公开(公告)号：EP1811374B1

公开(公告)日：2018-10-31

申请号：EP07250241.2

申请日：2007-01-22

申请人： Waterleaf Ltd.

发明人： Edgren, Joakim ,  Johansson, Mikael ,  Kaufeldt, Peter

IPC分类号： G06F8/61 ,  G07F17/32

CPC分类号： G07F17/323 ,  G06F8/61

摘要： A method and system for customizing a gaming machine by transferring software files from a download server to a gaming machine. The download server may store software files.in three-tier hierarchical structure and execute program logic to determine which software files need to be transmitted to the gaming machine to customize the gaming machine. The method may include (i) determining a download signature for software files that correspond to the gaming machine and that are stored at the download server , (ii) determining a machine signature for software files stored at the gaming machine, (iii) comparing the download signature to the machine signature, and (iv) allowing the gaming machine to carry out gaming functions if the signatures match, or (v) if the signatures do not match, updating the gaming machine with gaming machine software files and, thereafter, allowing the gaming machine to carry out gaming functions.

公开(公告)号：EP1900401B1

公开(公告)日：2011-11-02

申请号：EP07253661.8

申请日：2007-09-14

申请人： Waterleaf Ltd.

发明人： Naicker, Theo

IPC分类号： A63F1/18

CPC分类号： A63F1/18 ,  A63F1/10 ,  A63F2003/00164 ,  A63F2009/2435

公开(公告)号：EP1715930A4

公开(公告)日：2009-04-15

申请号：EP05708541

申请日：2005-02-17

申请人： WATERLEAF LTD

发明人： MOSHAL PAUL MARTIN

IPC分类号： G07F17/32 ,  A63F9/14

CPC分类号： G07F17/3269 ,  G07F17/32 ,  G07F17/323 ,  G07F17/3241

摘要： A gaming system having one or more player stations, a repository having a number of different software programs, and a download server communicable with the repository and each one of the player stations by means of a communication network. Each player station is identified by a unique code and is operable by a respective player to play a corresponding game. Each software program in the repository is executable on any player station to generate a simulation of a different game.

公开(公告)号：EP2003631A2

公开(公告)日：2008-12-17

申请号：EP08250258.4

申请日：2008-01-21

申请人： Waterleaf Ltd.

发明人： Toompere, Ragnar

IPC分类号： G07F17/32

CPC分类号： G07F17/3262 ,  G07F17/32 ,  G07F17/3223

摘要： A method and system for presenting electronic casino games to a player is provided. A player will establish a subscription between a workstation and a gaming server that pertains to a single game category to receive game data pertaining only to the selected game category. The gaming server will then send data pertaining to the selected game category to the workstation at predefined or regular intervals, so as to update the game data. The workstation provides filtering options for the player so that the player can filter out instances of game play not desired. Because the workstation receives the data pertaining to the selected game category, the workstation can perform the filtering, and the player may filter through the game data of this category for as long as the subscription persists.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于向玩家呈现电子赌场游戏的方法和系统。 玩家将在工作站和游戏服务器之间建立与单个游戏类别相关的订阅，以接收仅关于所选择的游戏类别的游戏数据。 然后，游戏服务器将以预定或间隔的时间间隔将与所选择的游戏类别有关的数据发送到工作站，以便更新游戏数据。 工作站为播放器提供过滤选项，以便播放器可以滤除不需要的游戏实例。 因为工作站接收到与所选择的游戏类别有关的数据，所以工作站可以执行过滤，并且只要订阅仍然存在，玩家可以过滤该类别的游戏数据。

公开(公告)号：EP1833014A1

公开(公告)日：2007-09-12

申请号：EP07250996.1

申请日：2007-03-09

申请人： Waterleaf Ltd.

