Amusement devices: games inventions 09/08

20080234021 - Gaming device and method of operating a gaming device including player controlled targeting: A gaming machine, system, and method including a game event in which a player aims at a target. In one embodiment, the game event includes a plurality of targets. The gaming device displays the plurality of targets to the player and enables the player to select one of the targets.... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP

20080234022 - Game device, computer control method, and information storage medium: To provide a game device for presenting to a player inputting the amount of operation while utilizing a gauge, the length of a gauge which corresponds to a desired amount of operation. In a game device in which an object placed in a virtual three dimensional space is moved by... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080234023 - Light game: A game and system allow a person to learn and practice dance techniques involving the movement of glowing objects to thereby create a light show, commonly known as glow sticking or stringing. The system utilizes motion sensitive controllers to sense a person's movements and displays the resulting dance moves on... Agent: BatemanIPLaw Group

20080234024 - Electronic playing card: The invention provides an electronic playing card comprising electronic paper that displays a playing card. Two or more of such electronic playing cards can comprise an electronic playing card deck. The invention further provides an electronic playing card shuffler for electronically shuffling an electronic playing card deck by way of... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080234025 - Simultaneous multiplayer gaming machine and method of controlling the same: A gaming machine is configured of: stations each for individually carrying out a card game; a display visible to players each playing the card game in one of the stations; and a control device configured to control progress of game situation and the like played in the entire system. Each... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080234027 - System and method of conducting games of chance with enhanced payouts based on cash in amount: A system and method of conducting games of chance with enhanced payouts based on a cash in or initial investment amount is disclosed. In response to a player's initial investment or cash in amount, a payout schedule is selected. The larger the initial investment the better the selected payout schedule... Agent: Greenberg Traurig

20080234029 - Methods and apparatus for providing tickets from gaming devices and/or lottery terminals which are not dependent on a player's success on the underlying game: Gaming devices dispense tickets which are unrelated to a player's success on a particular game played on a gaming device or to the player's credits on a credit meter or other “cash out” indicator. The gaming devices provide gaming awards and also provide tickets. Other methods provide tickets during the... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080234028 - Multiplier for lottery game: An improved multiplier for a lottery game is provided. In connection with a base lottery game, each player receives or selects a multiplier indicia (or other bonus indicia) from a pool of multiplier indicia. In addition to drawings for the base game, a drawing of multiplier indicia and a determination... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20080234032 - 3d wagering for 3d video reel slot machines: Methods and systems allowing video slot machine players to wager on symbols occurring on all sides of a reel, including the reel's front, back, top, bottom, and inside portions. Players may move reels in space to seek out winning paylines or win mystery bonuses on symbols combinations that occur on... Agent: Young Law Firm, P.C. Alan W. Young

20080234031 - Gaming machine capable of setting bet-number and effective area-number: When activating one or more paylines and setting a bet-number therefor, a total bet-number obtained by multiplying the number of the paylines activated by the bet-number per one payline is limited. In this regard, when a player operates one of LINE buttons 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, the operated button... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080234030 - Gaming system and a method of gaming: A gaming system is disclosed which comprises a symbol selector arranged to select a plurality of symbols from a set of symbols for display at a plurality of display positions, a symbol position modifier operable by a player to modify the display position of at least one symbol, and an... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080234033 - Reel-type gaming activity involving automatic randomization of a subset of reels: A gaming apparatus has a plurality of gaming reels. Each gaming reel has a plurality of symbols that are randomly arranged in response to gaming events. A controller is coupled to the gaming reels and configured to randomize, in response to a user input, the plurality of gaming reels so... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20080234034 - Method and apparatus for providing an advantage to a player in a bonus game: A gaming method includes receiving a wager from a player, displaying an image representative of a primary game, determining if a bonus event trigger has occurred, displaying an image representative of a bonus game, the bonus game including a representation associated with the player and a representation associated with an... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP

20080234036 - Providing progressive games for gaming environments: Techniques for providing progressive games in a gaming environment are disclosed. Progressive configuration data can effectively define one or more progressive games for a gaming environment that includes one or more gaming machines. The progressive gaming data can, for example, be provided as a set of rules (e.g., rules in... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP - Igt Attn: Igt

20080234037 - System and logic for establishing a wager for a game: In a particular embodiment of the present invention, a system for establishing a wager associated with a game comprises a processor that receives information about a wager offer, wherein the wager offer is associated with an online game. The processor also receives information about a wager acceptance. The wager offer... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080234038 - System and method for renting virtual articles: A system for renting virtual article includes: a renting control unit, configured to rent a virtual article according to a hiring request, and stop renting the virtual article according to a stop-renting request; a monitoring unit, configured to monitor rented condition of the virtual article, and send the stop-renting request... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080234035 - System and method of conducting games of chance with enhanced payouts based on cash in amount: A system and method of conducting games of chance with enhanced payouts based on a cash in or initial investment amount is disclosed. In response to a player's initial investment or cash in amount, a payout schedule is selected. The larger the initial investment the better the selected payout schedule... Agent: Greenberg Traurig

20080234039 - Gaming: A gaming machine has a random percentage selection device for randomly selecting a percentage value of a jackpot amount. The gaming machine may have a plurality of random percentage selection devices for selecting a plurality of individual percentage values and a summation unit for summing the individual percentage values to... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080234040 - Gaming system with promotional feature: A method is described for running a feature on a gaming system comprising a plurality of gaming consoles linked by a communication network. The method includes defining a spatial sequence for the plurality of gaming consoles and running a feature in which at least one of the gaming consoles is... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080234041 - Multiplication-based award augmentation for gaming: Systems, apparatuses and methods for enhancing payout awards in gaming activities. A multiplication-based value is progressively increased until it is awarded. It is determined when the multiplication-based value is to be awarded to a particular gaming system in a participating group of gaming systems. The awarded multiplication-based value is applied... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20080234043 - Dynamically providing guest passes for a video game: A system and method for determining and providing one or more guest passes for temporary access to one or more video games to a first player that was previously granted membership to a platform that offers access to playing these video games. One or more different determinations are made on... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080234042 - Game system: The amusing game system makes the best use of the characteristics of the game cards. Base character data are read out to generate a base character image; when a first code is read out, a first part data corresponding to the first code is read from a data memory means,... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080234044 - Gaming machine having touch panel switch: A touch panel switch assembly according to the present invention is installed in a gaming machine, and comprises a base, a moving unit, an elastic member, a display unit, a position sensor, and a mechanical switch unit. The moving unit is supported by the base fixed on the gaming machine,... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080234045 - Gaming system and method of gaming: Certain embodiments provide a gaming system including a touch screen display and a display controller arranged to control the touch screen display to display at least one player moveable object to a player of a game. The gaming system also includes a contact monitor arranged to monitor an output of... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080234046 - Centralized licensing services: Methods and devices are provided for central management of licenses, particularly those relating to wagering games. A license proxy deployed in and/or dedicated to a gaming establishment may operate under the control of a central licensing manager controlled by another entity, e.g., by a game provider. The license proxy may... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP - Igt Attn: Igt

20080234049 - Method and system for personalized digital game creation: A method and system for personalized digital game creation are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method, comprises storing a plurality of customizable games. Each game of the plurality of customizable games has personalization slots. Media assets are received from a user computer. A personalized game is generated using... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20080234050 - Method of transferring gaming data on a global computer network: A remote gaming method comprising a player accessing, via a remote terminal, a gaming site on a global computer network connected to the remote terminal. The player is able to provide via the remote terminal, personal identification information to the gaming site and select, via the remote terminal, a game... Agent: Daniel J. Burnham Nixon Peabody LLP.

20080234048 - On-line auction interface: A method for conducting a fantasy sports auction for a plurality of players utilizing a plurality of pre-recorded multimedia clips is disclosed. The method includes initiating an auction session including a plurality of participating team bidders, selectively displaying data associated with an individual player during the auction session, and displaying... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080234051 - Systems and methods for interactive wagering using multiple types of user interfaces: The present invention is systems and methods for interactive wagering using multiple types of user interfaces. Preferred embodiments of these systems and methods incorporate a wagering data hub which controls the flow of data relating to wagers, wagering events, and wagering account and facilitates the use of a variety of... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080234047 - Wager game license management in a game table: Novel wager gaming systems and methods for game license management utilizing a game table connected in a network at a gaming establishment are described. A game table having multiple player stations, equipped with gaming devices, performs as a local licensing server for the player stations at the game table. It... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP - Igt Attn: Igt

20080234052 - Method and apparatus for gaming token verification: An apparatus and method for verifying the integrity and correct value of a game token. The token includes a primary and a secondary source of identification. The preferred primary token identification is an embedded RFID tag. The secondary token identification may be an alphanumeric serial number, a bar code or... Agent: Weide & Miller, Ltd.

20080234053 - Adjustable defense baton: The present invention relates to the use of an adjustable defense baton or arnis stick. Weights may be added or subtracted and located in various positions along the length and/or diameter of the baton.... Agent: Martin Philip Castro

20080234026 - Midi in a wagering game machine: A computerized gaming system has a gaming module that includes a processor and gaming code which is operable when executed on the processor to conduct a reel slot machine wagering game on which monetary value can be wagered. An audio module is operable to play audio by reading a musical... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/wms Gaming

20080227509 - Field unit of game machine: The invention provides a field unit of a game machine, wherein a lower-stage running surface on which a self-running body is placed can be maintained efficiently. The field unit of a game machine includes a lower-stage running surface on which a self-running body runs; and an upper-stage running surface on... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080227508 - Game machine, server apparatus, and game system incorporating these apparatuses: A game device can execute a competition game, in which a plurality of competition candidates compete. A server device is connected with the game device through a communication network. A specific information generating means is disposed in the server device and can generate specific information for specifying at least one... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080227510 - Game apparatus and method of play for manual or computer application: A game apparatus for play by at least two players, having game pieces that are manually placed in at least four slideably mounted, apertured slats, each having at least four apertures for receiving one or more of the game pieces, and a base assembly for slideably mounting the slats, such... Agent: Mitchell A. Stein, Esq. Stein Law, P.C.

20080227511 - Card gaming machine having a plurality of card decks and card game playing method: Two card decks A and B are allocated to and shared by a dealer and each of “main players 1 to 5”. Two cards to be dealt respectively to the dealer and each of the main players are determined from the two card decks A and B. On the other... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080227512 - Game of strategy using trading cards or other tokens: A computer-implemented method includes generating a plurality of playing cards, each playing card having a unique identifying code and one or more attributes; distributing the plurality of playing cards to a plurality of players, each player receiving at least one playing card; receiving electronic information relating to a playing card's... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080227513 - Card gaming machine and card game playing method: In a card gaming machine, a Blackjack game is carried out. In Blackjack, judgment of winning and losing is made based on comparison between the player's cards and the dealer's cards, and an award responsive to the judgment result is provided. In the case where a side bet is made,... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080227514 - Card gaming machine and card game playing method: Pai Gow Poker is played with a card gaming machine. In the Pai Gow Poker, a players' hand and a dealer's hand are compared for winning/losing judgment, and a prize based on the judgment result is awarded. If a side bet is made, a bonus target card group composed of... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080227515 - Recursive team-oriented chess-like game for entertainment and training: This invention is a networked board game apparatus and method of playing a customized game for 2 or more players on recursively organized boards, and a method for applying the aforementioned to leadership, communications, and team building education, and further to apply the aforementioned to the specific form of Chess.... Agent: David Kershaw

20080227516 - Poker video game terminal: A method of playing a poker game using a video game terminal includes one player using the video game terminal and three or more terminal generated and controlled players to play against. Each player has a starting point value used for play and scoring in the poker game. The poker... Agent: Dennison Associates

20080227517 - Wagering apparatus: A wagering apparatus having an input at which a user can make at least one wager on the outcome of first and second different events, each with different outcomes equated to value. A processor causes the outcomes to be identified in response to the making of a wager through the... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20080227518 - Systems for lottery pool management: A lottery pool management system for lottery pool management is provided that includes a participant interface in communication with participant computers having pool participants, a lottery interface, and a notification interface. The participant interface receives lottery numbers entered by pool participants into lottery pools associated with a lottery. The participant... Agent: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Intellectual Property Section

