EP1741477A2 - Système pour la réalisation d'un jeu de hasard à travers un réseau de communication - Google Patents

Système pour la réalisation d'un jeu de hasard à travers un réseau de communication Download PDF

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EP1741477A2
EP1741477A2 EP06015875A EP06015875A EP1741477A2 EP 1741477 A2 EP1741477 A2 EP 1741477A2 EP 06015875 A EP06015875 A EP 06015875A EP 06015875 A EP06015875 A EP 06015875A EP 1741477 A2 EP1741477 A2 EP 1741477A2
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Andreu Riera Jorba
Joan Borrell Viader
Jordi Castella Roca
Joan Miquel Bardera Bosch
Christophe Primault
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    • G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
    • G07F17/3202—Hardware aspects of a gaming system, e.g. components, construction, architecture thereof
    • G07F17/3223—Architectural aspects of a gaming system, e.g. internal configuration, master/slave, wireless communication
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    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
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    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
    • G07F17/3225—Data transfer within a gaming system, e.g. data sent between gaming machines and users
    • G07F17/3232—Data transfer within a gaming system, e.g. data sent between gaming machines and users wherein the operator is informed
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
    • G07F17/3241—Security aspects of a gaming system, e.g. detecting cheating, device integrity, surveillance
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    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
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    • G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
    • G07F17/326—Game play aspects of gaming systems
    • G07F17/3272—Games involving multiple players
    • G07F17/3276—Games involving multiple players wherein the players compete, e.g. tournament

