Gaming Device Simultaneous Win Signal Generation
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Solution Overview
Problem
In the gaming industry, achieving simultaneous and reliable random payouts across a group of associated machines is challenging due to variations in wireless signal strength, leading to inconsistent delivery of win signals, which affects the visual and aural impact and player experience.
Innovation Solution
A system of associated gaming devices with a shared database containing sequential winning numbers and pseudo random number generators, allowing for simultaneous generation of win signals regardless of connection to a central controller, using a comparator to match extracted and generated numbers, ensuring simultaneous payouts across all devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If wireless mobile telephone technology is used to connect gaming devices to a central controller, then device complexity and wiring requirements are reduced, but signal strength variations cause unreliable and non-simultaneous win signal delivery
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the win signal generation function from the central controller and places it within each individual gaming device. Each device has its own lottery drawer with a database of winning numbers and a random number generator, allowing it to independently determine and announce wins without relying on wireless communication with a central controller. This eliminates the reliability issues associated with wireless signal variations while maintaining the simplicity of wireless connectivity.
Solution Approach 2:
Each gaming device is made self-sufficient by equipping it with its own lottery drawer, database of winning numbers, and random number generator. The devices independently manage their own win determination and announcement functions, eliminating dependency on central controller communication and ensuring reliable simultaneous win delivery regardless of wireless signal conditions.
2Reliability
If a central controller is used to generate and distribute win signals, then simultaneous payouts can be achieved, but the system becomes dependent on stable wireless connections which are not always reliable
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the win signal generation capability from the central controller and distributes it to individual gaming devices. Each device contains its own lottery drawer with a database of winning numbers and a random number generator, enabling independent win determination. This eliminates the need for stable wireless connections to a central controller while maintaining the ability to achieve simultaneous payouts across multiple devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements copies of the lottery drawer system in each gaming device. Each device has its own database of winning numbers and random number generator, creating independent but synchronized win determination capabilities. This copying approach allows simultaneous payouts without requiring all devices to be connected to a central controller, as each device can independently generate and announce wins based on the same predetermined winning numbers.
3Adaptability or versatility
If wireless links are used for connecting gaming devices, then installation flexibility is improved, but signal variations cause some devices to miss or delay win signals
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the win signal generation function from the central controller and places it within each individual gaming device. Each device has its own lottery drawer with a database of winning numbers and a random number generator, allowing it to independently determine and announce wins without relying on wireless communication with a central controller. This maintains installation flexibility while ensuring reliable win signal delivery.
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AI summary
A group of associated gaming devices each having a lottery drawer including a database having a plurality of entries each entry containing one or more winning numbers associated with a predetermined time interval, and a pseudo random number generator for generating pseudo random numbers from a seed supplied by the database, and a clock for extracting the winning number or numbers from an entry of the database for the time interval indicated by the clock, and a comparator for at least one receiving of the extracted winning number or numbers and at least one number generated by the pseudo random generator, wherein the comparator is adapted for generating a win signal when the extracted winning number and the generated pseudo random number match; and wherein all of the associated gaming devices include identical databases having the plurality of entries and pseudo random number generators whereby win signals are generated simultaneously.