Gaming Device Payout Management via Segmented Credit Balances

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Solution Overview

Problem

Players in gaming devices often lose interest or stop playing due to unsatisfactory payout structures, and casinos face challenges in managing risk and determining optimal maximum payouts for game segments, as existing systems do not effectively encourage continued play or allow for recouping losses or resetting credit balances.

Innovation Solution

A method that determines game play outcomes using random numbers, allowing for payouts based on previous outcomes and buy-in amounts, with the option to reset credit balances and manage maximum payouts within game segments to maintain player engagement and control risk.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If maximum payouts are set high to increase player engagement, then player satisfaction improves, but casino risk increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveplayer engagementVSAvoidcasino risk

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The game segment is divided into multiple individual games, and the maximum payout is segmented across these games. The system tracks cumulative payouts within the segment and ensures the total does not exceed the predetermined maximum, allowing high engagement potential while controlling overall risk through progressive distribution.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The maximum payout amount is predetermined and established before the game segment begins. This preliminary setting of the payout ceiling allows the casino to control risk in advance while still providing players with the opportunity to achieve high payouts through successful play within the segment.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If credit balances are reset to encourage continued play, then player engagement improves, but payout management complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveplayer engagementVSAvoidpayout management

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system provides continuous feedback to the player by displaying the current cumulative payout amount and the remaining amount available to be won within the segment. This feedback mechanism guides player decisions and simplifies management by making the payout state transparent and predictable.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The credit balance is dynamically adjusted based on the cumulative payout tracking. The system automatically manages the balance throughout the segment, allowing flexibility in payout distribution while maintaining control through the predetermined maximum limit.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS10482709B2Apparatus, systems and methods for facilitating a payout of a gaming device

Publication Date: 2019.11.19 INTERNATIONAL GAME TECHNOLOGY INC

AI summary

In accordance with some embodiments, a method provides for determining that a qualifying outcome has been obtained as a result of a game play conducted on a gaming device and determining a buy-in amount for a current play session in which the game play is included. The method further provides for setting, in response to the obtainment of the qualifying outcome, a credit meter balance to the buy-in amount, thereby providing a payout for the qualifying outcome.