Wms Gaming, Inc.

Bally Gaming, Inc.

Scientific Games International, Inc.

Sg Gaming, Inc.

Peter R Anderson

Larry J Pacey

Allon G Englman

Alfred Thomas

Mark B Gagner

Matthew John Ward

Andrew C Guinn

Richard T Schwartz

Craig Joe Sylla

Shridhar P Joshi

Brian J Barclay

Jeremy Hornik

Daniel P Louie

Brian D Manning

Damon E Gura

Joel Roger Jaffe

Michael J Irby, Ii

Robert L Kyte

Michael W Mastropietro

Jeffrey Lee Allen

Robby M Friedman

Vincent P Chan

Timothy C Loose

Richard Barry Robbins

Timothy T Gronkowski

Vernon W Hamlin

Srinivyasa Murthy Adiraju

Jeremie D Moll

Christopher R Barney

Saravanan Saravanan

Daniel Murphy

William Hoefferle

Vladislav Modilevsky

Paul M Lesley

John Joseph Giobbi

Scott Alan Massing

Sean P Kelly

Jacob C Greenberg

Mark C Pace

Victor T Shi

Erhard Walter Rathsack

Mary Burke

Jim Motyl

Travis N Nelson

John L Walsh

Kevin D Kahley

Randy S Demsetz

Brandon C Estes

Kyle G Nyenhuis

Christian P Gyrling

John P Nicastro, Ii

Dion K Aoki

Benjamin T Gomez

Michael P Casey

Dale Robert Buchholz

Jacek A Grabiec

Jorge Luis Shimabukuro

Erica A Frohm

John Raymond Werneke

Chad A Ryan

Michael R Bytnar

Rory L Block

James V Palermo

Christopher J Frattinger

Marwan Y Ansari

Terry D Warkentin

Christopher W Blackburn

Robert T Davis

Nickey C Shin

David E Detlefsen

Philip B Gelber

Scott Michael Minch

Tracey L Wright

Justin A Perkins

Edward Q Earley

Bruce H Blair

Sridhar Gondesi

Timothy D Wilson

John D Flint

Suzanne J Ruebusch

Ryan S Mak

Steven Mark Campbell

Joseph A Sharpe

Timothy J Holman

Darren Ng

Victor Vasquez Lerias, Iii

John M Burica

Eugene M Rigsby

Stephen P Angelo

Patrick H Kelley

Byron A Uytiepo

Mark E Gagner

Quincy Wallace Raven

Anuradha Jandhyala

Michael R Rudel

A gaming system includes a network accessible sports betting server that allows players to anonymously place wagers on sporting events using an anonymous account identifier that is not associated with any personal information of the player. The player may use the anonymous account identifier to access an available monetary balance for wagering, view, filter, and place wagers on sporting events using various wagering game machines, and continue to use the account identifier to track all associated wagering transactions while a remaining balance remains or pending wagering transactions are outstanding. The gaming system enables the player to use mobile devices and casino gaming machines to interchangeably interface with the anonymous account, viewing the remaining balance, place wagers, etc.

Anonymous funding and tracking of sports wagering across multiple devices

A method for processing wagering game e-tickets is described herein. The method can include receiving, from a mobile device over a network, an indication to create an e-ticket. The method can also include determining, by a wagering game server, monetary value information for the e-ticket. The method can also include transmitting, to a ticketing server, the monetary value information; receiving, from the ticketing server, e-ticket information. The method can also include transmitting, over the network, the e-ticket information to the mobile device for generating the e-ticket.

Methods of transferring funds in a cashless wagering system

A system and associated method are provided for conducting a lottery game play purchase at a retail establishment. At an interactive kiosk located within the retail establishment and in communication with a central lottery server, payment is accepted from a player via the kiosk for a lottery game play selected by the player at the kiosk. A transaction ID is generated at the server associated with the lottery game play, and is transmitted back to the kiosk. The player is able to input the transaction ID to their mobile smart device via an application downloaded to the mobile smart device, wherein the application generates an identifier code unique to the mobile smart device. The identifier code is transmitted by the mobile smart device to the server and is stored with the transaction ID in a file, along with the identity of the selected lottery game plays. For subsequent play of the lottery game play, the server accepts the identifier code transmitted by the mobile smart device and, if validated, retrieves and transmits the selected lottery game plays to the mobile smart device for subsequent play of the games. The server does not require or store personal information related to the player with the unique identifier and transaction ID for conducting the lottery game play transaction.

Method and system for lottery game play transactions via a kiosk and a player's mobile smart device

A method for implementing an augmented reality lottery game on a player's mobile device includes providing lottery tickets with a code for entry into the augmented reality game. A common game server communicates with the mobile devices, and a player enters and transmits the code via the mobile device to initiate the augmented reality game. The game server receives real-world location data from the mobile device and transmits participating establishment locations to the mobile device within a predefined distance of the player's location. Upon verifying the player's location, the game server enables an overlay of virtual objects on a screen image on the player's mobile device of the establishment location. The mobile device provides instructions to the player for interacting with the virtual object in accordance with the augmented reality game.

