GAMING SYSTEM AND GAMING MACHINES UTILIZING TICKETS HAVING A FEATURE TRIGGER

• US 20190012880A1
• Filed: 09/14/2018
• Published: 01/10/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Everi Payments, Inc. (Everi Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Everi Games Inc. (Everi Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Palermo, James, Richards, Timothy, Watkins, Brian, McHugh, Jim, Betts, Scott Howard, Dumbeck, Raymond
• Granted Patent: US 10,475,285 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3211 Display means
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3223 Architectural aspects of a gaming system, e.g. internal configuration, master/slave, wireless communication
• 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 17/3246 involving coins and/or banknotes
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3248 involving non-monetary media of fixed value, e.g. casino chips of fixed value
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3258 Cumulative reward schemes, e.g. jackpots
• 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 17/42 for ticket printing or like apparatus , e.g. apparatus for dispensing of printed paper tickets or payment cards
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/20 Automatic teller machines [ATMs]

Abstract

A casino gaming system includes gaming machines which are configured to accept and read tickets. The ticket may comprise cash-value tickets or non-cash value/promotional tickets. The tickets may also include secondary feature triggering indicia. The player may present the cash-value ticket having a feature triggering indicia or a non-cash value/promotional ticket to a gaming machine, such as by inserting it into a media reader such as a bill acceptor. Associated monetary value or non-monetary credits may be credited to the machine. In addition, if the ticket includes a feature triggering indicia, when such an indicia is detected, the gaming machine preferably triggers or initiates the feature.

Claims

1. A method of operating a gaming machine comprising the steps of:

reading at least one ticket using a reading device;

determining if the ticket includes at least one feature triggering indicia;

accepting a wager to initiate a wagering game through a player interface device;

determining a game outcome from one or more possible game outcomes;

providing an award based upon the game outcome; and

in the event that the ticket includes the at least one feature triggering indicia and the game outcome triggers a game feature corresponding to the at least one feature triggering indicia, providing a bonus award.