Amusement devices: games inventions 06/07

20070149272 - Method, system, and device to allow a person a commercial spaceflight: The disclosed subject matter involves a skill based game where users predict a future event. Once the contestants make their prediction, the value is recorded and then compared against the actual data of the event predicted when the event occurs. The difference between the actual and predicted value is used... Agent: HulseyIPIntellectual Property Lawyers, P.C.

20070149282 - Interactive gaming method and apparatus with emotion perception ability: The present invention relates to an interactive gaming method and apparatus with emotion perception ability, by which not only gestures of a user can be detected and used as inputs for controlling a game, but also physiological attributes of the user such as heart beats, galvanic skin response (GSR), etc.,... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell Suite 1404

20070149266 - Ability value display control in a video game: A player character's current ability value, which changes in accordance with a game progress, is displayed in such a way that a player is able to grasp the value instinctively and instantaneously without feeling visual impediment. A player character (PC) table and an enemy character (EC) table are updated. A... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070149267 - Gaming device having destructive chain reaction events: In accordance with a game method, game information regarding one or more player selectable elements and awards associated with those elements is generated and stored. The player selectable elements are displayed and a player is permitted to select one or more of those elements. Each selected element is destroyed, unmasking... Agent: Weide & Miller, Ltd.

20070149269 - Casino gaming apparatus with a bonus: A casino gaming apparatus may include a display unit capable of generating video images, a value input device, a user input device and a controller operatively coupled to the display unit. The controller may comprise a processor and a memory and may be programmed to allow a person to make... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP

20070149268 - Enhanced play mode in a gaming machine based on contributions from player's wagers: A control unit in communication with a plurality of gaming machines selects one or more of the active machines to be set to an enhanced play mode. The selection may be random or based on other factors. During the enhanced play mode, free games are provided, or the awards attributed... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20070149270 - Gaming device having a game with decreasing probabilities of success: A gaming device having a bonus scheme wherein the success or failure of a current selection directly affects the player's chances for success in a later selection. The probabilities of success are related to the number of previous successful attempts by the player.... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP

20070149271 - System and method for pooling lottery chances: A system and methods for facilitating player participation in a lottery. The present system and methods provide players with the ability to pool their purchases in order to increase their chances of winning. In addition, the system provides players with the ability to purchase tickets through the Internet and can... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070149274 - Gaming machine: A gaming machine has variable display portions, a lottery unit, and a privilege giving unit. In the variable display portions, symbols are variably displayed. The lottery unit holds a lottery for determining which symbols will be stopped in the variable display portions. The privilege giving unit gives a player a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070149275 - Gaming machine: A gaming machine comprising: a display having a symbol display area in which areas respectively displaying symbols are arranged in a matrix; and a processor that is operable to execute a first game and a second game executed if stopped symbol in the first game satisfies a predetermined condition. The... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070149276 - Gaming machine: A gaming machine includes a display and a processor operable to execute a first game and a second game executed if stopped symbol in the first game satisfies a predetermined condition. The processor is operable with the display to: display a plurality of options associated with a multiplying factor to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070149277 - Interactive slot machine: In a gaming device means for providing the player with interactive features that include at least one of establishing at least one new winning combination of symbols, establishing at least one new pay line, and enabling a player to bet on the occurrence of a specific combination of symbols at... Agent: Dr. Nabil N. Ghaly

20070149278 - Method and apparatus for linked play gaming with combined outcomes and shared indicia: The invention includes a system and method for providing linked play via gaming and other devices wherein players may share and combine outcomes or parts thereof. In some embodiments, a casino server registers a group for linked play and a group objective and format are established. The linked play commences... Agent: Steven M. Santisi

20070149273 - Slide show in a video slot gaming machine: A video slot gaming machine includes a display device. On the display device images of the game symbols for a video slot game being played are superimposed over the slide show image instead of the simulated reels of a mechanical slot machine. As the game is being played the slide... Agent: John Livingston

