Reconciling payback percentage of a gaming device with transferable return

US8591322B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• IGT · US

Inventors

• Alexander Casey Naglestad Cohen · Reno, US
• Bryan D. Wolf · Reno, US
• Paulina Rodgers · Reno, US
• James A. Vasquez · Carson City, US
• Garrett Olson · Reno, US
• Ty Cornell Jones · Reno, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 12, 2012
• Grant date: Nov 26, 2013
• Expiry date: Nov 12, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07F17/3244
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An electronic gaming system includes a server and a plurality of electronic gaming machines, each machine including a logic system configured for communication with the server, a memory and a theoretical coin-out meter. The memory includes instructions executable by the logic system for running on the gaming machine a persistence game having one or more recordable persistence states leading to a redeemable persistence award. Each persistence state has a persistence value representing a portion of the persistence award. The persistence game is interruptible at a first machine and resumable at a second machine at a recorded persistence state. The theoretical coin-out meter stores unawarded persistence values accumulated by the machine from advancing the persistence game during game play among the one or more persistence states. A persistence award redeemed at one of the machines is reconciled with unawarded persistence values accumulated at another one or more of the machines.