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US 2026/0301529 A1Published application
Tracking events of gaming sessions and employing the tracked events to randomly determine loyalty benefits
AssigneeIgt
InventorsDwayne Nelson, Kevin Higgins
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Abstract
Systems and methods that track occurrences of events in association with gaming sessions at one or more gaming devices, and determine gaming establishment loyalty benefits based on the tracked occurrences of the respective events and one or more random determinations.
Claims20
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:
- during a first period of time:
- identify a user at a gaming establishment device operating independent of the processor, and
- independent of any play of any game available at any electronic gaming machine, track an amount of activity associated with the identified user at the gaming establishment device, and
- after the first period of time and responsive to an occurrence of a gaming establishment loyalty benefit determination event:
- determine a gaming establishment loyalty benefit based on a random determination applied to the tracked amount of activity that previously occurred during the first period of time, wherein the random determination applied to a first tracked amount of activity during the first period of time results in a first gaming establishment loyalty benefit and the random determination applied to a second, different tracked amount of activity during the first period of time results in a second, different gaming establishment loyalty benefit, and
- responsive to a gaming establishment loyalty benefit realization event, associate the determined gaming establishment loyalty benefit with a gaming establishment account of the identified user.
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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:
- during a first period of time:
- identify a user at a gaming establishment device operating independent of the processor, and
- independent of any play of any game available at any electronic gaming machine, track an amount of activity associated with the identified user at the gaming establishment device, and
- after the first period of time and responsive to an occurrence of a gaming establishment loyalty benefit determination event:
- randomly determine a gaming establishment loyalty benefit accrual rate,
- apply the randomly determined gaming establishment loyalty benefit accrual rate to the tracked amount of activity that previously occurred during the first period of time to determine a gaming establishment loyalty benefit, wherein the randomly determined gaming establishment loyalty benefit accrual rate applied to a first tracked amount of activity during the first period of time results in a first gaming establishment loyalty benefit and the randomly determined gaming establishment loyalty benefit accrual rate applied to a second, different tracked amount of activity during the first period of time results in a second, different gaming establishment loyalty benefit, and
- associate the determined gaming establishment loyalty benefit with a gaming establishment account of the identified user.
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A method of operating a system, the method comprising:
- during a first period of time:
- identifying, by a processor, a user at a gaming establishment device, the processor operating independent of the gaming establishment device, and
- tracking, by the processor and independent of any play of any game available at any electronic gaming machine, an amount of activity associated with the identified user at the gaming establishment device, and
- after the first period of time and responsive to an occurrence of a gaming establishment loyalty benefit determination event:
- determining, by the processor, a gaming establishment loyalty benefit based on a random determination applied to the tracked amount of activity that previously occurred during the first period of time, wherein the random determination applied to a first tracked amount of activity during the first period of time results in a first gaming establishment loyalty benefit and the random determination applied to a second, different tracked amount of activity during the first period of time results in a second, different gaming establishment loyalty benefit, and
- responsive to a gaming establishment loyalty benefit realization event, associating, by the processor, the determined gaming establishment loyalty benefit with a gaming establishment account of the identified user.
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