20070149279 - Acorn: providing network-level security in p2p overlay architectures: To address the problem of providing network-based security to mitigate and detect cheating in peer-to-peer (P2P) gaming architecture, an architecture suite called architectures with coordinator obfuscation for resilient P2P gaming networks (ACORN) is presented that uses a combination of low overhead, per-packet access authentication, moving-coordinator and cheat detection mechanisms to... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20070149280 - Method and apparatus for software authentication: A method and apparatus for authenticating gaming machine software is disclosed. In one embodiment the method and apparatus is used to authenticate the contents of a removable media. Use of a removable media provides means to store large amounts of software on a single media to install software, perform software... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070149281 - Virtual movable mechanical display device: Various techniques are disclosed for displaying content on a movable display device. According to specific embodiments, content to be projected onto a first surface portion of the movable display device may be identified. At least one operation may be performed to determine movement characteristics associated with the movable display device... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070149285 - Game unit with controller-determined characters: An electronic game apparatus. The apparatus may include at least a first player input device and a second player input device. Each player input device may have a plurality of buttons adapted to be manipulated by a player, thereby producing player input signals for moving one or more characters within... Agent: Kolisch Hartwell, P.C.

20070149284 - In-vehicle gaming system: The in-vehicle gaming system is comprised of vehicle controls that are adapted to provide both vehicle control during a normal driving mode and game control inputs during a gaming mode. At least one of the controls is selectively disengaged from the vehicle control during the gaming mode. A display provides... Agent: Andrew R. Basile, Jr Young, Basile, Hanlon,

20070149283 - Virtual card gaming system: A virtual card system provides a card game which is presented in a three-dimensional representation on monitor screens. The system allows human players to play the card game through the monitor screens. The monitor screen may be touch screens which allow the human players to input commands directly. The card... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070149286 - Mobile reality gaming: The present invention presents a method for providing mobile gaming in a wireless communication network. The method includes provisioning a virtual game space operable for use with a virtual game. The virtual game space includes a plurality of virtual fields that correspond with cells in at least one wireless communication... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070149287 - Game progress administering system, game progress administering method, and computer-readable recording medium storing game progress administering program: A central server 3 (CPU 361, RAM 362) is provided with a player information storage 362a for storing player identification information in correspondence with shop identification information of belonging shops, a terminal storage 362b for storing terminal identification information in correspondence with the shop identification information, a shop information storage... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20070149288 - Method, apparatus, and program product for clustering entities in a persistent virtual environment: Apparatus, methods, and computer program products are disclosed that accesses coefficient vectors each of which represent an entity within a persistent virtual environment. Each accessed coefficient vector includes coefficients having coefficient values related to the represented entity. The coefficients represent a temporal profile of the entity in the persistent virtual... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070149290 - Method, apparatus, and program product for modeling presence in a persistent virtual environment: Apparatus, methods, and computer program products are disclosed that accumulate a presence history of an entity within a persistent virtual environment by repeated gathering of virtual presence information. The virtual presence information includes an entity identification value and a sampling time value. Once the virtual presence information is collected, the... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070149289 - Method, apparatus, and program product for predicting virtual presence in a persistent virtual environment: Apparatus, methods, and computer program products are disclosed that access a first coefficient vector that represents a first temporal profile and a second coefficient vector that represents a second temporal profile. The first and second temporal profiles represent presence histories of a first entity and a second entity within a... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070149291 - Entertainment system: A personal entertainment system is disclosed for providing multiple electronic applications for gaming, education, entertainment, business and interaction among users. It includes a cabinet with a user control panel. One or more display screens display a plurality of features singularly and concurrently. Multiple devices provide user input, output, and interaction... Agent: Elizabeth Mitchell

20070149292 - Gaming system having multiple gaming devices that share a multi-outcome display: A gaming device system in which a plurality of gaming devices are linked by a common bonus event is provided. In one embodiment, the linked gaming device system includes a shared symbol generation display that is positioned adjacent to each of a plurality of associated gaming devices and has a... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP

