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7618325 Game apparatus and storage medium storing game program  
A game system includes a plurality of game apparatuses that can carry out short-range wireless communication with one another. Link strength is detected for wireless communication between a parent...
7618324 Server-less cashless gaming systems and methods  
Methods and systems that enable cashless gaming dispense with the need to set up and operate a complex centrally controlled system or dispense with the need to distribute expensive smart cards. The...
7618317 Method for developing gaming programs compatible with a computerized gaming operating system and apparatus  
The present invention in various embodiments provides a computerized wagering game method and apparatus that features an operating system kernel, a system handler application that loads and...
7614956 Electronic lottery system with promotion prize distribution  
A method includes communicating a distribution group of lottery game play records to a data storage device accessible to an assignment component included in a lottery gaming system. This assignment...
7611411 Player tracking instruments having multiple communication modes  
Systems and methods for conducting cashless gaming or player tracking within a gaming environment are disclosed. Players with associated player accounts are provided player tracking instruments...
7611410 Score verification system and score verification method of online game  
A score verification system for verifying that a score of a player having played an online game is a true score of the player. A player terminal receives a game program from an online game server,...
7610462 Gaming machine with secure fault-tolerant memory  
A gaming machine includes two persistent random access memory sections. Critical data written to one memory section is copied to the other. Systems and methods for managing the two memory sections...
7609835 Digital media cartridge system and method  
A digital media cartridge contains both a controller and memory where the memory stores a digital representation of video and sound in compressed, encrypted form. The controller reads the digital...
7601055 Game apparatus, game method, and program  
There is provided a game apparatus for moving a moving object on a road in a virtual world and changing influence received by the moving object from the road based on movement history, wherein an...
7597622 Game device, computer control method, and computer-readable information storage medium  
A game device including a player image acquisition section 50 for receiving an image of a player from image capture means in charge of image capturing of the player, a game processing section 54...
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...
7594854 Video game system with data transmitting/receiving controller  
A game machine is provided with a controller control circuit including a data transfer control circuit. When the data in a first external RAM attached to a first controller is transferred to a...
7588498 Game apparatus and recording medium storing a game program  
The player proceeds with a game while operating a touch panel to slant a game stage with a perception that the touch panel is a plane present in a game space and capable of freely slanting. The...
7582018 Game control method  
The present invention relates to a control method for controlling gate data of a game in which a plurality of players take part. Before the start of the game, game data is copied form the memory...
7582016 Game system and game program  
In a game system in which two related virtual game spaces are separately displayed on a first display device and a second display device, an object, contained in a first game space represented by a...
7578740 Gaming device and method having payline progressive awards  
A gaming device which includes a variety of methods to provide distinct progressive awards for two or more paylines. In one embodiment, each and every payline has its own progressive award that...
7572188 Backup memory managing device backup memory managing method game machine and recorded medium  
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a backup memory management system capable of indicating any misuse of data in a backup memory and imposing an appropriate sanction. The backup...
7559843 Method and apparatus for providing real-time machine learning to computer-controlled agents used in video games  
A method for providing real-time machine learning to agents used in video games is disclosed. Initially, adjusted fitnesses of a set of agents within a population are determined. An agent having a...
7558820 Log collecting/analyzing system with separated functions of collecting log information and analyzing the same  
A log collecting/analyzing system has a log collection terminal device as a client terminal device which collects logs and transmits the collected logs to a log server via a network. The log server...
7553235 Method and apparatus for outputting a result of a game via a container  
A method and apparatus is disclosed that documents and authenticates cap removal data. According to a first aspect of the present invention, the apparatus measures a parameter indicative of the...
7549919 Jukebox entertainment system having multiple choice games relating to music  
Entertainment system based on a multiple choice competition games, including: a remote server and at least one terminal operable to communicate with the server over a communications network,...
7538775 Storage medium storing game program and game apparatus  
A relative position of each object with respect to a point of view is changed by changing at least one of information indicating a position of the point of view and information indicating a...
7534168 Slot machine hybrid pin and ball game  
An electronic gaming console is illustrated having a console cabinet 10 including a prize display 12 , a coin entry slot 13 , a payout tray 14 and internally mounted game control processor...
7530895 Method for advancing network game by group competition  
A world map includes multiple regions. Each region includes one or multiple areas. A player causes his/her player character to belong to any nation. As a task given to the player character, a...
7512235 Multiple user authentication for online console-based gaming  
A console-based multi-user authentication process allows multiple users of a game console to be authenticated together in a single request/reply exchange with an authentication entity. The results...
7510478 Gaming apparatus software employing a script file  
In a gaming method, a wager may be received from a player via a value input device of a gaming apparatus, and an image representative of a game may be generated for display on a display unit of the...
