Method for Generating Alternative Gaming Device Outputs

• US 20160371939A1
• Filed: 09/06/2016
• Published: 12/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/07/1997
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AIM Management, Inc.
• Original Assignee: AIM Management, Inc.
• Inventors: Okuniewicz, Douglas M.
• Granted Patent: US 9,805,558 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/162 Interface to dedicated audio devices, e.g. audio drivers, interface to CODECs
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3255 Incentive, loyalty and/or promotion schemes, e.g. comps, gaming associated with a purchase, gaming funded by advertisements
• 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 17/34 depending on the stopping of moving members in a mechanical slot machine, e.g. "fruit" machines

Abstract

A delivery method for providing supplemental slot machine output content through a slot machine has been developed. The method includes offering slot machine output content that has been tested by a gaming commission and offering supplemental slot machine output content that has not been tested by the gaming commission. A separation is maintained between the tested content and the untested content with a software construct that prevents the untested content from changing the tested content.

Claims

1. A delivery method for providing supplemental slot machine output content through a slot machine, comprising:

offering slot machine output content that has been tested by a gaming commission in a jurisdiction that requires slot machine output content to be tested by the gaming commission prior to offering the slot machine output content for public consumption;

offering supplemental slot machine output content that has not been tested by the gaming commission where the delivery of the supplemental slot machine output content is approved by the gaming commission negating the requirement for the gaming commission to test the supplemental slot machine output content;

maintaining a separation between the tested content and the untested content with a software construct that prevents the untested content from changing the tested content; and

executing the tested content and the untested content with a slot machine computing device comprising slot machine game logic circuitry.