Player-Specific Progressive Award Retention After Jackpot Reset
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing gaming systems do not effectively maintain an incremented award value for a specific player beyond the occurrence of a reset condition, leading to player fatigue and inefficiencies due to the static availability of progressive awards.
Innovation Solution
The gaming system introduces an award growth retention event that associates an incremented award value with a specific player for a limited duration, allowing the player to continue playing for the incremented value even if the award is reset, funded by supplemental awards or insurance policies, and displays different attributes to maintain player engagement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the gaming system resets the progressive award to a base amount after it is won, then the award pool is replenished for future winners, but the player experience deteriorates because the incremented value is no longer available to the same player
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by locking in the incremented award value for a specific player before the reset condition occurs. When a player wins a progressive award, the system captures the incremented value and associates it with that player's account, ensuring the value is preserved even if the progressive award resets. This preliminary capture of value prevents the deterioration of player experience while still allowing the award pool to be replenished for future winners.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the award value into two distinct components: the progressive award pool available to all players, and the captured incremented value associated with a specific player. This segmentation allows the progressive award to reset and be replenished for future winners while simultaneously preserving the incremented value for the original winner's future play, resolving the contradiction between pool replenishment and player engagement.
2Duration of action of moving object
If the gaming system allows continuous play for the incremented award value, then player engagement and session duration increase, but the system complexity increases due to tracking and maintaining player-specific award associations
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a copy of the incremented award value and stores it in the player's account rather than maintaining complex real-time tracking of the player's entitlement. This copy mechanism simplifies the system architecture by using straightforward data storage and retrieval operations instead of complex state tracking, while still enabling continuous play for the captured value throughout the gaming session.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements self-service by automatically capturing and associating the incremented award value with the player's account without requiring manual intervention or complex tracking logic. The player's account automatically reflects the captured value, and the system handles the association in the background, reducing operational complexity while extending gaming session duration.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the gaming system provides supplemental awards or insurance to fund the retained incremented value, then player incentive and continued play are enhanced, but the cost to the gaming system increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system changes the parameter of award funding by transitioning from a pure progressive pool model to a hybrid model that incorporates captured incremented values. This parameter change allows the system to provide player incentives through the captured value mechanism rather than requiring additional supplemental awards or insurance, thereby enhancing adaptability while controlling costs by utilizing already-accumulated award values.
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AI summary
Systems and methods that maintain, for a limited duration and for a specific player, an incremented value associated with an award, such that during the limited duration, the incremented value of the award remains available to be won by that specific player independent of any occurrence of any reduction of the amount of the award.