20070142106 - Progressive puzzle: A progressive puzzle dispersed throughout a thematic product universe is provided. The thematic product universe includes a plurality of different product genres sharing a common theme. The progressive puzzle includes a plurality of clues, and for each clue, a solution. The clues are progressive, such that the solution to at... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20070142107 - Casino table systems with multiple displays and below table processor: Systems and methods for playing live casino games involving multiple participants. The systems have casino tables with changeable displays which portray virtual playing cards or symbols to the live participants. The systems may include audio output to make the gaming experience more realistic. Shuffling, cutting, dealing, betting, audio output and... Agent: Randy A. Gregory Gregory Ipl

20070142108 - Regulated gaming - multi-act games: Creative multi-act games for the younger generation of casino players accustomed to creative simulation games such as “The Sims®” and familiar TV characters such as the cast of “Friends”. Stories unfold through acts that have been staged by the player by selecting and placing acting objects. A palette of betting... Agent: Young Law Firm, P.C. Alan W. Young

20070142109 - Method and apparatus for providing insurance policies for gambling losses: A system and method for providing a gambling loss insurance policy automatically computes insurance premiums and processes gambling sessions covered by the gambling loss insurance policies. The players may purchase the insurance policies using various means such as coins, earned winnings, or credit cards. The gambling loss insurance system provides... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20070142110 - Method and apparatus for providing insurance policies for gambling losses: A system and method for providing a gambling loss insurance policy automatically computes insurance premiums and processes gambling sessions covered by the gambling loss insurance policies. The players may purchase the insurance policies using various means such as coins, earned winnings, or credit cards. The gambling loss insurance system provides... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20070142111 - Method and apparatus for providing insurance policies for gambling losses: A system and method for providing a gambling loss insurance policy automatically computes insurance premiums and processes gambling sessions covered by the gambling loss insurance policies. The players may purchase the insurance policies using various means such as coins, earned winnings, or credit cards. The gambling loss insurance system provides... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20070142112 - Method and system for checking money-equivalent documents: In a method and a system for checking money-equivalent documents (1), such as e.g. bank notes, checks, coupons, vouchers and tickets, at a counter (2) at least one identification feature (5) of the document (1) is captured with the help of a high-resolution image capture system (3).... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070142114 - Fantasy celebrity game: An online game in which the participants, called “owners”, each assemble a team of real life celebrities from mainstream movie, music, television, fashion, and sports. The owners score points based on personal and professional events in the lives of the celebrities on their team.... Agent: Joseph Blaszczak

20070142113 - System and method for remote automated play of a gaming device: A method according to one or more embodiments of the present invention provides for initiating an automated session, in which the automated session comprises a plurality of games, and receiving a first signal including a video representation of the automated session. The method also includes transmitting a second signal including... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20070142115 - Handheld weapon: A handheld weapon suited for stopping knife and other items attacks, as well as for conveying debilitating yet non-lethal blows and for applying concentrated pain in order to gain control over an individual without having to apply excessive force to an opponent. The weapon comprises a hand grip portion fitted... Agent: Nath & Associates

20070135191 - Instructional game for teaching budgeting and finance management to students: The present invention relates to a game that provides different and varying scenarios relating to budgeting wherein the student is given a Monthly Budget Sheet containing a Before Column, an After Column, and a plurality of spaces and fill-in-the blank lines for such information as Income, and for Expense Items... Agent: Gary L. Huusko

20070135193 - Card game system and device having supplemental awards based on consecutive non-terminating outcomes: A card game includes a plurality of rounds playable upon at least one base wager and at least one supplemental wager. Each one of the rounds results in an outcome, where a base award is associated with at least one of the outcomes. A pattern condition is fulfillable when a... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP

20070135192 - Method and apparatus for providing a distributed gaming application: A method and apparatus are provided to control a game involving a group of players. The game involves associating each player with a game card comprising a set of values. Each player is then provided with a sequence of position options. A position option comprises at least first and second... Agent: Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20070135194 - Gaming system, method and device including player/dealer role reversal for modified blackjack game: A modified version of a Blackjack game includes a plurality of Blackjack rules including at least one player rule and at least one dealer rule. The modified Blackjack game includes at least one deck of cards, a plurality of participant hands formable from the deck, and a plurality of game... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP

20070135195 - Method of playing a poker game: The invention relates generally to a multi level poker game, more particularly a video poker game, wherein the poker game is played as a Texas Holdem poker. The game is played against a machine or dealer where the dealer deals a number of two card hands face up holdings (or... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Leccese, P.C. Michael Leccese, Esq.

