Patent ID: 11928928
Assignee: WALKER DIGITAL TABLE SYSTEMS, LLC
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. An electronic table system for facilitating a game, comprising:
at least one physical table including a dealer area of the table on which a dealer of the physical table places gaming elements corresponding to a transaction being conducted on the physical table and a plurality of respective player areas of the physical table on which players place gaming elements corresponding to transactions in which the players are involved, each such player area corresponding to a given player currently participating in events at the physical table;
for each of the dealer area and each player area of the plurality of player areas, a respective detecting component operable to detect each gaming element being placed thereon and read data therefrom;
a display device for outputting information to the dealer; and
a game controller being operable with the respective detecting components to:
determine, based on data received from a particular detecting component, that a particular at least one gaming element has been placed on the area of the physical table corresponding to the particular detecting component;
identify, for the particular at least one gaming element detected by the particular detecting component, a status corresponding to the particular at least one gaming element;
identify at least one of (i) a phase of a wagering game event currently being conducted on the physical table; and (ii) a first type of transaction currently being conducted at the physical table;
infer, based on the status of the at least one gaming element and at least one of the current phase and the first type of transaction, that a second type of transaction is being conducted at the physical table; and
automatically initiate a transaction mode of the physical table corresponding to the second type of transaction.