Patent ID: 10055931

Abstract:
Gaming system and method for online gaming on at least one gaming machine. The method includes providing and streaming a video of the gaming machine, which is to be remotely played by a user, displaying the video at a client station of the user, receiving from the client station input data including data indicative of the user's interaction with controls of the gaming machine which appearing in the video, and activating the gaming machine based on the input data. In certain embodiment of the invention the input data is indicative of one or more regions of the video at which controls of the gaming machine appear and with which the user interacted. Accordingly the activation of the gaming machine based on that input data is based on mapping data associating regions of the video with controls of the gaming machine which appearing at these regions of the video, and includes processing the input data by using the mapping data to thereby map the one or more regions of the video with which the user had interacted to respective controls of the gaming machine that appear in those regions. Accordingly operational instructions are determined for operating the gaming machine based on the user interactions with the regions of the video at which controls of the gaming machine appear.