Electronic gaming device with call tower functionality

• US 10,403,085 B2
• Filed: 05/30/2018
• Issued: 09/03/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AGS LLC (PlayAGS, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AGS LLC (PlayAGS, Inc.)
• Inventors: Calhoun, Rachel Marie, Scott, Ian Robert, Zedell, Karl Frederick, Harden, Daniel Kendall
• Primary Examiner(s): Yen, Jason T
• Application Number:
  US15/992,888
• Publication Number:
  US 20190057574A1
• Time in Patent Office: 461 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3202 Hardware aspects of a gaming system, e.g. components, construction, architecture thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3211 Display means
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/323 wherein the player is informed, e.g. advertisements, odds, instructions
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3241 Security aspects of a gaming system, e.g. detecting cheating, device integrity, surveillance computer security G06F21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3255 Incentive, loyalty and/or promotion schemes, e.g. comps, gaming associated with a purchase, gaming funded by advertisements

Abstract

Examples disclosed herein relate to a gaming device including a memory, a processor, a display, and a call tower including a first plate, a second plate, a third plate, and a call tower display screen and/or a plurality of external lights located at an outer area of a front surface of the gaming device, forming a u-shape with a left side, a right side, and a bottom each comprising a light column. The gaming device includes a processor which presents a game via the display.

Claims

1. An electronic gaming device comprising:

a gaming cabinet having a front and a back;

at least one display device disposed on the front of the gaming cabinet;

a call tower comprising a plurality of plates, each of the plurality of plates being cantilevered from a support column extending upwardly from a top of the gaming device, each of the plurality of plates being connected to the support column at a rear side and extending towards the front of the gaming cabinet.

2. The electronic gaming device of claim 1, wherein the plurality of plates are not enclosed above the gaming cabinet.

3. The electronic gaming device of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of plates are each generally rectangular and have a pair of opposing longer sides and a pair of opposing shorter sides.

4. The electronic gaming device of claim 3, wherein one of the longer sides comprises the rear side and the shorter sides of the plurality of plates extend in a direction from the front to the back of the gaming cabinet.

5. The electronic gaming device of claim 1, wherein the plurality of plates are spaced apart from one another.

6. The electronic gaming device of claim 1, further comprising a processor, the processor being configured to light the plurality of plates in a predetermined pattern.

7. The electronic gaming device of claim 6, wherein the processor lights the plurality of plates in response to a triggering event.

8. The electronic gaming device of claim 7, wherein the plurality of plates are internally illuminated.

9. The electronic gaming device of claim 1, wherein the support column extends upwardly above a top of the at least one display device, the top of the display device positioned above a top of the gaming cabinet.

10. The electronic gaming device of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of plates are positioned in a plane which extends generally parallel to a top of the gaming cabinet.

11. A call tower for an electronic gaming device comprising:

a first light plate;

a second light plate; and

a support column mounted to the electronic gaming device and extending upwardly above a top of the gaming device, the first and second light plates being cantilevered from the support column on a rear side of the first and second light plates, and the first and second light plates extending from the support column towards a front of the gaming device.

12. The call tower of claim 11, wherein the first and second light plates are not enclosed.

13. The call tower of claim 11, wherein the first and second light plates are each generally rectangular and have a pair of opposing longer sides and a pair of opposing shorter sides.

14. The call tower of claim 13, wherein one of the longer sides comprises the rear side and the shorter sides of the first and second light plates extend in a direction from the front to a back of the gaming device.

15. The call tower of claim 11, wherein the first and second light plates are spaced apart from one another.

16. The call tower of claim 11, wherein at least one light source is associated with the support column and transmits light into at least one of the first and second light plates at the rear side at one or more times.

17. The call tower of claim 16, wherein a portion of the support column between the first and second light plates is opaque to prevent the at least one light source from emitting light in the space between the light plates.

18. The call tower of claim 11, further comprising a processor, the processor being configured to light the first and second light plates in a predetermined pattern.

19. The call tower of claim 18, wherein the processor lights the first and second light plates in response to a triggering event.