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  • This invention describes a system for implementing games of chance over a communication network.
  • Gaming remotely or online gaming offers players a series of advantages, since it gives them independence in terms of location (they do not need to be physically), and time-. Owing to these advantages, the deployment of remote gaming has increased rapidly.
  • Some prior inventions relate to systems and/or methods for remote gaming over a communications network.
  • a first group of inventions are described in US 4.926.327 , US 4.958.835 , US 5.038.022 , US 6.196.920 , GB 2307184 , US 5.755.621 and US 5.823.879 .
  • P2P peer to peer
  • the first invention relates to a game machine that allows playing on a casino without the need of an intermediary, also introducing the possibility that the machines can be connected remotely over a communication network such as the Internet.
  • the players hire the machines and all the prizes are distributed among the game participants. It does not describe the methods for generating the random factor, nor the security or honesty of the gaming system.
  • the second invention describes the architecture of an Online Casino which allows the game to be played with a central figure who distributes the messages without intervening in the game. Said system encrypts the communications among the game participants to ensure their privacy. Also it does not describe any method for protecting the information generated during the game, so there is no tamperproof evidence that the game was played honestly. Players are vulnerable to the collaboration between the system operator and one of the players on their benefit.
  • the present invention relates to a game of chance system, preferably remote, which according to the distributions of its elements allows a gaming with or without an intermediary.
  • an intermediary When the game is implemented with an intermediary, the latter takes an active part in the game.
  • the intermediary would be an online casino.
  • the players play directly among themselves, according to a P2P model.
  • This invention describes a system for implementing a game of chance.
  • the system includes a set of programs and/or implementing platforms forming a Player Agent 101 through which at least one of said players participates in said game.
  • the preferred system also includes a set of programs and/or implementing platforms forming a Croupier Agent 109, intended to perform the actions corresponding to a Croupier in a casino game.
  • the invention proposes the game events be generated with the cooperation of the Croupier Agent and/or one or more Player Agent(s).
  • the essence of games of chance is to obtain at least one event (a roulette position, a card in a pack, the face of a die, etc.) in a random way, determining the game result using at least this event.
  • the events are obtained by means of a roulette wheel, a pack of cards, or dice for example.
  • Player Agent 101 In order to participate in the game over a communications network, the players need a set of programs and/or implementing platforms.
  • this set of programs will be called Player Agent 101, which can be an application able to establish remote secure connections, or a Plug-In for the player's Internet browser.
  • the implementing platform allows the Player Agent 101 to be deployed, and is able to connect to a communication network.
  • the implementing platform can be a PC, a digital personal assistant, or a mobile telephone terminal, for example.
  • This invention considers the possibility of an Impartial Entity having a set of programs and/or implementing platforms so that it can take a more active part in the remote game, for example by generating the game events or by making the Player Agent 101 available to the players.
  • Impartial Agent 107 will be applied to this set of programs that preferably form an application that can provide a secure remote connection.
  • the associated implementing platform allows the Impartial Agent 107 to be implemented.
  • This implementing platform can be a computer, or a secure tamperproof module that can internally execute applications, such as Hardware Secure Module (HSM) nShield by the manufacturer of nCipher [http://www.ncipher.com/nshield, 16/06/2003].
  • HSM Hardware Secure Module
  • Croupier Agent 109 the functions of the croupier can be automated by means of associated communication means and/or programs.
  • this set will be called Croupier Agent 109.
  • the Impartial Agent 107 implements a cryptographic protocol to generate impartial game events, in combination with the Croupier Agent 109.
  • the Impartial Agent 107 generates impartial game events.
  • the Croupier Agent 109 implements a cryptographic protocol to generate impartial game events, in combination with the Player Agent 101.
  • pseudo random values are obtained.
  • PRNG pseudo random number generation routines
  • the Croupier Agent 109 applies a cryptographic protocol for the Impartial Generation of Game Events 405, together with the Impartial Agent 107.
  • the embodiments use a commitment cryptographic protocol as a basic tool.
  • a first commitment protocol was introduced by Blum in 1982 [ Blum M., Coin flipping by telephone: a protocol for solving impossible problems, Proc. IEEE Computer Conference, pages 133-137, IEEE, 1982 ].
  • a commitment protocol C p is made up of two phases; a commitment phase followed by a commitment release phase.
  • the procedure can be described with the following physical example: In the first phase each participant places certain information in a box, which he locks and hands to the rest of the participants. In the second phase, he delivers the key for opening the box and recovering the information inside the initial box. The commitment verifiers cannot know anything about X from T , and the committed information X cannot be altered by its owner between the first and second stages.
  • a general overview of the state of the art related to commitment protocols can be found in [ Schneier B., Applied Cryptography Second Edition: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C, Second Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 1996 ].
  • the player places a bet A by means of his/her Player Agent 101.
  • the Player Agent 101 makes this accessible to the Croupier Agent 109.
  • Said Croupier Agent 109 obtains a value V 1 in a random manner from which the result of the game is derived, and makes V 1 accessible to the Player Agent 101.
  • Said first embodiment of the first option is securer if, in addition, the following steps are taken:
  • the Player Agent 101 makes available a player's request to obtain a game event.
  • the Croupier Agent 109 makes T 1 accessible to the Player Agent 101 and to the Impartial Agent.
  • the Player Agent 101 makes a player's bet A accessible to the Croupier Agent 109.
  • the Impartial Agent 107 makes V 2 and X 1 accessible to the Croupier Agent 109.
  • the Croupier Agent 109 makes V 1 , T 1 , V 2 and X 1 accessible to the Player Agent 101.
  • the Croupier Agent 109 and the Player Agent 101 obtain said game event from V 1 and V 2 .
  • the Player Agent 101 makes a player's bet A accessible to the Croupier Agent 109.
  • the Croupier Agent 109 makes T1 and A accessible to the Impartial Agent 107.
  • the Impartial Agent 107 makes V 2 and X 1 accessible to the Croupier Agent 109.
  • the Croupier Agent 109 makes V 1 , V 2 , T 1 and X 1 available to the Player Agent 101.
  • the Croupier Agent 109 and the Player Agent 101 obtain said game event from V 1 and V 2 .
  • the player places a bet A by means of the Player Agent 101.
  • the Player Agent 101 makes T 1 accessible to the Croupier Agent 109.
  • the Croupier Agent 109 makes T 2 accessible to the Player Agent 101.
  • the Player Agent 101 makes A accessible to the Croupier Agent 109, which makes A and T 2 accessible to the Impartial Agent 107.
  • the Impartial Agent 107 makes V 2 and X 1 accessible to the Croupier Agent 109.
  • the Croupier Agent 109 makes V 1 , V 2 , and X 1 available to the Player Agent 101.
  • the Croupier Agent 109 and the Player Agent 101 obtain said game event from V 1 and V 2 .
  • the Player Agent 101 implements a cryptographic protocol for the Impartial Generation of Game Events 405, together with the Croupier Agent 109.
  • the Player Agent 101 and the Croupier Agent 109 carry out one of the protocols described in the International application [ PCT/ES02/00485 ].
  • the Player Agent 101 and the Croupier Agent 109 carry out one of the protocols described in the Patent of Invention US 6.264.557 .
  • the Player Agent 101 and the Croupier Agent 109 carry out one of the protocols described in the Patent of Invention US 6.165.072 .
  • the end of a time period set by the Croupier Agent 109, or the Player Agent 101 performing the croupier's functions, indicates the throw or game hand to be completed

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