Patent ID: 11886688
Assignee: VETNOS LLC
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 22:
23. A non-transitory storage medium storing machine readable code that, when executed by an activity server system including a processor configured to execute the machine readable code and to communicate over a wide area network with a plurality of presentation computing devices, each distinct one of the presentation computing devices associated with a distinct one of a plurality of users, and to receive information from the plurality of presentation computing devices, establishes computer processes for providing a skill-based game, the computer processes comprising:
wherein a device storage system coupled to the activity server system storing (i) information concerning the plurality of users, each user identifiable by a user account, and (ii) event data pertinent to a set of events and a set pf participants in the set of events;
evaluating, by the activity server system, using an automated process based upon statistical analysis, the set of participants, to determine a statistically expected fantasy score to be scored by the set of participants in the set of events;
serving, over the wide area network, to a set of the plurality of presentation devices, a game comprising:
(A) a plurality of matchups selectable by a given user, wherein each selectable matchup in the plurality offers, to the given user, an opportunity to select whether a fantasy score of a first participant chosen from the set of participants, will be over, or under, the statistically expected fantasy score of the first participant; and
(B) an associated fixed odds payout that is based on a number of matchups selected by the given;
causing a presentation device of the given user to display the matchups selected by the given user and the associated fixed odds payout;
receiving, separately, from the plurality of presentation devices, over the wide area network, user roster data characterizing a set of user-selected winners;
updating the event data pertinent to participants in the set of events; and
using the updated data to determine if the given user is a winner based on the selections by the given user, wherein determination of whether the given user is a winner or loser is based upon the given user's selections and not based on the selections of other users.