Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090124356 | Apparatus and Method for Controlling Prize Funds Won By a User in a Gaming System - Apparatus and methods for controlling prize funds won by a user in a gaming system are disclosed. The apparatus includes a credit meter memory ( | 05-14-2009 |
20100184506 | APPATATUS FOR DETERMINING THE AWARD OF A PLURALITY OF SETS OF PRIZES - The apparatus includes memory for storing prize values and an input device being responsive to a plurality of gaming terminals for providing an increment signal which adjusts an accumulated value. A comparator determines when the current prize value to be awarded, reaches the accumulated value generates an award signal and removes from the one of the sets the prize awarded. A controller responsive to the award signal determines if the one of the sets includes at least one remaining prize value and, if so, actuating the increment device to define the current prize value as the at least one remaining prize value. | 07-22-2010 |
20100197384 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE AWARD OF A PLURALITY OF PRIZES - Apparatus is disclosed for determining the award of a set of prizes where each prize in the set has a respective prize value. The apparatus includes memory for storing prize data indicative of the prize values in the set. An input device is responsive to input signals from a respective plurality of gaming terminals for providing an increment signal. An increment device accesses the prize data to select at least two prize values from the set to define respective current prize values, and is responsive to the increment signal for incrementing in parallel a plurality of accumulated values toward the respective current prize values. A comparator is responsive to the current prize values and the accumulated values for determining if one of the current prize values is to be awarded and, if so, generating an award signal and removing from the set the prize value corresponding to the one of the current prize values. | 08-05-2010 |
20100227676 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE AWARD OF A PRIZE - Apparatus ( | 09-09-2010 |