Gaming Terminal Communication Features for Special Event Selection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing gaming terminals lack effective communication features to inform players about special events and additional wagers, leading to reduced player engagement and revenue for operators.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating visual and auditory indicators such as lights, banners, and placards within the gaming terminal to communicate the selection and activation of special events, ensuring players understand their additional wagers and eligibility for bonus or progressive games.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If communication features are added to inform players about special events, then player engagement and understanding are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces communication features as intermediary elements (visual indicators, banners, placards, audio signals) that mediate between the game system and the player. These intermediaries convey information about special events and additional wagers, resolving the contradiction by adding specialized communication components rather than complicating the core gaming mechanism.
Solution Approach 2:
The communication information is segmented into multiple distinct features: visual indicators on the player-input device, display banners, placards, and audio signals. This segmentation allows the system to convey complex information about special events through multiple simple, independent channels, improving player understanding without creating a single complex interface.
2Productivity
If additional wagers are required for special events, then operator revenue is improved, but player engagement decreases due to lack of communication
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms that continuously inform players about their eligibility status and the nature of additional wagers required for special events. Visual indicators show when special events are active, banners display wager requirements, and audio signals provide real-time information, ensuring players understand what they are wagering on and maintaining engagement despite additional wagering requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The communication features provide preliminary information to players before they place additional wagers on special events. By displaying banners, placards, and activating visual indicators in advance, the system prepares players mentally and informationally for the additional wagering requirement, reducing confusion and maintaining engagement while ensuring revenue generation from special events.
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AI summary
A communication feature or a plurality of communication features allows a player to know that he or she has selected a special event to be conducted in the wagering game. Generally, the player must meet certain criteria (e.g., play the maximum number of paylines) or, perhaps, make an additional wager to be eligible for the special event. The communication features may include (i) an indicator within the player-input device that is used to allow the player to select the special event, (ii) a banner that is displayed prior to and during the wagering game that indicates that the special event is activated, (iii) a placard that is displayed prior to the wagering game that indicates that the special event is activated, and/or (iv) the altering of one or more symbols that are used to indicate the randomly selected outcome of the wagering game.