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US 11,547,946 B1Granted
Group electronic game or poll using beverage sensors
AssigneeGlitchbit LLC
InventorAdam Wray
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Abstract
A system includes a beverage sensor to distinguish one or more beverage states and to communicate the distinguished one or more beverage states to a processor as gameplay control inputs to the game.
Claims20
A game or poll system installed in an establishment, the system comprising:
- a plurality of beverage sensors installed in one or more countertops or tabletops of the establishment, each of the plurality of beverage sensors being coupled, wired or wirelessly, to either a respective computer processor or to a central computer processor, the processors or processor being configured to execute a game or poll having one or more participants.
A game or poll system comprising:
- a game server configured to transmit game or poll content to, and receive game or poll information from, a plurality of wireless mobile devices;
- a plurality of beverage receptacles each adapted to hold a beverage container in an upright orientation;
- and
- a plurality of beverage sensors each associated with one of the beverage receptacles, each of the beverage sensors to distinguish beverage states and to electronically communicate distinguished beverage states to the game server,
- wherein game or poll content transmitted by the game server to a target wireless mobile device of the plurality of wireless mobile devices is based on a beverage state distinguished by one of the beverage sensors corresponding to the target wireless mobile device.
2 more elements
A method of conducting a poll or administering a game, the method comprising:
- a server receiving game or poll information from a plurality of a beverage sensors each configured to measure and report a respective beverage state;
- and
- the server computing a game or poll winner based at least in part on the reported beverage states.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.