Bingo Mapping Server for Hybrid Gaming Systems

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Solution Overview

Problem

Electronic gaming devices lack the ability to seamlessly integrate bingo game elements into non-bingo games, limiting player engagement and variety in gaming experiences.

Innovation Solution

The integration of a mapping server within the electronic gaming system that interrelates bingo game play with non-bingo games, allowing for the use of bingo ball draws to determine outcomes in games like poker, blackjack, and roulette, enabling a hybrid gaming experience.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If bingo game elements are integrated into non-bingo games, then player engagement and gaming variety are enhanced, but device complexity and system architecture become more complex

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegaming varietyVSAvoidsystem architecture
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

A mapping server acts as an intermediary component that receives bingo ball draw outcomes and maps them to appropriate non-bingo game outcomes. This mediator layer allows bingo mechanics to influence poker, blackjack, and other games without requiring complete system redesign, thus enhancing gaming variety while managing complexity through a dedicated translation layer.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The electronic gaming device is designed with multi-functional capability to support both traditional non-bingo games and bingo-integrated games. The system can operate in multiple modes: standard poker/blackjack without bingo influence, and hybrid modes where bingo ball draws determine game outcomes, allowing a single device to provide diverse gaming experiences.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

If bingo ball draws are used to determine outcomes in non-bingo games, then a unique hybrid gaming experience is created, but the game rules and mechanics become more complex

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegaming experienceVSAvoidgame rules
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements partial integration of bingo mechanics into non-bingo games. Rather than completely replacing standard game rules with bingo mechanics, only specific outcome-determining elements are influenced by bingo ball draws. This partial action approach maintains familiar game structures while introducing novel bingo-based variations, making the hybrid experience accessible to players.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

3Adaptability or versatility

If a mapping server is added to interrelate bingo and non-bingo games, then integration capability is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveintegration capabilityVSAvoidsystem components
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The gaming system is segmented into distinct functional modules: a bingo game module that generates ball draws, a mapping server that translates bingo outcomes to game outcomes, and multiple non-bingo game modules that receive the mapped results. This segmentation allows each component to be developed, tested, and maintained independently, managing overall system complexity through modular architecture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS9039509B2Electronic gaming device with bingo poker
Publication Date: 2015.05.26 AGS LLC
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AI summary

Examples disclosed herein relate to systems and methods, which may utilize bingo mapping gaming options. The systems and methods may include bingo mapping functionality in a Class II environment.