GAMING METHOD, GAMING SYSTEM AND GAME CONTROLLER

• US 20090325666A1
• Filed: 06/30/2009
• Published: 12/31/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia PTY Limited (Aristocrat Leisure Limited)
• Original Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia PTY Limited (Aristocrat Leisure Limited)
• Inventors: Salmon, Christian James
• Application Number:
  US12/495,072
• Publication Number:
  US 20090325666A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/16
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3223 Architectural aspects of a gaming system, e.g. internal configuration, master/slave, wireless communication

Abstract

A gaming method including: triggering generation of a game outcome for a game of chance, based on use of a communication network service by a user; determining any award to be made to the user for the game outcome; and making the award to the user.

Claims

1. A gaming method comprising the steps of:

triggering generation of a game outcome for a game of chance, based on use of a communication network service by a user;

determining any award to be made to the user for the game outcome; and

making the award to the user.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein an award is made to a user is redeemable for further network service use.

3. A method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the award is credit added to a user'"'"'s network service access account.

4. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the triggering occurs on access to a communication network service.

5. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the triggering occurs based on credit use for a service.

6. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the triggering occurs based on service usage time.

7. A method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising the step of notifying the user of any award made.

8. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the game outcome is generated based on a probability algorithm.

9. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the game outcome is generated based on a lottery algorithm.

10. A system for automatically playing a game of chance, the system comprising:

a game controller adapted to generate an outcome for a game of chance; and

a network service provider module in data communication with the game controller, the network service provider module being adapted to automatically trigger the game controller to generate a game outcome based on a user accessing a network service, and make any award for a game outcome to the user.

11. A system as claimed in claim 10, wherein any award made to a user is redeemable for further communication network service use.

12. A system as claimed in claim 11, wherein subscriber records accessible by the network service provider module are stored for each communication network user and the subscriber data stored for each user includes subscriber credit data.

13. A system as claimed in claim 12, wherein the award made is credit added to a user'"'"'s subscriber credit data.

14. A system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the triggering occurs on access to a network service.

15. A system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the triggering occurs based on credit use for a service.

16. A system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the triggering occurs based on service usage time.

17. A system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the network service provider module is further adapted to notify the user of any award made.

18. A system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the game controller comprises:

a random result generator; and

a processor implementing an outcome generator adapted to generate a game outcome based on a generated random result.

19. A system as claimed in claim 18, wherein the game outcome is generated based on a probability algorithm.

20. A system as claimed in claim 18, wherein the game outcome is generated based on a lottery algorithm.

21. A game controller adapted to:

receive a message from a communication network service provider indicating to trigger playing of a game of chance for a user;

generate of at least one random result;

generate a game outcome based on the generated random result; and

provide game outcome data to the communication network service provider, whereby any award for the game outcome can be made by the network service provider.

22. A game controller as claimed in claim 21, wherein the game outcome is generated based on a probability algorithm.

23. A game controller as claimed in claim 21, wherein the game outcome is generated based on a lottery algorithm.

24. An article of manufacture comprising:

a computer readable storage medium; and

executable program instructions embodied in the computer readable storage medium that, when executed by a computer processor, cause the computer to implement functions of a game controller adapted to;

receive a message from a communication network service provider indicating to trigger playing of a game of chance for a user;

generate of at least one random result;

generate a game outcome based on the generated random result; and

provide game outcome data to the communication network service provider, whereby any award for the game outcome can be made by the network service provider.

25. An article of manufacture comprising:

a computer readable storage medium; and

executable program instructions embodied in the computer readable storage medium that, when executed by a computer processor, cause the computer to implement functions of a network service provider module adapted to;

send a message to a game controller in response to user of a communication network service by a user, to trigger the game controller to generate a game outcome;

receive game outcome data from the game controller; and

make any award for a game outcome to the user.