Patent ID: 9643090
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: A63F

Claim:
1. A method for user activity and preference analysis in a multi-user, multi-location digital environment, comprising: hosting a plurality of virtual gaming tables on a plurality of servers; determining, for each user seated at two or more of the plurality of virtual gaming tables, a state of the user at each virtual gaming table where the user is seated; comparing each user state in the determining step with an associated cached user state; transmitting the user states to at least one of a plurality of global state managers hosted on at least one of the servers for those user states that are different than their associated cached user state; compiling and analyzing, by the global state managers, the user states to determine which users are mixed-state users, wherein mixed-state users are active and seated at a first virtual gaming table and inactive and seated at a second virtual gaming table; delivering an identification of the mixed-state users and one or more of their inactive virtual gaming tables to the servers hosting those inactive virtual gaming tables; and taking action with respect to the mixed-state users at those inactive virtual gaming tables.