20080227519 - gaming system and a method of gaming: A gaming system comprising a display, an object selector arranged to select at least one object to be placed in each container of a set of a plurality of containers displayed on the display and an outcome generator arranged to determine a game outcome based on at least one characteristic... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080227526 - Display device for gaming machines: A gaming machine reel is provided with a display device comprising a flexible strip of electronically programmable display material secured around the periphery of the reel. Symbols may be selectively displayed on the material by appropriate programming thereof, for example by providing a plurality of addressable pixels on the material... Agent: Thomas M. Wozny Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20080227522 - Gaming machine: The present invention provides a gaming machine having a system for giving a player an incentive to continue playing the game. A slot machine 1 includes a CPU 106 which controls a variable displaying game performed by variable display and stopping display of a plurality of identification information and judges... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080227520 - Gaming machine checking color of symbol on reel: In a gaming machine according to the present invention, a reel assembly includes a lighting unit, a lighting driver unit, and a color check unit, as well as a reel and a motor. The lighting unit emits colored rays to a symbol displayed on a visible region on a reel.... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080227525 - Gaming system having game difficulty controller: Additionally, the invention provides method and article of manufacture for implementing a user profile-driven gaming and prize redeeming system. The user profile-driven gaming and prize redemption system allows for the tailoring of a user's experience of playing a computer implemented game on a network gaming system by first receiving an... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson, LLP

20080227528 - Slot machine that sets free game when predetermined condition is satisfied: A slot machine includes: a display device that is defined with a plurality of symbol display areas in which one of a plurality of types of symbols including a special symbol is displayed; an operation unit; and a game controller that operates to: accept a bet of a game value... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080227524 - Tournament qualification & characteristics in a gaming system: Additionally, the invention provides method and article of manufacture for implementing a user profile-driven gaming and prize redeeming system. The user profile-driven gaming and prize redemption system allows for the tailoring of a user's experience of playing a computer implemented game on a network gaming system by first receiving an... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson, LLP

20080227523 - Wagering game and method including a multi-step ladder feature: Wagering games, gaming machines, gaming systems and associated methods are disclosed that include a multi-step ladder feature. One disclosed aspect provides that an indicator be positioned on a ladder or scale when like indicia are displayed by the game. Another disclosed aspect provides that an award be paid based on... Agent: Bally Gaming Inc.

20080227521 - Wagering game having cascading electromechanical reels: A method of playing a wagering game. The method comprises conducting the wagering game at an electromechanical gaming terminal. The electromechanical gaming terminal has a plurality of electromechanical reels with a plurality of symbols. At least some of the plurality of symbols is displayed on a payline. In response to... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080227527 - Wagering game system backlight intensity control: A computerized wagering game system includes a gaming module comprising gaming code which is operable when executed on to present a wagering game on which monetary value can be wagered, and a display assembly having a preformed image and a backlight having adjustable brightness. In one embodiment, display assembly comprises... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/wms Gaming

20080227529 - Slot machine and playing method thereof: A stop control game which stops the symbols being scrolled by pressing a stop switch when a combination of the symbol “LOBSTER”s has come to a stop is executed in a unit game while the base game is being executed. When the player presses a stop switch to stop the... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080227531 - Card gaming machine and card game playing method: A card gaming machine plays the Pai Gow Poker. In the Pai Gow Poker, The players' hand and the dealer's hand are compared for winning/losing judgment, and a prize based on the judgment result is awarded. If a side bet is made, a first card group is selected and determined... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080227530 - Gaming indicator: A gaming machine method and apparatus may have a rotatable object configured to rotate about a first point that is also an axis of rotation, and a plurality of segments provided on the rotatable object, each plurality of segments having an area proportional to a probability of success of winning... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP - Igt Attn: Igt

20080227532 - Apparatus for pari-mutuel racing game with finish order betting: In various embodiments, a device may test the health of race participants in order to ensure the fairness of a bet on an order of finish.... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20080227537 - Casino wagering game with multiple payout levels: A method, system, and computer readable storage medium to provide a wagering game with multiple levels. A player can place an initial wager on a first wagering game which uses a first paytable. If the player wins the first game, then the initial wager is paid using the first paytable.... Agent: Muskin & Cusick LLC

20080227535 - Gaming machine and method: A gaming machine of the present invention has: a roulette unit 3 for executing a roulette game; an image display device 10 for executing a slot game in parallel with the roulette game; an operating section displayed on the image display device 10, the operating section being capable of making... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080227533 - Gaming machine and method including a multi-step ladder feature: Wagering games, gaming machines, gaming systems and associated methods are disclosed that include a multi-step ladder feature. One disclosed aspect provides that an indicator be positioned on a ladder or scale when like indicia are displayed by the game. Another disclosed aspect provides that an award be paid based on... Agent: Bally Gaming Inc.

20080227536 - Gaming machine capable of setting bet-number: In bet-number change button groups 401, 402 displayed on a lower image display panel, when a player touches any one of number indicating areas each of which forms one column provided to the left of a display window 10A or the right of a display window 10E, one payline can... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080227534 - Gaming system with savable game states: Additionally, the invention provides method and article of manufacture for implementing a user profile-driven gaming and prize redeeming system. The user profile-driven gaming and prize redemption system allows for the tailoring of a user's experience of playing a computer implemented game on a network gaming system by first receiving an... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson, LLP

20080227539 - Card gaming machine comprising a plurality of terminals at which single player can execute card game and card game playing method: In a liquid crystal display 201, when a sub player touches a select button area 1206 arranged under a main game display area 2001 through a transparent touch panel 202 covering the liquid crystal display 201, the sub player can select the play of a main game. In addition, when... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080227538 - Game prize controller and system: Additionally, the invention provides method and article of manufacture for implementing a user profile-driven gaming and prize redeeming system. The user profile-driven gaming and prize redemption system allows for the tailoring of a user's experience of playing a computer implemented game on a network gaming system by first receiving an... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson, LLP

20080227540 - Custom message actions: Methods and computer-readable media are provided that enable a game console to send, receive and process a customized message. In one such method, an instruction to generate a message to be sent to a receiving game console is received. The message, which includes a recipient identifier, text relating to a... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080227543 - Calculation control method, storage medium, and game device: A plurality of first missions (mission A (M 1A), mission B (M1B), and mission C (M1C)) are set corresponding to different battle areas in a game space 2. The operations of NPCs are automatically controlled so that friend NPCs 8 and enemy NPCs 9 involved in each first mission simultaneously... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080227542 - Game system having a plurality of stations provided with display units: A game system provides a game in which a plurality of players participate and includes: a plurality of stations that are provided for each of the players to play the game; a plurality of camera devices that are respectively provided in each of the stations and capture facial images of... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080227541 - Gaming method and apparatus for facilitating a game involving an expanding array: A method and apparatus for use in gaming activities such as slot machine is provided. At least some elements of a grid are marked in an initial round. An additional round can be initiated if in the initial round a series of corresponding adjacent elements was created. In each additional... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20080227545 - Apparatus and method for digitization of human motion for virtual gaming: Handheld apparatus and method to provide control over virtual figures and elements within a computer rendered environment. Motion capturing sensors output acceleration vector signals. After digitization and storage of these vector signals into data packets, the packets are wirelessly transmitted to the receiver device. The receiver device transfers the digitized... Agent: Dan Bragg

20080227544 - Line rider: A creative tool and system that may be utilized for entertainment purposes by a user is provided. The creative tool utilizes an electronic media to allow a user to draw one or more lines with a user interface on which a moving object such as a sled may ride after... Agent: Rutan & Tucker, LLP.

