Smart Progressive Gaming System with AI Reserve Fund
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Solution Overview
Problem
In gaming environments, the rapid determination of gaming outcomes in slot machines and other electronic gaming devices can lead to situations where players feel cheated when they do not receive the same prize amount as their neighbors, especially in high-frequency progressive jackpot pools, due to the speed difference between electronic gaming outcomes and signage updates, causing dissatisfaction and potential loss of customer trust for casinos.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a 'smart-awards' reserve fund that automatically awards a matching prize amount to subsequent winners within a predetermined time span after the first winner, even if it means temporarily depleting the fund, to maintain fairness and customer satisfaction, with an automated learning machine adjusting the contribution rate to replenish the fund and set optimal balance levels.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If the gaming outcome determination speed is increased to enable rapid gaming action, then productivity is improved, but measurement precision deteriorates because players cannot perceive the actual outcome timing
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces signage as an intermediary between the electronic gaming outcome determination and player perception. The signage displays updated jackpot amounts to bridge the gap between rapid electronic processing and human perception speed, allowing players to visually track progressive pool changes even though the actual gaming outcomes are determined too quickly for them to perceive in real-time
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary updates of signage display before players can perceive the actual outcome. By updating the displayed jackpot amounts in advance of when players would otherwise perceive the timing, the system ensures that players see the correct progressive pool values even though the electronic determination happens too rapidly for direct perception
2Quantity of substance
If the jackpot prize amount is increased to attract more players, then quantity of substance is improved, but reliability deteriorates because players feel cheated when they don't receive the displayed amount
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a reserve fund mechanism that cushions against the risk of prize delivery failures. When a player wins a progressive jackpot, the system checks if the full displayed amount is available in the progressive pool. If not, the reserve fund automatically makes up the difference to ensure the player receives the complete advertised prize amount, thereby maintaining player trust even when jackpot amounts are large and frequently won
3Productivity
If the number of machines participating in a progressive pool is increased to grow the jackpot faster, then productivity is improved, but measurement precision deteriorates because the delay between hits shrinks below player perception threshold
Solution Approach 1:
The signage system serves as an intermediary that makes the rapid succession of jackpot hits perceptible to players. Even when electronic outcomes are determined in rapid succession beyond player perception capability, the signage updates display the progressive pool changes, allowing players to visually observe and understand that multiple jackpots are being awarded in quick succession
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AI summary
An artificial intelligence (AI) learning machine is integrated into a gaming system to adaptively learn to predict when and where excessive chronological clustering of winning hits is likely to occur for a progressive jackpot (e.g., a high frequency one) within the gaming system, to preemptively prepare for such occurrences by prefunding one or more smart-awards funds to cope with such excessive chronological clusterings of hits and to use the one or more smart-awards funds to pay off not-first-in-time winners with a same jackpot award amount as is paid to the true first-in-time winner of the jackpot if such runner up winners hit their respective win conditions within a predetermined smart-awards time span after the first-in-time winner hits. This can avoid or reduce feelings of unfairness by the not-first-in-time winners especially when the latter hit just a split second after the true first-in-time winner hits the jackpot.