US 12,157,064 B1Granted

Physical-virtual game board and content delivery platform

OwnerJames Andrew Aman, Jeffrey Paul Cheesmaninventors

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Abstract

A physical-virtual gaming platform comprising a game board overlay including logical locations for the placement of game pieces, where the overlay is placed in relationship to the combination of a game board and game pieces. The combination of the game board and game pieces include electronic means that are in communication with a computing device. The computing device processes the information provided by the electronic means to determine the logical location of a game piece with respect to the game overlay and then provides a sensory output to gamers based at least upon the determined locations. The game overlay can be active and in communication with the computing device such that the overlay is operated to alter one or more logical locations thereby changing game play in response to determined game piece movements. The platform includes visualization and audio devices for providing customized visual and audio experiences.

Claims20

Dependent claims

An interactive gaming platform for use by an entity to engage with a person, comprising:

a remote entity system comprising game content for use in engaging the person, where the game content comprises any one of or any combination video, audio, images, game rules, questions, clues, assignments, tasks, challenges, and action control signals, where the game content is maintained on the remote entity system, and
an interactive board game used by the person for playing a game comprising:
a physical game board comprising visual demarcations indicating logical locations associated with the game;
one or more physical game pieces being moved upon the logical locations, where each game piece comprises a unique ID;
one or more game computing elements for determining a current logical location of each of the one or more game pieces;
a game app either executing on or otherwise in communication with the one or more computing elements, where the game app determines and associates an identifying datum or otherwise unique indication of the person with the unique ID of at least one of the one or more game pieces, where the game app determines by using or otherwise receives from any of the one or more game computing elements the current logical location of the at least one of the one or more game pieces associated with the person such that the game app additionally determines the current logical location of the person;
one or more content output devices that are a game computing element or are in communication with a game computing element for providing at least one game content to the person, and
wherein either the game app or at least one of the one or more game computing elements is in communications with the remote entity system for receiving the at least one game content for providing to the person during the game, and where the remote entity system determines the at least one game content based at least in part upon the determined identification or otherwise unique indication of the person.

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An interactive gaming platform for use by an entity to engage with a person, comprising:

entity content means for remotely providing game content relevant to the entity responsive to a request for content communicated by an interactive board game;
interactive board game means for conducting a physical-virtual game, comprising:
one or more game board means for providing a layout of logical locations for use as game piece movement locations;
one or more uniquely identifiable game pieces for being moved upon the logical locations;
one or more game computing element means for determining a current location of the one or more uniquely identifiable game pieces with respect to the logical locations;
game app means for establishing an association between the person and at least one of the one or more uniquely identifiable game pieces;
one or more content output means for providing at least one game content to the person, and
wherein at least one game computing element is in communications with the remote entity content means for requesting and receiving game content for providing to the person during the game, and where the game content is provided by the remote entity system based at least in part upon the determined current logical location of the at least one uniquely identifiable game piece associated with the person.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/081,096Filed 27 Oct 2020 · division
Priority: 9 May 2018
Granted: 3 Dec 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification18 codes

A63F 3/00214
Characteristics of game boards, alone or in relation to supporting structures or playing piece: three-dimensional game boards
A63F 3/00634
Connections between board and playing pieces: sliding connections, e.g. playing pieces sliding in a groove
A63F 3/00643
Board games; Raffle games: electric board games; Electric features of board games
A63F 13/21
Input arrangements for video game devices: characterised by their sensors, purposes or types

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