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This subclass is indented under subclass 40.  A communication link including a recited detail of means intended and arranged to interconnect, for the purpose of communication of electronic data, more than one diverse means, complete in itself, for processing electronic data independently.

 
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4033588 Automatic keno game Jul-5-1977
This invention relates to a numbers game apparatus, among other things, for taking money, giving change, printing and giving out tickets, validating tickets, finding and checking winners, finding out the odds, and determining the amounts won by winning tickets. Apparatus is provided at a plurality of...     
4254404 Paging and servicing system Mar-3-1981
In conjunction with the play of the game of Keno, a combination ticket holder and transmitter-receiver is located at each player's table. Each player's transmitter is coded with a number (e.g., 60,000) of two-tone sequential codes which are transmitted to Keno runners preassigned to specific tables and...     
4312511 Electronic bingo system Jan-26-1982
An electronic bingo system for generally enhancing the operation and playing value of the game, by providing such features as flashing the last number called, providing an exciting light display upon designation of a winner, etc. The game is comprised of a ball table including a matrix of numbered switches...     
4335809 Entertainment machines Jun-22-1982
A coin-freed player-operable entertainment machine is connected via a transmission link, such as a telephone line, to a remote control device. The link may be used to tramsmit program information to a control system of the machine so that the game to be played with the machine can be changed as desired...     
4494197 Automatic lottery system Jan-15-1985
A wagering system having a central processor and a plurality of playing consoles remote therefrom with said console capable of providing data inputs to the central processor, with such data inputs including identification of the playing console, the player, amount played, and games selected which may...     
4506890 Electronic dice game Mar-26-1985
An electronic dice game comprising a series of electronic circuits which are connected together such that various dice games can be played with an electronic display board wherein such games previously could only be played with cube-shaped dice and the present device provides games which are played in...     
Electronic game apparatus which is interconnectable with other like game apparatus to enable two or more players to participate with their own apparatus, includes a keyboard section and a memory for storing a game program. Processing circuitry operates continuously to decode and implement the game program,...     
4572509 Video game network Feb-25-1986
A system of distributed video game apparatus are capable of exhibiting an interactive single identity game. In one embodiment there is provided a distributed game system comprising a plurality of video game apparatus, selectively interlinkable to form a homogenous single identity game or as a peer game...     
A video entertainment system includes a central station (10) that is connected to a plurality of remote display terminals (12) through a data link (14). Each of the display units (12) has a display (16), a currency receptacle (18) for receiving currency to activate the system and a currency dispenser...     
A system for controlling the operation of electronically linked gaming machines which enables information to be transferred between machines and from each machine to a control unit. In particular, credits on a machine can be transferred to another machine and the credit state of each machine can be interrogated...     
4669730 Automated sweepstakes-type game Jun-2-1987
An apparatus and method for playing a sweepstakes-type game wherein a player inserts an identification card into an automated remote computer terminal and accesses an account at a subject financial institution. The user identifier provides access to the financial account, and user indicia is compared...     
4805907 Slot machine Feb-21-1989
This invention relates to a slot machine which comprises one main machine, and a plurality of subordinate machines connected to the main machine. Each subordinate machine comprises a slot, detecting means for sensing the coins betted in; and coin paying-out means. The main machine comprises control means...     
4880237 Tokenless slot machine system Nov-14-1989
A slot machine requiring no game media at all and comprising a game data processing unit which is provided with an input unit for specific data, a storage unit, an arithmetic processing unit, a printer, and a display; and a slot machine body which is provided with a pattern display mechanism, a starting...     
A method and apparatus for operating a lottery system. Customers purchase lottery entries using their customer stations to send lottery entry data to a toll switching system equipped to prompt customers and accept lottery entries. Customer identification data for identifying purchasers is transmitted...     
4926327 Computerized gaming system May-15-1990
A computerized gaming apparatus is disclosed in which a card game, such as poker, is electronically simulated on a plurality of individual player consoles. Each of the player consoles is interconnected with a central computer unit which simulates and controls the game, and at the same time, tabulates...     
4958835 Game playing system Sep-25-1990
A game playing system for business use includes a plurality of independent game machines and transmission lines for connecting the game machines into a loop, data calculated in each of the game machines being sequentially transmitted to the other game machines through the looped transmission lines, whereby...     
