Progressive Gaming System Integrating Prize Outcomes
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current progressive gaming systems lack innovative methods to integrate progressive prizes seamlessly with primary game outcomes, often requiring separate processes and complicating the creation and distribution of progressive prizes, which can diminish player engagement and excitement.
Innovation Solution
The system generates a set of primary game outcomes and associates a subset with progressive prize-bearing outcomes based on a progressive win frequency rule, allowing players to receive progressive prizes independently of primary game results, with progressive prizes being integrated into the game outcome set either simultaneously or in a two-step process, and their value calculated dynamically based on game outcomes sold.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If progressive prizes are integrated into the primary game outcome set, then player engagement and excitement increase, but the complexity of creating and distributing progressive prizes increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the primary game outcome generation and progressive prize determination into a single integrated process. The system generates a set of primary game outcomes and simultaneously associates a subset with progressive prize-bearing outcomes based on a progressive win frequency rule, eliminating the need for separate progressive game processes and reducing overall system complexity while maintaining player engagement
Solution Approach 2:
The primary game outcome set serves multiple functions: it determines primary game results, identifies progressive prize winners, and triggers progressive prize awards. This multi-functional approach allows the same game outcome data to drive both regular game play and progressive prize distribution, simplifying the system architecture while enhancing player experience
2Adaptability or versatility
If progressive prizes are awarded independently of primary game results, then player excitement increases, but the integration process becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the game outcome data into distinct components: primary game outcomes and progressive prize-bearing outcomes. By associating a subset of primary game outcomes with progressive prize indicators, the system can independently determine progressive winners without affecting primary game results, achieving prize independence while managing integration complexity through structured data organization
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses an intermediary association mechanism that links primary game outcomes to progressive prize-bearing outcomes through a progressive win frequency rule. This intermediary layer allows independent prize determination while maintaining a streamlined integration process, as the association is established through systematic rules rather than complex multi-step procedures
3Quantity of substance
If progressive prizes are calculated dynamically based on game outcomes sold, then prize value increases, but the calculation and distribution process becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-establishes the progressive win frequency rule and associates progressive prize-bearing outcomes with primary game outcomes in advance. This preliminary structuring allows dynamic prize value calculation based on game outcomes sold without requiring complex real-time computation, as the framework for prize distribution is already in place and simply scales with the number of outcomes sold
Data Source
AI summary
A system, apparatus, and method are disclosed that include generating a set of primary game outcomes with each primary game outcome being associated with a result in a primary game. A set of progressive prize bearing outcomes are associated with the set of first game outcomes according to a progressive win frequency rule. Each progressive prize bearing record is associated with a progressive win indicator and a progressive prize. A primary game outcome is determined in response to a game play request by a player. If the primary game outcome is associated with a winning result, the player is provided a corresponding award; independent of the primary game result, if the primary game outcome is associated with one of the progressive prize bearing records, the player is awarded a corresponding progressive prize.