Patent ID: 11948434
Assignee: CASTLE HILL HOLDING LLC
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC A  G

Claim 15:
16. A method for conducting a wager based on historical horse racing (HHR), the method comprising:
providing a gaming server, the gaming server being in communication connection with a plurality of gameplay stations, each of the plurality of gameplay stations being a dedicated historical horse racing (HHR) gaming machine, and the plurality of gameplay stations including at least a first gameplay station and a second gameplay station;
establishing by the gaming server a time-limited seed used to initialize a selection of a first plurality of events;
distributing by the gaming server the time-limited seed at least to the first gameplay station and to the second gameplay station;
receiving by the gaming server a first gameplay request from the first gameplay station and a second gameplay request from the second gameplay station, wherein gameplay requests from the plurality of gameplay stations are accepted for the first plurality of events for a limited time period;
identifying by the gaming server the first plurality of events pending at the gaming server and attaching the first gameplay request and the second gameplay request to the first plurality of events, the events pending at the gaming server being activated or deactivated in a time-dependent manner based on the limited time period;
communicating by the gaming server event data about the first plurality of events to each of the first gameplay station and the second gameplay station;
retrieving historical horse race data from a historical horse race database, the historical horse race data relating to each of the first plurality of events from the historical horse race database;
creating a first wager card and a second wager card, the first wager card comprising a predicted ranking from the first gameplay station of one or more participants for each of the first plurality of events and the second wager card comprising a predicted ranking from the second gameplay station of one or more participants for each of the first plurality of events;
creating a first event card that includes an ordered ranking of one or more participants for each of the first plurality of events;
creating a first binary scorecard by comparing the first wager card to the first event card, said first binary scorecard corresponding to a first award level of a plurality of award levels;
creating a second binary scorecard by comparing the second wager card to the first event card, said second binary scorecard corresponding to a second award level of a plurality of award levels;
determining a first reward value based on the first award level corresponding to the first binary scorecard; and
determining a second reward value based on the one of the second award level corresponding to the second binary scorecard.