In a control system wherein a master control unit controls a plurality of game machines, the master control unit is provided with two calculators and a microprocessor. The two calculators accumultate, at different rates, values each corresponding to the number of coins inserted into each of the game...     
An interactive contest system is provided which permits competition among a plurality of remote participants. The system includes a central controller, storage devices for storing a Contest Roster from which each participant selects a team roster, a plurality of Touch-Tone.TM. telephones linked to the...     
5042809 Computerized gaming device Aug-27-1991
A computerized gaming device and method of playing casino-type games of chance wherein a player chooses a game to play from a plurality of games displayed on a video screen. Each game has a finite number of chances per deal and a video display of the chances of winning when a deal is new, the percentage...     
5046736 Imitative-opponent gambling games Sep-10-1991
A gambling game which combines the rudiments of poker with imitative opponents (FIG. 3) leading to the creation of new video poker games (FIGS. 4 and 5). Opponents are simulated to imitate each action of the player (FIGS. 3 and 4) so that when the player bets, each opponent matches the bet; when the...     
A racing system for a group of exercise machines is disclosed. The race is entirely flexible, in that each exercise unit communicates electronically with all of the other potential racing units. Any user may offer a race, accept or reject another user's race offer, or join a race during a limited countdown...     
5096195 Electronic gaming apparatus Mar-17-1992
Electronic slot machine system comprises a central computer unit, and a plurality of portable game units, each including a credit memory for storing a predetermined credit available for playing, a manual operator manipulatable by the player for playing the game according to a predetermined amount, a...     
5259613 Casino entertainment system Nov-9-1993
An entertainment system for slot players in a gaming establishment includes video monitors and speaker/microphones located adjacent each slot machine in a defined area of a gaming establishment. An operator at a centrally located control station can selectively provide video programming from a menu of...     
A cashless gaming apparatus and method suitable for casinos. A player hands over money and an ID card to a clerk at a validation terminal. The clerk stores the ID number and the amount of money in the memory of the validation terminal. Then the clerk returns the ID card to the player for operating any...     
A gaming system in which a plurality of gaming machines are provided with an additional progressive jackpot gaming system which allows players on the gaming machines to play for a jackpot provided by the progressive system. The controller of the progressive system generates in random fashion at the beginning...     
5350176 Video game Sep-27-1994
A local video game (310) including a communicating controller (326). The controller (326) receives local command signals created by a set of player controls (316). The controller (326) also receives remote command signals received through a modem (324) which were created by a remote video game (320)...     
5472194 Progressive gaming apparatus Dec-5-1995
An apparatus for a progressive jackpot game where multiple gaming tables at multiple facilities are electronically linked to allow players at the multiple tables to play for a progressive jackpot as well as a fixed payout. Betting and winning hand information is input at the gaming tables, and the information...     
A management method detects fraudulent acts in a gaming hall containing a number of slot machines. Data representing the number of inserted tokens and the number of paid-out dividend tokens, into and from each slot machine, are supplied to a computer. By using the supplied data, a payout factor for each...     
5507489 Electronic game-of-chance device Apr-16-1996
A portable box comprises memory able to store at least one item of reference data, and a comparator able to compare the said reference data item with an item of game data input by the player via a communication interface, one of these two data items being a value generated in a random way. An item of...     
5575474 Communications system using bets Nov-19-1996
A computer system that allows people to place, accept and settle bets for the purpose of communicating. The system cuts out the middleman, sometimes referred to as the bookmaker, allowing bettors to bet with each other directly. In addition to allowing people to place, accept and settle bets, the system...     
5605506 Candle antenna Feb-25-1997
An antenna for a wireless network is disclosed. The network includes multiple gaming machines such as slot machines or video poker machines located in an establishment. These machines communicate certain playing data (coin-in, coin-out data, etc.) to a central computer over the wireless network. Antennas...     
5639088 Multiple events award system Jun-17-1997
A system whereby a plurality of players can play a plurality of different gaming machines. The performance of the plurality of players is recorded through multiple rounds of the game and awards are provided based upon the performance of a player over multiple rounds of the game. In the preferred embodiment,...     