20080227546 - Feedback controller: Systems and methods for providing various forms of feedback are provided and can be implemented in a system, for example, between a gamer and a gaming system. One or more embodiments might be included and directed toward providing feedback between a gamer and the gaming system by way of one... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20080227547 - Multidirectional ergonomic control unit: A multidirectional control unit includes a lower body of main axis A, an intermediate part which is mounted to move relative to the body in a radial plane, radial displacement guidance means for the intermediate part, a handle of secondary axis B, which is supported by the intermediate part and... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080227553 - Automatic creation of personal player web pages and feed of personal data and game content to the pages: A system for automatic creation of a personal Web page of an online game player and feed of personal data and game content to the pages for each of a plurality of game players. The system includes a game server. The system also includes a game client configured as an... Agent: Naomi Assia Law Offices C/o LandonIPInc.

20080227551 - Dynamically reconfigurable real-time gaming system: Additionally, the invention provides method and article of manufacture for implementing a user profile-driven gaming and prize redeeming system. The user profile-driven gaming and prize redemption system allows for the tailoring of a user's experience of playing a computer implemented game on a network gaming system by first receiving an... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson, LLP

20080227552 - Network game system, game apparatus, storage medium storing program, and game controlling method: A network game system includes a plurality of game apparatuses, a game server and a network. In the game apparatuses whose players are acquainted with each other, each-other's profile IDs are registered via a game server, and the contents of the registration are managed by the game server. A game... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20080227549 - Networked game challenge system: The networked game system uses a local area network to allow multi-player competition between terminals in real time. The game software of each terminal allows that terminal to act as the communication server if that terminal initiates an invitation to play in a networked mode. In a preferred aspect the... Agent: Dennison Associates

20080227550 - Networked gaming system and method including a multi-step ladder feature: Wagering games, gaming machines, gaming systems and associated methods are disclosed that include a multi-step ladder feature. One disclosed aspect provides that an indicator be positioned on a ladder or scale when like indicia are displayed by the game. Another disclosed aspect provides that an award be paid based on... Agent: Bally Gaming Inc.

20080227548 - Secured cross platform networked multiplayer communication and game play: A user of a software application (e.g., game or title) running at a gaming console may interact securely in real-time with a user of a compatible software application running at a general purpose computing device. Thus, a game player on the gaming console may play online over a secured communication... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080227554 - Gaming machine configured for component accessibility: A gaming machine is configured for improved component accessibility. In one embodiment, the gaming machine has a component area having at least one display and a console located below the component area and extending outwardly towards a player of the gaming machine. At least one gaming machine component such as... Agent: Weide & Miller, Ltd.

20080220835 - Gaming method and gaming machine accepting side bet: A playing method of a card game according to the present invention comprises the steps of: (a) dealing a predetermined number of cards to a player as player's cards and dealing a predetermined number of cards to a banker as banker's cards; (b) placing a side BET different from a... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080220836 - Game system and method of controlling games: A game system 1 includes a game table 3 and a plurality of stations 2. The game table 3 has a game server 31. Card games are conducted on the game table 3 by a dealer M. The stations 2 are connected via a network to the game server 31.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080220837 - Gaming machine capable of operating to indicate the number of bets, and game playing method: Baccarat is executed by placing a bet using a bet screen 70 displayed on a liquid crystal display 10. On the bet screen 70 is provided a bet-with-a-bonus button 201 in addition to an ordinary bet button 75. When the amount of bets is indicated using the bet-with-a-bonus button 201,... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080220838 - Gaming method and gaming machine accepting side bet: A playing method of a card game according to the present invention comprises the steps of: (a) dealing a predetermined number of cards to a plurality of players as player's cards and dealing a predetermined number of cards to a banker as banker's cards; (b) placing a side BET different... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080220840 - Methods and apparatus for enhanced interactive game play in lottery and gaming environments: Methods and systems for electronic interaction comprising a display for presenting a grid of identifying objects, an input for receiving a player selection of an identifying object, a random generator for randomly selecting a winning identifying object, and a point tally system for awarding points to the player according to... Agent: O''melveny & Myers LLP Ip&t Calendar Department La-1118

20080220841 - Sharing game assets in a wagering game network: Systems and methods for presenting streaming video content in a gaming machine are described herein. In one embodiment, the method includes acquiring, in a first gaming machine, access to a set of shared game assets. The method can also include providing a second gaming machine with access to the set... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/wms Gaming

20080220839 - Slot gaming devices and methods: Methods and systems for providing a video slot machine game of chance are provided herein. A video slot machine may use M-reels to play an N-reel game, where M>N, or may use any field of play larger than necessary to determine a payout outcome of the game. For example, nine... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080220843 - Game system and control method thereof: A game system has roulette gaming devices that are connected to each other and an accumulator that accumulates progressive bonus scores in each of the roulette gaming devices. Each gaming device includes terminals, a roulette wheel having pockets to which numbers are attached, respectively, and a first processor. The first... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080220842 - Lottery based entertainment system: The present invention generally provides a sequential method for producing and/or casting a film, television, play or other form of entertainment. More specifically, a lottery based system is implemented so that the winning person obtains rights to be a subject in a play, television show, film or other form of... Agent: Lampel & Associates, P.c.

