ENHANCED METHOD OF PRESENTING MULTIPLE CASINO VIDEO GAMES

• US 20090118022A1
• Filed: 11/05/2008
• Published: 05/07/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Martin S. Lyons, Robert Linley Muir
• Original Assignee: Martin S. Lyons, Robert Linley Muir
• Inventors: Muir, Robert Linley, Lyons, Martin S.
• Granted Patent: US 9,858,580 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/42
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0255 based on user history
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3227 Configuring a gaming machine, e.g. downloading personal settings, selecting working parameters
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3239 Tracking of individual players

Abstract

A system and method for use with a gaming system operating in a casino environment utilizes a plurality of player terminals networked to a game optimisation server. The game optimisation server provides or allows a player to access multiple games on each player terminal and stores in memory a record of the games played on each player terminal 1. A player may access a first terminal and request a map of the casino environment. The first terminal may be a first player terminal or other device connected to the network. The request is sent to the game optimisation server which sends data related to a physical arrangement of the player terminals, and to the games recently played on the player terminals in a local area, to the first terminal. The first terminal displays to the player a map showing the physical arrangement of the player terminals and a game played on each of the player terminals. The map may include an indication of which player terminals 1 are currently being played and which are not being played.

Claims

1. A method for use with a gaming system operating in a casino environment, the gaming system including a plurality of player terminals networked to a game optimisation server, the game optimisation server for providing or allowing a player to access multiple games on each player terminal and for storing in memory a record of the games played on each player terminal, the method comprising:

allowing a player to access a first terminal and to request a map of the casino environment;

sending the request to the game optimisation server, receiving the request at the game optimisation server and responsively sending data related to a physical arrangement of the player terminals, and to the games recently played on the player terminals in a local area, to the first terminal; and

,

receiving the data at the first terminal and displaying to the player a map illustrating the physical arrangement of the player terminals and a game played on each of the player terminals.

2. A method, as set forth in claim 1, wherein the map is arranged on the first terminal in a manner that represents the physical arrangement of physical terminals in the casino in relation to the first terminal on which the map is being displayed.

3. A method, as set forth in claim 1, wherein the data from the game optimisation server is updated periodically and sent to the first terminal, the method including the step of updating the map with the updated data.

4. A method, as set forth in claim 1, wherein the data from the game optimization server is updated in real time and sent to the first terminal, the method including the step of updating the map with the updated data.

5. A method, as set in claim 1, wherein the first terminal is a first player terminal.

6. A method, as set forth in claim 5, including the steps of:

allowing the player to select a second player terminal from the map; and

,

changing a current game on the first player terminal to the game being played on the second player terminal.

7. A method, as set forth in claim 5, including the step of providing an indication of players playing the other player terminals displayed on the map.

8. A method, as set forth in claim 7, wherein the indication of players includes a name of the player.

9. A method, as set forth in claim 7, wherein the indication of players includes a unique representation of the player.

10. A method, as set forth in claim 7, wherein the indication of players includes a graphical representation of the player

11. A method, as set forth in claim 1, wherein players may be linked, the map including an indication of any player linked to the particular player or another player.

12. A method, as set forth in claim 1, including the step of allowing the player to add information to the player terminals on the map.

13. A method, as set forth in claim 12, wherein the step of allowing the player to add information to the player terminals on the map includes the step of allowing the player to tag player terminals on the map with one or more predefined tags.

14. A method, as set forth in claim 13, wherein the one or more predefined tags includes a favorites tag.

15. A method, as set forth in claim 1, the gaming system including a progressive system including a sub-set of the player terminals linked together in a progressive game, the progressive system including at least one progressive display for displaying the current amount of a progressive award, the method including the step of displaying on the map a location of the progressive display relative to the player terminals.

16. A method, as set forth in claim 15, including the step of providing an indication of the player terminals linked together in the progressive game.

17. A method, as set forth in claim 1, including the step displaying on each player terminal on the map is one of a current game being played and a previous game played.

18. A method, as set forth in claim 1, including the step of displaying on the map additional information about a current game on each player terminal.

19. A method, as set forth in claim 18, wherein the additional information a representation of how ‘

hot’

or ‘

cold’

that terminal is compared to a mean.

20. A method, as set forth in claim 19, wherein one of the player terminals of a predefined set of player terminals is marked as hottest.

21. A method, as set forth in claim 20, wherein another of the player terminals of the predefined set of player terminals is marked as coldest.

22. A method, as set forth in claim 1, wherein the map includes an indication of which player terminals are currently being played.