US 2020/0051379 A1Published application

Gaming device

AssigneeAristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited

InventorsNatalie Bryant, John Chiaravalle

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Abstract

A gaming device comprises a processor, a credit input device, a credit meter, a win meter, a bank meter, and a memory storing instructions, which when executed by the processor cause the processor to generate a game outcome, add any win amount resulting from the game outcome to the win meter to establish a win meter balance, upon a win amount added to the win meter satisfying the automatic bank condition, transfer the win meter balance to the bank meter, and upon a residual credit balance of the credit meter being below a desired wager amount corresponding to a desired player selection for a subsequent game after transfer of the win meter balance to the bank meter, conduct a random trial having a probability of success proportional to a ratio of the residual credit balance to the desired wager amount to determine whether to conduct the subsequent game using the desired player selection.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A gaming system comprising:

a processor;
and
a memory storing instructions which when executed by the processor cause the processor to:
control access to a bank meter such that any credit amount added to a bank meter cannot be accessed for wagering on the gaming device and a balance of the bank meter can only be accessed by a player upon entering a cash out instruction;
establish a credit balance on a credit meter responsive to receipt of a monetary amount via a credit input device;
receive an instruction from a player specifying an automatic bank condition in respect of a win amount;
receive a player selection in respect of a play of a game on the gaming device that defines a wager amount;
decrement the credit balance of the credit meter by the wager amount;
generate a game outcome;
add any win amount resulting from the game outcome to the win meter to establish a win meter balance;
upon a win amount added to the win meter satisfying the automatic bank condition, transfer the win meter balance to the bank meter;
and
upon a residual credit balance of the credit meter being below a desired wager amount corresponding to a desired player selection for a subsequent game after transfer of the win meter balance to the bank meter, conduct a random trial having a probability of success based on the residual credit balance and the desired wager amount to determine whether to conduct the subsequent game using the desired player selection.

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A gaming device comprising:

an electronic display;
a processor;
a credit meter and a win meter;
and
a memory storing instructions which when executed by the processor cause the processor to:
control the electronic display to display a plurality of areas including a game outcome area in which outcomes of an electronic game of chance are displayed and an information area having a fixed size,
control display of the information area, in a first mode in which an activatable function is inactive, to visually display each of the win meter, the credit meter, and a current bet amount, and a first icon corresponding to the activatable function;
and
responsive to activation of the activatable function, control, in a second mode, display of the information area to visually display the first icon in an extended state and to adjust display of at least one of the win meter, the credit meter, and the current bet amount relative to the first mode to accommodate display of the first icon in the extended state.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.