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US 2025/0148862 A1Published application
Refund wager commitments in a game streaming environment
AssigneeIgt
InventorsDwayne R. Nelson, Kevin Higgins
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Abstract
Systems and methods that enable the refunding of one or more wagers placed at a client device on one or more events occurring at a streaming device in association with a live streaming platform.
Claims20
A live streaming platform server comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory device that stores a plurality of instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
- responsive to a receipt, from a client device, of data associated with an amount of a wager placed on a play of a wagering game of a streaming device, cause a reduction of a balance associated with the client device, and
- responsive to an occurrence of a benefit realization event:
- determine an amount of a benefit,
- cause, based on the determined amount of the benefit, an increase of the balance associated with the client device,
- determine, based on the amount of the wager placed on the play of the wagering game of the streaming device, an award, and
- communicate, to the client device and at least partially based on data associated with the play of the wagering game received from the streaming device, data that results in the client device displaying the determined award as part of a stream of the play of the wagering game of the streaming device.
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A live streaming platform server comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory device that stores a plurality of instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
- responsive to an occurrence of a benefit realization event:
- determine an amount of a benefit,
- cause the determined amount of the benefit to be placed as at least part of a wager on a play of a wagering game of a streaming device, the placement of the at least part of the wager occurs independent of any modification of an account associated with the client device based on the at least part of the wager, and
- communicate, to the client device and at least partially based on data associated with the play of the wagering game received from the streaming device, data that results in the client device displaying a stream of the play of the wagering game of the streaming device.
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A method of operating a live streaming platform server, the method comprising:
- responsive to a receipt, from a client device, of data associated with an amount of a wager placed on a play of a wagering game of a streaming device, causing, by a processor, a reduction of a balance associated with the client device, and
- responsive to an occurrence of a benefit realization event:
- determining, by the processor, an amount of a benefit,
- causing, by the processor and based on the determined amount of the benefit, an increase of the balance associated with the client device,
- determining, by the processor and based on the amount of the wager placed on the play of the wagering game of the streaming device, an award, and
- communicating, to the client device and at least partially based on data associated with the play of the wagering game received from the streaming device, data that results in the client device displaying the determined award as part of a stream of the play of the wagering game of the streaming device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.