Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – Perceptible output or display
Reexamination Certificate
2006-02-14
2006-02-14
Jones, Scott (Department: 3713)
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
Perceptible output or display
C463S016000, C273S138100
Reexamination Certificate
active
06997808
ABSTRACT:
A gaming device which includes symbols having a transformation probability. The gaming device in one embodiment includes an activator symbol. When the activator symbol is displayed, a processor of the gaming device determines the transformation probability of each of the displayed symbols and randomly determines which, if any, symbols are to be transformed into wild symbols or other functional symbols based on the transformation probability of the symbols.
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Asdale Shawn Van
Kaminkow Joseph E.
Rodgers Paulina
Bell Boyd & Lloyd LLC
IGT
Jones Scott
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