System and method of revealing the outcomes of real world wagers through timed reveals and reveal decay
US9076294B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 13, 2014 |
| Grant date | Jul 7, 2015 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 13, 2034 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG07F17/3288
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
The invention relates to systems and methods of selecting and placing real-world wagers responsive to one or more wager triggers, obtaining outcomes of the real-world wagers, facilitating user interactions with various interactive media, and revealing the outcomes of the real-world wagers through the interactive media to give an appearance that the outcomes of the real-world wagers resulted from the user interactions even though the outcomes resulted from the real-world wagers. The system may provide a time-conditioned reveal such that a certain action must be performed within some period of time (or by a deadline) to claim a potential payout. The system may provide a reveal decay, where the user may be given an opportunity to complete an action such that the longer it takes to complete the action, the payout amount that is revealed decreases to zero.
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