5702305 Electronic game system Dec-30-1997
An interactive electronic game system (10) composed of at least one control unit (12) for receiving, monitoring, compiling and transmitting game data and information and several personal display units (14) for controlling game play and displaying game data and information. The personal display units...     
5709603 Personal computer lottery game Jan-20-1998
A method and system for playing a lottery type game includes a gaming piece which includes a predetermined code having data indicating whether the player wins or loses the game, the data being unrecognizable to the player, such that the player does not know the outcome of the game prior to play of the...     
The present invention is related to a network based gaming system that enables a plurality of players to place wagers on a real-time game of chance being conducted in a casino via a distributed network system or, alternatively, to place wagers on a game of chance using internally generated game sequences....     
A casino operating system is disclosed for controlling the flow of funds and monitoring gambling activities in a casino or a gaming establishment utilizing a network of computers, including a central computer and individual game computers. Each player receives an encoded betting card from the cashier....     
5772510 Lottery ticket and system Jun-30-1998
A non-completed lottery ticket having a blank region adapted for having printed therein information necessary to complete the ticket. The necessary information includes "play data" used to determine the win/lose outcome of the ticket, either "instantly" or at a future date. A lottery ticket having a...     
A communication system for performing communications via a relay between a host apparatus and a plurality of terminals whose communication speed is lower than that of the host apparatus. In this system, data from a partial terminal is transmitted at a low speed in real time to the host apparatus during...     
An interactive computer-based entertainment system interacts with a user and presents to the user an interactive show comprising audio, video images and computer-generated graphical images. The entertainment system comprises a user interface, a database, a show controller and an activity server. The...     
A method of playing a game of chance, and the game of chance, include a plurality of playstations, one of which is chosen by a player for entering a quantity of player symbols, e.g., numbers. A unique game symbol is assigned to each playstation of the plurality of playstations, the game symbol being...     
5823879 Network gaming system Oct-20-1998
The present invention is a game playing method and apparatus for automating games such as blackjack, poker, craps, roulette, baccarat and pai gow, wherein players may play continuously and asynchronously, and information related to advertised items can be exchanged between players and advertisers. In...     
Systems and processes for interactive off-track wagering are provided. A user reviews racing information and places bets using an off-track terminal. The user interactively selects a desired racetrack and race. Odds, pools, and payoff amounts may be viewed for a variety of complex wager types. To place...     
5830069 Wide area networking gaming Nov-3-1998
The present invention provides for the transmission and conduct of a bingo game at more than one site, through the use of a private wide area network ("WAN"), on which participants are qualified and controlled. Each site has a PC computer, with peripheral equipment, which communicates on a WAN. This...     
A distributed players' club network comprised of a plurality of games positioned in a plurality of locations that are interconnected by a wide area network to a central computer which has files for each player who has enrolled to play in a bonus club system. The gaming machines have communication devices...     
5851149 Distributed gaming system Dec-22-1998
The Distributed Gaming System provides a user with remote location gaming, for example from within a hotel room. Using the room's television and a remote control, the user, such as a hotel guest, is able to play games similar to those available on a Video Lottery Terminal. The games are displayed on...     
5917725 Tournament data system Jun-29-1999
A tournament system for electronic games in which scores achieved on the games are transmitted to one or a hierarchy of computers in which a winner is determined. At least one computer stores a player code associated with player credits. The players insert credit cards into the games which read the player...     
The present invention relates to casino gaming machines such as slot machines and, more particularly, to a gaming machine having cash or cashless playing capability. More particularly, the invention relates to a gaming machine having a code generating apparatus for generating a unique authorization code;...     
5935005 Video game system Aug-10-1999
A video game system has a host and a terminal device connected to the host through a transmission line. The terminal device has a plurality of game units. A first memory is provided in the host wherein a plurality of video game programs and playing instructions thereof are stored. The video game program...     
5949679 Golf scoring computer system Sep-7-1999
The present invention is a computer-implemented method and system for selectively scoring and outputting the scores of a plurality of golf participants playing golf on a golf course using a computer system including a main computer. In accordance with the invention, a main computer, one or more remote...     
