Symbol Progression Layout for Sustained Award Redemption
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing gaming systems limit the probability of winning awards with each accumulated symbol, as available symbol display positions decrease with each accumulation, capping the total award potential.
Innovation Solution
The gaming system employs different symbol display positions with distinct attributes, allowing symbols to be moved and redeemed in an ordered manner, ensuring availability for new symbols and maintaining the probability of winning awards throughout a sequence.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If symbols are accumulated in display positions, then the number of accumulated symbols increases, but the number of available display positions decreases, capping the total award potential
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from a static 2D grid of symbol display positions to a multi-dimensional system where symbols can be accumulated in virtual storage and moved along a progression path to multiple award redemption positions. This dimensional expansion allows the system to maintain unlimited symbol accumulation capacity while providing multiple redemption opportunities, effectively resolving the contradiction between accumulating more symbols and maintaining available display positions.
2Reliability
If symbols are moved towards redemption positions, then the probability of winning awards is maintained throughout the sequence, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the symbol accumulation and redemption process into distinct phases: symbol generation, symbol accumulation in virtual storage, symbol movement along progression paths, and award redemption at multiple positions. This segmentation allows the system to maintain complex functionality while organizing operations into manageable, independent modules that can be executed sequentially, thereby maintaining award probability without overwhelming system complexity.
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AI summary
Gaming systems and methods that accumulate zero, one or more symbols wherein the accumulation of one symbol triggers the movement of any previously accumulated symbols towards a symbol award redemption area.