Patent ID: 7896743
Filing Date: 2011-03-01
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A method of monitoring an online card game provided by a server computing system in a networked computing environment, comprising: displaying, at a client computing system in communication with said server computing system via a network, a table view associated with a session of said online card game, said table view including a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, wherein said plurality of rows and said plurality of columns comprises: a first area comprising a table having a first plurality of cells, each cell identified by a row and a column of said table, wherein a cell of said first plurality of cells is associated with a player of a plurality of players of said card game and is associated with a played hand of a plurality of played hands of said session, wherein said cell of said first plurality of cells displays information selected from the group consisting of: a second area comprising a second plurality of cells in a first row of said plurality of rows, wherein a cell of said second plurality of cells is associated with said played hand, wherein said cell of said second plurality of cells displays a first indicator of said second area indicating that said played hand was raised pre-flop or not raised pre-flop; a third area comprising a third plurality of cells in four rows of said plurality of rows, wherein a first cell of a first row of said four rows displays a size of the pot associated with said played hand, wherein a second cell of a second row of said four rows displays a first number of players who participated in said played hand, wherein a third cell of a third row of said four rows displays a second number of players who saw the flop during said played hand, and wherein a fourth cell of a fourth row of said four rows displays a third number of ending players who participated in the showdown during said played hand; a fourth area comprising a fourth plurality of cells, wherein a first cell and a second cell of said fourth plurality of cells are in a fourth column and a fifth column, respectively, of said plurality of columns, wherein said first cell of said fourth plurality of cells displays a first indicator of said fourth area that classifies said player as loose or tight, and wherein said second cell of said fourth plurality of cells displays a second indicator of said fourth area that classifies said player as passive or aggressive; a fifth area comprising a fifth plurality of cells in a third column of said plurality of columns, wherein a cell of said fifth plurality of cells displays an identifier of said player; and a sixth area comprising a sixth plurality of cells in a first column and a second column of said plurality of columns, wherein a first cell of said sixth plurality of cells is included in said first column and a second cell of said sixth plurality of cells is included in said second column, wherein said first cell of said sixth plurality of cells displays a number of hands associated with said player, and wherein said second cell of said sixth plurality of cells displays an indicator of said sixth area indicating an amount of money said player has won or lost during said session.