Mobile Gaming System Central Determination Architecture
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current electronic gaming systems face challenges in providing improved usability and player experience while maintaining regulatory compliance, particularly in remote gaming environments, where generating and presenting random game outcomes efficiently and securely is crucial.
Innovation Solution
A mobile support system and method that utilize a processor-based system to generate and manage ball call information for bingo games, allowing for secure and scalable remote game play on multiple devices, including mobile devices, by decoupling the presentation of game outcomes from their generation and using a central determination system to ensure fairness and compliance with gaming regulations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a mobile gaming system allows remote game play with multiple funding options and dynamic player interactions, then player experience and usability are improved, but system complexity and regulatory compliance difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system is divided into distinct functional modules: a mobile device for player interaction, a server system for game outcome determination, and a player tracking system. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently while maintaining overall system functionality and regulatory compliance.
Solution Approach 2:
A server system acts as an intermediary between the mobile device and the game outcome generation. The server receives play requests from the mobile device, determines game outcomes using a random number generator, and returns results to the mobile device. This intermediary architecture simplifies the mobile device complexity while maintaining regulatory compliance for random-based game outcomes.
2Reliability
If a central determination system is used to generate and present random game outcomes, then fairness and regulatory compliance are ensured, but system complexity and communication overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The server system performs multiple functions: it manages player tracking, generates random game outcomes, determines game results, and handles fund transactions. This multi-functionality consolidates complexity into a single centralized system while ensuring fair and compliant game play across multiple mobile devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback loops where the mobile device sends play requests to the server, the server determines outcomes based on pre-generated random numbers, and returns results to the mobile device for display. This feedback mechanism ensures that game outcomes are determined independently of player actions, maintaining fairness and regulatory compliance.
3Reliability
If ball call information is generated and stored on a server for bingo games, then game integrity and randomness are maintained, but data transmission and processing time increase
Solution Approach 1:
Ball call information is generated and stored on the server before players place their wagers. The server pre-generates a sequence of bingo ball calls and stores this information in a data structure. When players place bets, the system retrieves pre-generated ball calls rather than generating them in real-time, reducing data transmission time while maintaining game integrity through cryptographic verification.
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AI summary
A mobile support system for providing wagering game play to a plurality of mobile devices is provided. The system is configured to receive a play request for the wagering game from a mobile device, where the play request includes a wager amount and represents placement of a wager for an instance of game play of the wagering game. The system generates an instance of game source data for the wagering game and identifies a game play data set used for the play request. Prior to performing a withdrawal transaction of the wager amount for the play request, the system generate a wager outcome for the play request by comparing the game source data with the game play data set. After determining the wager outcome for the play request, the system causes the withdrawal transaction of the wager amount to be performed, thereby completing a placement of the wager amount.