Bingo Card Trade System Using Intermediary Server
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current networked gaming systems do not allow players to compete for prizes or jackpots while enabling the flexibility of replacing or purchasing additional Bingo game cards, lacking a robust card trade system.
Innovation Solution
A game server with a database and memory that provides electronic Bingo cards, allows players to trade Bonanza Bingo game cards through a graphical user interface, authenticates users, and manages new card distribution, ensuring secure and efficient transactions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a networked gaming system allows players to trade Bingo cards, then player flexibility and engagement are improved, but system complexity and security requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a game server as an intermediary that mediates all card trading operations. The server validates trade requests, checks account balances, processes card exchanges, and updates game states centrally. This intermediary approach enables flexible player-to-player trading while maintaining system security and integrity without requiring complex peer-to-peer verification mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the game server continuously monitors and validates trading activities, providing real-time confirmation to players about trade success, account balances, and card availability. This feedback loop ensures that the flexible trading system operates within defined rules and maintains game integrity without requiring players to manually verify complex system states.
2Reliability
If the system validates and processes trade requests in real-time, then transaction security is improved, but processing time and system load increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary validation checks where the game server verifies account balances, player authentication, and card availability before processing trade requests. By performing these validation actions in advance, the system ensures transaction security is maintained while reducing the time required for actual trade execution, as the heavy validation work is completed before the player initiates the trade.
Data Source
AI summary
A Bingo card trade feature is disclosed. This feature can offer players the option to trade one set of Bingo cards for another set of different Bingo cards. This exchange can cost nothing or an additional preset cost. These trades can be established through the entity hosting the game. The traded cards can be available for further trades for the same Bingo game based on the business rule set by the entity. The players can be able to trade cards up until a specified time before the start of the actual game. The players can also be able to trade a card as many times as they wish depending on their budget. In one specific example, a “Bonanza Trade” can offer the player the ability to take a daubed Bonanza card that was purchased, add a dollar and get two new Bonanza cards in exchange.