US 2008/0293489 A1Published application

Gaming apparatus

AssigneeAruze Corp.

InventorKazuo OKADA

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Abstract

A gaming apparatus control part is provided with an external output control circuit, configured in such a manner that gaming information can be output and gaming data sent from each gaming machine is collected in a management server in order to solve the issue that internal winning attraction is limited to each gaming apparatus and a player concentrates only on the gaming apparatus to which he is playing. The management server comprises a link attraction lottery table to determine attraction mode based on sent gaming information and link attraction transmission unit lottery table to determine a destination gaming apparatus of link attraction, determines a link attraction and attraction transmission destination, and sends an attraction data with a predetermined timing on the condition that internal winning data is sent from a gaming apparatus.

Claims2

Dependent claims

A gaming system comprising:

a plurality of gaming apparatuses, each of which has a display device and pays what is earned to a player when a prize is generated;
a control and management device which determines a link attraction based on gaming information sent from each of the plurality of gaming apparatuses, wherein
the control and management device is operative to (i) identify a target gaming apparatus in which a prize is generated and at least one neighboring gaming apparatus disposed in the vicinity of the target gaming apparatus from among the plurality of gaming apparatuses, based on the gaming information, and (ii) to transmit the determined link attraction with an identifier of the target gaming apparatus and the at least one neighboring gaming apparatus;
and
the display device of each of the target gaming apparatus and the at least one neighboring gaming apparatus is operative to display the transmitted link attraction.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/183,757Filed 31 Jul 2008
Priority: JP 2002-14680321 May 2002
Published: 27 Nov 2008
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Classification2 codes

G07F 17/34
For games, toys, sports, or amusements: depending on the stopping of moving members in a mechanical slot machine, e.g. "fruit" machines
G07F
Coin-freed or like apparatus

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