Patent ID: 9072965
Filing Date: 2015-07-07
Classification: A63F,G07F

Abstract:
1. A real time computerized system for live poker room operations with poker tables and poker players in a physical casino including player self-registration functionality over the internet while seamlessly intergrating player data in a system database located within the physical casino with another database of player data outside the physical casino, comprising: (a) at least one application software program server; (b) specialized hardware located at the poker tables to identify physical player card equipped players by a recognition of said physical player cards and conversion of stored data from those cards into computerized data for use in the system; (c) at least one computer memory with instructions executable by the application program server to configure the server to access the system database, the system database containing player information, the instructions being executable to access a suite of poker room software applications, the suite of poker room software applications also stored on said server and comprising at least: (d) player self-registration tournament functionality, or player self-registration poker game waitlist functionality including the ability to allow the placement of players on prioritized waitlists for poker games of their choice, (e) player seating functionality including use of said specialized hardware at the poker tables and the ability to assign seats to poker players based upon their preferences when seats become available at poker tables, (f) player tracking functionality including the ability to compute the playing time of the poker players; (g) user interface functionality including the ability for a poker room staff users to operate the suite of poker room software on or from at least one user interface on a computing device with a display; (h) user interface functionality including the ability for a poker player to interact with the system via a web page, which has real time information unique to the physical casino poker room integrated with stored player data on the same web page; wherein the software is enabled to synchronize the software functions so that those functions that need to be synchronized at specific times, and/or in specific ways, are synchronized in order to provide operational efficiencies to the poker room and inclusive of database synchronization of player data over the internet.