Patent ID: 8870647
Filing Date: 2014-10-28
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A method of operating a portable wireless communication device to facilitate remote wagering on live table games, the method comprising: receiving, at the portable wireless communication device, a user input indicative of authentication data uniquely identifying the user of the portable wireless communication device; receiving, at the portable wireless communication device, user input indicating a proposed wager to be placed on a live game occurring at a gaming table; logically associating with the user input indicating the proposed wager: information representative of a unique identity of the portable wireless communication device receiving the proposed wager; information representative of the authentication data uniquely identifying the user placing the proposed wager; and, a game identifier associated with the live game occurring at the gaming table on which the proposed wager is being placed; receiving at the portable wireless communication device, information indicative of at least one of a number of: wager lock out periods or periods during which wagers are accepted; for each proposed wager received by the portable wireless communications device, determining whether the user input indicating the proposed wager was received during at least one of the number of: wager lock out periods or periods during which wagers are accepted using the received information indicative of at least one of the number of: wager lock out periods or periods during which wagers are accepted; in response to determining at least one of: the proposed wager was placed during at least one of the number of wager lock out periods or the proposed wager was not placed during at least one of the number of periods during which wagers are accepted, rejecting the proposed wager; in response to determining the proposed wager was not received during the wager lock out period or the proposed wager was received during at least one of the number of periods during which wagers are accepted, transmitting, from the portable wireless communication device, a wager transaction packet to a server computing system via a network, wherein the wager transaction packet is transmitted intact to the server computing system and remains intact during the transmission between the portable wireless communication device and the server computing system; providing an indication to the user of the portable wireless communication device whether wagers are currently being accepted, wherein providing the indication to the user of the portable wireless communication device that wagers are currently being accepted includes providing a message indicative of an amount of time remaining during which wagers are currently being accepted; determining, by the portable wireless communication device a geographic position of the portable wireless communication device; communicating data indicative of the determined geographic position of the portable wireless communication device to the server; responsive to receiving the user input indicating the proposed wager to be placed on the live game occurring at the gaming table, retrieving a game odds table for the live game from a nontransitory storage media in the portable wireless communication device; and displaying the odds table on the portable wireless communications device.