US 2014/0274271 A1 · System and Method of Revealing the Outcomes of Real World Wagers Through Win-Win Reveals

Abstract

The invention relates to systems and methods of selecting and placing real-world wagers responsive to one or more wager triggers, obtaining outcomes of the real-world wagers, facilitating user interactions with various interactive media, and revealing the outcomes of the real-world wagers through the interactive media to give an appearance that the outcomes of the real-world wagers resulted from the user interactions even though the outcomes resulted from the real-world wagers and were determined before the user interactions. The system may enhance a perceived value of a payout by providing one or more companion items. For example, the system may augment a two dollar payout with one or more companion items as a bonus. The system may provide a consolation prize (which may or may not be the same as the companion items) in the event that the user fails to achieve an objective.

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Dependent claims

A computer implemented method of revealing outcomes of real-world wagers along with companion items through interactive media to give the impression that a user won more than the revealed outcomes, the method being implemented in a computer system having one or more physical processors programmed with computer program instructions that, when executed by the one or more physical processors, cause the computer system to perform the method, the method comprising:

processing, by the computer system, an initiation of a real-world wager associated with the user;
placing, by the computer system, the real-world wager;
determining, by the computer system, an outcome of the real-world wager;
determining, by the computer system, at least a portion of the outcome to be potentially revealed to the user subject to satisfaction of a condition;
determining, by the computer system, one or more companion items to be revealed to the user along with the determined portion of the outcome;
and
responsive to a determination that the condition has been satisfied, revealing, by the computer system, the portion of the outcome and the one or more companion items to the user through the interactive media to give the user the impression that the user won more than the portion of the outcome based on satisfaction of the condition.

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A system of revealing outcomes of real-world wagers along with companion items through interactive media to give the impression that a user won more than the revealed outcomes, the comprising:

a computer system having one or more physical processors programmed by computer program instructions to:
process an initiation of a real-world wager associated with the user;
place the real-world wager;
determine an outcome of the real-world wager;
determine at least a portion of the outcome to be potentially revealed to the user subject to satisfaction of a condition;
determine one or more companion items to be revealed to the user along with the determined portion of the outcome;
and
responsive to a determination that the condition has been satisfied, reveal by the computer system, the portion of the outcome and the one or more companion items to the user through the interactive media to give the user the impression that the user won more than the portion of the outcome based on satisfaction of the condition.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

System and Method of Revealing the Outcomes of Real World Wagers Through Win-Win Reveals

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System and Method of Revealing the Outcomes of Real World Wagers Through Win-Win Reveals

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