US-20260127943-A1 - SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERPROCESS COMMUNICATION OF WAGERING OPPORTUNITIES AND/OR WAGER REQUESTS

Abstract

Various embodiments may include offering wagering opportunities, receiving wager requests, balancing risk, determining wager requests to accepted based on risk, forming wagers based on wager request, and/or performing other actions by one or more apparatus. Further methods and apparatus are described.

Inventors

• Lee M. Amaitis
• Andrew Garrood

Assignees

• CFPH, LLC

Dates

Publication Date

20260507

Application Date

20260107

Claims (1)

1. 1 . An apparatus comprising: a tangible machine readable medium having stored thereon a plurality of instructions that when executed by a computing device cause the computing device to: offer, for a limited amount of time, a wagering opportunity defined by particular odds for each of at least two outcomes of an event, in which the particular odds are held constant throughout the amount of time; receive a plurality of respective first wager requests for wagers based on a first outcome of the at least two outcomes during the amount of time; receive a plurality of respective second wager requests for wagers based on a second outcome of the at least two outcomes during the amount of time, in which wagers related to the first outcome offset a risk associated with wagers related to the second outcome; and determine a respective first portion of a first wager request and a respective second portion of a second wager request to accept based on a cumulative risk of accepting both the first portion and the second portion.

Description

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 18/748,722 filed Jun. 20, 2024, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 18/219,787 filed Jul. 10, 2023 (now U.S. Pat. No. 12,051,306 issued July 30, 2024), which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 17/892,475 filed Aug. 22, 2022, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/979,546 filed Dec. 28, 2010, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Ser. No. 61/380,862 filed Sep. 8, 2010; U.S. Provisional Ser. No. 61/393,672 filed Oct. 15, 2010; and U.S. Provisional Ser. No. 61/405,354 filed Oct. 21, 2010, each of which is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 illustrates an example method that may be performed in some embodiments; FIG. 2 illustrates an example method of determining a wagering opportunity that may be performed in some embodiments; FIG. 3 illustrates an example method of submitting a wager request that may be performed in some embodiments; FIG. 4 illustrates an example interface that may be used in some embodiments; FIG. 5 illustrates an example interface that may be used in some embodiments; FIG. 6 illustrates an example interface that may be used in some embodiments; FIG. 7 illustrates an example interface that may be used in some embodiments; FIG. 8 illustrates an example interface that may be used in some embodiments; FIG. 9 illustrates an example method of accepting wager requests that may be performed in some embodiments; FIG. 10 illustrates an example interface that may be used in some embodiments; FIG. 11 illustrates an example method modeling a wager based on states that may be used in some embodiments; and FIG. 12 illustrates an example system that may be used in some embodiments. DETAILED DESCRIPTION I. Terms The term “product” means any machine, manufacture and/or composition of matter, unless expressly specified otherwise. The term “process” means any process, algorithm, method, or the like, unless expressly specified otherwise. Each process (whether called a method, algorithm or otherwise) inherently includes one or more steps, and therefore all references to a “step” or “steps” of a process have an inherent antecedent basis in the mere recitation of the term ‘process’ or a like term. Accordingly, any reference in a claim to a ‘step’ or ‘steps’of a process has sufficient antecedent basis. The term “invention” and the like mean “the one or more inventions disclosed in this application,” unless expressly specified otherwise. The terms “an embodiment,” “embodiment,” “embodiments,” “the embodiment,” “the embodiments,” “one or more embodiments,” “some embodiments,” “certain embodiments,” “one embodiment,” “another embodiment” and the like mean “one or more (but not all) embodiments of the disclosed invention(s),” unless expressly specified otherwise. The term “variation” of an invention means an embodiment of the invention, unless expressly specified otherwise. A reference to “another embodiment” in describing an embodiment does not imply that the referenced embodiment is mutually exclusive with another embodiment (e.g., an embodiment described before the referenced embodiment), unless expressly specified otherwise. The terms “including,” “comprising” and variations thereof mean “including but not necessarily limited to,” unless expressly specified otherwise. Thus, for example, the sentence “the portfolio includes a red widget and a blue widget” means the portfolio includes the red widget and the blue widget but may include something else. The term “consisting of” and variations thereof means “including and limited to,” unless expressly specified otherwise. Thus, for example, the sentence “the portfolio consists of a red widget and a blue widget” means the portfolio includes the red widget and the blue widget but does not include anything else. The term “compose”, and variations thereof means “to make up the constituent parts of, component of, or member of,” unless expressly specified otherwise. Thus, for example, the sentence “the red widget and the blue widget compose a portfolio” means the portfolio includes the red widget and the blue widget. The term “exclusively compose” and variations thereof means “to make up exclusively the constituent parts of, to be the only components of or to be the only members of,” unless expressly specified otherwise. Thus, for example, the sentence “the red widget and the blue widget exclusively compose a portfolio” means the portfolio consists of the red widget and the blue widget, and nothing else. The terms “a,” “an” and “the” mean “one or more,” unless expressly specified otherwise. The term “plurality” means “two or more,” unless expressly specified otherwise. The term “herein” means “in the present application, including anything which may be incorporated by reference,” unless expressly specified otherwise. The phrase “at least on