Gaming System Integrating Sporting Events with Skill-Based Gameplay

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current gaming systems do not effectively integrate sporting events with skill-based games, limiting player interaction and award opportunities beyond traditional wagering.

Innovation Solution

A gaming system that displays sporting events and allows players to make quantifiable skill inputs, determining game outcomes based on both player skill and sporting event occurrences, enabling awards based on these interactions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If traditional wagering systems are used for sporting events, then the system structure is simple, but player interaction and engagement are limited

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveplayer interactionVSAvoidsystem structure

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges traditional wagering systems with skill-based gaming systems into a unified platform. The gaming system combines event wagering modules with skill-based game modules, allowing players to switch between passive betting and active skill-based participation while viewing the same sporting event, thereby increasing player interaction without requiring separate systems

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The gaming system is designed with multi-functionality to handle both traditional wagering and skill-based games through a single interface. The system can process different types of bets (event outcomes, player performances) and skill-based game inputs (aiming, timing, strategy) uniformly, making the system adaptable to various gaming modes while maintaining a consistent user experience

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

If skill-based games are integrated with sporting events, then player engagement increases, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveplayer engagementVSAvoidsystem integration

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a central controller as an intermediary that manages the integration between sporting event data feeds, wagering systems, and skill-based game mechanics. This mediator coordinates real-time event data with game outcomes, handles award determinations, and manages the synchronization between live events and parallel skill-based games, thereby handling system complexity centrally while maintaining simple user interfaces

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Adaptability or versatility

If awards are based solely on traditional wagering outcomes, then the award determination is simple, but award opportunities are limited

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaward opportunitiesVSAvoidaward determination

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The award determination system is made dynamic by linking award opportunities to real-time sporting event developments. As events unfold, new skill-based game challenges are generated with varying award potentials based on event significance, player performance levels, and game difficulty, creating a dynamic award structure that adapts to event progression rather than using fixed predetermined awards

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS11735006B2Gaming system and method with games of skill determined based on a sporting event

Publication Date: 2023.08.22 INTERNATIONAL GAME TECHNOLOGY INC

AI summary

Gaming systems and methods which utilize the results of a sporting event to determine an outcome of a game of skill.