Residual Wager Transfer for Maintenance Compliance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Wagering game machines often accumulate residual wagers that are not divisible by the machine's denomination, leading to regulatory issues and operational challenges, as they cannot be removed from play until the balance is zeroed out.
Innovation Solution
A method to detect and transfer residual wagers from local to remote memory locations, allowing for their aggregation and utilization in wagering games, such as creating a jackpot or lottery numbers, while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements by maintaining records of these transfers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If wagering game machines retain residual wagers to comply with regulatory requirements, then the machines cannot be removed from play for maintenance, but this limits operational flexibility and maintenance scheduling
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the memory storage into two distinct locations: a first memory location that can be cleared and a second memory location that is protected from clearing. This segmentation allows the residual wager data to be preserved in the protected location while enabling the clearing of the first location, thus resolving the contradiction between regulatory compliance and maintenance scheduling.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a second memory location as an intermediary that holds residual wager data. This intermediary storage location acts as a buffer that preserves the required wager balance information while allowing the primary memory to be cleared for maintenance, thus enabling both regulatory compliance and machine removal from play.
2Ease of operation
If residual wagers are transferred to a protected memory location, then machines can be removed from play, but this requires additional memory management complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by automatically transferring residual wager data from the first memory location to the second protected memory location before the machine is removed from play. This pre-transfer operation ensures that the data is preserved without requiring complex real-time management during the removal process, thus reducing operational complexity.
3Adaptability or versatility
If residual wagers are aggregated across multiple machines, then new gaming opportunities can be created, but this requires complex tracking and transfer mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal transfer mechanism that can handle residual wager data from multiple different wagering game machines through a common interface and process. This multi-functional approach allows aggregation of residuals across machines without requiring machine-specific tracking mechanisms, thus enabling versatile gaming opportunities while minimizing complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
Techniques for handling wager residuals are described herein. Embodiments include a method that detects a residual from one or more wagers remaining in a first memory location for an electronic wagering game machine. The residual of the one or more wagers are transferred from the first memory location to a second memory location. Information about the residual is stored. The residual from the first memory location is cleared.