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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7883411 | Methods and systems for conducting parimutuel wagers The present invention contemplates methods and systems of conducting wagers, such as parimutuel wagers. In one exemplary embodiment an event, such as a horse race, dog race, a combination of races, etc., is identified for which a plurality of bettors may each place ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7803046 | Simulcast pari-mutuel gaming machine with casino and lottery styled wagers for continuous play An gaming machine for and method of par-mutuel wagering that allows individuals to continuously place multiple casino and lottery styled pari-mutuel wagers on simulcast live and/or recorded pari-mutuel race events. The gaming machine includes a display screen to pro... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7775880 | Pari-mutuel sports wagering system This invention relates to sports and event wagering, particularly to a new sport and event wagering game and system. This game and supporting system allows pari-mutuel wagering with respect to new areas other than horse or dog racing, which will expand the sports wa... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7753784 | Gaming device having progressive awards and supplemental awards A gaming system including a central server linked to a plurality of gaming machines. The central server monitors wagers on the gaming machines. Based at least in part on the wagers the central server determines when bonus events will occur and which gaming machine(s... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7753783 | Gaming system and method for providing multiple players multiple bonus awards A gaming system including a central server linked to a plurality of gaming machines. Upon a suitable triggering event at a triggering gaming device in the gaming system a bonus event occurs. When the bonus event occurs, the players actively playing each auxiliary ga... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7749078 | Systems and methods for accessing, manipulating and using funds associated with pari-mutuel wagering Systems and methods of pari-mutuel wagering are disclosed. One method utilizes a credit instrument associated with an account set up by a patron at a pari-mutuel gaming establishment, such as a horse or dog racing track. The credit instrument may be used to place wa... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7740539 | Multi-person games for parimutuel betting on live events A parimutuel betting game featuring in-game wagers and payoffs, and real time parimutuel style odds, based on events unfolding during a live event, a principal objective being to acquire the largest number of betting tokens by the end of the event. An administrator ... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7713125 | Jackpot race event A system for wagering on a jackpot race event, comprises a memory and a processor. The memory stores a qualifying bet associated with a customer and comprising a first bet component and a second bet component. The first bet component is associated with a first quali... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7597621 | Gaming device having progressive awards and supplemental awards A gaming system including a central server linked to a plurality of gaming machines. The central server monitors wagers on the gaming machines. Based at least in part on the wagers the central server determines when bonus events will occur and which gaming machine(s... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7442124 | System and method for high-speed pari-mutuel wagering This disclosure provides a wagering system associated with a first wagering facility, the system communicably coupled with a network and including memory operable to store betting odds on a plurality of wagering events hosted by the first wagering facility. The syst... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7435176 | Interactive wagering system with totalisator selection A interactive wagering system is provided in which a user at user equipment may place electronic wagers with an interactive wagering application. The wagers may be horse race wagers. The interactive wagering application may handle wagers placed at multiple totalisat... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7387571 | Method and apparatus for linked play gaming The invention includes a system and method for providing linked play via gaming and other devices. In some embodiments, a casino server registers a group for linked play and a group objective and format are established. The linked play commences according to the gro... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7364509 | Systems and methods for facilitating a wager Methods and systems of facilitating a wager include, a computer implemented method of facilitating a wager between players. The method may include receiving an initial offer from an initial player and a challenging offer from a challenging player. The initial and ch... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7357712 | Method and gaming device of operating a multiple round game that includes diminishing selection sets A method of controlling a gaming device is provided in which a set of a plurality of selections is displayed. The player is enabled to pick one of the selections. After one of the selections is picked by the player, an award is generated and provided from an award p... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356508 | System that transfers asset ownership using a probabilistic model Briefly, according to the present invention, ownership right in an asset is transferred using a probabilistic model. In one exemplary embodiment, the system and method of the invention implements the probabilistic model by a raffle system that facilitates the transf... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7311606 | System and method for betting on a subset of participants in an event wherein betting parameters may change over time A method of managing bets is provided. The method includes identifying a set of participants in an event and receiving a group bet for the event. The group bet comprises a bet that one of an undefined subset of the set of participants will win the event. The undefin... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7302412 | Method for reiterative betting based on supply and demand of betting shares A betting method determines rate of return on a bet by employing supply and demand forces. The bet can be made on any uncertain future event that has at least two outcomes (e.g. sporting events, financial market fluctuations, and elections). Investors that place a b... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7297059 | Progressive gaming system and method having fractional progressive jackpot awards A method for paying a progressive jackpot in a wide area progressive system having a progressive controller linked to groups of gaming terminals. Each gaming terminal using software determines, based upon at least the broadcast current progressive jackpot amount and... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7281979 | Interactive keno gaming system and method The present invention includes an interactive keno game method that comprises receiving at least one player selected symbol from a player during a game session. The at least one player selected symbol is drawn from a set of game symbols. The method then proceeds to ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7278916 | Gaming machine having multi-ended pointer for quasi-deterministic play (“pick-a-prize”) When a special symbol appears during play of the gaming machine game, the secondary game is initiated. At initiation, a bonus prize is determined by the secondary game microcontroller by consulting a bonus game paytable stored therein where each bonus prize correspo... