Back to results
US 2014/0213339 A1Published application
Charitable gaming
OwnerZaki Khalinventor
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
The invention relates to charitable gaming, and particularly the association of a player's wagering game play with one or more charitable entities. Other aspects of the invention comprise grouping of players with charitable entities and the allocation of gaming sessions, such as periods of time, with one or more charitable entities.
Claims14
A method of game play comprising:
- receiving input from a player of a selected charitable entity from a set of charitable entities, said input received at a game presentation device;
- receiving a wager from said player to play at least one wager-based game;
- presenting game information regarding said wager-based game to said player via at least one electronic display of said game presentation device;
- determining an outcome of said at least one wager-based game, wherein said outcome may be a winning outcome or a losing outcome;
- if said outcome is a winning outcome, awarding an award to said player;
- and
- if said outcome is a losing outcome, allocating at least a portion of said wager to funding said award and at least a portion to said selected charitable entity.
4 more elements
A game server by which multiple charitable organizations may present games to players comprising:
- at least one game server comprising a processor configured to execute machine readable code;
- at least one communication interface which permits said game server to communicate with a plurality of player presentation devices;
- at least one data storage device configured to store information regarding game play;
- machine readable code executable by said processor configured to cause said game server to generate game information regarding least one wagering game and to transmit said game information via said at least one communication interface to a first player of a first one of said player presentation devices and a second player of a second one of said player presentation devices;
- machine readable code executable by said processor configured to cause said game server configured to receive wager information from said first player and said second player and associate said wager information with either a first charitable entity or at least one second charitable entity.
2 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.