Game performance determination by incremental revenue
AssigneePatent Investment & Licensing Company
InventorJohn F. Acres
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods of determining the performance of a gaming device by analyzing the incremental revenue generated by the gaming device. This method may include identifying an analysis period, recording game performance data for a set of gaming devices and a test gaming device during the analysis period, and comparing the recorded data to historical gaming data for the set of gaming devices. Some examples of this method may also include developing parameters for the analysis period and using those developed parameters to normalize the recorded game data for the analysis period prior to comparing the recorded data to the historical gaming data.
Claims13
A method of measuring performance of a gaming device that is new to a location having a plurality of existing gaming devices on a network, the method comprising:
- tracking play for a historical game session on at least one of the networked gaming devices at the location;
- storing the tracked play for the historical game session in a player database;
- thereafter implementing a previously unimplemented gaming device at the location;
- connecting the previously unimplemented gaming device to the network;
- tracking play for a current game session on the previously unimplemented gaming device;
- storing the tracked play for the current game session in the player database;
- categorizing identified players into at least one player group based on at least one predefined criterion using at least one of the current and historical game-session tracked play stored in the player database;
- communicating tracked play for the current and historical game sessions via the network to a computing device connected to the network;
- comparing, via the computing device, tracked play of the at least one player group for the current game session with tracked play of the at least one player group for a historical game session;
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- marketing the previously unimplemented gaming device based on the comparison.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.