Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – Credit/debit monitoring or manipulation
Reexamination Certificate
2007-08-22
2011-11-08
Bumgarner, Melba (Department: 3717)
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
Credit/debit monitoring or manipulation
C463S025000, C463S026000, C463S028000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08052523
ABSTRACT:
A gaming system comprising: a gaming machine and a server capable of communicating with the gaming machine is provided. The gaming machine comprises a receiving unit for receiving a game medium. The server comprises a plurality of first storage devices for storing a plurality of accumulated amounts to which predetermined proportions of bet game media received by the receiving unit is cumulatively added, a first lottery unit for conducting a lottery to determine whether or not one of the accumulated amounts is to be paid, and a first processor that operates to transmit an instruction for payout based on a result of the lottery and reset all accumulated amounts stored in the plurality of first storage devices when the instruction for payout is transmitted based on the result of the lottery.
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Bumgarner Melba
Hylinski Steven J
McGinn Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC
Universal Entertainment Corporation
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