US 8,137,202 B2Granted

Integrated electronic game system with player-end games corresponding to server-end games

OwnerTzu-Hsiang Tsenginventor

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Abstract

An integrated electronic game system includes multiple game controllers for executing different games, multiple game consoles disposed in communication with one another and having carried therein different games, a central control server connected between the game controllers and the game consoles for linking the game controllers and the game consoles that execute one same game, a driver connected with the game consoles for receiving a card-opening signal from each game console and outputting a respective operation instruction, and a physical card-opening device connected to the driver and controllable by the operation instruction outputted by the driver to execute the card-opening operation of the game of one game console. Thus, different games share one common physical card-opening device, and the player can operate one game controller to switch among different games, thereby improving game system utilization, raising the player's overall interest and reducing equipment costs.

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Dependent claims

An integrated electronic game system, comprising:

a plurality of game controllers each executing a plurality of different player-end game software programs;
a plurality of game consoles each executing a server-end game software program and disposed in communication with one another, wherein each server-end software program is different and respectively corresponds to one of the plurality of different player-end game software programs;
a central control server connected between said game controllers and said game consoles for linking said game controllers and said game consoles that execute a same game of one of the player-end game software programs and one of the server-end game software programs for two-way communication;
a driver connected with said game consoles respectively for receiving a card-opening signal from each said game console and outputting a respective operation instruction;
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only one physical card-opening device connected to said driver and controllable by the respective operation instruction outputted by said driver to execute a card-opening operation of one of the server-end game software programs of one of said game consoles.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.