20070135197 - Stud poker games: A stud poker game in which a partial hand of cards are dealt as the player's hand. The player is then permitted to choose one of the undealt cards to be added to the player's hand. The remaining cards needed to complete the player's final hand are dealt. If the... Agent: John Edward Roethel

20070135196 - Video poker draw game: A method and apparatus for conducting a wagering game is provided. The method may comprise predetermining a predetermined payout award. The method may also comprise displaying a first hand, where the first hand includes a first plurality of cards. The method may also comprise accepting a selection of held cards... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070135199 - Betting chance game: A method to play a game of chance using a map of sites (11) as playing surface (10) with moving pieces called movers (12). The game rules a plurality of movements. A random draw of one ruled movement moves a mover from one site to another. Players bet on selected... Agent: Yi Chen

20070135200 - Betting race game: A method to play a race game determined by multiple rounds of random numbers. The game allows any player anytime to start an individual race For each racer (12) on the race course (10) there is one variable finish line (11) to be selected by the player. Racers advance according... Agent: Yi Chen

20070135202 - Gaming sidekick: Electronic games of chance are growing increasingly more complex, with each successive generation of games adding a wealth of new features and bonus schemes to enhance the player's gaming experience. Created in part to help players better enjoy this new, more complex brand of gaming, the present Gaming Sidekick may... Agent: Young Law Firm, P.C. Alan W. Young

20070135198 - Instant lottery game: An instant lottery game system (10) includes a game play defining element (12). A symbol display zone (14) is carried on the game play defining element (12), the symbol display zone (14) containing a plurality of symbols related to gaming machine games. A masking medium (20) covers the symbols of... Agent: Greenberg Traurig

20070135201 - Random display device: A random display device is provided including a controller, a switch, an LCD and a power source all coupled to one another forming an electrical circuit located within a housing. The controller is provided with a memory containing a number of messages in the form of written sentences, phrases and/or... Agent: Holland & Knight, LLP

20070135204 - Rotor-based gaming device having a secondary award system: A game system including a plurality of symbols, a rotor and an award amount. The plurality of symbols include at least one secondary award group of the symbols. A wager is placeable on the secondary award group. The rotor displays the symbols and a plurality of ball landings adjacent to... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP

20070135203 - Rotor-based gaming device having a system for changing the quantity of potential game outcomes for subsequent plays: A gaming device including a game operable upon one or more wagers. The game is operable for a first play and a second play. Each one of the plays involves a spin of a rotor. The rotor has a plurality of symbols and a plurality of ball landings adjacent to... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP

20070135205 - Method and system for playing a networked bingo game: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems and programs for conducting a game of bingo, comprising an enrolment process in which at least one player enrolls to join a team of players to participate in the bingo game. Virtual players may be generated to join the team of players.... Agent: Labtronix Concept Inc. C/o Ogilvy Renault

20070135206 - Gaming machine and game system: A gaming machine has a first determination unit, a selection unit, and a bonus game execution unit. The receiving unit receives a game medium. The first determination unit determines whether or not a payout number based on the result of a lottery is equal to or more than a threshold... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070135207 - Game with changing odds and payouts: A method and apparatus for playing a game provides for varying payouts depending on changing odds for receiving winning combinations. In one embodiment, the magnitude of an award or payout for a winning game outcome increases as the odds of receiving the outcome decreases. In games played with indicia, awards... Agent: Weide & Miller, Ltd.

