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US 11,694,509 B2Granted
Gaming system providing multiple player selectable tournaments
AssigneeIgt
InventorsXiaochong Wang, Hujun Dong
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Abstract
Gaming systems and methods that provide multiple player selectable tournaments that can be created by the operator of the gaming system or by one or more players of one or more of the gaming machines of the gaming system.
Claims9
A method of operating a gaming system, said method comprising:
- responsive to receipt of an activation of a player interface of a gaming machine of a plurality of gaming machines, creating, via a processor, a player created tournament based on tournament creation data received via the player interface of that gaming machine of the plurality of gaming machines, the tournament creation data associated with a player selected one of a plurality of different tournaments for play by multiple players of the gaming machines, and a player selectable rule for that tournament, wherein the player selectable rule enables each participating player of the player created tournament to accumulate a player attack event useable against another player of the player created tournament;
- communicating created tournament data to the plurality of gaming machines to enable display of indications of the player created tournament that the players at the plurality of gaming machines can participate in;
- receiving data associated with the players of the gaming machines requesting to participate in the player created tournament;
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- responsive to a minimum quantity of players of the gaming machines requesting to participate in the player created tournament, operating with the gaming machines to provide the player created tournament for said players to participate in, and determine a winner of the player created tournament.
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A method comprising:
- receiving data from an operator access device to create, via a tournament game manager, a plurality of different operator created tournaments for participation by players of a plurality of gaming machines, wherein each operator created tournament comprises a plurality of different operator selected rules for that operator created tournament;
- receiving data from a media manager configured to communicate with the tournament game manager to create a list of available gaming machines of the plurality of gaming machines configured to play the plurality of different operator created tournaments;
- communicating created tournament data to the gaming machines to enable a display of indications of each of the plurality of operator created tournaments that the players at the gaming machines can participate in, and such that each of the gaming machines can display the indications of each operator created tournament in a service window displayed by that gaming machine;
- communicating the created list of available gaming machines of the plurality of gaming machines to enable a display of indications of the available gaming machines of the plurality of gaming machines configured to play the plurality of different operator created tournaments;
- receiving data associated with the players of the available gaming machines of the plurality of gaming machines requesting to participate in the operator created tournaments;
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- for each operator created tournament that a minimum quantity of players of the gaming machines want to participate in,
- operating with the gaming machines to receive a fee for the selected operator created tournament from each of said players and provide the selected operator created tournament for said players to participate in, and
- determining a winner of that operator created tournament.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.