US 12,002,328 B2Granted

Method and system for customizable side bet placement

AssigneeIgt

InventorsMatteo Carli, Paul Baskerville, Donald Humphreys

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Abstract

An electronic gaming system is capable of providing players with customized subsets of side bets. The system can provide, by the user interface, the player with a player-selectable set of side bets; receive, from the player through the user interface, a selection of a subset of the player-selectable set of side bets for the player to use in a gaming session, with a number of side bets in the subset selected by the player being less than a number of side bets in the player-selectable set of side bets; initiate the gaming session comprising a side bet placed on an enabled side bet; determine an outcome of the gaming session relative to the enabled side bet; and adjust a value of an electronic record associated with an account of the player to reflect the outcome of the gaming session.

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Dependent claims

A electronic gaming system, comprising:

an interface to display gaming information and receive input from players;
a display;
an event handler, in communication with the interface, to detect for each side bet icon, of a plurality of side bet icons, associated with a corresponding side bet in a player-selectable set of side bets, an event associated with a player's movement and release of the side bet icon at selected target location on the display, each side bet in the player-selectable set of side bets corresponding to a different side bet icon;
a processor coupled with the interface and event handler;
and
a memory coupled with and readable by the processor and storing therein a set of instructions which, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to:
receive, from the event handler, an event of a plurality of events and, in response to the event, associate a moved side bet icon with a respective selected target location on the display and enable an independent credit meter for a selected side bet corresponding to the moved side bet icon, each selected side bet of the selectable side bets corresponding to a moved side bet icon being associated with a different independent credit meter and different selected target location on the display;
receive, and cause the display to render, gaming information received from a multi-player gaming session associated with the selected side bets;
determine, from the gaming information, a game outcome of the multi-player gaming session relative to each selected side bet in the player-selectable set of side bets;
and
for each selected side bet in the player-selectable set of side bets, adjust a stored value of an electronic record associated with an account of the player to reflect the game outcome.

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A method for operating an electronic gaming system, comprising:

as part of a multi-player gaming session
receiving, by a processor from a first player, a selection of a first subset of a player-selectable set of side bets for the first player to use in the multi-player gaming session, each side bet of the first subset corresponding to a potential event in the multi-player gaming session;
receiving, by the processor from a second player, a selection of a second subset of the player-selectable set of side bets for the second player to use in the multi-player gaming session, wherein at least one side bet in the first subset is different from each side bet in the second subset of the player-selectable set of side bets;
and
initiating, by the processor, the multi-player gaming session comprising side bet wagers placed on corresponding side bets in the first and second subsets of the player-selectable set of side bets selected by the first and second players, respectively.

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A method for operating an electronic gaming system, comprising:

initiating a multi-player gaming session, wherein each of a plurality of side bet icons is associated with a side bet in a player-selectable set of side bets, each of the side bets in the player-selectable set of side bets corresponding to a different side bet icon;
receiving, from an event handler, an event of a plurality of events, the event being associated with a player's movement and release of a side bet icon at selected target location on a display;
in response to the event, associating a moved side bet icon with a respective selected target location on a display and enabling an independent credit meter for a selected side bet corresponding to the moved side bet icon, each selected side bet of the player-selectable set of side bets corresponding to a moved side bet icon being associated with a different independent credit meter and different selected target location on the display;
receiving, and causing the display to render, gaming information received from a multi-player gaming session associated with selected side bets;
determining, from the gaming information, a game outcome of the multi-player gaming session relative to each selected side bet in the player-selectable set of side bets;
and
for each selected side bet in the player-selectable set of side bets, adjusting a stored value of an electronic record associated with an account of the player to reflect the game outcome.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/140,353Filed 27 Apr 2023 · continuation
Priority: 18 Apr 2019
Published: US 2023/0260366 A117 Aug 2023
Granted: 4 Jun 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

G07F 17/3262
Game play aspects of gaming systems: player actions which determine the course of the game, e.g. selecting a prize to be won, outcome to be…
G07F 17/3209
Player-machine interfaces: input means, e.g. buttons, touch screen
G07F 17/3211
Player-machine interfaces: display means
G07F 17/3244
For games, toys, sports, or amusements: payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes

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Application16/388,214Parent of this continuation · filed 18 Apr 2019
Application17/345,580Parent of this continuation · filed 11 Jun 2021
US 11,043,072 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 22 Jun 2021
US 2023/0260366 A1Pre-grant publication · published 17 Aug 2023
US 11,727,759 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2020/0334955 A1Published application
US 2021/0304563 A1Published application
US 12,002,328 B2This patent

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