20070135209 - Electronic sweepstakes system providing multiple game presentations for revealing results from a single sweepstakes game: A reveal request is initiated through a result reveal station by a person (user) who has previously made some purchase or donation and has been assigned a number of sweepstakes entries in an assignment order from a set of available sweepstakes entries for a sweepstakes game. This reveal request represents... Agent: The Culbertson Group, P.C.

20070135210 - Method and apparatus for providing insurance policies for gambling losses: A method according to some embodiments of the present invention provides for a game server to receive policy requirements of a user for a gambling loss insurance policy from a terminal. The game server determines a premium amount based on the policy requirements of the user and transmits information concerning... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20070135208 - Networked video game wagering with player-initiated verification of wager outcomes: Embodiments of a wagering system are provided. The wagering system may include a server configured for processing at least one wager on a video game to be played by players on a multiplayer gaming network, and at least one database operatively associated with the server, the database being configured for... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070135211 - Gaming system using single player-identification card for performing multiple functions: A gaming terminal comprises an input device for receiving a player card during a wagering game. The input device has a reading component(s) for reading at least two different media on the game card. The gaming terminal includes a display for displaying a randomly selected game outcome and information related... Agent: Jenkens & Gilchrist, P.C.

20070135214 - Method and apparatus for using conditional parameters to alternate between wagering games: A wagering method is provided that allows players or gaming establishments to specify conditions which when satisfied, reconfigure the gaming device to change game play from a first game to a second game. The condition may depend upon the value of a parameter -generally related to game play—to determine if... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20070135215 - Method and apparatus for using conditional parameters to alternate between wagering games: A wagering method is provided that allows players or gaming establishments to specify conditions which when satisfied, reconfigure the gaming device to change game play from a first game to a second game. The condition may depend upon the value of a parameter—generally related to game play—to determine if the... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20070135212 - Method and system for adapting casino games to playing preferences: One embodiment of the present invention provides for receiving a player identifier, transmitting the player identifier to a central server, receiving data corresponding to the player identifier from the central server, and configuring play of a casino game based on the data.... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20070135213 - Method and system for adapting casino games to playing preferences: One embodiment of the present invention provides for receiving a player identifier, transmitting the player identifier to a central server, receiving data corresponding to the player identifier from the central server, and configuring play of a casino game based on the data.... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20070135216 - Pass-through live validation device and method: Hardware, systems, devices, architecture and methods for a wagering game-specific platform features secure storage and verification of game code and/or other data. An external connection securely communicates with a computerized wagering gaming system. Some embodiments of the invention provide the ability to identify game program code as certified or approved.... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070135217 - Transportable character-centric gaming for wireless lan hotspots: Gaming capabilities to users at wireless hotspots wherein users can save their gaming characters and transporting them for play and development in, e.g., future games at other hotspots independent of the original game in which the character was saved. A gaming server is provided at a WLAN, wherein the user... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070135218 - Blank ammunition and method of use therefore: The current invention is a gaming apparatus and method wherein players ride on a motorized vehicle around a course through a variety of gates and a variety of barrels while shooting at targets with a firearm loaded with specialized blank ammunition. The blank ammunition is capable of short range use... Agent: Schultz & Associates, P.C. One Lincoln Centre

20070129126 - Method and system for allocating resources in a video game: The present disclosure provides various novel concepts to a video game environment. The disclosure describes video game environments that include a method and system for controlling the quantity and distribution of virtual natural resources, raw materials, skills and NPCs in and between games, where player characters may acquire, use and... Agent: Gonzales Patent Services

20070129123 - System and method for game creation: A game system and method that involves game creation through a dynamic or other Human Computer Interface that provides one or more “tools” used to define a game structure and associated rules. Community tools are created by participants or provided for enhancing peer collaboration, communication, validation, interactions, socialization and other... Agent: Bennett Jones LLP

20070129124 - Video game with registration of funding sources: The disclosure provides novel video game methods and systems for obtaining funding for developing game environments. Methods and systems include a variety of funding sources including taxes, fees, licenses, bond issuance, loans, investors, commercial paper, convertible debt, bills, notes, debt issuance, promissory notes, venture capital, the issuance of private shares,... Agent: Gonzales Patent Services

