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US 12,762,928 B2Granted
Funding progressive awards using auction bidding sequences
AssigneeIgt
InventorsJeffery McIntosh, Dwayne Nelson, Anthony Baerlocher
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Abstract
Systems and methods that enable one or more bids placed in association with one award, such as a first progressive award, in an auction bidding sequence, to fund another award, such as a second progressive award.
Claims21
A system comprising:
- a processor, and
- a memory device that stores a plurality of instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
- cause a display, by a display device of an electronic gaming machine, of a first progressive award, and
- responsive to an occurrence of an award auction triggering event:
- cause a display, by the display device of the electronic gaming machine, of an auction bidding sequence associated with the first progressive award in which a portion of at least one a the plurality of bids placed during the auction bidding sequence funds a second progressive award,
- responsive to a receipt of data associated with an opening of an access door of the electronic gaming machine being detected via a security monitoring circuit of the electronic gaming machine during the auction bidding sequence:
- disable the electronic gaming machine from placing any bids on the first progressive award during the auction bidding sequence, and
- following a receipt of data associated with at least a closing of the access door of the electronic gaming machine detected via the security monitoring circuit of the electronic gaming machine, enable the electronic gaming machine to bid on the first progressive award during the auction bidding sequence, and
- responsive to one of the plurality of bids determined to be a winning bid, take, independent of any occurrence of any progressive award triggering event, the first progressive award prematurely offline by causing the first progressive award to be provided, independent of any probability-based determination, in association with the winning bid.
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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, cause the processor to:
- cause a display, by a display device of an electronic gaming machine, of a first progressive award, and
- responsive to an occurrence of an award auction triggering event:
- cause a display, by the display device of the electronic gaming machine, of an auction bidding sequence associated with a plurality of bids placed on the first progressive award,
- responsive to a receipt of data associated with an opening of an access door of the electronic gaming machine being detected via a security monitoring circuit of the electronic gaming machine during the auction bidding sequence:
- disable the electronic gaming machine from placing any bids on the first progressive award during the auction bidding sequence, and
- following a receipt of data associated with at least a closing of the access door of the electronic gaming machine detected via the security monitoring circuit of the electronic gaming machine, enable the electronic gaming machine to bid on the first progressive award during the auction bidding sequence,
- responsive to one of the plurality of bids determined to be a winning bid:
- take, independent of any occurrence of any progressive award triggering event, the first progressive award prematurely offline by causing the first progressive award to be provided, independent of any probability-based determination, in association with the winning bid, and
- cause a first portion of at least a first bid of the plurality of bids not determined to be the winning bid to fund a second progressive award, and
- responsive to none of the plurality of bids determined to be the winning bid, cause a second portion of at least the first bid to fund the second progressive award.
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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, cause the processor to:
- cause a display, by a display device of an electronic gaming machine, of a first progressive award,
- responsive to a first occurrence of a progressive award triggering event prior to an occurrence of an award auction triggering event, cause the first progressive award to be provided in association with the first occurrence of the progressive award triggering event, and
- responsive to an occurrence of the award auction triggering event prior to any occurrence of the progressive award triggering event:
- responsive to a receipt of data associated with an opening of an access door of the electronic gaming machine being detected via a security monitoring circuit of the electronic gaming machine during an auction bidding sequence in which a plurality of bids are placed on the first progressive award:
- disable the electronic gaming machine from placing any bids on the first progressive award during the auction bidding sequence, and
- following a receipt of data associated with at least a closing of the access door of the electronic gaming machine detected via the security monitoring circuit of the electronic gaming machine, enable the electronic gaming machine to bid on the first progressive award during the auction bidding sequence,
- responsive to one of the plurality of bids placed on the first progressive award during the auction bidding sequence determined to be a winning bid:
- take, independent of any occurrence of any progressive award triggering event, the first progressive award prematurely offline by causing the first progressive award to be provided, independent of any probability-based determination, in association with the winning bid, wherein during the auction bidding sequence, the progressive award triggering event is disabled from occurring in association with the first progressive award,
- allocate a first portion of at least one of the plurality of bids to a second progressive award, and
- responsive to a second occurrence of the progressive award triggering event, cause the second progressive award to be provided in association with the second occurrence of the progressive award triggering event.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.