WAGERING GAME HISTORY FEATURES

• US 20100190554A1
• Filed: 07/31/2008
• Published: 07/29/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/03/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LNW Gaming Incorporated
• Original Assignee: WMS Gaming Incorporated (Scientific Games Corporation)
• Inventors: Gagner, Mark B., Gura, Damon E., Rathsack, Erhard W.
• Granted Patent: US 8,727,884 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/42
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3202 Hardware aspects of a gaming system, e.g. components, construction, architecture thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3232 wherein the operator is informed
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3241 Security aspects of a gaming system, e.g. detecting cheating, device integrity, surveillance computer security G06F21/00

Abstract

This description describes techniques for storing and utilizing wagering game histories. In one embodiment, a method for recording progress of a wagering game can include detecting a first event indicating a first activity of the wagering game. The method can also include storing the first event according to a first data format and detecting a second event indicating a second activity of the wagering game, wherein the second event includes random number information indicating a result of the wagering game. The method can also include encrypting the second event and storing the second event according to the first data format.

Claims

1. A method for recording progress of a wagering game, the method comprising:

detecting a first event indicating a first activity of the wagering game;

storing the first event according to a first data format;

detecting a second event indicating a second activity of the wagering game, wherein the second event includes random number information indicating a result of the wagering game;

encrypting the second event; and

storing the second event according to the first data format.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

detecting a third event indicating completion of the wagering game;

after detecting the third event,

decrypting the first event; and

converting the first event, the second event, and the third event into a compressed data format.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein events in the first data format and events in the compressed data format are stored in different data stores.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first event indicates one or more wagering game activities selected from the group consisting of a wager, a game element selection, and a game invocation.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first data format is a clear text format.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the second data format requires less storage space than the first data format.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein events in the first data format are in a native database format, and wherein events in the second data format are in an archival format.

8. A machine-readable medium including instructions executable by a machine, the instructions for initiating a wagering game session comprising:

instructions for receiving a player account identifier and one or more authentication credentials;

instructions for contemporaneously verifying the authentication credentials and determining there is an unfinished wagering game associated with the player account identifier; and

instructions for procuring one or more events, wherein the one or more events include information for resuming the unfinished wagering game.

9. The machine-readable medium of claim 8, the instructions further comprising:

instructions for presenting a result for the unfinished wagering game.

10. The machine-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the one or more events indicate a result for the unfinished wagering game.

11. The machine-readable medium of claim 8, the instructions further comprising:

instructions for transmitting, to a wagering game machine, the one or more events for use in presenting a result for the unfinished wagering game.

12. The machine-readable medium of claim 11, the instructions further comprising:

instructions for determining other results for additional wagering games.

13. The machine-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the events indicate player inputs that have been detected and content that has been presented.

14. A wagering game network comprising:

a wagering game machine configured to report events associated with a wagering game and a player account;

a wagering game server configured to generate random number information in response to one or more of the events, wherein the random number information indicates a result for the wagering game;

a game history server including,

an event recorder configured to record the events and the random number information; and

a wagering game resolution unit configured to determine, based on the events, that a result of the wagering game has been determined but not presented, and to cause modification of a balance of the player account based on the result.

15. The wagering game network of claim 14, wherein the wagering game server and game history server are included in a single server system.

16. The wagering game network of claim 14, wherein the wagering game server and game history server are separate devices of the wagering game network.

17. The wagering game network of claim 14 further comprising:

an account server configured to perform the modification of the balance of the player account.

18. The wagering game network of claim 14, wherein the events indicate one or more selected from the set consisting of a wager, a game element selection, and a game invocation.

19. The wagering game network of claim 14, wherein the wagering game machine is a mobile model.

20. The wagering game network of claim 14, wherein the game history sever is further configured to encrypt the random number information.