Patent ID: 8545328

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a deck device comprising: a holder section into which a plurality of card devices may be placed and from which the plurality of card devices may be removed; a charging element configured to provide power to the plurality of card devices when they are placed in the holder section; a battery element configured to provide the power to the charging element; and a communication element configured to provide respective gaming information to each of the plurality of card devices; in which the deck device comprises a processing element configured to receive respective indications identifying respective locations of each of the card devices and determine to which of a plurality of hands each of the card devices belong based on the respective locations; in which the processing element is configured to determine that a first subset of the plurality of card devices located on a first side of the deck device belong to a first hand of the plurality of hands and that a second subset of the plurality of card devices located on a second side of the deck device belong to a second hand of the plurality of hands; and the plurality of card devices, in which each card device of the plurality of card devices includes a respective display coupled to a respective substrate and a respective control element coupled to the respective substrate, in which each control element is configured to receive the respective gaming information and control the respective display to display the respective gaming information, and in which each card device of the plurality of card devices has a combined length, width, and height substantially similar to a playing card, in each of the plurality of card devices includes a location element configured to facilitate determining a respective location of the respective card device.