Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – In a chance application
Reexamination Certificate
2006-01-10
2006-01-10
Hotaling, II, John M. (Department: 3713)
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
In a chance application
C463S021000, C463S025000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06984173
ABSTRACT:
The invention relates to a bonus feature in a slot machine. This bonus feature may be used in stand-alone slot machines as well as linked slot machines. The preferred embodiment is directed to a system of linked gaming machines. In one embodiment, each linked gaming machines operates like a conventional machine where the generation and display of certain combinations of symbols within a first group of combinations provide awards to the individual players whose machines generate such combinations. In addition to this normal mode of play, a bonus feature is added where the generation and display of combinations of symbols within a second group of combinations are used in the awarding of a bonus. In such a feature, the generation of a combination of symbols within the second group of combinations is used in a bonus award game. The display on each machine may be a video display that displays the main game as well as the bonus game. Since both games can be run using the same electrical circuitry (e.g., memory and a processor), no additional hardware is needed. A single machine, as opposed to linked machines, may incorporate all elements to play the main game and the bonus game. This is equivalent to a single machine in a linked system being operated.
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Crawford Curtis J.
Piechowiak Robert J.
Hotaling II John M.
Multimedia Games, Inc.
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