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US 12,718,665 B2Granted
Bonus events associated with gaming establishment ticket vouchers
AssigneeIgt
InventorsDwayne Nelson, Kevin Higgins, Robert Silva
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Abstract
Systems and methods that offer zero, one or more bonus events in association with a procurement and/or a redemption of a ticket voucher associated with an amount of funds.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory device that stores a plurality of instructions that, when executed by the processor following a database of a ticket voucher system storing data comprising a first amount of funds associated with an issued ticket voucher and responsive to a validated redemption, via the ticket voucher system, of the issued ticket voucher, cause the processor to:
- determine, prior to any play of any game using the first amount of funds associated with the issued ticket voucher, whether to trigger a bonus event in association with the validated redemption of the issued ticket voucher,
- responsive to the determination being to trigger the bonus event in association with the validated redemption of the issued ticket voucher and prior to any play of any game using the first amount of funds associated with the issued ticket voucher:
- determine, independent of any play of any game, a benefit, and
- cause, independent of any play of any game, the determined benefit and the first amount of funds associated with the issued ticket voucher to be available, and
- responsive to the determination being not to trigger any bonus event in association with the validated redemption of the issued ticket voucher, cause the first amount of funds associated with the issued ticket voucher to be available.
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A system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory device that stores a plurality of instructions that, when executed by the processor following a database of a ticket voucher system storing data comprising a first amount of funds associated with an issued ticket voucher and any bonus event associated with the issued ticket voucher, cause the processor to:
- determine, prior to any play of any game using the first amount of funds associated with the issued ticket voucher, whether to trigger any bonus event associated with the issued ticket voucher in association with a validated redemption, via the ticket voucher system, of the issued ticket voucher;
- responsive to the validated redemption of the issued ticket voucher and the determination being to trigger a bonus event associated with the issued ticket voucher in association with the issued ticket voucher, cause, independent of any play of any game, a benefit associated with the bonus event and the first amount of funds associated with the issued ticket voucher to be available, wherein the benefit is determined independent of any play of any game, and
- responsive to the validated redemption of the issued ticket voucher and the determination being not to trigger any bonus event associated with the issued ticket voucher in association with the issued ticket voucher, cause the first amount of funds associated with the issued ticket voucher to be available.
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A method of operating a system, the method comprising:
- following a database of a ticket voucher system storing data comprising a first amount of funds associated with an issued ticket voucher, responsive to a validated redemption, via the ticket voucher system, of the issued ticket voucher:
- determining, by a processor and prior to any play of any game using the first amount of funds associated with the issued ticket voucher, whether to trigger a bonus event in association with the validated redemption of the issued ticket voucher,
- responsive to the determination being to trigger the bonus event in association with the validated redemption of the issued ticket voucher and prior to any play of any game using the first amount of funds associated with the issued ticket voucher:
- determining, by the processor and independent of any play of any game, a benefit, and
- causing, independent of any play of any game, the determined benefit and the first amount of funds associated with the issued ticket voucher to be available, and
- following the database of the ticket voucher system storing data comprising the first amount of funds associated with the issued ticket voucher, responsive to the validated redemption of the issued ticket voucher, and responsive to the determination being not to trigger any bonus event in association with the validated redemption of the issued ticket voucher, causing the first amount of funds associated with the issued ticket voucher to be available.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.