5954332 Role playing game Sep-21-1999
Disclosed herein is a role playing game for 2-6 players. The game is broken down into a series of class games to decide a plurality of class winners, each of said games utilizing a different game board and game pieces. The class winners, once determined, unite to play against an ultimate final opponent,...     
5964660 Network multiplayer game Oct-12-1999
One embodiment of the present invention relates to a computer game that is played over a computer network and is capable of accommodating a large number of players. When the game is play on the Internet, players are able to input moves and be apprised of the state of the game using the basic input/output...     
6001016 Remote gaming device Dec-14-1999
A method and system for remote play of a gaming device, such as a slot machine. A player enters play preferences at a remote wagering terminal. The remote wagering terminal transmits the play preferences to a slot network server that stores the play preferences. Based upon the play preferences, the slot...     
A system and apparatus for use in casino card games having a progressive jackpot feature includes a dealer operated keypad unit located at each casino table for entering information which is used to recalculate the progressive jackpots. The system includes a display unit at each casino table for displaying...     
6015348 Scalable game server architecture Jan-18-2000
A scalable game apparatus and method for implementing a multi-player computer game includes a plurality of networked computers over which computer processes are distributed. In various embodiments, each computer includes a baron process which coordinates the spawning of a sector manager process on the...     
6024643 Player profile based proxy play Feb-15-2000
A method of conducting virtual competitions based on player profiling. A plurality of player profiles are created and transmitted to a host. Two or more of the profiles are pitted against one another in a pseudo-game independent of any of profile's creator. A winner is determined based on resolution...     
6033307 Gaming machines with bonusing Mar-7-2000
A method is set forth for playing a bonus game in a secondary slot machine adjacent a primary slot machine. The primary slot machine issues a bonus qualifying signal to the secondary slot machine to start play of a bonus game when a bonus qualifying event occurs. The reels of the bonus game include value...     
6074299 Internet based search contest Jun-13-2000
An Internet-based Web Search Contest. Participants are provided clues as to target Web sites. The target Web sites are maintained in an ordered list and participants sequentially locate the target Web sites and are provided clues as to the next target Web site in the list.
6080062 Lotto gaming apparatus and method Jun-27-2000
An individual electronic game for playing Lotto wherein acknowledgment as to the player's win or loss status is rapidly displayed. The player plays his/her selected numbers against the electronic lotto gaming apparatus randomly generated win numbers. In addition, the lotto gaming apparatus can transfer...     
6099407 Progressive bingo Aug-8-2000
A gambling game includes the steps of preparing a plurality of gaming cards with an indicia of identification, and a plurality of gaming symbols on a face of the card. The indicia of identification is recorded within a data base of a central computer system. The gaming cards are then distributed to a...     
The present invention relates to the use of client and server software communicating with each other via the internet to create and maintain a multi-user role-playing game. The virtual world of the game is presented to each user by means of text and dimensional audio. The virtual world of the game is...     
A modular, interactive, reconfigurable simulation system is designed to provide a variety of simulation experiences. The system has a distributed state machine architecture to facilitate reconfiguration and technological update. A typical simulation system constructed in accordance with the present invention...     
6128660 Network match maker Oct-3-2000
A network match making system and method is used to match users of a multi-user networked application. Each user is associated with a client computer connected to the network. Clients are selected based on attributes of their users, the clients, servers, and/or communication links. The network match...     
A system and method is set forth for passively tracking the play of players playing gaming devices such as slot machines. Players provide identification information and facial recognition data is acquired as by a digital or video camera. For each player an account file and a file of the facial image...     
6152824 Online gaming architecture Nov-28-2000
A networked computer online gaming system and process arranged in a client/server online gaming architecture and utilized to run gaming programs. The client computers are configured to run a gaming client program. The server computers are coupled to the client computers via a network. The server computers...     
6159100 Virtual reality game Dec-12-2000
A virtual reality system is provided including at least one game station. Such game station has at least one virtual reality outfit equipped with a helmet having an input device for subjecting a user to visual and audio stimuli upon the receipt thereof. The outfit also has a plurality of output devices...     
6168521 Video lottery game Jan-2-2001
This invention is directed to an electronic lottery game system utilizing multiple player-activated video terminals that are linked to computers performing centralized game draw and accounting functions. Each player places a wager and selects his lottery draw choices. The system enrolls the player in...     
