Arrangements for awarding future prizes in an electronic game system

a technology of electronic game system and future prizes, applied in the field of electronic games, can solve the problems of increasing the cost of providing the game system, the cost of producing new games and game presentations, and the player may soon tire of a given game presentation and switch, so as to facilitate the receipt

Inactive Publication Date: 2007-12-20
MULTIMEDIA GAMES
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[0014]Because the invention may be implemented using one or more general processing devices, the invention further encompasses a program product stored on one or more computer readable devices. One preferred program product includes result program code and player station program code. The result program code is executable for awarding either a current result or a future result for each of a number of game play requests in the current game as described above. The result program code is also executable for causing each respective current result and future result to be communicated to a respective player station. The player station program code is executable for generating a respective game play request for a current game in response to a player input at a player station. The player station program code also facilitates the receipt of each respective current result and future result communicated to the respective player station, and causes the respective player station to provide a respective result presentation for each received result. A program product according to the present invention may also include future game program code which is executable for identifying a result in the future game to determine a value of a particular future result, or for revealing a result in the future game to reveal a result that has been defined in the current game for the particular future result.

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One persistent issue with electronically implemented games such as electronic lotteries, electronic bingo games, and even modern slot machines is that players may soon tire of a given game presentation and switch to some other type of game.
The cost of producing new games and game presentations greatly increases the cost of providing the game system.

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[0020]In the following description of preferred embodiments, FIGS. 1 and 2 will be used to describe the present invention generally, together with certain variations within the scope of the invention. FIGS. 3 and 4 will be used to describe a particular result awarding arrangement which, although not required according to the present invention, is particularly suited for awarding both current results and future results within the scope of the present invention.

[0021]As shown in FIG. 1, one preferred process according to the present invention includes receiving a particular game play request as indicated at process block 101. The process then includes awarding a result for the game play request as indicated at process block 102. The result awarded as indicated at process block 102 will comprise either a current result in the current game or a future result. The current result may be a winning result associated with some prize or a losing result which is not associated with any prize, ...

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A method includes receiving a number of game play requests in a current game from one or more player stations. For some of the game play requests in the current game, a result in the current game is displayed at the respective player station from which the respective game play request was received. However, a respective future result is awarded for some game play requests. These future results may or may not have any present value, but are in any case associated with a play in a game to be conducted at some designated time in the future and thus represents at least some potential value. These future results are communicated to a respective receiving player at the player's respective player station to advise the receiving player that they have won a chance to participate in a future game.

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TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention relates to electronic games such as electronic sweepstakes games and electronic wagering games. More particularly, the invention relates to a system in such electronic games for awarding prizes having some potential future value in addition to the regular prizes having some current value. The invention encompasses both methods for awarding future value prizes in a game, and apparatus and program products for implementing these methods.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]Various types of electronically implemented wagering games have become popular over the past ten to twenty years. These games include modern reel-type games or “slot machines,” video poker machines, electronic lottery games, and electronic bingo games. Electronic sweepstakes games have also proven popular. All of these games award prizes to the various players according to some prize distribution for the respective game. The prize distribution defines a number ...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): A63F9/24
CPCG07F17/3286G07F17/32
Inventor LIND, CLIFTON E.LIND, JEFFERSON C.
Owner MULTIMEDIA GAMES
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