US 9,317,999 B2Granted

System and method of managing user accounts to track outcomes of real world wagers revealed to users

AssigneeGame Play Network, Inc.

InventorsRussell M. Fine, Jamison Selby

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Abstract

The invention relates to systems and methods of maintaining revealed and unrevealed balances that both belong to a user, but the user is aware only of the revealed balance. In this manner, the system can give the user an impression that a value (e.g., a cash amount or other value) has been gained or lost by transferring the value between the revealed and unrevealed balances of the user, even though no gain or loss actually occurred. The unrevealed balance may include a payout from a real-world wager. Thus, payout may be revealed to the user in a manner that the user believes that the payout was won by the user through a game or other interactive media, even though the payout belongs to the user based on the payout. Other changes in value to the unrevealed and revealed balances may occur as well.

Claims22

Dependent claims

A computer implemented method of maintaining a revealed balance and an unrevealed balance associated with real-world wager payouts of a user, 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:

causing, by the computer system, an unrevealed balance associated with one or more user accounts of the user to be stored, wherein the unrevealed balance is associated with one or more payouts, from one or more real-world wagers placed on behalf of the user, that have not been communicated to the user by the computer system;
causing, by the computer system, a revealed balance associated with the one or more user accounts of the user to be stored, wherein the revealed balance is associated with amounts that have been communicated to the user by the computer system;
receiving, by the computer system, an indication that at least a portion of the unrevealed balance has been revealed to the user based on at least one physical user input associated with a user interaction with interactive media;
updating, by the computer system, the revealed balance based on the revealed portion;
and
updating, by the computer system, the unrevealed balance based on the revealed portion.

3 more elements

A computer system of maintaining a revealed balance and an unrevealed balance associated with real-world wager payouts of a user, the 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:

cause an unrevealed balance associated with one or more user accounts of the user to be stored, wherein the unrevealed balance is associated with one or more payouts, from one or more real-world wagers placed on behalf of the user, that have not been communicated to the user by the computer system;
cause a revealed balance associated with the one or more user accounts of the user to be stored, wherein the revealed balance is associated with amounts that have been communicated to the user by the computer system;
receive an indication that at least a portion of the unrevealed balance has been revealed to the user based on at least one physical user input associated with a user interaction with interactive media;
update the revealed balance based on the revealed portion;
and
update the unrevealed balance based on the revealed portion.

3 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/636,128Filed 2 Mar 2015 · continuation
Priority: 13 Mar 2013
Published: US 2015/0199875 A116 Jul 2015
Granted: 19 Apr 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

G07F 17/3262
Game play aspects of gaming systems: player actions which determine the course of the game, e.g. selecting a prize to be won, outcome to be…
A63F 13/00
Video games, i.e. games using an electronically generated display having two or
G07F 17/3209
Player-machine interfaces: input means, e.g. buttons, touch screen
G07F 17/3211
Player-machine interfaces: display means

Family

Application61/779,945Us provisional application · filed 13 Mar 2013
Application14/209,608Parent of this continuation · filed 13 Mar 2014
US 2015/0199875 A1Pre-grant publication · published 16 Jul 2015
US 8,968,082 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2014/0274328 A1Published application
US 9,317,999 B2This patent

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