System and method of pausing and restarting wagering games
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Abstract
A system and method permit pausing/saving a game and restarting/restoring a game. In one embodiment, a player may pause a wagering game and then restart or restore that game at a later time and at the same or a different gaming machine. Game state information may be stored on a machine readable medium and then later read from that medium. Alternatively, game state information may be stored remotely from a gaming machine, such as at a remote server. The remotely stored information may be identified by information associated with a machine readable medium issued to the player or other information provided by the player.
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18 Claims
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1. (canceled)
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2. A method of permitting a player to pause an in-progress wagering game presented on a first gaming machine at a first time and resume said game at a later time comprising the steps of:
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generating game state information corresponding to a state of said game being presented on said first gaming machine;
storing said generated game state information on a machine-readable medium;
reading said game state information from said machine-readable medium at a gaming machine at said later time; and
utilizing said game state information to restart said game. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method of pausing a game presented on a first gaming machine at a first time and resuming said game at a later time comprising the steps of:
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pausing said game at a first condition;
generating game state information regarding said first condition of said game;
storing said generated game state information on a storage medium;
associating identifying information with said generated game state information;
utilizing said identifying information to identify said generated game state information; and
resuming said game from said first condition at a gaming machine based on said generated game state information. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method of pausing an in-progress wagering game at a first time and restarting said game at a second time comprising:
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pausing said game at a first time in a first condition;
generating game state information identifying said game at said first condition;
storing said game state information at a remote computing device;
storing information identifying said remotely stored game state information on a machine-readable medium;
reading said identifying information from said machine-readable medium at a gaming machine at a later time;
using said identifying information to obtain said remotely stored game state information;
utilizing said obtained game state information to restart said game from said first condition. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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