Lottery game system and method with augmented reality component

In at least some aspects, a method includes the acts of operating a wagering game with a player on a first game platform, suspending the wagering game operating on the first game platform at a game state, automatically authenticating the player at a second game platform different than the first game platform, resuming the wagering game from the game state on the second game platform, and operating the resumed wagering game with the player differently on the second game platform than on the first game platform, the second game platform having one or more different components than the first game platform to cause the wagering game to be operated differently on the second game platform than the first game platform.

Transient or persistent game play in wagering games

A method for presenting wagering games on a wagering game machine is described herein. The method can include detecting, by an add-on gaming system of the wagering game machine, a message indicating occurrence of a first wagering game on the wager game machine. The method can further include initiating, by the add-on gaming system, a second wagering game in parallel with the first wagering game on a display device native to the wagering game machine, where the presenting is in response to the detecting the message.

Synchronous betting in wagering game systems

An abstraction layer in a gaming environment intercepts calls to standard random number and user selection functions and returns data based on game operating mode and data availability. When operating as a Class 2 game, random number data may be received from a server while in a Class 3 game, random numbers may be received from a local random number generator. In a history mode or power recovery mode, calls for both random numbers and user selections may be supplied from a file storing data from a previously played or an interrupted game, respectively. Pay table testing may be accommodated by using predetermined random numbers resulting in known reel or other outcome states. The abstraction layer isolates game code from the unique requirements of the different modes of operation required for operating environment or regulatory compliance.

Proxy layer for game input abstraction

A wagering game machine includes a processor and a wagering game module, executable on the processor, configured to present a wagering game on which monetary value can be wagered to a wagering game player. The machine includes a receiver configured to communicate with a transmitter of a mobile device to receive a mobile payment from the mobile device. The machine includes a bill validator that is communicatively coupled to the receiver. The bill validator configured to receive the mobile payment from the receiver, wherein the bill validator is configured to output a first communication to issue a first wagering game credit for the wagering game machine in response to receipt of a monetary bill, wherein in response to receipt of the mobile payment from the receiver the bill validator is configured to output a second communication to issue a second wagering game credit on the wagering game machine.

Mobile payment and credit integration into a wagering game machine

A wagering game system and its operations are described herein. In some embodiments, the operations can include intercepting video data from a graphics controller of a wagering game machine. In some instances, the video data depicts wagering game content for a wagering game. In some examples, a first content controller, associated with the wagering game, is configured to cause the graphics controller to generate the video data. The operations can further include performing a graphical analysis of the video data via a second content controller independent from the first content controller. The operations can further include after performing the graphical analysis, modifying the video data via the second content controller. In some examples modifying the video data modifies an appearance of a first portion of the wagering game content without modifying an appearance of a second portion of the wagering game content.

Modifying wagering game graphics

The present invention describes a lottery ticket system providing an instant scratch lottery ticket to a consumer on-demand. A customer vending device of the lottery ticket system may be used to receive consumer input. The consumer input may include selection of a lottery game and one or more play actions for an associated interactive game. A scratch lottery ticket having hidden and non-hidden portions collectively defining an outcome for the lottery ticket is printed on-demand by the vending machine using blank lottery ticket media. The customer input may or may not impact the outcome of the printed lottery ticket. The vending machine may also communicate with one or more network servers to exchange ticket information for lottery ticket generation, authentication, recordation, and redemption, in addition to performing episodic lottery games by managing linked records of ticket information. Lastly, on-demand lottery tickets may be generated using real-time promotional and marketing information.

Instant lottery scratch ticket on-demand printing

A layout pattern of a plurality of possible layout patterns for wagering game machines is determined. An input indicating a location of a wagering game machine within the layout patter is received. A mapping of the wagering game machine to the location within the layout pattern is stored.

Wagering game machine layout mapping

A wagering game system and its operations are described herein. In some embodiments, the operations can include initiating a wagering game title for presentation on a display device of a gaming machine, and receiving, from the gaming machine, player input indicating autoplay settings selected by a player for the wagering game title. The operations can also include initiating an autoplay mode for the wagering game title in response to receiving an autoplay trigger from the gaming machine, managing the autoplay mode for the player according to the autoplay setting selected by the player, and generating results for each wagering game of the wagering game title played during the autoplay mode. The operations can further include monitoring game events associated with the wagering games played during the autoplay mode to determine when to stop the autoplay mode, and stopping the autoplay mode for the player based on the autoplay settings selected by the player.

Autoplay mechanism for wagering game systems

Systems, methods and machine-readable media operate on configuration data for wagering game machines. A wagering game machine configuration or meter data on a wagering game machine is modified. In response to the modification, the configuration data or meter data is transformed into a displayable code such as a bar code or QR (Quick Response) code. The wagering game machine presents the displayable code on a code display of the wagering game machine. A portable computing device reads the displayable code and uses the displayable code to compare the configuration data with configuration data obtained from other wagering game machines or configuration data obtained from a configuration server.

Automatically generated display code for wagering game machine configuration

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Peter R Anderson