US 11,376,511 B2Granted

Interactive gaming via mobile playmaker

AssigneeEgames.Com Holdings LLC

InventorsChad M. Stafford, Justin Cooper, Nicholas Glassman, Steve Mayer

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Abstract

A gaming system, comprising a site server configured to provide game instances to local gaming devices in communication with the site server, a monitor for displaying video information related to the game instances, a central server configured to provide information about the availability of a game to players using local gaming devices in proximity of the site server, provide information about the availability of the game to one of the mobile telephones over the wide-area wireless network, receive, from the one or more mobile telephones, an indication of a selected game offered by the central server, and relay game instances between the site server and the one or more mobile telephones as the selected game is being played by players using the local gaming devices and players using the one or more mobile telephones via the wide-area wireless network.

Claims16

Dependent claims

A central gaming server for allowing local game players using local gaming controllers and a player using a cellular communication device to participate in games against or with each other, comprising:

a processor for simultaneously providing information about the availability of a plurality of games to the cellular communication device;
the processor further for receiving a request from the cellular communication device to participate in a first game selected from the information about the availability of the plurality of games;
the processor further for receiving a request from the cellular communication device for a list of venues in proximity to the cellular communication device that are or will be playing the first game by the local game players;
the processor further for determining a location of the cellular communication device;
the processor further for determining an identification of venues that are or will be playing the game by the local game players in proximity to the location of the cellular communication device;
the processor further for providing the identification of venues to the cellular communication device;
the processor further for building the first game to include the player using the cellular communication device and a first local gaming controller;
and
the processor further for relaying game play information between the cellular communication device and the first local gaming controller as the first game is played by the player using the cellular communication device and a local game player.

6 more elements

A method, performed by a central gaming server, for allowing local game players using local gaming controllers and a player using a cellular communication device to participate in games against or with each other, the method comprising:

simultaneously providing information about the availability of a plurality of games to the cellular communication device;
receiving a request from the cellular communication device to participate in a first game selected from the information about the availability of the plurality of games;
receiving a request from the cellular communication device for a list of venues in proximity to the cellular communication device that are or will be playing the first game by the local game players;
determining a location of the cellular communication device;
determining an identification of venues that are or will be playing the game by the local game players in proximity to the location of the cellular communication device;
providing the identification of venues to the cellular communication device;
building the first game to include the player using the cellular communication device and a first local gaming controller;
and
relaying game play information between the cellular communication device and the first local gaming controller as the first game is played by the player using the cellular communication device and a local game player.

6 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/087,737Filed 3 Nov 2020 · division
Priority: 3 Jun 2010
Published: US 2021/0046389 A118 Feb 2021
Granted: 5 Jul 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification20 codes

A63F 13/87
Providing additional services to players: communicating with other players during game play, e.g. by e-mail or chat
A63F 13/332
Using wide area network [WAN] connections: using wireless networks, e.g. cellular phone networks
A63F 13/352
Details of game servers: involving special game server arrangements, e.g. regional servers connected to a national server or a plurality of…
A63F 13/537
Involving additional visual information provided to the game scene, e.g. by overlay to simulate a head-up display [HUD] or displaying a laser…:…

Family

Application61/351,243Us provisional application · filed 3 Jun 2010
Application13/153,247Parent of this division · filed 3 Jun 2011
Application14/054,947Parent of this division · filed 16 Oct 2013
US 8,562,442 B2Parent of this division · filed 22 Oct 2013
Application15/173,648Parent of this division · filed 4 Jun 2016
US 9,358,463 B2Parent of this division · filed 7 Jun 2016
US 2021/0046389 A1Pre-grant publication · published 18 Feb 2021
US 10,821,367 B2Parent of this division
US 2011/0300946 A1Published application
US 2014/0051514 A1Published application
US 2016/0279528 A1Published application
US 11,376,511 B2This patent

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