Patent ID: 8142281

Claim:
An apparatus for use by a person to participate in a gaming activity within a defined area, said apparatus including a portable device to allow user interaction with and to play the said gaming activity by placing a bet, a display to display to the person the progression of the gaming activity and data transmitting and receiving means wherein data representative of the placing of the bet is transmitted via a wireless transmission system to a server for processing said data and data representative of a result of the same gaming activity type is transmitted from the server to the device along and an indication is generated to show whether the person has won or lost their bet with respect to the received data, and means are provided to determine the position of the device carried by the user and, dependent upon the detected location of the device, the device can be rendered operable or inoperable, independently of the user's activities, and the device includes selection means to allow the user to select and participate in and/or view the progression of the particular gaming activity and a signal is transmitted from the device to the server to indicate the user selection and particular gaming activity for which data is to be provided and therefore allow the user to interact with the selected game via the device, wherein the particular type of gaming activity performed on the device can be selected by the user from a plurality of available gaming activities which are occurring at that time and the playing of the selected gaming activity by the user on the device has no effect on another game of the same gaming activity type from which the result data is obtained and used to determine whether the user has won or lost the playing of the selected gaming activity on the device.