Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – In a game requiring strategy or problem solving by a...
Reexamination Certificate
2007-12-25
2007-12-25
Thai, Xuan M. (Department: 3714)
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
In a game requiring strategy or problem solving by a...
C463S009000, C463S025000, C273S139000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10504314
ABSTRACT:
A decision support system comprises a decision repository with at least one stored game play decision for a particular hand held by a player and a corresponding first card held by a dealer, in a game of blackjack, and a programming facility operable, selectively, by the player to amend the at least one stored game play decision. The decision repository has a stored game play decision for every possible combination of a particular hand held by the player and corresponding first card held by the dealer. The stored game play decision is a recommended game play decision for the player, namely a decision to hit, to stand, to split to double, or to surrender
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McDonnell Boehnen & Hulbert & Berghoff LLP
Thai Xuan M.
Waterleaf Limited
Wert Joshua P
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