Patent ID: 9697682
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G07F

Claim:
1. A system facilitating interactive gaming among a plurality of players, the system comprising: a host computer system to engage the plurality of players in one or more interactive gaming sessions of at least one interactive game, a plurality of player terminals communicably coupled to the host computer system via a network and configured to engage the plurality of players within the one or more interactive gaming sessions operated by the host computer system, an electronic collusion measure, under control of one or more processors, configured to detect gambling rule violations by, at least in part, using the location of a first player terminal of the plurality of player terminals and evaluating one or more rules in view of the location to determine whether the first player terminal can participate in one of the one or more interactive gaming sessions; wherein the plurality of player terminals or the host computer system record the one or more interactive gaming sessions; and wherein the host computer system distributes winnings from the one or more interactive gaming sessions by adding to the credit associated with one or more of the plurality of players and before the credits are translated to monetary value, the recording of the one or more interactive gaming sessions is analyzed by a collusion detection module.