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20090267301 | CARD GAMES - A card game in which; one or more cards are dealt to a player; a key card is dealt; the player winning the game if one or more of the cards dealt to the player are of the same suit as the key card. | 10-29-2009 |
20100164172 | VARIATIONS IN AND RELATING TO ROULETTE AND OTHER GAMES - A method of playing a game, permitting a player to place a bet forecasting separately the outcome of the game and the outcome of one or more other random events. | 07-01-2010 |
20150065217 | WAGERING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method, apparatus, and computer readable storage to implement a wagering system, method and non-transitory computer readable storage medium. A computer system can implement a gaming methodology wherein a player is dealt a set of cards and splits the set of cards into two separate hands at the player's choice. The dealer is also dealt a set of cards and splits the dealer's cards into two separate hands at the dealer's choice. The high player's hand (higher than the low player's hand) is compared to the high dealer's hand (higher than the low dealer's hand), and the low player's hand is compared to the low dealer's hand. A wager placed by the player at the start of the game is resolved based upon the comparison. | 03-05-2015 |
20150087372 | System and Method to Implement a Wagering Game - A method, system, and computer readable storage to implement a variation of a blackjack game. The player must hit a hard total less than fourteen (or other number) and stand on a hard total greater than thirteen (or other number). If the player has a soft total the player has the option to hit or stand. The system can also include a networked embodiment wherein the player can connect to an online server and play the game remotely using a remote client, for free or for real money. | 03-26-2015 |
20150097336 | METHOD OF PLAYING A CARD GAME - A method of playing a card game including the steps of: providing a plurality of player areas; at least one player placing a bet in one of the player areas to participate in the card game; dealing at least two initial cards to the player's player area and to the dealer; the player either standing on the initial cards dealt or placing an additional bet to exchange at least one of the initial cards for an equal number of replacement cards; the dealer either standing on or exchanging at least one of the initial cards dealt to the dealer, based on the value of the initial cards dealt to the dealer in comparison to a pre-determined value; determining an outcome of the initial and exchange bets by comparing the player's hand and the dealers hand, which include the initial cards dealt, any replacement cards exchanged, plus any additional cards. | 04-09-2015 |
20150228162 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO IMPLEMENT A WAGERING GAME - A method, system, and computer readable storage to implement a variation of a blackjack game. The player must hit a hard total less than fourteen (or other number) and stand on a hard total greater than thirteen (or other number). If the player has a soft total the player has the option to hit or stand. If the player has five cards without busting the player automatically wins. If the player has a point total of 21 (with more than two cards) then the player automatically wins. If the player has a winning blackjack then the player automatically wins. The system can also include a networked embodiment wherein the player can connect to an online server and play the game remotely using a remote client, for free or for real money. | 08-13-2015 |
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20100007088 | CARD GAMES - A card game and method of playing a card game two card being dealt to a player cards and one card being dealt to a dealer or as a common card from a pack of playing cards, the player's cards being compared to the dealer's or common card, the player winning the game if one of the player's cards is of equal or lower rank than the dealer's or common card and the other of the player's cards is of equal or higher rank than the dealer's or common card. | 01-14-2010 |
20130207343 | CARD GAMES - A card game where participating players place a bet in an individual player area, an individual hand of card(s) is dealt to each participating player and the dealer; the players' individual hands and the dealer's hand are accessed using conventional Baccarat points count rules. Each player has the option of placing an additional draw bet to draw an additional card, the dealer drawing an additional card if the point-count of the cards initially dealt to the dealer is within a predetermined range, the dealer otherwise standing on the cards initially dealt to the dealer, where the dealer or any player draws an additional card, the point-count for the additional card is added to the point-card of the original hand thereby determining the value of the completed hand. The player wining if the point count of the player's individual completed hand is higher than that of the dealer's completed hand. | 08-15-2013 |
20130214490 | CARD GAMES - A card game having a playing area divided into a plurality of player areas, each player area having a bet area where players may place a bet to participate; two or more cards are dealt to each player's player area and the dealer; each player having the option to stand on the original dealt cards or to place an additional exchange bet, to exchange at least one of the cards originally dealt for an equal number of new cards; the dealer standing on the original dealt cards dealt if the value of the cards is equal to or above a pre-determined minimum value or exchanging one or more cards for an equal number of new cards if the value of the initial cards dealt is below the per-determined minimum value; and the value of each player's hand being compared with the dealer's hand to determine the outcome of the bets. | 08-22-2013 |
