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US 9,317,994 B2Granted
Networked gaming system communication protocols and methods
AssigneeBally Gaming, Inc.
InventorsBryan M. Kelly, Dennis Lockard, Jeffrey C. Tallcott, John G. Kroeckel, Gennady I. Soliterman, Rukmangada Rupanagudi
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Abstract
A system, method and apparatus for a gaming system is provided. The gaming system includes a rewards server and a separate gaming or slot accounting server. The system may further include a separate player tracking server. The system further includes one or more game machines. The game machines may include a base game, rewards tracking module, and a game management module. Further details will be apparent from the description, drawings and claims.
Claims20
A networked gaming system comprising:
- one or more gaming machines;
- a rewards server coupled to the one or more gaming machines, wherein the rewards server maintains an account associated with a user at the one or more gaming machines and wherein winnings from the one or more gaming machines of the user are deposited into the account;
- wherein identification of a bonus-qualified user at one of the one or more gaming machines causes an authorization of debiting of an account of the user at the rewards server, upon successful qualification for a bonus mode involving at least another of the one or more gaming machines;
- wherein identification of the bonus-qualified user also causes initiation of a game history ID reflective of transactions of the bonus game;
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- wherein the authorization and the game history ID is sent to the one of the one or more gaming machines from the rewards server when the bonus game is initiated.
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A networked gaming system comprising:
- one or more gaming machines;
- a rewards server coupled to the one or more gaming machines, wherein the rewards server maintains an account associated with a user at the one or more gaming machines and wherein winnings from the one or more gaming machines of the user are deposited into the account;
- wherein identification of a bonus-qualified user at one of the one or more gaming machines causes an authorization of debiting of an account of the user at the rewards server, upon successful qualification for a bonus mode involving at least another of the one or more gaming machines;
- and
- wherein identification of the bonus-qualified user also causes initiation of a game history ID reflective of transactions of the bonus game.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.