Shareable Code System for Casino Group Gaming
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Solution Overview
Problem
In casino environments, limited access to gaming facilities due to capacity constraints or machine availability frustrates patrons who seek social gaming experiences, as existing systems do not effectively facilitate group interactions or shareable gaming experiences across multiple devices.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that enables the generation and sharing of shareable codes, allowing players to create and distribute codes that can be used across multiple devices, facilitating group interactions and enhancing the gaming experience by linking players across various gaming machines and mobile devices, with features like code parameters, expiration, and rewards for code usage and sharing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If casino capacity limits or machine availability restrictions are enforced, then operational control and resource management are improved, but player access and social gaming experience are degraded
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a shareable code as an intermediary mechanism that bridges the gap between limited machine availability and player demand. The code acts as a virtual key that can be transferred between players, allowing indirect access to gaming opportunities without requiring direct physical access to limited machines. This resolves the contradiction by enabling player access through a mediating artifact rather than direct resource allocation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates virtual copies of access rights through shareable codes. Instead of providing direct access to physical machines, the system generates replicable digital tokens (codes) that can be distributed and transferred. These codes serve as copies of access authority, allowing multiple players to participate in the gaming ecosystem without requiring proportional increases in physical machine availability.
2Reliability
If shareable codes are made widely accessible, then player engagement and social interaction are improved, but system security and code validation complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary validation by embedding verification logic directly into the code generation and distribution process. Authentication requirements and validation rules are established in advance during code creation, rather than being added later during redemption. This preliminary structuring of validation rules simplifies the authentication process while maintaining security, as the system only needs to check pre-defined criteria rather than implementing complex real-time verification.
3Productivity
If code sharing and group interactions are enabled, then social gaming experience is improved, but tracking and managing multiple player connections becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms that provide real-time information about code usage, player connections, and gaming status. The system continuously communicates with participating devices to update the central server on code redemption, player participation, and gaming progress. This feedback loop enables the system to automatically track and manage multiple player connections without requiring complex manual tracking, as the distributed devices actively report their status back to the coordination system.
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure relates generally to gaming systems, computational devices, and methods. An illustrative method includes receiving a code request message from a computational device, where the code request message includes information describing a code requestor and a code parameter defined by the code requestor. The method may further include determining that the requestor is permitted to receive the shareable code with the code parameter defined by the code requestor, generating the shareable code, storing an electronic record indicating that the shareable code has been generated, where the electronic record includes an identifier of the shareable code and an identifier of the code requestor, and transmitting a code delivery message to the computational device, where the code delivery message includes the shareable code.