Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – In a chance application
Reexamination Certificate
2006-04-28
2010-12-14
D'Agostino, Paul A. (Department: 3714)
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
In a chance application
C463S016000, C463S018000, C463S019000, C463S031000, C273S14300R
Reexamination Certificate
active
07850520
ABSTRACT:
A bonus feature for a gaming machine in which additional graphic features are caused to be displayed as overlays of the graphic imagery of a base game; said graphic imagery of said base game comprising symbols arranged in a first matrix of symbol containing elements, wherein columns of said first matrix are visible portions of a rotatable set of inner reels; said additional graphic features comprising symbols in selected elements of a second matrix of elements, wherein columns of said second matrix of elements are visible portions of a rotatable set of outer reels; and wherein predetermined arrangements of said additional graphic features trigger at least one bonus feature game.
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D'Agostino Paul A.
Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP
Konami Australia Pty. Ltd.
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