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US 2019/0295359 A1Published application
Systems, methods, and apparatus for bingo games having a visible ball queue
AssigneeGamesys Ltd.
InventorHans Elias
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Abstract
Systems, apparatus, methods, and articles of manufacture provide for a bingo game including a representation of a ball queue. In one example, a display for a bingo game represents a queue of one or more upcoming ball calls for the bingo game. In some embodiments, a ball queue may include partial information about an upcoming ball call (e.g., an indication of a corresponding bingo card column but not a bingo number).
Claims21
An apparatus for providing online games to remote user devices, comprising:
- a processor of a game application delivery controller, wherein the game application delivery controller is in communication with a game server cluster;
- a computer-readable memory in communication with the processor of the game application delivery controller, the computer-readable memory storing instructions that when executed by the processor of the game application delivery controller direct the processor to:
- receive, from a user device, a request for an online gaming interface for a bingo game;
- transmit a call for the bingo game to a bingo game server of the game server cluster;
- determine a sequence of bingo symbols for the bingo game;
- provide the online gaming interface to the user device, wherein the generated online gaming interface comprises a representation of an electronic bingo card and a visible ball queue;
- generate, in the visible ball queue of the online gaming interface, a representation of at least one bingo symbol of the determined sequence of bingo symbols that is not yet playable in the bingo game;
- enable, in the online gaming interface, a represented first bingo symbol of the determined sequence in the visible ball queue for play in the bingo game;
- and
- remove the represented first bingo symbol enabled for play in the bingo game from the visible ball queue in the online gaming interface.
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A method for providing online games to remote user devices, comprising:
- receiving, by a game application delivery controller from a user device, a request for an online gaming interface for a bingo game;
- transmitting, by the game application delivery controller, a call for the bingo game to a bingo game server of the game server cluster;
- determining, by the game application delivery controller, a sequence of bingo symbols for the bingo game;
- providing the online gaming interface to the user device, wherein the online gaming interface comprises a representation of an electronic bingo card and a visible ball queue;
- generating, by the game application delivery controller, in the visible ball queue of the online gaming interface, a representation of at least one bingo symbol of the determined sequence of bingo symbols that is not yet playable in the bingo game;
- enabling, by the game application delivery controller, in the online gaming interface, a represented first bingo symbol of the determined sequence in the visible ball queue for play in the bingo game;
- and
- removing, by the game application delivery controller, the represented first bingo symbol enabled for play in the bingo game from the visible ball queue in the online gaming interface.
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An apparatus for providing online games to remote user devices, comprising:
- a processor in communication with a game server cluster;
- a computer-readable memory in communication with the processor, the computer-readable memory storing instructions that when executed by the processor direct the processor to:
- receive, from a user device, a request for an online gaming interface for a bingo game;
- transmit a call to a bingo game server of the game server cluster for the online gaming interface for the bingo game;
- determine a sequence of bingo symbols for the bingo game;
- transmit the online gaming interface, wherein the online gaming interface comprises a representation of an electronic bingo card and a visible ball queue, wherein the visible ball queue of the online gaming interface comprises a representation of at least one bingo symbol of the determined sequence of bingo symbols that is not yet playable in the bingo game;
- enable, in the online gaming interface, a represented first bingo symbol of the determined sequence in the visible ball queue for play in the bingo game;
- and
- remove the represented first bingo symbol enabled for play in the bingo game from the visible ball queue in the online gaming interface.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.