Token-Linked Playing Cards for Personalized Poker Features

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing gaming systems lack the ability to provide unique and personalized experiences for players, leading to limited engagement and loyalty, particularly in card games like poker, which often feature standardized symbols and rules.

Innovation Solution

Implementing cryptographic tokens, such as non-fungible tokens (NFTs), to enhance gaming experiences by allowing players to own special virtual poker cards with customizable animations, outlines, or prominent symbols, visible to all players, and enabling personalized game features based on token ownership.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If standardized symbols and rules are used in card games, then game operation is simplified and easy to learn, but player engagement and loyalty are limited

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of learningVSAvoidplayer engagement

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by allowing each player to have customized visual characteristics (animations, outlines, symbols) specific to their cryptographic token while maintaining the standardized card game rules and symbols. This enables personalized expression at the individual player level without disrupting the overall game operation and learning curve.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

2Adaptability or versatility

If unique personalized features are provided for each player, then player engagement and loyalty increase, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveplayer engagementVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses copying by creating virtual representations of cryptographic tokens as visual characteristics that accompany physical playing cards. Instead of modifying the physical cards themselves, the system projects digital overlays (animations, outlines, symbols) that replicate and enhance the visual experience, maintaining system simplicity while enabling personalization.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

3Adaptability or versatility

If virtual game elements are overlaid on physical cards, then player enjoyment and prestige are enhanced, but detection and measurement of card values becomes more difficult

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveplayer enjoymentVSAvoidcard value detection

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements periodic action by synchronizing the display of virtual game elements with the gameplay phases. The augmented reality overlay dynamically updates based on game events (dealing, betting, showing cards), ensuring that visual enhancements are displayed at appropriate moments without creating permanent visual clutter that would interfere with card value detection.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #19Periodic action

Data Source

PatentUS20260045141A1Incorporating cryptographic token-based game features with physical playing cards

Publication Date: 2026.02.12 INTERNATIONAL GAME TECHNOLOGY INC

AI summary

A system can perform operations to provide and/or maintain a cryptographic token associated with game features. The operations can include determining a value of a physical game element being used by a player as part of a wagering game. The operations can further include determining that a cryptographic token is owned by the player. The operations can further include outputting a game feature based on the value of the physical game element and the cryptographic token.