6183366 Network gaming system Feb-6-2001
The present invention is an information service and advertising providing system for presenting interactive information services together with interactive advertising on a communications network such as the Internet and LANs. The information service may be a game played interactively on the network while...     
6183367 Communicative game system Feb-6-2001
By enabling exchange of information relating to players, apart from game data, "communication" between the players is increased, and the sense of rivalry and level of interest generated by a game are raised. The communicative game system 1 forms a network comprising a plurality of game devices 2a-2d...     
The playing of games with advertising over a network, such as the Internet, is provided. The system for on-line game playing and advertising includes one or more client machines, game servers with advertisement servers, together with at least one database server. One advertisement is displayed using...     
A computer-based strategic game system for, e.g., playing chess includes a kingbrain that is characterized by a rating and a queen brain. The rating of the kingbrain is automatically adjusted to the skill of the player, as determined by the queen brain, such that the kingbrain generates opponent moves...     
A computerized portable pneumatic target apparatus includes at least one target; a computer located at the firing point of a shooting range and connected by a first wireless radio frequency link to the at least one target for controlling operation of the at least one target; a shot detector located at...     
A system and method is set forth for tracking the play of players playing gaming devices such as slot machines through passive identification of the players. Passive identification can be achieved by analysis of a player, such as facial image photography, infrared scan, scans of a player's iris or other...     
6241608 Progressive wagering system Jun-5-2001
A linked progressive gaming system and method of operation is disclosed that is capable of accepting wagers in different currencies and different denominations of the same currency and allowing players in diverse locations to play for common progressive prizes. The system periodically computes each current...     
6264562 E-mail games Jul-24-2001
An E-mail games processor includes computer software programs running on two or more computers connected through a computer network. The computer software automatically transmits, receives and processes E-mail messages containing move data for one or more games.
6267675 Advertising game Jul-31-2001
The present invention relates to an advertising game where netizens are continuously exposed to advertisers' products in a very natural way. In this advertising game, the game screen is composed of advertisement frames and the advertiser=s product is displayed in these frames. Therefore, the main contents...     
6270410 Remote controlled slot machines Aug-7-2001
A special gaming system is provided with a portable controller comprising a remote control to remotely play a game on a slot machine. The remote control can be a battery-operated remote control, a cable-connected hand-held remote control, or a movable laptop keyboard, which is hard wired to the slot...     
6293868 Stadium game for fans Sep-25-2001
A game which is played by fans of sports events such as baseball, football, basketball and soccer. Each player makes advance predictions as regarding the outcome they expect to occur during the event. The player records his predictions in a form that can be checked by a computer. The record of the player's...     
The present invention is for an apparatus for detecting the presence of a gaming token. This apparatus comprises a gaming structure having at least one predetermined location for receiving a gaming token. In a casino, this gaming structure can be a gaming table. At each predetermined location for receiving...     
6306039 Communicative game system Oct-23-2001
By enabling exchange of information relating to players, apart from game data, "communication" between the players is increased, and the sense of rivalry and level of interest generated by a game are raised. The communication game system 1 forms a network comprising a plurality of game devices 2a-2d...     
6312336 Electronic game guide system Nov-6-2001
A gaming guide method including providing first gaming guide information from a television network and second gaming guide information from a computer based communication network, and displaying simultaneously at least a portion of the first gaming guide information and at least a portion of the second...     
An online digital photography game system allows multiple participants in the game by submitting digital photography game entries, where the digital photography game system determines a game winner based on equivalency with a game solution. The digital photography game system allows a user to choose...     
6314483 Portable electronic device Nov-6-2001
A portable electronic device adapted to be connected to or disconnected from an external device comprises a housing which accommodates an electrical circuit and which has a terminal adapted to be connected to the external device. A lid member is pivotally supported by the housing for movement between...     
A transmitting station transmits FM radio waves which carry program information, such as news, and time information representing the current time. Each of receivers generates the first time information in accordance with an internal clock, corrects the first time information in accordance with the time...     
