Gaming System Bonus Probability Metering
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing gaming systems fail to accurately reflect players' wagering activity in group bonus games, leading to skewed participation and award distribution, as players maintain minimum wagers to remain eligible rather than engaging at their actual level of play.
Innovation Solution
A gaming system that uses multiple pool-based or meter-based systems to determine each player's probability of winning a group bonus event award, based on their wagering history, frequency, and time, maintaining separate total and recent play meters to differentiate players' contributions and engagement levels.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If a single pool-based system is used to determine bonus game eligibility, then all players remain eligible by maintaining minimum wagers, but the system fails to accurately reflect players' actual wagering activity and engagement levels
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the single pool-based system into multiple separate pools (total play pool and recent play pool), each tracking different aspects of wagering activity. This segmentation allows the system to capture both historical engagement and current activity levels, providing a more accurate measurement of player involvement without requiring a single complex eligibility determination system.
2Ease of operation
If players maintain minimum wagers to remain eligible for group bonus games, then all players can participate, but award distribution becomes skewed and does not reflect actual engagement levels
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the gaming system continuously monitors and compares wagering activity across multiple pools, then uses this information to dynamically adjust bonus game eligibility and award distribution. This feedback loop ensures that players who actively wager receive appropriate recognition and rewards, while maintaining clear communication to players about how their activity levels affect their bonus game opportunities.
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AI summary
A gaming system and method including providing a community or group bonus event to a plurality of players at a plurality of gaming devices. For each of the players determined as eligible to participate in a triggered group bonus event, the gaming system determines that player's relative probability of winning a group bonus event award in the triggered bonus event. In one such embodiment, each player's relative probability of winning the group bonus event award is based on that player's wagering history, such as any amounts wagered by that player, the frequency of placing such wagers and/or frequency of not placing any wagers.