Wagering Game Window Access Coordination
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Solution Overview
Problem
Wagering game machines struggle to effectively manage and coordinate access to various windows, leading to inefficiencies in content display and resource allocation, as existing systems often prioritize content from a single host over others, limiting the entertainment value and player engagement.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a display control process that manages content from multiple hosts, using templates and resource allocation algorithms to prioritize owner services while allowing guest services to display content when resources are available, and implementing lock mechanisms to prevent prolonged access by guest services, ensuring efficient and dynamic content presentation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a single host prioritizes content display on wagering game machine windows, then content management is simplified, but entertainment value and player engagement are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a display control process as an intermediary component that manages window access requests from multiple hosts. This mediator coordinates which host can display content on which window at any given time, enabling multi-host content delivery while maintaining systematic control and preventing conflicts.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically assigns window access rights to different hosts based on current game state, content type, and host availability. Rather than static single-host ownership, the display control process evaluates requests in real-time and grants temporary access permissions, allowing flexible and adaptive content display across multiple hosts.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple hosts can access windows simultaneously, then entertainment value increases, but resource allocation inefficiencies occur
Solution Approach 1:
The display control process implements a feedback mechanism where hosts submit content display requests and receive responses based on current system state. The process evaluates each request against existing window assignments, host priorities, and content urgency, granting or denying access dynamically to optimize resource utilization while enabling multi-host participation.
Solution Approach 2:
Different windows on the wagering game machine are assigned different access policies and priorities. The display control process treats each window individually, allowing certain windows to be more freely accessible to multiple hosts while maintaining stricter control over others, thereby optimizing overall resource allocation based on local display requirements.
3Adaptability or versatility
If guest services are allowed to display content, then content diversity increases, but prolonged access by guest services may occur
Solution Approach 1:
The display control process implements time-based controls where guest service content access is granted for specific durations or until certain conditions are met. This periodic action ensures that guest content is displayed for appropriate intervals without monopolizing window access, maintaining content diversity while preventing prolonged unauthorized occupation of display resources.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods coordinate requests to display content on one or more windows of a display screen of a wagering game machine. A display control process determines whether or not to honor a request to display content in accordance with an owner status of a window, a lock status of the window, a lock status of the wagering game machine, or a combination thereof.