An entertainment system comprising in one embodiment an Internet site configured to enable participants to submit content, such as jokes, and view the submissions of others. The site also enables participants to cast a vote for the best content, e.g., the best joke, with each visit. The votes are redeemable...     
6345297 Network match maker Feb-5-2002
A network match making system and method is used to match users of a multi-users networked application. Each user is associated with a client computer connected to the network. Clients are selected based on attributes of their users, the clients, servers, and/or communication links. The network match...     
6368218 Interactive gaming system Apr-9-2002
A method and system for gaming is provided in which a plurality of players each connect to a host which enables players to participate jointly in the same games of chance. According to one embodiment, a computerized method of gaming is provided that includes connecting a plurality of players to a host...     
6371854 Combined game system Apr-16-2002
A combined game system includes a portable game machine and another type of video game machine. The portable game machine and the other type of video game machine are connected through a game cartridge and communication cable. The portable game machine includes an LCD, and the other video game machine...     
6371855 Fantasy internet sports game Apr-16-2002
A system for providing an interactive sports game to a plurality of participants wherein each participant wishes to form a fantasy sports team made up of actual players. The system is operable: (a) to solicit and accept from each participant an initial selection and purchase of players to form the participant's...     
An interactive gaming process and system. The system comprises a plurality of gaming machines to be played by plurality of players. The system can be configured such that the gaming machines are either located in a casino or at internet locations. Each gaming machine comprises a wagering game and a theme...     
6383078 On-line lottery game system May-7-2002
A system and a method is provided for facilitating on-line lottery games over the Internet. The system includes terminals each having a modem for connecting to a service provider server for accessing the electronic network, and an agent server for storing criteria required for playing the lottery games,...     
A disclosed cashless instrument transaction clearinghouse provides clearinghouse server including a network interface allowing the cashless instrument transaction clearinghouse to communicate with a number of gaming properties and a processor configured to enable the validation of cashless instruments...     
6398218 Gaming machine with bonusing Jun-4-2002
A method is set forth for playing a bonus game in a secondary slot machine adjacent a primary slot machine. The primary slot machine issues a bonus qualifying signal to the secondary slot machine to start play of a bonus game when a bonus qualifying event occurs. The reels of the bonus game include value...     
Connection used when a video game is executed among several persons is simplified, by a communication apparatus that includes a execution unit (10), a number of display units (21A, 22A, . . . ) for displaying a video image based on the program executed by the execution unit (10), a number of operation...     
6409602 Slim terminal gaming system Jun-25-2002
A computer gaming system and method of operation thereof are provided that both drastically reduce the cost of gaming stations and allow contemporaneous access to multiple game programs from a single gaming station. The computer gaming system of the present invention allows for transparent modifications...     
6419583 Large prize central management Jul-16-2002
In a gaming system, a central computer generates a plurality of game win-loss outcome stacks, each stack having at least one "win" (preferably, large-prize) outcome. Sub-stacks, from among the plurality of stacks, are transmitted to casino or other group controllers or computers, each casino controller...     
6425823 Super keno Jul-30-2002
In a gambling game a collateral gambling game which can be won by players on at least one specific event occurring in the principal game, the collateral game being separate from the principal game but one when any of the possible winning events occur in the principal game, the payment to the player being...     
6430453 Bowling center system Aug-6-2002
A system adapted for use in permitting a bowling game between bowlers at remotely located bowling centers includes pin fall sensors at each bowling center for sensing pin falls caused by balls bowled to knock down pins. Communication circuitry at each bowling center is configured to send locally generated...     
6435968 Progressive wagering system Aug-20-2002
A linked progressive gaming system and method of operation is disclosed that is capable of accepting wagers in different currencies and different denominations of the same currency and allowing players in diverse locations to play for common progressive prizes. The system periodically computes each current...     
6454650 Free remote lottery system Sep-24-2002
The free remote lottery system is played by a participant who selects a set of indicia that either fully or partially matches an official winning set of indicia and receives a prize, without wagering any money or purchasing tickets in order to participate in the lottery and qualify for a prize. The participant...     
An apparatus including a progressive jackpot component in a live casino table game. In addition to playing a live casino table game, each player makes an additional wager at the beginning of each hand that makes that player eligible to win all or part of a jackpot. If during the play of the hand a player...     
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