发明人： Moshal, Martin Paul ,  Naicker, Theo

IPC分类号： G06Q30/00 ,  G07F17/32

CPC分类号： G07F17/34

摘要： A promotion for inducing players to play wager games takes the form of bonus play. The bonus play, in one form, takes the form of "free" turns of play in which a player credit account is not debited by such turns of play. Winnings from bonus play can take the form of cashable credit, bonus credit, or additional bonus play, as dictated by the pay table of the wager game. In other embodiments, the operator exercises control over the utilization and features of the bonus play, such as by fixing the wagering for the bonus play in advance and limiting the availability of the bonus play to a particular time period. Bonus play is played in a bonus mode of operation and the player may switch between bonus mode and a regular mode. A pay table featuring bonus play as one of the awards for a winning result of a wager game is also described. A pay table featuring an award of bonus credit is also described. Bonus credit is credit which is not subject to immediate withdrawal by the player. Bonus credit can be withdrawn, if at all, provided conditions set by the operator of the game are met.

摘要翻译： 诱导玩家玩下注游戏的促销形式是奖金游戏的形式。 一种形式的奖金游戏采取“自由”转换的形式，其中玩家信用账户没有被这种转换的借方扣除。 从奖金游戏中获得的奖金可以采用下注游戏的薪资表所规定的可兑现信用额度，奖励积分或附加奖金的形式。 在其他实施例中，操作者例如通过预先确定用于奖励游戏的投注并且将奖励游戏的可用性限制在特定时间段来控制奖励游戏的使用和特征。 奖金玩法以加注操作模式进行，玩家可以在奖励模式和常规模式之间切换。 另外还描述了一个奖金表，其中奖励游戏作为下注游戏的获胜结果的奖项之一。 还描述了奖金奖励的薪酬表。 奖励信用是不被玩家立即撤回的信用。 如果满足游戏运营商设定的条件，可以撤销奖金。

公开(公告)号：EP1750233A3

公开(公告)日：2007-09-05

申请号：EP06254030.7

申请日：2006-08-01

申请人： Waterleaf Ltd.

发明人： Novellie, Michael Paul

IPC分类号： G07F17/32

CPC分类号： A63F1/00 ,  A63F3/00157 ,  A63F2001/005 ,  G07F17/32 ,  G07F17/3293

摘要： Methods and apparatus for playing multi-play poker games are disclosed. The games include a bonus wager feature in which the player makes a wager that at least a minimum number of hands in the multi-play poker game will have a predetermined minimum poker hand ranking. For example, if ten hands are played in the multi-play poker game, the player may wager $ 1.00 that at least four of the ten hands will have a ranking of a pair of jacks or better. The pay table for the bonus wager feature may take the form of an array of rows and columns, rows representing poker hand rankings (including the minimum poker hand ranking) and columns headed by integers representing a number of hands between the minimum number of hands (M) and the total number of hands (N) in the multi-play poker game, with the entries in the array being payout multiplies that are applied to the bonus wager if the player has the number of hands with the associated poker hand ranking.

公开(公告)号：EP1779909A3

公开(公告)日：2007-08-15

申请号：EP06255521.4

申请日：2006-10-26

申请人： Waterleaf Ltd.

发明人： Moshal, Martin Paul

IPC分类号： A63F13/12

CPC分类号： G07F17/32 ,  A63F13/12

摘要： A gaming application is disclosed which is executable by a computer workstation such as a general purpose computer. The workstation is linked to a central gaming server over a network such as the Internet. The application includes a search facility whereby a player can enter search criteria (essentially player preferences) in order to identify available instances of games that have attributes of interest. The search criteria data is sent to the gaming server. The gaming server searches a database of current on-line game instances and responds by sending a datagram containing data for instances of games meeting the search criteria, which are then displayed on the workstation. In one form, the search facility includes a "quick start" feature whereby the user can request that they directly join an instance of a game in progress which meets the search criteria. If the player used the "quick start" feature, and the gaming server found a match, the player is taken directly to the game instance.

公开(公告)号：EP1779909A2

公开(公告)日：2007-05-02

申请号：EP06255521.4

申请日：2006-10-26

申请人： Waterleaf Ltd.