20080220844 - Roulette apparatus and roulette gaming machine: A roulette apparatus includes: a roulette wheel having a rolling region where a ball rolls; and a ball reception member provided contiguously to the rolling region to receive the ball. The ball reception member includes: a plurality of reception portions that receives the ball in one of the reception portions;... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080220845 - System and method for playing a role-playing game: A method and apparatus for playing a variation of keno in which the game player pays to play through any number of methods, reveals whether the player has a winning number of matches by playing a solitaire game, and then receives the appropriate winnings if any. The solitaire game may... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20080220847 - Game system including slot machines and game control method thereof: A gaming machine is provided with a controller which carries out operations to display on a display a predetermined number of card images every time a mini game is executed; decide whether to update an accumulative point number, depending on a combination of displayed card images; when a decision is... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080220851 - Gaming device having different sets of primary and secondary reel symbols: An apparatus and method for a gaming device having a bonus game that provides a player with a primary set of reel symbols having a primary probability of winning and a secondary set of reel symbols having a secondary probability of winning, where the secondary probability of winning is greater... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP

20080220846 - Gaming machine having a function of changing the number of free games according to the result of a role playing game: A controller is provided which includes: a function whereby a video image is randomly determined with respect to a mini game to be displayed on a display each time the mini game is executed; a function whereby the determined video image is extracted from memory and displayed on the display;... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080220849 - Presenting streaming video content in a gaming machine: Systems and methods for presenting streaming video content in a gaming machine are described herein. In one embodiment, the method includes detecting satisfaction of a condition in a wagering game and determining which one of a plurality of streaming video effects are associated with the condition. The method can also... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/wms Gaming

20080220850 - System and method for 3d gaming effects: Embodiments of the invention described herein include, in a reel-based gaming machine, a system and method of displaying a gaming outcome. The system and method include displaying a reel image on a display, wherein displaying includes displaying one or more symbols as three-dimensional symbols. The method also includes animating a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/wms Gaming

20080220848 - Wagering game content publishing: Systems, methods, and machine-readable media including instructions for publishing gaming content are described herein. In one embodiment, a machine-readable medium includes instructions for detecting new gaming content and creating a gaming content publication indicating that the new gaming content is available. The machine-readable medium also includes instructions for transmitting the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/wms Gaming

20080220852 - Gaming machine with a game feature: A gaming machine having a display and a game controller arranged to control images displayed on the display. The game controller is arranged to play a game wherein symbols are randomly selected from a set of symbols, and selected symbols are displayed on the display and, if a winning combination... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080220853 - Gaming method and gaming machine accepting side bet: A playing method of a card game according to the present invention comprises the steps of: (a) dealing a predetermined number of cards to a player as player's cards and dealing a predetermined number of cards to a banker as banker's cards; (b) placing a side BET different from a... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080220858 - Dynamic power management in a gaming machine: A gaming machine for conducting a wagering game includes a value input device for receiving a wager and a processor for executing gameplay on the gaming machine. The processor has a plurality of power consumption levels. A power regulator is operative to alter the power consumption level of the processor... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/wms Gaming

20080220857 - Gaming system having progressive tournaments & weighting: Additionally, the invention provides method and article of manufacture for implementing a user profile-driven gaming and prize redeeming system. The user profile-driven gaming and prize redemption system allows for the tailoring of a user's experience of playing a computer implemented game on a network gaming system by first receiving an... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson, LLP

20080220854 - Method and apparatus for collecting user game play data and crediting users in an online gaming environment: A computer implemented method for monitoring game play behavior of a user in an online gaming environment. Responsive to detecting execution of a game, gaming characteristics of the user are monitored. The game interacts with a game server. Game play data of the user is collected. Collecting game play data... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080220855 - System and method for permutation betting: An improved system and method is provided for permutation betting. To do so, a permutation betting engine may be provided for providing services to support betting on an outcome resulting in an ordinal ranking of objects. Orders specifying a property of an ordering of one or more positions of an... Agent: Law Office Of Robert O. Bolan

20080220856 - Wager recording method and system: A method and system for accepting individual or group candidate wager sets is provided. A plurality of selections for candidate wagers may be received and stored. A unique identifier may be associated with the plurality of selections and used to retrieve the selections when a wager is placed.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080220859 - Console game purchase and downloading through an internet protocol television system to a console device: Particular embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide methods and systems to support the purchase and downloading of console games via a set-top box and internet protocol television system. An example embodiment includes an apparatus and system to receive a console game user selection through a user interface of a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080220860 - Game system including slot machines and game control method thereof: A gaming machine is provided with a controller which carries out operations to execute a mini game upon completion of a transition to a free game; display a predetermined number of card images on a display every time the mini game is executed; decide whether to update an accumulative point... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080220861 - Game system including slot machines and game control method thereof: A gaming machine is provided with a controller which displays on a display a predetermined number of card images every time a mini game is executed; if card image identification data are received before an elapse of a predetermined time, perform processing to display the received card image, depending on... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080220863 - Gaming system modelling 3d volumetric masses: Embodiments of the invention described herein include, in a pick-based gaming machine, a method of displaying a gaming outcome. The method includes displaying an image having a plurality of picks arranged adjacent to a plurality of objects; receiving a pick selection; simulating, as a function of the pick selection, a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/wms Gaming

20080220862 - System and method for the generation of navigation graphs in real-time: A system and method for navigation graph generation in real time is provided including a dictionary operable to maintain information mapping surface features to navigational costs. Further included is a graphical module operable to transform geometrical data of a virtual world and associated navigational costs obtained from the dictionary into... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080220864 - Game controller simulating a musical instrument: A simulated musical instrument may be used to alter the audio of a video game, the video aspects of video game, or both. Use of a controller simulating a musical instrument allows a rhythm-action game can be enjoyed in a manner closer to a realistic state of playing an instrument.... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080220866 - Game playing apparatus: A game playing apparatus includes a plurality of handsets, each of which has at least two operating buttons. The apparatus further includes a device for receiving an input signal identifying the correct sequence in which the buttons of each handset must be pressed, a device for determining from the input... Agent: Edwin D. Schindler

20080220865 - Interactive playstation controller: An interactive playstation controller includes a housing; a linear button set, a mode-switching digital button set, a battery pack, a cable connector and a physiological reaction sensing button set disposed on an exterior of the housing; and an integrated circuit embedded in the housing. The physiological reaction sensing button set... Agent: Wei Hsu

20080220867 - Methods and systems for applying gearing effects to actions based on input data: Methods and systems for interactive interfacing with a computer gaming system are provided. The method includes providing a controller, where the controller is configured to convey input data that is to be interpreted by the computer gaming system. The method includes identifying an action to be performed by the computer... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20080220868 - Steering wheel-shaped joystick for arcade game machine: A steering wheel-shaped joystick of an arcade game machine is provided. The steering wheel-shaped joystick is rotated to generate a direction signal and send it to the arcade game machine. The steering wheel-shaped joystick includes a plurality of rods which are radiantly distributed, and includes at least one button at... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080220869 - Method and apparatus for providing game guide data in a gaming environment: A computer implemented method, a data processing system, and a computer program product for presenting a user guide for supplementing game play. An exemplary method includes querying a source of data containing game guide data corresponding to a game. The game is executing on a data processing system. The source... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080220870 - Method and system for providing a seamless tournament system for multiplayer games: An interactive gaming system is described that comprises a host gaming server comprising memory and a processor; said host gaming server being capable of remotely communicating with at least two client consoles that are capable of running application software; an SDK capable of being integrated with the application software running... Agent: Von Simson & Chin

