Networked Gaming System State Transfer and Feature Value Matching
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current gaming systems lack the ability to seamlessly transfer and apply saved game states across different gaming devices with varying configurations, limiting player flexibility and utility in redeeming earned feature opportunities.
Innovation Solution
A networked system that allows players to save and transfer feature opportunities between gaming devices, using a backend computer to manage and validate feature values, enabling play on devices with different configurations by selecting a corresponding feature value that matches the saved value, ensuring consistent gameplay experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If game states are saved and transferred between different gaming devices, then player flexibility and utility are enhanced, but ensuring consistent RTP contributions across devices with varying configurations becomes complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a backend server as an intermediary that mediates between the player's saved game state and the target gaming device. The server validates the feature opportunity, determines compatibility with the target device's configuration, and manages the transfer process. This intermediary approach enables cross-device transfer while maintaining RTP consistency, as the server ensures the transferred feature aligns with the target device's mathematical model before activation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system adjusts parameters of the feature opportunity based on the target device's configuration. When a game state is transferred, the backend server modifies relevant parameters (such as feature values, award structures, or play conditions) to ensure the transferred feature conforms to the target device's RTP model and configuration settings, thereby maintaining mathematical integrity across different devices.
2Adaptability or versatility
If feature opportunities are transferred to devices with different configurations, then device versatility is improved, but maintaining consistent RTP contributions becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The backend server implements a feedback mechanism that continuously monitors and validates feature opportunities during transfer. The server compares the saved feature parameters against the target device's configuration and RTP model, providing feedback to adjust or reject transfers that would compromise RTP consistency. This feedback loop ensures that only compatible feature opportunities are activated on target devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts feature parameters based on the target device's configuration to maintain consistent RTP contributions. The backend server calculates necessary parameter modifications and applies them to the transferred feature opportunity, ensuring mathematical equivalence across different device configurations while preserving the player's earned entitlement.
3Ease of operation
If game states are saved for later play, then player convenience is improved, but validation and matching of feature values across different devices becomes complex
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements self-service mechanisms where the backend server automatically performs validation, compatibility checking, and parameter matching when a player attempts to transfer a saved game state. The server independently verifies the feature opportunity against the target device's configuration and activates it if compatible, eliminating the need for manual intervention and reducing operational complexity for players while maintaining rigorous validation standards.
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention provides a gaming apparatus, method and system for transferring the play of a feature earned from one gaming machine, provided as a system bonus or as a promotional award to another gaming machine. The apparatus, method and system provides for selection between feature values FVA-FVX of the gaming machine.