Patent ID: 9504922
Filing Date: 2016-11-29
CPC Classification: A63F

Claim Text:
1. A method of detecting unusual performance in a game, the game having a plurality of persons who participate in the game, each on a client device, the method comprising: receiving a live telecast of an event, wherein the game is based on the live telecast of the event, and further wherein the game is implemented in real-time, including an acknowledgment by a server which is received by the client device in less than 500 milliseconds; broadcasting game elements during the game from the server to each client device participating in the game; selecting a sampling group of persons participating in the game, the sampling group comprising a subset of all persons participating in the game; forming a connection between each client device used by the persons within the sampling group and the server to send responses to the game elements from the client devices of the sampling group to the server; broadcasting from the server to each client device participating in the game, a threshold value determined from the responses received from the sampling group; calculating for each person participating in the game a performance metric; comparing the performance metric to the threshold value thereby forming a comparison; and based on the comparison, for each person participating in the game not in the sampling group, optionally forming a connection to a server for uploading a set of data from the person's client device to the server.