发明人： Moshal, Martin Paul

IPC分类号： A63F13/12

CPC分类号： G07F17/32 ,  A63F13/12

摘要： A gaming application is disclosed which is executable by a computer workstation such as a general purpose computer. The workstation is linked to a central gaming server over a network such as the Internet. The application includes a search facility whereby a player can enter search criteria (essentially player preferences) in order to identify available instances of games that have attributes of interest. The search criteria data is sent to the gaming server. The gaming server searches a database of current on-line game instances and responds by sending a datagram containing data for instances of games meeting the search criteria, which are then displayed on the workstation. In one form, the search facility includes a "quick start" feature whereby the user can request that they directly join an instance of a game in progress which meets the search criteria. If the player used the "quick start" feature, and the gaming server found a match, the player is taken directly to the game instance.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种游戏应用程序，其可由诸如通用计算机之类的计算机工作站执行。 工作站通过诸如因特网之类的网络连接到中央游戏服务器。 该应用程序包括搜索工具，玩家可以输入搜索条件（基本上是玩家的偏好），以便识别具有感兴趣属性的游戏的可用实例。 搜索标准数据被发送到游戏服务器。 游戏服务器搜索当前在线游戏实例的数据库，并通过发送包含符合搜索条件的游戏实例的数据的数据报作出响应，然后将其显示在工作站上。 在一种形式中，搜索工具包括“快速启动”功能，用户可以请求他们直接加入正在进行的符合搜索标准的游戏实例。 如果玩家使用“快速启动”功能，并且游戏服务器找到了匹配，则玩家直接进入游戏实例。

公开(公告)号：EP1739639A1

公开(公告)日：2007-01-03

申请号：EP06253208.0

申请日：2006-06-21

申请人： Waterleaf Ltd.

发明人： Moshal, Martin Paul

IPC分类号： G07F17/32 ,  A63F3/00

CPC分类号： G07F17/32 ,  G07F17/3288

摘要： A central gaming server transmits game lobby pages to a multitude of distributed computing devices accessing a gaming website or websites over a network such as the Internet. To overcome scalability problems in keeping the lobby displays up-to-date and accurate in all the participating distributed workstations, particularly in a dynamic gaming environment where hundreds or thousands of games may be going on simultaneously, game or player data in the lobby displays is transmitted as individual pages along with icons by which the users of the computing devices can request additional pages. Updates are performed for only the display pages. This approach provides a significant improvement in server and network performance over prior techniques in which all game statistics for a particular selected type of game (or statistics on all the current players) was sent to each workstation and the workstation would scroll through the entire data set as necessary to view all the game or player data.

摘要翻译： 中央游戏服务器将游戏大厅页面传送到通过诸如因特网的网络访问游戏网站或网站的多个分布式计算设备。 为了克服可扩展性问题，保持大厅在所有参与的分布式工作站中显示最新和准确，特别是在可以同时进行数百或数千个游戏的动态游戏环境中，大厅显示中的游戏或玩家数据是 作为单独页面以及计算设备的用户可以请求附加页面的图标来传送。 仅对显示页面执行更新。 与现有技术相比，这种方法提供了对服务器和网络性能的显着改进，其中针对特定选择类型的游戏（或所有当前玩家的统计数据）的所有游戏统计信息被发送到每个工作站，并且工作站将滚动整个数据集 视需要查看所有游戏或玩家数据。

公开(公告)号：EP1667774A4

公开(公告)日：2006-11-29

申请号：EP04769521

申请日：2004-09-30

申请人： WATERLEAF LTD

发明人： MOSHAL JOHN HILLEL

IPC分类号： A63F13/00 ,  G06F20060101 ,  G07F17/32

CPC分类号： G07F17/32 ,  G07F17/3234

摘要： A gaming system (1) comprises a gaming server (2), one or more player stations (3) and a communication network (4) capable of providing communication between the gaming server (2) and each player station (3). Each player station (3) is located remotely from the gaming server (2) and is capable of rendering to a player a simulation one or more games and of enabling the player to place a wager on a turn of any one of the games of chance.