Embedded Gaming Interface System for Rich Interactive Content
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional gaming machines lack integrated, advanced user interfaces that can provide rich, interactive content, limiting player engagement and casino revenue due to the use of limited external components like keypads and 2-line LED displays.
Innovation Solution
An embedded user interface system within gaming machines, featuring a web content capable display screen, an embedded processor, and a dictionary extension, which enables navigation to web content, cryptographic authentication, and connectivity via I2C or Ethernet networks, enhancing user experience and security.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional external components (keypads, 2-line LED displays) are used for user interface, then device complexity is reduced, but user interface functionality and player engagement are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the user interface components (display, processor, web browser) directly into the gaming machine's main housing and system architecture, rather than using separate external components. This integration provides enhanced functionality including web content display, multimedia capabilities, and interactive interfaces while maintaining a unified system design that manages complexity through consolidation.
Solution Approach 2:
The embedded user interface system is designed to perform multiple functions: displaying game information, providing web content access, showing multimedia content, enabling player interactions, and communicating with casino management systems. This multi-functional approach replaces multiple specialized external components with a single versatile integrated system.
2Productivity
If additional features are added to gaming machines to maintain player attention, then player engagement increases, but device complexity and manufacturing costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The integrated user interface serves multiple purposes: it displays traditional gaming information, provides web content access for entertainment, shows multimedia content for player engagement, and enables interactive features. This multi-functionality allows the system to maintain player attention through diverse content types without requiring separate dedicated systems for each function.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables continuous player engagement by providing ongoing web content updates, real-time game information display, and persistent interactive capabilities. The embedded processor continuously manages content delivery and user interactions, ensuring uninterrupted player attention and extended gaming sessions.
3Ease of operation
If web content capable display and embedded processor are integrated into gaming machine, then user experience and interactivity are enhanced, but device complexity and manufacturing difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates the embedded processor and web content display system directly into the gaming machine's existing architecture, utilizing available communication interfaces (I2C, Ethernet) and power systems. This merging approach simplifies manufacturing by reducing the number of separate components that need to be assembled and integrated, while still providing advanced user interface capabilities.
4Reliability
If cryptographic authentication and network connectivity are added to user interface system, then security is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The embedded processor acts as an intermediary that handles cryptographic authentication and secure communication protocols between the user interface system and external networks or casino management systems. This intermediary approach provides robust security through dedicated security processing without requiring complex security hardware or multiple separate security systems, managing complexity through centralized security management.
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AI summary
Systems and methods for managing a limited-time bonus period are disclosed herein. According to one method, one or more triggering events are established for the gaming machines, wherein the triggering events are winning game outcomes. A gaming period is initiated on the gaming machines, wherein each gaming machine generates a game outcome. If necessary, a system host is notified that one or more triggering events have been satisfied. The gaming machines then receive instructions from the system host to initiate a limited-time bonus period, wherein the limited-time bonus period is presented on a player tracking and interactive system gaming devices on a selected number of gaming machines. A notification message is displayed on the gaming machines regarding the initiation of the first limited-time bonus period, and a prize is awarded if a winning outcome is achieved by one or more of the networked gaming machines during the first limited-time bonus period.