CLIFTON EUGENE LIND
Pilots at Las Brisas Dr, Austin, TX

6524184, Feb 25, 2003

Jan 10, 2000

09/479975

Jefferson C. Lind - Austin TX
Joseph R. Enzminger - Austin TX
David Shapiro - Austin TX
Clifton Lind - Austin TX

Multimedia Games, Inc. - Austin TX

A63F 924

463 13, 463 16, 463 20

A gaming method according to the invention utilizes a first level game and a plurality of second level or daughter games. Each game at a particular level comprises a separate lottery-type game having a number or plurality of game records. Each game record includes a predetermined result. According to the invention, each first level game result is associated with a single value common to the result in each other first level game record. However, the result associated with each second level game record varies between various predetermined prize values.

8376828, Feb 19, 2013

May 2, 2011

13/099060

Clifton E. Lind - Austin TX, US
Gary L. Loebig - Austin TX, US
Jefferson C. Lind - Austin TX, US
Joseph R. Enzminger - Austin TX, US

Multimedia Games, Inc. - Austin TX

A63F 9/24

463 19

A gaming system utilizes a game designation generating component, a gaming establishment component, and a set of predefined bingo card representations. Each bingo card representation is stored in electronic format as a data structure or data record defining a predefined pattern of game designations chosen from a pool of available designations. The game designation generating component generates sets of game designations from a pool of available designations. The method employed in the gaming system includes pre-matching the bingo card representations to a given set of game designations to produce a matched card set. This pre-matching occurs prior to the sale, distribution, or assignment of card representations to players in the game. The matched card set includes a number of game play records, each corresponding to a different one of the bingo card representations and each being associated with a result indicator which indicates whether the respective bingo card representation is a winning card or losing card for that set of game designations. Data representing these matched card sets are stored and then the individual game play records are assigned to players in response to game play requests initiated by the players.

2007029, Dec 20, 2007

Jun 6, 2006

11/447397

Clifton E. Lind - Austin TX, US
Jefferson C. Lind - Austin TX, US

A63F 9/24

463 17

A method includes receiving a number of game play requests in a current game from one or more player stations. For some of the game play requests in the current game, a result in the current game is displayed at the respective player station from which the respective game play request was received. However, a respective future result is awarded for some game play requests. These future results may or may not have any present value, but are in any case associated with a play in a game to be conducted at some designated time in the future and thus represents at least some potential value. These future results are communicated to a respective receiving player at the player's respective player station to advise the receiving player that they have won a chance to participate in a future game.

2005022, Oct 6, 2005

Nov 5, 2004

10/981878

Clifton Lind - Austin TX, US
Jefferson Lind - Austin TX, US

A63F009/24

463019000

Apparatus, methods, and program products for a bingo game are described for selecting a group of designations from an overall set of designations and matching the selected group of designations to designations associated with the locations on a player card. Each designation in the overall set of designations corresponds to a playing card in a standard playing card deck. Matching the group of designations with the player card designations produces a number of matched locations on the player card. These matched locations are used to determine a playing card hand and a player is awarded the result of the game based on the playing card hand.

7878900, Feb 1, 2011

Mar 1, 2006

11/365058

Clifton E. Lind - Austin TX, US
Jefferson C. Lind - Austin TX, US
Brian A. Watkins - Austin TX, US
Eric W. Brown - Austin TX, US

Multimedia Games, Inc. - Austin TX

A63F 9/24, A63F 13/00, G06F 17/00, G06F 19/00

463 25, 463 19, 463 42

A reveal request is initiated through a result reveal station by a person (user) who has previously been assigned a number of sweepstakes entries in an assignment order from a set of available sweepstakes entries for a sweepstakes game. This reveal request represents a request to reveal one or more of the results associated with the assigned sweepstakes entries. The reveal station employs a game presentation including various graphics and audio effects to show sweepstakes results in an entertaining fashion. In response to the reveal request, or perhaps even prior to the reveal request, one or more sweepstakes entries are selected to be revealed for the reveal request. The sweepstakes entries are selected in an order different from the order in which the sweepstakes entries were assigned to the user based on a set of game characteristics associated with the game presentation provided at the reveal station.

