SYSTEM GAMING

• US 20110269550A1
• Filed: 06/10/2011
• Published: 11/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LNW Gaming Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Bally Gaming Incorporated (Scientific Games Corporation)
• Inventors: Luciano, Robert A. JR., Kelly, Bryan M., Tallcott, Jeffrey C., Crowder, Robert W. JR., Lockard, Dennis W.
• Granted Patent: US 8,657,664 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/42
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/61 Score computation
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3211 Display means
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3225 Data transfer within a gaming system, e.g. data sent between gaming machines and users
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3244 Payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3267 Game outcomes which determine the course of the subsequent game, e.g. double or quits, free games, higher payouts, different new games
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3276 wherein the players compete, e.g. tournament

Abstract

A system provides a player tracking system and system gaming apparatus for playing non-base games by funding the credit side of a gaming cycle. The system further includes at least one gaming device having a base game. The player tracking system and system gaming apparatus includes a player tracking user interface. The player tracking user interface provides a player with an opportunity to select and play a non-base game that may be promotional-funded or player-funded.

Claims

1. A gaming system using a tournament score accrual engine to enable a player to benefit from multiple machine play, comprising:

a plurality of gaming machines, each of the gaming machines having a score for a tournament;

a communication link connecting the plurality of gaming machines; and

a tournament controller connected to the communication link, the tournament controller configured to execute the tournament, wherein the gaming activity from at least a first and a second of the gaming machines are combined into one tournament score.

2. The gaming system of claim 1, wherein the gaming activity from the first and the second of the gaming machines is associated with the same identified player.

3. A gaming system using a tournament score accrual engine to enable a player to benefit from multiple machine play, comprising:

a plurality of gaming machines, each of the gaming machines having a score for a tournament;

a communication link connecting the plurality of gaming machines; and

a tournament controller connected to the communication link, the tournament controller configured to execute the tournament, wherein at least a first and a second of the gaming machines are configurable to combine their scores into one player in the tournament.