20070129125 - Video game with venture capital funding voting: The disclosure provides novel video game methods and systems for obtaining funding for developing game environments. Methods and systems include a variety of funding sources including taxes, fees, licenses, bond issuance, loans, investors, commercial paper, convertible debt, bills, notes, debt issuance, promissory notes, venture capital, the issuance of private shares,... Agent: Gonzales Patent Services

20070129128 - Gaming method, device, and system including trivia-based bonus game: A multilevel game includes a base game in which game credits and free passes may be accumulated and saved for play in a bonus event. The bonus event comprises a tic tac toe-like game in which a player is required to correctly answer trivia questions in order to receive a... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070129127 - Sudoku game device: The present invention discloses a Sudoku game device, including: a housing; a printed circuit board; a microcontroller comprising at least a video out port, an audio out port, and a signal in port, wherein the video out port and the audio out port can be coupled with a display device... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC One Skyline Place

20070129129 - Computer-based multiplayer multilanguage poker system with replay capability: The invention is related to computer-based gaming systems, and particularly to a computer-based multiplayer multi-language poker system with replay capability. In one embodiment, the system provides for a plurality of players to play a selected game of poker comprising: a central processing unit (CPU); software which directs play of a... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070129131 - Gaming device having a multiple selection and award distribution bonus scheme: A gaming device having a multiple selection and award distribution bonus scheme. A selection is chosen from a group of selections. The game determines awards for distribution to the selection. Once determined, the awards are distributed to the selection and a player is provided with the awards. The game preferably... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP

20070129133 - Gaming device having skill/perceived skill game: A gaming device, wherein a player's skill at an action or event determines the player's success or failure in the round. The game is readily adaptable to becoming a pseudo-skill game that would be required in most gaming jurisdictions. In one pseudo-skill embodiment, the skill game is converted to a... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP

20070129132 - Gaming display device: A display device comprising a plurality of prize balls, a ball holder adapted to hold the balls in an individually controlled manner, a controller adapted to select a prize ball, a display mechanism adapted to display the selected prize ball to the player; and a positioning mechanism in communication with... Agent: Ian F. Burns & Associates

20070129130 - Gaming machine: A gaming machine includes: a display device; an input device; and a processor that is operable to perform a game. The processor is operable with the display device to: (a) display a plurality of first selectable elements, at least two of the first selectable elements being assigned with a selection... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070129134 - Dynamic assignment of pay lines in a game of chance: A game of chance is disclosed that looks like a multi-line gaming machine having a matrix of rows and columns of positions for displaying slot symbols or cards to a player. A player wagers to play one or more games but the actual pay lines are dynamically determined by events... Agent: Joseph E. Funk

20070129135 - Gaming machine having a selectable active symbol matrix (\"what you see is what you get\"): A gaming device and method for playing a gaming device which provide awards for any and all symbols appearing within selected portions of a symbol matrix (“What You See Is What You Get” or “WYSIWYG”).... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson, LLP

20070129138 - Computer graphics processing methods and systems for presentation of graphics objects or text in a wagering environment with suspect wager checking: Computer graphics processing systems and methods are provided for the presentation of graphic objects or text in a wagering environment. In at least one embodiment, the systems and methods present graphic objects on a graphic user interface screen that includes at least one of a plurality of betting lines, including... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20070129141 - Method and apparatus for linked play gaming: The invention includes a system and method for providing linked play via gaming and other devices. In some embodiments, a casino server registers a group for linked play and a group objective and format are established. The linked play commences according to the group format on the gaming devices while... Agent: Steven M. Santisi