2004015, Aug 5, 2004

Jun 6, 2003

10/456721

Clifton Lind - Austin TX, US
Brendan O'Connor - Austin TX, US
Gary Loebig - Austin TX, US
Rodney Willyard - Flower Mound TX, US
Naveen Malhotra - Richardson TX, US
Martin Keane - Chicago IL, US
Joseph Enzminger - Austin TX, US
Jefferson Lind - Austin TX, US

A63F013/00

463/016000

A method for conducting bingo games includes using a server () to collect game play requests () from a plurality of electronic player stations (). The server () determines if a group of the collected game play requests meets one or more predefined conditions for establishing a quorum (), and if so conducts a game with the group of game play requests (). Even after the game is started, the server continues to collect game play requests in preparation for conducting additional games (). When enough game play requests are collected (), the server starts the next game, even if previous games are still in progress ().

7695361, Apr 13, 2010

Sep 10, 2002

10/238313

Clifton E. Lind - Austin TX, US
Gary L. Loebig - Austin TX, US
Jefferson C. Lind - Austin TX, US
Joseph R. Enzminger - Austin TX, US
John E. Padgett - Austin TX, US
Martin A. Keane - Chicago IL, US
David M. Brandt - San Antonio TX, US

Multimedia Games, Inc. - Austin TX

A63F 3/06, A63F 13/10, G06Q 50/00, G06Q 60/00, A63F 9/24

463 19, 463 22, 463 25

A pattern probability () is determined for each of a number of target patterns () achievable in a bingo-type game. Each pattern probability () comprises a probability of achieving the respective target pattern () in the bingo-type game. Different pattern sets are then associated with each different prize level in a desired prize distribution. The target patterns () and their respective pattern probabilities () are assigned or mapped to the different pattern sets so that the probability of achieving any target pattern included in a pattern set comprises a value approximating the desired probability of the prize level with which the pattern set is associated.

8137178, Mar 20, 2012

Jan 15, 2010

12/688675

Clifton E. Lind - Austin TX, US
Brendan M. O'Connor - Austin TX, US
Robert F. Lannert - Broken Arrow OK, US
Jefferson C. Lind - Austin TX, US

Multimedia Games, Inc. - Austin TX

A63F 9/24

463 19

Gaming systems, apparatuses, and methods are disclosed with player selectable gaming modes for players to participate in wagering games. The disclosed gaming systems and apparatuses provides for players to manually select between multiple playing modes, such as automatic game play operation or player participatory game play operation.

7850517, Dec 14, 2010

Jul 19, 2005

11/184630

Clifton E. Lind - Austin TX, US
Jefferson C. Lind - Austin TX, US

Multimedia Games, Inc. - Austin TX

A63F 9/24

463 17, 463 42

A lottery gaming system utilizes one or more distribution groups of game play records. The gaming system preferably distributes a distribution group of game play records to each of a number of assignment components in the gaming system. Various ones of the play records are assigned from a distribution group in response to game play requests from respective players. The game play records that remain unassigned after a collection condition is met are collected and used to form a new distribution group available for re-distributing to an assignment component in the gaming system.

D554708, Nov 6, 2007

Nov 14, 2006

29/250444

Leroy H. Gutknecht - Las Vegas NV, US
Jefferson C. Lind - Austin TX, US
Clifton E. Lind - Austin TX, US
Matthew H. Haga - Austin TX, US
Frank C. DeSimone - Henderson NV, US
Brendan M. O'Connor - Austin TX, US
Clint A. Owen - Rockdale TX, US

Multimedia Games, Inc. - Austin TX

2103

D21370