Mash-up wagering game system for dynamic content aggregation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Wagering game machines face a challenge in maintaining player interest due to repetitive content and jackpot displays, despite offering various games and updates, as players become bored with the same entertainment formats across disparate casinos.
Innovation Solution
A mash-up system that combines data from multiple sources, including wagering game networks and external data providers, to create engaging presentations such as geographical maps, charts, and patron information, which are transmitted for display on wagering game machines and signage, enhancing entertainment value by showcasing real-time and historical winning events, jackpot information, and promotional events across multiple locations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If multiple disparately located casinos join their wagering games together to offer bigger jackpots, then the jackpot size and prize pool increase, but the content becomes more repetitive and players lose interest
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments wagering game content into modular components including base games, bonus events, themes, settings, and graphical user interfaces. These segmented components can be independently selected and combined from multiple casinos to create diverse mash-up presentations, allowing the system to maintain content variety while aggregating jackpots across multiple locations.
Solution Approach 2:
The system merges content from multiple disparately located casinos into unified mash-up presentations. By combining base games, bonus events, themes, and graphical elements from different casinos, the system creates novel composite presentations that prevent repetition while maintaining the aggregated jackpot value that attracts players.
2Adaptability or versatility
If wagering game machines are updated with new game themes, settings, and software, then entertainment value increases, but system complexity and update requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements a universal content delivery architecture where a single mash-up presentation can incorporate base games, bonus events, themes, and graphical elements from multiple casinos. This multi-functional system allows one presentation to serve multiple entertainment purposes without requiring separate hardware or software installations at each location, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining high entertainment value.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically assembles mash-up presentations by selectively combining content components based on various criteria such as jackpot size, game type, and player preferences. This dynamic content assembly allows the system to adapt and update presentations without requiring physical hardware changes or complex software installations at each casino location.
3Adaptability or versatility
If disparate casinos provide different displays to entice players, then player attraction increases, but information consistency and system management become difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces a central server or intermediary platform that manages the creation, coordination, and distribution of mash-up presentations across multiple casinos. This intermediary consolidates content from various sources, applies consistent formatting and rules, and distributes unified presentations to all participating locations, thereby maintaining information consistency and simplifying system management while preserving display variety through selective content combination.
Data Source
AI summary
There is provided a mash-up method, system and machine-readable medium. Data associated with a wagering game network is obtained, at a first location. A determination is made whether to mash up the data. A presentation associated with the obtained data is selectively obtained based on the determination. The obtained data is mashed-up with the obtained presentation. The mashed-up presentation is transmitted for display to a display device associated with one or more patrons.