US 11393279

Patent Overview — US11393279B2

Title: System for implementing enhanced gaming and prizing parameters in an electronic environment

Patent number: US11393279B2. Application number: US17/525,238. Other version: US20220076525A1.

Inventors: Randall M. Katz; Gary Dawson.

Assignee: Milestone Entertainment LLC (current and original assignee, per the listing).

Key dates (as listed, with the source's own caveats): Prior art date 2003-09-02; filing date 2021-11-12; publication date 2022-07-19. Priority date is stated as 2003-09-02 but expressly described as an assumption, not a legal conclusion. The source also lists an anticipated expiration of 2023-09-02 and a legal status of "Expired - Lifetime."

Purpose (from the supplied text): The definitions state these inventions relate to methods, systems and apparatus for "unique player participation games," and to improved methods of play for games of chance and skill. More particularly, they concern games involving player participation in a broadcast medium such as television, and in other communication media such as the Internet, mobile phones, or other communications networks and devices.

Plain-language scope (from the supplied text): The material describes player participation games falling into games of chance and games of skill. It notes that one main form of games of chance is lotteries, defined by three elements — prize, chance, and consideration — and typically run by a governmental entity, often state-run in the U.S. or nationally elsewhere. It notes that countries and states attempt to limit game play to geographic boundaries. Games may be live and in person, broadcast over radio or television, or played via active communication media such as telephone or the Internet. The text references U.S. Pat. No. 5,800,268 ("Method of Participating in a Live Casino Game from a Remote Location") as having been asserted in litigation, with its disclosure beginning to be described before the excerpt cuts off.

Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/[US11393279](/patent/US11393279)/en

What the excerpt does not establish: The claims are not reproduced here, so the actual claimed scope is unknown — the excerpt contains only bibliographic data, classifications, and a definitions section. The full description and any listed prior-art references are truncated. The filing-date, priority-date, expiration, and legal-status entries are expressly flagged as assumptions or non-legal conclusions. Nothing here establishes validity, enforceability, claim coverage, or the merits of any proceeding.