GAMING SYSTEM

• US 20110130198A1
• Filed: 11/30/2009
• Published: 06/02/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Gaming Support BV (Van Linden Beheer BV)
• Original Assignee: Gaming Support BV (Van Linden Beheer BV)
• Inventors: VAN LINDEN, Lucien M.
• Application Number:
  US12/627,422
• Publication Number:
  US 20110130198A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/27
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3244 Payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes

Abstract

A gaming system for playing one or more games, comprising registration means for registering data representative of non-winning outcomes of playing said one or more games, and bonus delivery means for delivering a bonus upon the registered data matching certain criteria, e.g. a determination that the registered non-winning outcomes match a certain number. Many options for a suitable bonus exist, such as an amount of money, a prize, a credit for further playing, an in-game enhancement and a progressive jackpot. In an embodiment the system comprises a plurality of interconnected gaming machines, the registration means being configured to register the data representative of non-winning outcomes from each of the plurality of interconnected gaming machines. Also a bonus provision device for use with such a gaming system, comprising the already-mentioned registration means as well as signaling means for providing a bonus delivery signal to external bonus delivery means.

Claims

1. A gaming system for playing one or more games, comprising registration means for registering data representative of non-winning outcomes of playing said one or more games, and bonus delivery means for delivering a bonus upon the registered data matching certain criteria.

2. The gaming system of claim 1, in which the registration means are configured to only register non-winning outcomes that meet certain predefined conditions.

3. The gaming system of claim 1, in which the registration means are configured to additionally register data representative of winning outcomes, and the certain criteria comprise a relationship between the winning and non-winning outcomes.

4. The gaming system of claim 1, comprising a plurality of interconnected gaming machines, the registration means being configured to register the data representative of non-winning outcomes from each of the plurality of interconnected gaming machines.

5. The gaming system of claim 4, in which the registration means are provided in a central computer in a network that connects the gaming machines of said plurality.

6. The gaming system of claim 1, where the bonus is at least one of:

an amount of money, a prize, a credit for further playing, an in-game enhancement and a progressive jackpot.

7. A bonus provision device for use with a gaming system for playing one or more games, comprising registration means for registering data representative of non-winning outcomes of playing said one or more games, and signaling means for providing a bonus delivery signal to bonus delivery means external to the bonus provision device that the registered data matches certain criteria so as to cause the bonus delivery means to deliver a bonus.

8. A computer program product for use with a gaming system for playing one or more games, comprising instructions for registering data representative of non-winning outcomes of playing said one or more games, and for providing a bonus delivery signal to bonus delivery means that the registered data matches certain criteria so as to cause the bonus delivery means to deliver a bonus.

9. A storage medium having recorded the computer program product of claim 8.