US 6,966,832 B2 · System and method for providing game advice to a user of a gaming application

Abstract

A system for providing game advice to a user of a gaming application comprises a server and a processor remotely coupled to the server. The server executes a gaming application and monitors a plurality of game events during the execution of the gaming application. The server further communicates event information associated with at least one game event. The processor receives the event information and generates game advice associated with the gaming application based at least in part upon the event information. The processor further presents the game advice to the user during the execution of the gaming application.

Claims49

Dependent claims

A system for providing game advice to a user of a gaming application, comprising:

a server that:
executes a gaming application;
monitors a plurality of game events during the execution of the gaming application;
and
communicates event information associated with at least one game event;
and
a processor remotely coupled to the server that:
receives the event information;
generates game advice associated with the gaming application based at least in part upon the event information, wherein the game advice comprises wager advice that is base at least in part upon event information associated with an opponent of the user in the gaming application;
and
presents the game advice to the user during the execution of the gaming application.

8 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

10/194,018Filed 12 Jul 2002 · us provisional application

Priority

13 Jul 2001

Published

US 2003/0045359 A16 Mar 2003

Granted

22 Nov 2005

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification14 codes

G07F 17/3255
Payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes: incentive, loyalty and/or promotion…
G07F 17/32
Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services: for games, toys, sports, or amusements
G07F 17/3223
Hardware aspects of a gaming system, e.g. components, construction, architecture thereof: architectural aspects of a gaming system, e.g. internal…
G07F 17/3225
For games, toys, sports, or amusements: data transfer within a gaming system, e.g. data sent between gaming machines and users

Family

Application60/305,151Us provisional application · filed 13 Jul 2001

Application60/305,150Us provisional application · filed 13 Jul 2001

Application60/305,149Us provisional application · filed 13 Jul 2001

Application60/305,147Us provisional application · filed 13 Jul 2001

Application60/305,146Us provisional application · filed 13 Jul 2001

Application60/323,598Us provisional application · filed 20 Sep 2001

Application60/323,597Us provisional application · filed 20 Sep 2001

US 2003/0045359 A1Pre-grant publication · published 6 Mar 2003

US 6,966,832 B2This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.

System and method for providing game advice to a user of a gaming application

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System and method for providing game advice to a user of a gaming application

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