Telephone gaming device

• US 7,381,136 B2
• Filed: 01/30/2003
• Issued: 06/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Atlantic City Coin & Slot Service Company Incorporated (Atlantic City Coin & Slot Service)
• Original Assignee: Atlantic City Coin & Slot Service Company Incorporated (Atlantic City Coin & Slot Service)
• Inventors: Seelig, Jerald C., Henshaw, Lawrence M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Thai; Xuan M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): THOMASSON, MEAGAN J
• Application Number:
  US10/309,738
• Publication Number:
  US 20030100368A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,951 Days
• Field of Search: 463 16- 22, 463 25- 28, 463 30- 34, 463 40- 43, 463/1, 463/9, 273/138.1, 273/139, 273/143.R, 273/138.2, 379/93.13, 379/93.23
• US Class Current: 463/41
• 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
• 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 17/3262 Player actions which determine the course of the game, e.g. selecting a prize to be won, outcome to be achieved, game to be played

Abstract

A gaming device for playing a game by a game player. The gaming device allows the game player to place a telephone call. A controller generates a prize. Several images of persons who may receive the telephone call are displayed to the game player. The telephone call is placed to one of the images. The prize is announced by the selected image to the game player. A second telephone call is placed to a telephone number in order to select a multiplier. The controller generates the multiplier. The multiplier is the last digit of the telephone number. The prize is multiplied by the multiplier to obtain a total prize.

Claims

1. A method of playing a game by a game player comprising, not necessarily in the order shown, except that step C occurs prior to steps D and E:

(A) providing a video display device, the video display device being adapted to display an image of the game;

(B) determining a prize;

(C) providing a telephone;

(D) allowing the game player to make a telephone call, wherein the video display device shows a plurality of recipients of the telephone call; and

(E) announcing to the game player the prize over the telephone.

2. The method of playing a game according to claim 1, wherein the game player is allowed to select the telephone call recipient.

3. The method of playing a game according to claim 1, wherein a gaming device is allowed to select the telephone call recipient.

4. The method of playing a game according to claim 3, wherein the telephone call recipient has a plurality of possible responses.

5. The method of playing a game according to claim 1, further comprising generating a multiplier;

calculating a total prize, the total prize being the prize multiplied by the multiplier; and

displaying the prize, the multiplier and the total prize on the video display device.