Andrew E Brandt

US Patent:

20080096659, Apr 24, 2008

Filed:

Oct 23, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/585026

Inventors:

Shawn D. Kreloff - New York NY, US
Peter J. Shoebridge - Boulder CO, US
Andrew V. Brandt - Boulder CO, US
Zbigniew Czyzewski - Henderson NV, US
Mark L. Yoseloff - Henderson NV, US

International Classification:

A63F 13/12

US Classification:

463 39

Abstract:

A system and method for wireless communal gaming in a casino environment. The system includes one or more wireless gaming devices each equipped with a display, one or more gaming servers configured to communicate wirelessly with the wireless gaming devices, and one or more financial servers configured to record financial transactions for players playing communal games of chance on the handheld gaming devices. The wireless approach to communal gaming allows greater player mobility within the casino establishment and also allows a large number of players (players playing wirelessly as well as players playing traditionally at a physical player station) to participate in a common game, thereby increasing the capacity of existing communal game tables. When the wireless game-playing option is available, a player can participate in the communal game regardless of whether there is a physical player station available. Thus, flexible game-playing options can be provided to casino patrons participating in a communal game.