jeffrey L., Stankovic, Danijel, Werneke, John R.
• Primary Examiner(s): CUFF, MICHAEL A
• Application Number:
  US14/953,245
• Publication Number:
  US 20160078721A1
• Time in Patent Office: 333 Days
• Field of Search: 463/25, 463/29, 463/42
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3206 Player sensing means, e.g. presence detection, biometrics
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3223 Architectural aspects of a gaming system, e.g. internal configuration, master/slave, wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3237 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

Abstract

A wagering game system and its operations include detecting, via a first web widget presented via a casino website, identifying information for a casino user account. The casino user account is hosted by a casino server. The first web widget is hosted by a second server separate from the casino server. The operations can further include determining, by at least one of one or more processors, a relationship between the casino user account and a second user account associated with the second server. The determining the relationship can be in response to detecting the identifying information. The operations can further include associating, by at least one of the one or more processors, the casino user account and the second user account in response to determining the relationship.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

detecting, via a first web widget presented via a casino website, identifying information for a casino user account, wherein the casino user account is hosted by a casino server, and wherein the first web widget is hosted by a second server separate from the casino server;

in response to detecting the identifying information, determining, by at least one of one or more processors, a relationship between the casino user account and a second user account associated with the second server; and

associating, by at least one of the one or more processors, the casino user account and the second user account in response to determining the relationship.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the associating the casino user account and the second user account comprises storing the relationship in a database associated with the second server.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the associating the casino user account and the second user account comprises receiving user input that indicates the relationship between the casino user account and the second user account.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the associating the casino user account and the second user account comprises matching the casino user account with the second user account during registration of one or more of the casino user account or the second user account.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the identifying information comprises one or more of login information or a user identifier.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the determining the relationship between the casino user account the second user account comprises:

detecting the user identifier during a login to the casino user account, wherein the user identifier is passed to the second server via an application programming interface; and

determining that the user identifier is stored in the second user account.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

detecting a selection of a game theme from the first web widget;

analyzing statistical information associated with game play related to the game theme, wherein the statistical information is stored in the second user account;

selecting, based on the analyzing, web widget content for presentation via the first web widget presented on the casino website; and

providing the web widget content to the first web widget via a communications network.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising communicating, via a second web widget presented on a wagering game machine, one or more of statistical information or content in response to one or more of the determining the relationship between the casino user account and the second user account or the associating the casino user account and the second user account.

9. One or more non-transitory, machine-readable storage media having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by one or more processors of a gaming server, cause the gaming server to perform operations comprising:

detecting, via a web widget presented via a casino website, identifying information for a casino user account, wherein the casino user account is hosted by a casino server, wherein the web widget is hosted by the gaming server;

determining, based on the identifying information, a relationship between the casino user account and a second user account associated with the gaming server; and

providing, via a communications network, content for presentation via the web widget in response to the determining the relationship between the casino user account and the second user account.

10. The one or more non-transitory, machine-readable storage media of claim 9, wherein the content is related to statistics of game play associated with one or more of the casino user account or the second user account.

11. The one or more non-transitory, machine-readable storage media of claim 9, wherein the content comprises web widget content provided by the gaming server.

12. The one or more non-transitory, machine-readable storage media of claim 11, wherein the content comprises website content for presentation via the casino website, wherein the website content is related to the web widget content.

13. The one or more non-transitory, machine-readable storage media of claim 9, wherein the operation for providing the content includes operations comprising:

detecting a selection of a game from the web widget;

analyzing statistics associated with game play related to the game, wherein the statistics are stored in the second user account;

selecting, based on the analyzing, web widget content for presentation via the web widget; and

providing the web widget content to the web widget via the communications network.

14. A gaming system comprising:

one or more electronic processing units; and

one or more memory storage devices configured to store instructions, which when executed by at least one of the one or more electronic processing units cause the gaming system to perform operations to,

detect, via a web widget presented via a casino website, identifying information for a casino user account, wherein the casino user account is hosted by a casino server, and wherein the web widget is hosted by a second server separate from the casino server,

determine, in response to detection of the identifying information, a relationship between the casino user account and a second user account associated with the second server, and

associate the casino user account and the second user account in response to determination of the relationship.

15. The gaming system of claim 14, wherein the one or more memory storage devices are configured to store instructions, which when executed by at least one of the one or more electronic processing units cause the gaming system to perform operations to store the relationship in a database associated with the second server.

16. The gaming system of claim 14, wherein the one or more memory storage devices are configured to store instructions, which when executed by at least one of the one or more electronic processing units cause the gaming system to provide, via a communications network, content for presentation via the web widget in response to the determination of the relationship.

17. The gaming system of claim 16, wherein the content is related to statistics of game play associated with one or more of the casino user account or the second user account.

18. The gaming system of claim 16, wherein the content comprises web widget content provided by the second server.

19. The gaming system of claim 18, wherein the content comprises website content for presentation via the casino website, wherein the website content is related to the web widget content.

20. The gaming system of claim 16, wherein the one or more memory storage devices are configured to store instructions, which when executed by at least one of the one or more electronic processing units cause the gaming system to:

detect a selection of a game from the web widget;

analyze statistics associated with game play related to the game, wherein the statistics are stored in the second user account;

select, based on analysis of the statistics, web widget content for presentation via the web widget; and

provide the web widget content to the web widget via the communications network.