20070129142 - Methods and apparatus employing audio/video programming to initiate game play at a gaming device: In a first aspect, a method of operating a gaming device is provided. The method includes the steps of (1) receiving an indication of an occurrence of a game initiation trigger associated with audio/video programming being provided to a player of the gaming device; and (2) in response to the... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20070129143 - Methods and apparatus employing audio/video programming to initiate game play at a gaming device: In a first aspect, a method of operating a gaming device is provided. The method includes the steps of (1) receiving an indication of an occurrence of a game initiation trigger associated with audio/video programming being provided to a player of the gaming device; and (2) in response to the... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20070129140 - Methods and apparatus for providing entertainment content at a gaming device: Gaming systems and methods of operation thereof are disclosed. Such gaming systems and methods allow a player of a gaming device, such as a slot machine or an arcade video game, to access entertainment services, such as broadcast television programming, web sites, pay-per-view services and shared-revenue telephone services, such as... Agent: Magdalena M. Fincham

20070129136 - Methods, systems and apparatus for facilitating cashout options at a gaming device: An embodiment of the invention includes receiving a request for a cashout of a balance from a player. In response to receiving the cashout request, at least one benefit to offer is determined based upon the balance. A value of the benefit is greater than the cashout amount. An offer... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20070129137 - Methods, systems and apparatus for facilitating cashout options at a gaming device: An embodiment of the invention includes receiving a request for a cashout of a balance from a player. In response to receiving the cashout request, at least one benefit to offer is determined based upon the balance. A value of the benefit is greater than the cashout amount. An offer... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20070129139 - On demand prize/bonus system: A gaming machine and method for selecting a prize to be awarded in an outcome for a game of chance has means for providing one or more games of chance, means for accepting a wager, a prize display, and a prize selector to allow a player to select at least... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070129144 - Methods and apparatus for enhanced play in lottery and gaming environments: Methods and apparatus for game play using virtual players, sometimes referred to herein as vBots, is disclosed. In one aspect, a method for game play involves the use of the system electronic system environment described herein, wherein one or more virtual players are displayed to the player of the game,... Agent: O'melveny & Myers LLP

20070129145 - Directory service in a service-oriented gaming network environment: A gaming network includes a directory service, wagering game machines and service providers. The directory service receives requests for information from the wagering game machines and service providers on the gaming network and provides information relevant to the request to the requester. The directory service and service providers may be... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070129149 - Method and apparatus for linked play gaming: The invention includes a system and method for providing linked play via gaming and other devices. In some embodiments, a casino server registers a group for linked play and a group objective and format are established. The linked play commences according to the group format on the gaming devices while... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20070129148 - Method and system for allocating resources in a video game: The present disclosure provides various novel concepts to a video game environment. The disclosure describes video game environments that include a method and system for controlling the quantity and distribution of virtual natural resources, raw materials, skills and NPCs in and between games, where player characters may acquire, use and... Agent: Gonzales Patent Services

20070129147 - System and method for video gaming tournament: The invention described herein includes a method. The method includes, on a plurality of video gaming machines conducting a video card game tournament; wherein the tournament lasts for a plurality of hands; each hand played includes a bet; each hand must be played within a period of time such that... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070129146 - System, method and computer program product for dynamically measuring properties of objects rendered and/or referenced by an application executing on a computing device: A system, method and computer program product for dynamically enhancing and measuring a software application, such as a video game, executing on a computing device, without having to change and recompile the original application code. The system includes a staging environment that monitors the execution of the application and indexes... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070129151 - Game conversion method: A method is disclosed for enabling play of legacy games on a previously-incompatible enhanced gaming platform that provides enhanced functionality using a game conversion system. The method includes: providing a game cabinet for a gaming machine; operatively associating an enhanced gaming platform with the gaming machine, wherein the enhanced gaming... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20070129150 - Game conversion system: A game conversion system is disclosed for enabling play of legacy games on a previously-incompatible enhanced gaming platform. The system game conversion system includes a game cabinet for a gaming machine, an enhanced gaming platform operatively associated with the gaming machine, one or more legacy games, and a configuration file... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20070129152 - Input device and method for shooting games: An input device and method for shooting games, which comprises at least an inertial sensing module, for detecting the aiming gesture of an user and issuing a gesture signal according to the detection; a switch unit, capable of issuing an on/off signal for simulating a shooting; a signal processing unit,... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell Suite 1404