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US 12,705,951 B1Granted
Gaming bounty aggregation and management device
AssigneeSalty Crew Poker LLC
InventorPatrick Highley
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Abstract
This disclosure describes techniques for managing bounty information across players for use in a tournament that makes use of bounties. In the disclosed system, bounty amounts are transferred and aggregated as players are eliminated. A first bounty amount maintained in relation to a first bounty tracking device for an eliminated player is aggregated with a second bounty amount maintained in relation to a second bounty tracking device for an eliminating player to generate a current bounty amount. The current bounty amount is stored in a local memory of the second bounty tracking device. The second bounty tracking device is configured to present an indication of that current bounty amount to an outside observer.
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A proxy device comprising:
- a wireless transceiver;
- one or more processors;
- and
- one or more computer readable media storing computer executable instructions which, when executed using the one or more processors, cause the proxy device to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, via a first short-range wireless communication initiated responsive to a first bounty tracking device being presented to the proxy device, an indication of the first bounty tracking device and a first bounty amount stored in a first local memory of the first bounty tracking device;
- receiving, via a second short-range wireless communication initiated responsive to a second bounty tracking device being presented to the proxy device, an indication of the second bounty tracking device and a second bounty amount stored in a second local memory of the second bounty tracking device, wherein the first bounty tracking device and the second bounty tracking are associated with an elimination event;
- causing a current bounty amount to be generated based on the first bounty amount and the second bounty amount;
- and
- providing instructions to the second bounty tracking device to cause it to store the current bounty amount in the second local memory, wherein the second bounty tracking device is configured to present an indication of the current bounty amount via one or more output component.
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A method comprising:
- receiving, via a first short-range wireless communication initiated responsive to a first bounty tracking device being presented to a proxy device, an indication of the first bounty tracking device and a first bounty amount stored in a first local memory of the first bounty tracking device;
- receiving, via a second short-range wireless communication initiated responsive to a second bounty tracking device being presented to the proxy device, an indication of the second bounty tracking device and a second bounty amount stored in a second local memory of the second bounty tracking device, wherein the first bounty tracking device and the second bounty tracking device are associated with an elimination event;
- causing a current bounty amount to be generated based on the first bounty amount and the second bounty;
- and
- providing instructions to the second bounty tracking device to cause it to store the current bounty amount in the second local memory, wherein the second bounty tracking device is configured to present an indication of the current bounty amount via one or more output component.
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A bounty tracking system comprising:
- a first bounty tracking device configured to:
- provide, via a first short-range wireless communication initiated responsive to the first bounty tracking device being presented to a proxy device, first bounty information including a first bounty amount stored in a first local memory of the first bounty tracking device to the proxy device;
- a second bounty tracking device configured to:
- provide, via a second short-range wireless communication initiated responsive to the second bounty tracking device being presented to the proxy device, second bounty information including a second bounty amount stored in a second local memory of the second bounty tracking device to the proxy device, wherein the first bounty tracking device and the second bounty tracking device are associated with an elimination event;
- receive, from the proxy device, instructions to store a current bounty amount in the second local memory, wherein the current bounty amount is based on the first bounty amount and the second bounty amount;
- and
- present, using one or more output component, an indication of the current bounty amount;
- and
- the proxy device configured to:
- receive the first bounty information from the first bounty tracking device via the first short-range wireless communication and receive the second bounty information from the second bounty tracking device via the second short-range wireless communication;
- cause the current bounty amount to be generated based on the first bounty amount and the second bounty amount;
- and provide the instructions to the second bounty tracking device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.