20080220873 - Distributed network architecture for introducing dynamic content into a synthetic environment: Embodiments of the invention relate generally to computer-based simulations and synthetic environment generation, and more particularly, to a system, a computer-readable medium, a method and an apparatus for generating synthetic environments in a distributed architecture to, among other things, introduce dynamic content.... Agent: Kokka & Backus, Pc

20080220871 - Game access device: Systems and methods for verifying the eligibility of players attempting to participate in gaming events are disclosed. Communication objects having RFID tags and closed electrical circuits are individually assigned to and worn by players within a gaming player verification system, which can be administered by a casino desk, hotel concierge,... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20080220872 - Method and apparatus for issuing a challenge prompt in a gaming environment: A computer implemented method, a data processing system, and a computer program product for providing game play security measures. An exemplary method includes retrieving a prompt rule set. The prompt rule set identifies at least one rule for providing challenges during game play. Responsive to detecting game play, a current... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080220878 - Method and apparatus to create or join gaming sessions based on proximity: Devices and methods use a close range communication link, such as a near field communication (NFC) protocol link, to enable users to establish multiplayer gaming sessions conducted over a second communication link different from the close range link. Once two or more gaming devices are brought close enough together to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080220875 - Multiplayer platform for mobile applications: A wireless terminal comprising a transmitter configured to support a wireless connection with a server and a processor configured to enable a user to play an interactive game through the server with a plurality of other users on wireless terminals across a plurality of platforms.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080220874 - Network game system: A distribution server distributes meteorological data to a first game apparatus. The first game apparatus obtains, from the distribution server, meteorological data corresponding to region data set by region data setting means and transmits the meteorological data to a second game apparatus. The first game apparatus executes an on-line game... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.c.

20080220877 - Systems and methods for managing recruiting and player allocations within sporting competitions: The allocation process may be initiated through the recruit interface, or may be initiated by the bot 14, by autonomously prompting selected parties to have teams found for them, particularly dropout players, or fill/temp players. By doing so the league bot can provide an easy process for dropout players to... Agent: Stites & Harbison Pllc

20080220876 - Transaction systems and methods for virtual items of massively multiplayer online games and virtual worlds: Systems and methods for trading, exchanging, and/or valuating virtual items that exist in MMOGs or other types of virtual worlds. According to various embodiments, the present invention utilizes a homogenous database to store virtual objects and their attributes across different MMOGs and virtual worlds. The items in the database are... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080220879 - Trusted cabinet identification method: A method of identifying components within a gaming machine cabinet that is linked to a central server over a network is disclosed in which the gaming machine includes a plurality of components to be identified within the cabinet. The method includes storing a unique cabinet identifier and encryption key; generating... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson, LLP

20080220880 - Trusted cabinet identification system: A trusted cabinet identification device is secured within a cabinet of a gaming machine that is linked to a central server over a network. The gaming machine includes a plurality of components to be identified within the cabinet. The trusted cabinet identification device includes an interface processor and a security... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson, LLP

20080220881 - Gaming machine having a function of the number of free games according to the result of a game in which a player selects a choice from among multiple choices: A controller is provided which includes: a function whereby, in a case that the game mode has been switched to the free game mode, a mini game is executed; a function whereby, each time the mini game is executed, selection data is received from a first input device, and determination... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080214253 - System and method for communicating with a virtual world: A system and method for communicating with a virtual world are disclosed. The virtual world may comprise a simulated public space configured to facilitate interaction among a plurality of users and one or more private spaces. Each private space may be associated with a particular user of the plurality of... Agent: Joshua D. Isenberg Jdi Patent

20080214254 - Gaming machine and playing method thereof: A gaming machine comprising: a display that arranges a plurality of symbols; an effect device that comprises a ball to be dropped and a plurality of pins with which the ball collides while being dropped; and a controller that operates (a) to rearrange the symbols; (b) to determine a win... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080214255 - Gaming device having multiplier poker game: A video poker gaming device, a method of operating a gaming device and a method of playing a poker game including a plurality of cards displayed to a player where the cards are drawn from a deck of fifty-two cards including at least one modifier card. The gaming device deals... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP

20080214257 - Gaming machine capable of operating to indicate the number of bets, and game playing method: Blackjack is executed by placing a bet using a bet screen 70 displayed on a liquid crystal display 10. On the bet screen 70 is provided a bet-with-a-bonus button 201 in addition to an ordinary bet button 75. When the amount of bets is indicated using the bet-with-a-bonus button 201,... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080214256 - Gaming method and machine for playing primary and secondary card games: According to a gaming method, primary and secondary card games are played. The gaming method comprises: placing a first bet on the primary card game, placing an optional second bet on the secondary card game, disclosing cards dealt for the primary card game, disclosing at least one card dealt for... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080214259 - Methods and apparatus for playing poker games: Methods and apparatus for playing poker are provided. The method includes a step of placing an ante bet for each of one or more hands to be played. The player may optionally place a side bet for each of the one or more played hands. The side bet is that... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080214258 - Wins of restricted credits in a gaming machine: Disclosed is a gaming system and method designed or configured to provide wins of restricted credits. Restricted credits may be awarded according to the same or a different pay table than cashable credits on the same machine or at the same gaming property. Where separate pay tables are used for... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080214260 - Board game system utilizing a robot arm: A board game system comprises a touch screen, a computing device and a robot arm. The computing device comprises a processor and a memory. At least one type of board game program is stored in the memory so that the processor can execute the board game program present a corresponding... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080214261 - Biometric for purchases: In a method of facilitating the playing of a game via a gaming apparatus, a wager may be received via a value input device. Biometric data associated with a purchase selection may be received, and whether to permit the purchase selection may be determined based on the received biometric data.... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20080214263 - Method and apparatus for bonus round play: Methods and apparatus are provided for enabling a player to take a tour of a secondary game at a game machine. In one embodiment, a method is provided that includes offering to enable entry of a player into a bonus round of a game machine in exchange for a fee,... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20080214262 - Systems and methods for an improved electronic table game: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a gaming device including a display adapted to provide a dealer representation to a player at a player position, a sensor adapted to sense at least one of a location and an orientation of the player at the player position, and a processor... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080214271 - Electronic game card: An electronic game card and a method are disclosed for playing an instant lottery game which may provide a novel game experience as well as a game card which is cost effective to produce. In at least one embodiment, the game card includes a control chip, a start button, a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080214268 - Game machine and method for controlling game machine: Control is performed to determine whether or not a predicted game outcome inputted by an input device coincides with an actual game outcome. Thereafter, an award is provided based on the determination result.... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080214265 - Gaming apparatus and playing method thereof: A roulette gaming machine determines another control data which is different from one control data among a plurality of control data as the reference data when a ratio of the number of times of receiving a ball into a specific pocket to the number of executing the game is equal... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080214272 - Gaming device having player selectable award digits and award modification options: The present invention provides a gaming device that has a player selectable award feature that may be implemented with a primary or bonus game. More specifically, the present invention provides a processor controlled gaming device that randomly generates a plurality of positions or digits of an award and enables the... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP

