Unified Jackpot System Cross-Platform Player Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems lack a unified solution to track and manage personalized jackpots across various gaming environments, including land-based and online platforms, leading to inefficiencies in awarding and processing jackpot prizes.
Innovation Solution
A unified jackpot system and API that utilizes a gaming device identifier, contributor identifier, and player ID to seamlessly track and award jackpots across different gaming ecosystems, enabling omnichannel gaming experiences and linking player accounts across multiple games and platforms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If separate tracking systems are used for different gaming environments, then each environment can be managed independently, but jackpots cannot be tracked across multiple platforms and devices
Solution Approach 1:
The system employs a universal contributor identifier (CID) that functions across all gaming environments including land-based casinos, online social gaming, and real-money iGaming platforms. This single identifier enables the unified jackpot system to track player contributions and awards consistently across diverse platforms, eliminating the need for environment-specific tracking systems while maintaining reliable jackpot management.
Solution Approach 2:
The unified jackpot system acts as an intermediary layer between various gaming environments and jackpot tracking requirements. By introducing this central system with standardized identifiers (CID, player ID, GID), the patent enables seamless communication and data exchange across previously incompatible platforms, allowing jackpot tracking without requiring changes to individual gaming environments.
2Loss of information
If a unified jackpot system tracks player activity across multiple environments, then jackpot tracking becomes comprehensive, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The unified jackpot system segments tracking functionality into distinct identifier types (contributor identifier CID, player ID, gaming device identifier GID) with specific roles. This segmentation allows the system to handle different tracking requirements across gaming environments systematically, reducing overall complexity by assigning specific functions to each identifier type rather than using a single complex identification mechanism.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces a contributor type property parameter that can take different values depending on the gaming environment (land-based, online social, iGaming). This parameter change approach allows the unified system to adapt to different environments without requiring fundamentally different tracking architectures, maintaining simplicity while achieving comprehensive player activity tracking.
3Ease of operation
If personalized jackpots are awarded based on historical activity, then player engagement increases, but tracking and processing becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by establishing and maintaining a consistent contributor identifier (CID) for each player across all gaming environments before personalized jackpot calculations are needed. This pre-established identification foundation enables straightforward tracking of historical activity and seamless calculation of personalized jackpots based on that history, reducing the difficulty of tracking and processing engagement data.
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AI summary
The innovations herein concern flexible and omnichannel unified jackpot awarding systems. In particular, a hosted gaming service may provide a unified jackpot awarding system that is compatible and combinable with a variety of different gaming ecosystems, such as land-based gaming environments and online or “iGaming” environments. Specifically, the unified jackpot system may include a gaming device identifier (GID), a contributor identifier (CID), and/or a contributor type property to aid in the identifying and tracking of jackpots awarded, e.g., to multiple players playing on multiple devices and in multiple games across land-based and/or online gaming environments. Each player and device may be linked with their own gameplay session (e.g., via the use of QR codes, digital wallets, biometric information, or the like). With this linkage established, the unified jackpot system can track, monitor, and award jackpots to players using different types of gaming devices across different gaming ecosystems and/or different games.