20130225276 | CARD GAMES - A method of playing a card game includes the steps of: a player placing one or more contrast bets, with each contrast bet relating to one of three possible criteria, the color of the cards (black/red), whether the cards are odd/even and whether the cards are high/low; dealing two or more cards from a pack of cards; and the player winning the contrast bet on a selected criteria, of at least one card fulfills one of the selected criteria and at least one other card fulfills the opposite selected criteria. | 08-29-2013 |
20130310132 | ROULETTE GAMING LAYOUT - A roulette gaming layout having a matrix of boxes which comprise four columns of twelve rows of boxes. The boxes in three adjacent columns being numbered 1 to 36 consecutively across the rows, while the boxes in the fourth column being numbered to repeat the numbers in boxes in the column on the opposite side of the matrix. | 11-21-2013 |
20140106853 | CARD GAMES - A card game having a playing area divided into a plurality of player areas, each player area having a bet area in which players may place an Ante-bet to participate in the game; a dealer dealing two or more cards to the or each player's player area; the or each player having the option to stand on the original two or more cards dealt to the player's player area or to place an additional Exchange-bet in an Exchange-bet area of the player's player area, to exchange at least one of the two or more cards originally dealt to the player area for an equal number of new cards; the outcome of the game being decided on the rank of the or each player's hand comprising the originally dealt cards and any exchange cards, plus any additional individual or common cards, winning Ante and Exchange-bets being paid out in accordance with odds specified in a pay-table. | 04-17-2014 |
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20120188246 | INTERACTIVE FLYER SYSTEM - An interactive flyer system is disclosed. The system includes a flyer image tiler for creating a flyer image tile set, the set including multiple copies of a flyer image segmented into a plurality of flyer image tiles with each copy representing the flyer image at one of a plurality of zoom levels, wherein a copy of the multiple copies is configured to fit within a viewport having a resolution, and a flyer image tile store for storing the flyer image tile set. There is also disclosed a method for displaying the interactive digital flyer. | 07-26-2012 |
20120188247 | DIGITAL FLYER SYSTEM WITH CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION - A system for contextualizing a digital flyer is disclosed. The system includes a polygon mapping module for incorporating contextual information in the digital flyer using polygon mapping information, the polygon mapping information comprising a polygon for defining a polygonal area on a source flyer image of the digital flyer, the polygon being tagged with the contextual information, and a flyer data store for storing the tagged polygon. There is also disclosed for displaying the contextualized digital flyer and generating feedback using the contextualized digital flyer. | 07-26-2012 |
20120188280 | System and Method for Pre-loading Flyer Image Tiles and Managing Memory for Same - In the present disclosure, there is disclosed a communication device including a pre-loading module configured to retrieve a first and a second set of flyer image tiles from a flyer image tile set stored in memory, the first set of flyer image tiles being associated with the most zoomed-out state and the second set of flyer image tiles being associated with a zoom level of a current viewport. The pre-loading module is further configured to associate the first set of flyer image tiles with an underlay viewport. The communication device further includes a display configured to display the first set of flyer image tiles in the underlay viewport that are visible in the current viewport and overlay the second set of flyer image tiles visible in the current viewport onto the first set of flyer image tiles. | 07-26-2012 |
20130044113 | System, Method, and Device for Organizing and Presenting Digital Flyers - A system, method and communication device are disclosed for organizing and presenting a plurality of digital flyers. Using flyer stack information, which organizes the plurality of digital flyers into at least one flyer stack, the plurality of digital flyers are presented to allow for inter-flyer and intra-flyer navigation. Moreover, the flyer stack information may be used to allow the inter-flyer and intra-flyer content to be searched. This is achieved by providing a method and communication device that receives the flyer stack information from a server, and presents the flyer stack information in a flyer navigation interface. The flyer navigation interface displays the at least one flyer stack, selects the flyer stack from the at least one flyer stack, and displays a digital flyer from the selected flyer stack in the flyer navigation interface as a current digital flyer, including displaying an indication of a next digital flyer in the selected flyer stack, the next digital flyer being accessible by navigating to the indication. | 02-21-2013 |
20150186954 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRE-LOADING FLYER IMAGE TILES AND MANAGING MEMORY FOR SAME - In the present disclosure, there is disclosed a communication device including a pre-loading module configured to retrieve a first and a second set of flyer image tiles from a flyer image tile set stored in memory, the first set of flyer image tiles being associated with the most zoomedout state and the second set of flyer image tiles being associated with a zoom level of a current viewport. The pre-loading module is further configured to associate the first set of flyer image tiles with an underlay viewport. The communication device further includes a display configured to display the first set of flyer image tiles in the underlay viewport that are visible in the current viewport and overlay the second set of flyer image tiles visible in the current viewport onto the first set of flyer image tiles. | 07-02-2015 |