20080214269 - Gaming machine capable of operating to indicate the number of bets, and game playing method: Roulette is executed by placing a bet using a bet screen 70 displayed on a liquid crystal display 10. On the bet screen 70 is provided a bet-with-a-bonus button 201 in addition to an ordinary bet button 75. When the amount of bets is indicated using the bet-with-a-bonus button 201,... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080214270 - Gaming machine capable of operating to indicate the number of bets, and game playing method: Roulette is executed by placing a bet using a bet screen 70 displayed on a liquid crystal display 10. On the bet screen 70 is provided a bet-with-keno button 201 in addition to an ordinary bet button 75. When the amount of bets is indicated using the bet-with-keno button 201,... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080214267 - Method & apparatus for a gaming device: A bonus game for a slot machine, method and apparatus, is disclosed and is based on a playfield configured as a matrix of playing positions, wherein each playing is used to display a character of the alphabet, and wherein a plurality of words are hidden in the playfield. During the... Agent: Dr. Nabil N. Ghaly

20080214264 - Random number generator based roulette wheel: The invention provides for the use of a random number generator in a roulette wheel to play a game of roulette. The gaming apparatus may have a random number generator, a roulette wheel, and means for controlling the roulette wheel to indicate a first winning number corresponding to a first... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080214266 - Systems and methods for nudge roulette: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a roulette gaming system including a roulette wheel including a plurality of numbers, a plurality of indicators associated with the plurality of numbers, and a game control component adapted to determine an additional winning number. A winning number is selected from the plurality... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080214274 - Apparatus for playing a game: The present invention, with reference to FIG. (1), is concerned with apparatus for playing a game. A plurality of randomisers are provided, each for generating one or more random indicia from a predefined set of indicia in a turn of play. One or more playfields are provided for play in... Agent: Luedeka, Neely & Graham, P.C.

20080214283 - Gaming device having a multiple symbol swapping game: A gaming device and a method for operating a gaming device which increases the possibility of obtaining a winning combination of symbols on reels. In one embodiment, the gaming device rearranges at least two sets of indicated symbols on the reels to potentially generate additional combinations of symbols on a... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP

20080214280 - Gaming device having odds of winning which increase as a player's wager increases: A gaming device having a game which requires the same average investment from a player to win an award, including a jackpot award, regardless of the amount that the player bets at any one time. The award can be unchanging, e.g., $10,000, each time a player plays the gaming device.... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP

20080214277 - Gaming machine: A gaming machine according to one embodiment of the invention has a rotating reel display device that variably displays a plurality of kinds of identification information required for a game, and a transmissive image display device 30 to enable symbol information of the rotating reel display device to be visually... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080214278 - Gaming machine: A slot machine is provided with a ROM for storing: a first symbol arrangement table in which plural types of symbols are arranged; a second symbol arrangement table in which an expectation value of giving a payout to a player is high; and a third symbol arrangement table in which... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080214279 - Gaming machine capable of operating to indicate the number of bets, and game playing method: Paigow Poker is executed by placing a bet using a bet screen 70 displayed on a liquid crystal display 10. On the bet screen 70 is provided a bet-with-a-bonus button 201 in addition to an ordinary bet button 75. When the amount of bet is indicated using the bet-with-a-bonus button... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080214275 - Slot machine and control method of game: A slot machine of the present invention comprises: a symbol display device capable of variably displaying a plurality of symbols; an output device for an image or a sound; and a controller, the controller programmed to execute the processing of: (A) executing a game in which the plurality of symbols... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080214276 - Slot machine and playing method thereof: A slot machine comprises a display which is provided with plural slot game areas. A player can place a bet automatically on a next slot game on each of predefined slot game areas among the plural slot game areas to play slot games continuously. The player can enjoy plural slot... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080214282 - Symbol display device for game machine: A slot machine includes a reel assembly which has a transparent outer reel and a translucent inner reel disposed coaxially within the outer reel. The outer and inner reels are provided with first exterior surfaces on their periphery, and with second exterior surfaces on their side surfaces. The outer and... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP

20080214281 - Wagering game having multiple award components: A multiple bonus modifier game 10 includes a base game and two or more base award modifiers operating independently or simultaneously of each other (i.e., the two or more base award modifiers operate independently of each other or in conjunction with each other to modify a base game award). The... Agent: Bally Gaming Inc.

20080214284 - Multiple participants type gaming device and playing method thereof: A gaming device pays medals at a station on which a second station side combination is displayed, when the second station side combination coincides with a combination of three dice symbols for judgment.... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080214285 - Virtual game: A gaming method includes repetitive plays simulating rolls of virtual dice by a player and at least one of a bonus feature and a progressive feature. A gaming method includes scoring dice.... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080214286 - Automatic game play: In various embodiments a gaming device may play games automatically without input from a player.... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20080214291 - Game apparatus for accepting participation of plural players: A game apparatus includes a plurality of terminals, horse race game machine, and a roulette game machine. Each of the terminals has a control unit that switches between a reception of a bet on a horse race game and a reception of a bet on a roulette game. The horse... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080214287 - Game simulation: In various embodiments, a player may play a simulation of a mobile gaming device over the Internet using a personal computer.... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20080214288 - Gaming environment: Disclosed in this specification are methods by which an operator of networked games may offer wagering platforms or sell insurance policies. The operators receive game based currencies from players who place wagers or buy insurance to bet on or insure against certain outcomes in the games.... Agent: Michael Molins Molins & Co.

