Cross-Platform Gaming Feature Sync Through Linked Patron Accounts
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Solution Overview
Problem
Gaming features across different platforms, such as brick and mortar slot machines, Facebook applications, and remote gaming servers, do not synchronize, discouraging patrons from purchasing or redeeming these features due to platform isolation and disparate math models.
Innovation Solution
A cross-platform synching system that authenticates user or patron accounts across multiple gaming platforms, processes transactions using credits or tokens, and enables corresponding gaming features on different platforms, establishing communication to synchronize features like bonus games, wild symbols, and progressive jackpots.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If gaming features are purchased or redeemed on a particular gaming platform, then the gaming feature is enabled on that platform, but the gaming feature does not synchronize across different gaming platforms
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple independent gaming platform systems into a unified architecture where feature purchase status, redemption status, and enablement status are synchronized across all platforms through shared databases and communication protocols. This allows a feature purchased on one platform to be automatically enabled on other platforms, resolving the information silo problem.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal gaming feature management system that operates across diverse platform types (brick and mortar slot machines, mobile applications, remote gaming servers, lottery systems, social gaming platforms). The system uses standardized interfaces and protocols to enable feature synchronization regardless of the specific platform, achieving multi-functionality across heterogeneous systems.
2Reliability
If different gaming platforms operate independently with disparate math models, then each platform maintains its own operational integrity, but feature synchronization across platforms becomes impossible
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces intermediary components including platform adapters, translation layers, and standardized communication protocols that mediate between independent gaming platforms with different math models. These intermediaries translate and normalize feature requests and status information, allowing platforms to maintain operational independence while achieving feature synchronization through the mediating system.
3Ease of operation
If gaming features are platform-specific, then each platform can optimize its own feature deployment, but patrons are discouraged from purchasing or redeeming features due to lack of portability
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-establishing account linkages, feature catalogs, and synchronization protocols across all gaming platforms before patrons attempt to purchase or redeem features. This preparatory work ensures that when a patron purchases a feature on one platform, the system is already configured to automatically enable it on other linked platforms, eliminating delays and manual intervention.
Data Source
AI summary
The gaming system can receive a request to enable a first gaming feature for a particular wagering game on a gaming device. The wagering game can be a first type of wagering game and the request can be associated with a first patron account. The gaming system can process a transaction to enable the first gaming feature for the first patron account. The gaming system can determine that a second gaming feature for a second type of wagering game corresponds to the first gaming feature. The gaming system can establish communication with the second gaming system and transmit a request to enable the second gaming feature. The second gaming system can enable the gaming feature. After determining that a predetermined period of time has elapsed, the first gaming system or the second gaming system can disable the first gaming feature or the second gaming feature.