Patent ID: 11887442
Assignee: CFPH, LLC
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC A  G

Claim 10:
11. An apparatus comprising:
circuitry configured to control:
receiving, over a communication network, image data captured at a capture device at at least one given remote venue coupled over the communication network with the apparatus, in which the image data includes a given machine-readable encoded symbol on a given playing card identifying a characteristic of the given playing card;
processing the image data to determine performance data describing play of a plurality of games that are played by respective players of a plurality of players, in which the processing of the image data to determine the performance data includes determining from the given machine-readable encoded symbol the characteristic of the given playing card and determining from the characteristic of the given playing card at least one predetermined action related to play by a given player;
calculating for each of the plurality of players, based on respective performance data, a respective vector with a plurality of dimensions, in which each dimension of the plurality of dimensions describes a different aspect of game performance, in which each aspect is observable over multiple games of the plurality of games;
determining for each of the plurality of players, based on a respective multidimensional vector, an index metric by converting the respective multidimensional vector to a respective numerical value;
matching at least two players of the plurality of players for a game based on at least one of a dimension of the multidimensional vector associated with each of the at least two players and the index metric associated with each of the at least two players; and
facilitating play of the game with the at least two players in response to the matching.