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US 12,755,604 B2Granted
Historical event based determinations
AssigneeIgt
InventorNicholas Jon Scheffel
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Abstract
Historical horse race gaming systems and methods that employ the randomness of selecting one or more correct horse race finishers to obtain a direct pseudo random number generation that functions as a weighted random determination for randomly determining an outcome of a play of a game such as but not limited to a reel game, a card game, a keno game, a dice game, or a roulette game.
Claims20
A historical horse race gaming system comprising:
- an electronic gaming machine comprising:
- a housing comprising an access door,
- a security monitoring circuit supported by the housing that monitors the access door and that causes a signal to be sent to a remote server when the access door is opened,
- a plurality of output devices comprising a display device supported by the housing,
- a plurality of input devices comprising a plurality of input buttons mounted on a deck supported by the housing and a touch screen input device supported by the housing and operable with the display device,
- an electronic gaming machine processor supported by the housing, and
- an electronic gaming machine trusted memory device coupled to one or more sensors and supported by the housing and structured to provide a gaming regulatory authority a root trusted authority that can be tracked and verified as original, the trusted memory device storing a plurality of instructions that, when executed by the electronic gaming machine processor, cause the electronic gaming machine processor to detect via the one or more sensors one of a plurality of tampering events, and responsive to detecting said tampering event, cause the electronic gaming machine trusted memory device to be one of cleared and erased;
- a historical horse race database;
- and
- a historical horse race central server comprising a processor and a memory device that stores a plurality of instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
- select a plurality of historical horse races from the historical horse race database for a historical horse race game play;
- employ an automatic horse order selection function to determine player horse order selections for each of the plurality of historical horse races;
- determine, based on the actual horse order finishes for each of the plurality of historical horse races, any correct player horse order selections for each of the plurality of historical horse races;
- determine, based on the correct player horse order selections for each of the plurality of historical horse races, a numeric value;
- scale the numeric value to a range to determine a scaled number;
- and
- cause a transmission of the scaled number to the electronic gaming machine such that the electric gaming machine processor can use the scaled number as a randomly generated number to determine and cause a display, by the display device, of an outcome and an award amount for the historical horse race game play.
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A historical horse race gaming system comprising:
- an electronic gaming machine comprising:
- a housing comprising an access door,
- a security monitoring circuit supported by the housing that monitors the access door and that causes a signal to be sent to a remote server when the access door is opened,
- a plurality of output devices comprising a display device supported by the housing,
- a plurality of input devices comprising a plurality of input buttons mounted on a deck supported by the housing and a touch screen input device supported by the housing and operable with the display device,
- an electronic gaming machine processor supported by the housing, and
- an electronic gaming machine trusted memory device coupled to one or more sensors and supported by the housing and structured to provide a gaming regulatory authority a root trusted authority that can be tracked and verified as original, the trusted memory device storing a plurality of instructions that, when executed by the electronic gaming machine processor, cause the electronic gaming machine processor to:
- after receiving a placement of a wager for a historical horse race game play, cause a transmission of a request to a historical horse race central server for a scaled number of a range for the historical horse race game play;
- receive the scaled number from the historical horse race central server for the historical horse race game play, wherein the scaled number is determined by the historical horse race central server by:
- selecting a plurality of historical horse races from a historical horse race database,
- employing an automatic horse order selection function to determine player horse order selections for each of the plurality of historical horse races,
- determining, based on the actual horse order finishes for each of the plurality of historical horse races, any correct player selections for each of the plurality of historical horse races, and
- determining the scaled number based on the correct player selections;
- use the received scaled number as a randomly generated number to determine an award amount for the historical horse race game play;
- display, via a display device, a plurality of symbols on symbol displays, wherein the symbols result in the award amount for the historical horse race game play;
- display, via a display device, the award amount for the historical horse race game play;
- and
- detect via the one or more sensors one of a plurality of tampering events, and responsive to detecting said tampering event, cause the electronic gaming machine trusted memory device to be one of cleared and erased.
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A historical horse race gaming system comprising:
- an electronic gaming machine comprising:
- a housing comprising an access door,
- a security monitoring circuit supported by the housing that monitors the access door and that causes a signal to be sent to a remote server when the access door is opened,
- a plurality of output devices comprising a display device supported by the housing,
- a plurality of input devices comprising a plurality of input buttons mounted on a deck supported by the housing and a touch screen input device supported by the housing and operable with the display device,
- an electronic gaming machine processor supported by the housing, and
- an electronic gaming machine trusted memory device coupled to one or more sensors and supported by the housing and structured to provide a gaming regulatory authority a root trusted authority that can be tracked and verified as original, the trusted memory device storing a plurality of instructions that, when executed by the electronic gaming machine processor, cause the electronic gaming machine processor to detect via the one or more sensors one of a plurality of tampering events, and responsive to detecting said tampering event, cause the electronic gaming machine trusted memory device to be one of cleared and erased;
- a historical horse race database;
- and
- a historical horse race central server comprising a processor and a memory device that stores a plurality of instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
- form a race set representing a selected plurality of historical horse races selected from the historical horse race database, the race set being for a historical horse race game play, wherein the race set comprises player horse order selections for each of the plurality of historical horse races;
- determine for the race set, based on actual horse order finishes for each of the plurality of historical horse races, any correct player horse order selections for each of the plurality of historical horse races;
- based on the correct player horse order selections of the race set, determine a scaled number;
- and
- cause a transmission of the scaled number to the electronic gaming machine such that the electric gaming machine processor can use the scaled number as a randomly generated number to determine and cause a display, by the display device, of an award amount for the historical horse race game play.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.