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US 2008/0176626 A1Published application
Gaming Machine For Multiple Participants And Control Method Thereof
AssigneeAruze Gaming America, Inc.
InventorKazuo OKADA
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Abstract
In a gaming machine and its control method, a player playing at each client terminal can participate in arbitrary game among a plurality of games, and a betting for at least one game among a plurality of games always becomes possible, so that it becomes possible for a player to participate in a game without waiting for a long time. In addition, when there is a game which has a low popularity among players such as one in which no bet has been made for a prescribed number of games consecutively, it is changed to another game, so that it is possible to make more players entertained.
Claims18
A gaming machine comprising:
- a plurality of game execution devices configured to execute games;
- a game controller operable to control games to be executed by the game execution devices, and change games to be executed by the game execution devices according to an external signal;
- a relay controller connected with the game controller through a network, operable to transmit/receive information regarding games to/from the game controller, and set a betting accepting period of each game such that, when a betting accepting period of one game among games to be executed by the game execution devices is ended, it is in a betting accepting period of at least one other game different from the one game;
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- a plurality of client terminals connected with the relay controller, and configured to enable participation of a player in a selected game among games to be executed by the game execution devices and enable acceptance of bets for a game in which the player participates during the betting accepting period set by the relay controller, each client terminal having a display device configured to notify a game in which the player is participating.
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A gaming machine comprising:
- a plurality of game execution devices configured to execute games;
- a game controller operable to control games to be executed by the game execution devices, and change games to be executed by the game execution devices according to an external signal;
- a relay controller connected with the game controller through a network, operable to transmit/receive information regarding games to/from the game controller, and set a betting accepting period of each game such that, when a betting accepting period of one game among games to be executed by the game execution devices is ended, a betting accepting period of any other game different from the one game is started;
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- a plurality of client terminals connected with the relay controller, and configured to enable participation of a player in a selected game among games to be executed by the game execution devices and enable acceptance of bets for a game in which the player participates during the betting accepting period set by the relay controller, each client terminal having a display device configured to notify a game in which the player is participating.
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A gaming machine comprising:
- a plurality of game execution devices configured to execute games;
- a game controller operable to control games to be executed by the game execution devices, and, when there is a game in which no bet has been made for a prescribed number of games, change the game in which no bet has been made for a prescribed number of games to another game;
- a relay controller connected with the game controller through a network, operable to transmit/receive information regarding games to/from the game controller, and set a betting accepting period of each game such that, when a betting accepting period of one game among games to be executed by the game execution devices is ended, it is in a betting accepting period of at least one other game different from the one game;
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- a plurality of client terminals connected with the relay controller, and configured to enable participation of a player in a selected game among games to be executed by the game execution devices and enable acceptance of bets for a game in which the player participates during the betting accepting period set by the relay controller, each client terminal having a display device configured to notify a game in which the player is participating.
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The gaming machine of 7, wherein the game controller, when there is a game in which no bet has been made for a prescribed number of games consecutively, changes the game in which no bet has been made for a prescribed number of games consecutively to another game.
A method for controlling a gaming machine, the method comprising the steps of:
- executing respectively different games by a plurality of game execution devices under a control of a game controller;
- changing games to be executed by the game execution devices to other games, by the game controller upon receiving an external signal;
- setting a betting accepting period of each game such that, when a betting accepting period of one game among games to be executed by the game execution devices is ended, it is in a betting accepting period of at least one other game different from the one game, by a relay controller connected with the game controller through a network;
- enabling participation of a player in any one game among games to be executed by the game execution devices as the player bets credits during the betting accepting period that is set, by a client terminal connected with the relay controller;
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- notifying a game in which the player is participating at the client terminal, by a display device.
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A method for controlling a gaming machine, the method comprising the steps of:
- executing respectively different games by a plurality of game execution devices under a control of a game controller;
- changing games to be executed by the game execution devices to other games, by the game controller upon receiving an external signal;
- setting a betting accepting period of each game such that, when a betting accepting period of one game among games to be executed by the game execution devices is ended, a betting accepting period of any other game different from the one game is started, by a relay controller connected with the game controller through a network;
- enabling participation of a player in any one game among games to be executed by the game execution devices as the player bets credits during a betting accepting period that is set, by a client terminal connected with the relay controller;
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- notifying a game in which the player is participating at the client terminal, by a display device.
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A method for controlling a gaming machine, the method comprising the steps of:
- executing respectively different games by a plurality of game execution devices under a control of a game controller;
- when there is a game in which no bet has been made for a prescribed number of games, changing the game in which no bet has been made for a prescribed number of games to another game, by using the game controller;
- setting a betting accepting period of each game such that, when a betting accepting period of one game among games to be executed by the game execution devices is ended, it is in a betting accepting period of at least one other game different from the one game, by a relay controller connected with the game controller through a network;
- enabling participation of a player in any one game among games to be executed by the game execution devices as the player bets credits during a betting accepting period that is set, by a client terminal connected with the relay controller;
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- notifying a game in which the player is participating at the client terminal, by a display device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.