Dynamic Paytable Award Shifting for Ranked Game Outcomes

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Solution Overview

Problem

Gaming machines provide static awards based on winning symbols or symbol combinations, lacking dynamic elements that enhance player engagement and strategy.

Innovation Solution

A gaming system that employs a persistent supplemental award dynamically associated with different ranked game outcomes, modifying its association based on events during gameplay, such as incrementing or resetting to higher or lower outcomes, thereby creating a dynamic paytable that enhances player anticipation and strategy.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If static awards are provided based on winning symbols, then the game structure is simple and easy to understand, but player engagement and strategy are reduced

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedynamic paytable configurationVSAvoidaward structure complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies dynamics by making the paytable configuration changeable during gameplay. A persistent supplemental award is dynamically associated with different ranked game outcomes based on game events, transforming the static paytable into a dynamic one that adapts during play, thereby improving player engagement while maintaining manageable complexity through structured rules

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the parameter of award association by dynamically reassigning the persistent supplemental award to different ranked game outcomes. This parameter change allows the same award to be associated with different outcomes at different times, creating strategic depth without requiring a complete redesign of the award structure

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

2Adaptability or versatility

If static awards are provided, then the programming and implementation are straightforward, but player anticipation and strategy are enhanced by dynamic elements

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvechanging award structureVSAvoidprogram implementation ease

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses preliminary action by pre-defining the persistent supplemental award and its potential associations with different ranked game outcomes. The system prepares the award structure in advance and then dynamically activates different associations based on game events, balancing implementation ease with dynamic player engagement

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements feedback by monitoring game events and using them to dynamically reassign the persistent supplemental award to different ranked game outcomes. This feedback mechanism allows the system to respond to player actions and game state changes, enhancing anticipation and strategy while maintaining a manageable programming structure

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS12536867B2Gaming system and method for providing dynamic paytable awards

Publication Date: 2026.01.27 INTERNATIONAL GAME TECHNOLOGY INC

AI summary

Gaming systems and methods which utilize one or more persistent supplemental awards to dynamically modify or otherwise alter one or more awards associated with one or more game outcomes of a paytable.