Gaming Machine Session Data Combination Across Multiple Units
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Solution Overview
Problem
Gaming venue operators face increased competition and need to attract customers with new game functionalities while ensuring the machines are user-friendly, and players are influenced by the features and presentation of games, leading to a challenge in balancing innovation with understandability.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that allow players to combine session information across multiple gaming machines using identifiers, enabling players to retain or discard session data and allowing seamless integration of play data across different gaming sessions, enhancing player experience and venue competitiveness.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If gaming machines provide new functionalities to attract customers, then venue competitiveness improves, but machine complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The gaming system is segmented into independent gaming machines that can operate autonomously while contributing to a unified progressive jackpot pool. Each machine maintains its own game functionality and complexity level, while the system as a whole provides enhanced versatility through the combined jackpot feature.
Solution Approach 2:
The gaming machines are designed with multi-functionality, supporting both standalone gameplay and participation in the progressive jackpot network. This universal design allows venues to offer diverse gaming experiences without requiring completely different machine types, thereby improving competitiveness without proportionally increasing complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If gaming machines offer complex features to influence player decisions, then player engagement improves, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The complex progressive jackpot feature is extracted as a separate, optional layer above the basic gameplay. Players can engage with the simple core game mechanics while having the option to participate in the progressive jackpot feature, thus maintaining ease of operation while providing engagement-enhancing complexity for those interested.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically tracking and accumulating jackpot amounts across the network without requiring player intervention. Players simply participate in games as usual, and the complex jackpot tracking and coordination happens automatically in the background, maintaining ease of operation while providing engaging features.
Data Source
AI summary
A method, gaming machine and gaming system is described that provides for session information monitoring. Session information is formed by monitoring play of a game by a player on a gaming machine. At the option of the player of the gaming machine the session information is either combined with session information from another gaming machine, or is not combined.