20080214294 - Gaming machine capable of operating to indicate the number of bets, and game playing method: Sic-Bo is executed by placing a bet using a bet screen 70 displayed on a liquid crystal display 10. On the bet screen 70 is provided a bet-with-a-bonus button 201 in addition to an ordinary bet button 75. When the amount of bets is indicated using the bet-with-a-bonus button 201,... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080214292 - Gaming machine with buy feature games: A gaming machine including a display. The display includes a plurality of display positions for displaying combinations of symbols. A controller controls operation of the machine. The controller includes a processor for processing data and displaying selected data on the display. A selector is operable by the player of the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080214290 - Interactive wagering system with automatic runner selection: An interactive wagering application is provided that automatically picks horses for a user to use when creating a wager for a race to be run. The interactive wagering application may select the numbers using a random number generation application implemented on computer equipment at a transaction processing and subscription management... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080214295 - Method and apparatus for integrated customer tracking and browsing: A system and method for tracking customer activity without need for an extensive interconnecting network. The system includes a plurality of gaming devices that are communicatively isolated from one another. Information, including tracked customer activity, bonus requirements, and in one embodiment, personal information, is stored on a memory device communicable... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP Howard Hughes Center

20080214293 - Method for implementing loss limits: A loss limit system and method automatically tracks a player's entry and cash play, and does not allow them to play more than an allotted dollar amount during a given time frame or lose more than the established limit. Typically, excursions of play sessions are set up by day. Play... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson, LLP

20080214289 - Wagering game adaptive on-screen user volume control: A computerized wagering game system includes a gaming module comprising a processor and gaming code which is operable when executed on the processor to conduct a wagering game on which monetary value can be wagered, and an audio channel coupled to an adaptive on-screen user volume control. The volume control... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/wms Gaming

20080214296 - Slot machine including multiple slot game areas and playing method thereof: Multiple slot game areas are provided on a liquid crystal display. Among the respective slot game areas, the slot games areas to be activated are determined in accordance either with a number of bet credits or with a number of inserted medals. Then, slot games are executed simultaneously in the... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080214297 - Slot machine including multiple slot game areas and playing method thereof: Multiple slot game areas are provided on a liquid crystal display. Among the respective slot game areas, the areas to be activated are determined in accordance either with a number of bet credits or with a number of inserted medals. Slot games are executed in the activated slot game areas.... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080214299 - Master control program for a gaming device: A gaming device master control program is described herein. In one embodiment, the master control program performs operations including starting one or more gaming applications that include one or more gaming application processes. The master control program can also monitor the gaming application processes and determine, based on the monitoring,... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/wms Gaming

20080214300 - Methods for electronic data security and program authentication: Apparatus and methods for improving security and preventing tampering in a gaming system are described. In particular, the gaming system may comprise an authorization device that is configured to control a download of gaming data, such as an executable image for generating a game of chance, from a first gaming... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080214298 - Password entry system: The present invention relates to gaming apparatus (100) and methods (300) applicable to gaming apparatuses and systems. In particular a password entry method (300) and system (600) for authenticating a player's identity is disclosed in which a user's password can be defined using a set of elements (402) including a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080214302 - Board, supporting structure for board, and gaming machine having the same supporting structure for board: To provide a supporting structure which can prevent electric contact failures of memories and a CPU caused by warping of a board. In a supporting structure for a board including a CPU, memories, and a connector for removably attaching the CPU and memories, provided on a plate-like main body, a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080214301 - In-game advertisements: Methods, apparatuses, and systems for executing an interactive executable in a production mode. The executable is configured to interact with an end user of the interactive executable. Executing the interactive executable results in a plurality of production interactive execution states of the interactive executable. A watcher module detects a sequence... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080214303 - Method, system and computer program product for producing, offering and executing recreational application programs: Recreational application programs are offered for execution through players' terminals. Said recreational application programs involve at least one of playing and gambling. The system comprises an event model (301), which is a process adapted to represent a sequence of subevents in a target event (202, 203, 204) in real time.... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20080214305 - System and method for interfacing a simulation device with a gaming device: A system and method for interfacing a simulation device with a gaming device is disclosed. The system comprises a video game controller and a sensor. The controller is configured to mimic certain aspects of standard game controllers, providing control functions to a video game, with added functionality to accept input... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080214304 - User interface for selecting items in a video game: In a computer program operating based on user inputs, a user input module receives user input from a view control portion of the user input device, the view control portion being input elements designated for user by the user to change a view, the view being a surface in a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP/ea

20080214306 - Controller: There is described a controller, for example, for a game. The controller comprises a controller body, first and second limbs extending from the controller body, a sensor array, and an output. The first and second limbs define respective first and second axes, and the limbs are each rotatable about their... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080214309 - Dynamic configuration of a gaming system: A method to enable dynamic configuration of gaming terminals installed in one or a plurality of gaming premises whereby certified games, certified data files and certified support software components are activated in accordance with a predetermined schedule or automatically in response to the observed gaming activity. The method may include... Agent: Young Law Firm, P.C. Alan W. Young

20080214311 - Game system, server apparatus and register terminal: Each of game machines sends result information indicating an individual ID and play result to a server. The server has a common ID control file and an individual game control file, which store common points, a common ID and an individual ID, associated with each other. A CPU converts the... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080214308 - Gaming system including a player ranking function: A gaming system comprising at least one gaming machine providing a wagering game; readable and writable computer memory; a monitor in electronic communication with the at least one gaming machine and the computer memory; a user interface through which a player can input identity information; wherein the monitor receives data... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080214307 - Method for configuration: A method for configuring an EGM from a remote terminal thereby providing improvements in operational efficiency when configuring EGMs. For example, operational efficiencies are possible by providing direct access to configure an EGM without the technician traveling to the physical machine, which may be miles away. For local EGM's, there... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20080214310 - Methods and systems for anonymous player profile storage and retrieval: A method and personal instrument for players to store and retrieve their game and player preference profile without registering for a named personal player account therefore retaining their anonymity. When playing multilevel games, the described embodiments allow storing and retrieving the game level and/or other player or game information such... Agent: Young Law Firm, P.C. Alan W. Young

20080214312 - Security system for authenticating gaming chips: A system for authenticating RFID-capable gaming chips in a casino. The system includes at least one security server, at least one secure network, a casino management system and a plurality of magnetic couplers distributed within the casino. The gaming chips are adapted to provide a response to a challenge issued... Agent: Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC

20080214273 - System, method and handheld controller for multi-player gaming: Embodiments of the invention relate to systems and methods for multi-player gaming. Some embodiments relate to systems having an improved communications infrastructure and improved handheld game controllers, while other embodiments relate to improvements in handling large numbers of players in the multi-player game when played in a game arena with... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.