Managing mobile applications in a gaming environment
AssigneeIgt
InventorsKevin Higgins, Dwayne Nelson
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Abstract
Technology for managing mobile applications on an electronic gaming machine (EGM) in communication with a mobile device over a communications network is disclosed. An EGM may perform an account login by a user using a gaming host application associated with the EGM such that the account login triggers the gaming host application to launch a selected mobile gaming application for game play on the EGM.
Claims20
A method for managing mobile applications on an electronic gaming machine (EGM), the method comprising:
- receiving, by the EGM, account login information from a mobile device over a communication network;
- creating, by the EGM, an account login session using the account login information from the mobile device;
- identifying a game application that is currently being served by the EGM;
- determining that the identified game application is a current game application;
- and
- launching, in response to the account login session, a selected mobile gaming application for game play on the mobile device, wherein the current game application corresponds to the selected mobile gaming application.
An electronic gaming machine (EGM) comprising:
- a display;
- a communication module;
- a memory device;
- and
- a processor executing instructions stored in the memory device, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the processor to:
- create an account login session using account login information received from a mobile device through the communication module;
- subsequent to creating the account login session, receive a query from the mobile device;
- provide to the mobile device and in response to the query, an identification of a game most recently served by the EGM, wherein the game most recently served by the EGM is considered a current game;
- and
- in response to the creating the account login session, launch the current game as a selected mobile gaming application for game play.
A system for managing mobile applications on an electronic gaming machine (EGM), the system comprising:
- a communications network;
- a mobile device;
- and
- the EGM, the EGM including a processor executing instructions stored in a memory device, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the processor to:
- create an account login session using account login information received from the mobile device through the communication network;
- in response to the creating the account login session, identify a current game being served by the EGM;
- and
- in response to identifying the current game being served by the EGM, asynchronously notify the mobile device of the current game being served by the EGM to enable the mobile device to launch the current game being served by the EGM as a selected mobile gaming application for game play on the mobile device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.