Patent ID: 9358463
Filing Date: 2016-06-07
CPC Classification: A63F,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A system for allowing players using local gaming devices and players using mobile telephones via a cellular network to participate in games against or with each other, comprising: a plurality of site servers, each located at a respective venue, configured to provide game instances within the each's respective venue to one or more local gaming devices in communication with a respective one of the site servers via a local wired network, a local wireless network, or both; a plurality of monitors, each coupled to a respective site server and located within a respective venue for displaying video information related to game instances provided by a respective site server to players participating in the games within the respective venue as the games are being played by the players using local gaming devices within each of the respective venues and players using mobile telephones via the cellular network also located within at least some of the venues; a central server, remotely coupled to each of the plurality of site servers via a first data network and to the mobile telephones via the cellular network, configured to: