Portable Wagering Machine Docking Interface for Game Event Coordination
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Solution Overview
Problem
Wagering game machines lack the ability to effectively coordinate game events between stationary and portable machines, limiting the enhancement of gaming experiences and profitability due to the inability to leverage combined resources for enhanced entertainment and functionality.
Innovation Solution
The integration of a portable wagering game machine with a stationary machine through docking, allowing resource pooling for enhanced game content, functionality, and hospitality services, including electronic funds transfer and group gaming experiences, via wireless communication and detection of game events.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a portable wagering game machine is integrated with a stationary machine through docking, then resource pooling for enhanced game content and functionality is achieved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs an intermediary docking interface that mediates between the portable wagering game machine and the stationary machine. This interface includes communication ports and resource sharing mechanisms that enable coordinated game events without requiring complex direct integration between the two machines. The intermediary structure simplifies the overall system architecture while enabling resource pooling and enhanced game content delivery.
2Adaptability or versatility
If game events are coordinated between portable and stationary machines, then entertainment value increases, but communication requirements and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The docking interface is designed with universal communication capabilities that can handle multiple functions including game event coordination, resource sharing, and data exchange between portable and stationary machines. This multi-functional approach consolidates communication requirements into a single standardized interface, reducing overall system complexity while enabling coordinated game events that enhance entertainment value.
3Productivity
If resources are pooled between portable and stationary machines, then profitability increases through enhanced entertainment, but loss of information about game event coordination increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms through the docking interface that continuously monitor and communicate game event status between portable and stationary machines. This feedback system ensures that coordination information is maintained and transmitted accurately, preventing information loss while enabling resource pooling for enhanced entertainment and profitability.
Data Source
AI summary
A set of one or more processor units detects occurrence of a first game event during a wagering game presented at a stationary wagering game machine. In response to detecting the occurrence of the first game event, the set of one or more processor units presents a second game event at a portable machine. In addition, a control input may be received at the portable machine. The portable machine communicates an indication of the control input, which causes occurrence of a third game event at the stationary wagering game machine.