7503006 Visual indication of current voice speaker  
Visually identifying one or more known or anonymous voice speakers to a listener in a computing session. For each voice speaker, voice data include a speaker identifier that is associated with a...
7500916 Game strategy analysis tool generating a two dimensional image overlaid with telemetry data  
Methods and systems for recording and analyzing game session telemetry data are disclosed. A game console records telemetry data during a game session of a video game. The telemetry data may...
7494411 Gaming device having tease reveal feature  
An apparatus and method for at least partially revealing a first award on a display device of the gaming device, unrevealing the first award, and at least partially revealing a second award on the...
7485042 Game system capable of evaluating the correlation of user operation on a game machine with displayed operational information and user operation on another game machine  
In a game played by a plurality of game machines through teamwork, an evaluation is performed according to the correlation among operation information obtained through communications with each of...
7476155 Gaming apparatus and method for providing enhanced player participation in lottery games  
A lottery gaming system utilizes one or more pools of predetermined game play records. In response to a game play request, the gaming system allocates a number or set of game play records. A...
7455591 Redundant gaming network mediation  
A disclosed gaming communication network provides an enhanced DCU that provides redundant mediation between gaming machines on the gaming communication network and a host server. The enhanced DCU...
7455590 Sending messages in response to events occurring on a gaming service  
Alerts are transmitted to subscribers to an alerts service in response to events that occur within a gaming environment. Communication within the gaming environment is limited to specific game...
7452279 Recording medium of game program and game device using card  
By setting the player's recording medium in the game device, the continuity of the previous game and current game of the player is maintained, and the game parameter of a non-player character is...
7452278 Web access to secure data  
Controlling access to secure data and services by versatile computers outside a secure environment, which communicates with limited dedicated devices such as game consoles, over a secure network...
7445551 Memory for video game system and emulator using the memory  
A hand-held display system for playing video games includes a housing grippable by a user's hands, a liquid crystal display viewable by the user gripping the housing, input devices operable by the...
7438643 Open architecture communications in a gaming network  
Open architecture communication systems and methods are provided that allow flexible data transmission between gaming machines and other devices and nodes within a gaming machine network. The...
7422521 Method of determining skill level in a tournament setting  
The present invention is directed to a method of determining a most skilled individual from a group of individuals in a tournament setting over a computer network. A method of determining skill...
7419428 Cashless transaction clearinghouse  
A disclosed cashless instrument transaction clearinghouse includes a network interface allowing the cashless instrument transaction clearinghouse to communicate with a number of gaming properties...
7416488 System and method for playing a game of skill  
The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for playing a game of skill in a networked environment. A host server transmits a game data packet to each participant after receiving a...
7412559 High performance battery backed ram interface  
A disclosed gaming machine provides a gaming machine with a non-volatile memory storage device and gaming software that allows the dynamic allocation and de-allocation of memory locations in a...
7399224 Method of game character movement control in game space  
Provided is a game performing method for executing a given game by controlling movements of characters in a game space. The generated image of the game space has a set plurality of sample points in...
7390254 Soccer game method for use in game apparatus, involves recognizing areas pertaining to power of character group, based on calculated arrival times of characters up to sample points  
A game executing method for making a computer device execute a given game by generating an image of a game space, and for analyzing and outputting a power distribution of a character group in the...
7384340 Trading cards interactive with electronic game machine and game system  
Trading cards consist of a single rule card and a plurality of character cards. The rule card is formed with a data recording area on its front surface. The data recording area of the rule card is...
7374490 Game system using touch panel input  
A player performs an input operation so as to draw a predetermined graphic on a touch panel. A type of attack against an enemy character may be determined based at least on a graphical shape of an...
7374480 Game performing method, storage medium, game apparatus, data signal and program  
A method for adding a new game performance to a game wherein players enjoy operating own registered characters by inputting own accounts. The game performing method for performing a predetermined...
7371178 Card game system  
A card game system is disclosed, which enables to execute the card game using a basic function of a video game apparatus. The card game system includes a card acceptance means for accepting a...
7371165 Card game program and card game machine  
A card game program has a routine for displaying areas of a player and an opponent, each being comprised of a plurality of hexes, a routine for displaying selective disposition of card on the hex,...
7367889 Gaming machine having hardware-accelerated software authentication  
A system and method for accelerating authentication of software in a gaming machine. The machine includes at least one storage media for storing software that controls a function of the machine, a...
7367888 Player trust system and method  
A trust rating factor (TRF) based upon data collected for players participating in previous online games sessions is used in determining official results for an online game session when different...