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7278914 | System and method of betting on a sporting event which awards pay outs based on the difference between the actual and predicted results (“Pay Per Point”) A system and method for sports betting that awards pay outs based upon the difference between the actual and predicted results (“Pay Per Point”). In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the Pay Per Point bettor may place any or all of three different bets: 1... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7233922 | System and method for wagering-based transferable financial instruments The invention provides a system and method for creating and facilitating the exchange of wagering-based transferable financial instruments. The instruments may be used to embody multiple various positions based upon the ultimate outcomes of uncertain future continge... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7229354 | Interactive wagering systems and methods for restricting wagering access Systems and methods are provided for an interactive wagering application that restricts wagering access. The restrictions may be based on user-defined restrictions on the location of the user equipment or any other suitable criterion. The interactive wagering applic... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7206762 | Betting system and method A fixed-odds betting system comprises a user terminal operable to accept parameters input by a user and relating to a fixed-odds bet on an aspect of a financial market; and a central processing machine having a data feed to a source of data concerning a financial ma... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7172508 | Multi-person parimutuel betting games based on sporting events A parimutuel betting game based on events unfolding during a live sporting event, a principal objective being to acquire the largest number of betting tokens by the end of the sporting event. An administrator conducts a plurality of betting events based on events oc... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7155014 | System and method for playing a lottery-type game A system for playing a lottery-type game includes a play generator, a win generator, and an evaluator. The evaluator receives the playfile from the play generator and a winning a number from the win generator and, in response to player input, determines a win/loss r... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7147226 | Gaming system and method of operation thereof A gaming system (1) comprises a primary wagering facility (6) which is us able by a player to place an initial wager on a turn of a game of blackjack, and a secondary wagering facility (7) which automatically places a side wager on the same turn... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7094151 | Pari-mutuel sports wagering system This invention relates to sports and event wagering, particularly to a new sport and event wagering game and system. This game and supporting system allows pari-mutuel wagering with respect to new areas other than horse or dog racing, which will expand the sports wa... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7094152 | Positive-return gambling A method and system of providing players with positive return in a gambling game. Tokens are won or lost in a manner that assures net positive return. Token value is determined based on the total number of outstanding tokens, or on the total number that have been is... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7083085 | Verifying financial services card transactions using tags For added security against fraud, a financial services card such as a credit card is paired with a separate tag such as an RFID tag. A system for minimizing fraud includes a card reader for reading a card ID, a tag reader for reading a tag ID, and a controller for c... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7083517 | Remote wagering system A system and method for permitting a wagerer to remotely place a wager is disclosed. The wagerer remotely contacts a ticket writer or computerized system. The ticket writer or computerized system generates a random number and sends the random number to the wagerer v... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7070499 | Method and apparatus to execute bets A method and apparatus are provided to execute bets that includes a plurality of buttons for creating derivative bets that modify an initial combination of groups of competitors to create derivative combinations of an original bet. The method and apparatus of the pr... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7070505 | Method for community event wagering A method and apparatus for wagering on a community event by a plurality of players. The apparatus includes a pay table ranking a preselected community event, a wagering place to accept individual wagers from each of the players on the occurrence of the preselected c... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7052391 | Target-based wagering system and method A new and useful ball range system for wagering is disclosed. The system incorporates targets having RFID readers therein, coupled with at least one server communicating with each target, and further having the potential to operate over more than one physical site. ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7043025 | Method and apparatus for secured electronic commerce A user anonymously acquires a first sequence of encryption key material. An encryption server, having a second sequence complementary to the first sequence, receives and forwards encrypted messages and monitors utilization of encryption key material by the user. As ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7006984 | Electronically augmented multiplayer sporting game with virtual ball passed by infrared apparatus A method and apparatus for conducting multi-player games in a wireless telecommunications system including a wireless telecommunications network which communicates using radio signals with a plurality of mobile terminals. The objects of the multi-player games are ac... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7004466 | Determining the value of a jackpot award in a gaming machine The present invention relates to a method of determining the value of a jackpot award. The method entails operating a main game to obtain an outcome, at least one of the outcomes providing an initial award amount and enabling a secondary game. A player is then allow... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6966836 | Positive-return gambling A method and system of providing players with positive return in a gambling game. Tokens are won or lost in a manner that assures net positive return. Token value is determined based on the total number of outstanding tokens, or on the total number that have been is... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6939234 | Dynamic configuration of gaming system A gaming system comprises a plurality of common objects, a plurality of application objects, and a central system. The common objects are shared by a plurality of applications and include gaming devices and games. Each gaming device includes at least one of the game... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6939224 | Gaming device having varying risk player selections The present invention provides a processor controlled gaming device having a display device in communication with the processor. When the display device receives an input from the player, gaming device 10 randomly generates an outcome, the display device disp... | 09/06/2005 |
