Electronic Gaming Device Multiplier Banking System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Electronic gaming devices lack innovative ways to enhance gameplay excitement by offering multiplier banking options, which could increase player engagement and modify winning payouts dynamically.

Innovation Solution

The electronic gaming device introduces a multiplier banking system that allows players to bank and utilize multipliers, increasing winning payouts and providing options to select and manage multiplier values, which can be used across multiple game plays, with the ability to set time limits for increased excitement.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If traditional electronic gaming devices are used without multiplier banking options, then the device structure remains simple and easy to operate, but player engagement and gameplay excitement are limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegaming optionsVSAvoidsystem structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The gaming system is segmented into distinct functional modules: a base gaming device, a multiplier generation system, and a banking system. This allows the multiplier banking feature to be added as a separate, manageable component rather than integrating it throughout the entire system, thus increasing versatility while controlling complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The banking system is designed to store and apply multipliers universally across different game plays and winning events. The same banking mechanism can be used with various game types and payout structures, making the system highly adaptable without requiring separate complexity for each gaming scenario.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiplier banking options are added to enhance gameplay excitement, then player engagement increases, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemultiplier management optionsVSAvoidsystem structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by automatically generating and storing multipliers in the banking system during base game play, before they are needed for payout modification. This automated preliminary action reduces the need for complex player inputs and manual management, simplifying the user interface while maintaining sophisticated multiplier management capabilities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The banking system operates autonomously to manage multiplier storage, retrieval, and application. It automatically tracks available multipliers, determines eligibility for multiplier application on winning events, and applies the appropriate multipliers without requiring complex player decisions or manual intervention, thus reducing operational complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Productivity

If dynamic payout modifications are implemented through multiplier banking, then player engagement and excitement increase, but the complexity of payout calculation and management increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegaming excitementVSAvoidpayout calculation system
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback mechanisms that continuously monitor the banking system's multiplier inventory and automatically adjust payout calculations based on available multipliers. When a winning event occurs, the system checks the banking system for applicable multipliers and modifies the payout accordingly, providing real-time feedback that simplifies the calculation process while enabling dynamic payout modifications.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The payout system is designed to be dynamic, automatically adjusting payouts based on the current state of the banking system. Multipliers are dynamically applied to winning events based on game rules and player choices, allowing the system to adapt payout structures in real-time without requiring complex pre-programming of all possible scenarios.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS8992300B2Electronic gaming device with multiplier banking
Publication Date: 2015.03.31 AGS LLC
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AI summary

Examples disclosed herein relate to systems and methods, which may receive primary wagers and secondary wagers. The systems and methods may bank a portion of a multiplier for future utilization.