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US 8545317
Gaming system and method
Current assignee: Epic Tech LLC
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Patent summary
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Patent Overview: US 8,545,317 B2
Title: Gaming system and method
Patent Number: US 8,545,317 B2
Inventors: Bob Mosley and Troy Jungmann
Original Assignee: Gateway Systems LLC (later listings: Epic Tech LLC; Gateway Systems LLC)
Application Number: US 13/617,105
Filing Date: September 14, 2012
Priority Date: December 4, 2011 (per the listing)
Publication Date: October 1, 2013
Status: Expired – Fee Related; anticipated expiration 2032-03-20
Classification: G07F 17/32 and subclasses (coin-freed gaming apparatus; game play aspects; multi-player games).
Purpose: Existing electronic sweepstakes games let a player reveal a prize tied to a sweepstakes entry ticket via a pleasing display, but they "do not always keep the player engaged." The disclosed system and methods "recognize and address the foregoing considerations, and others, of prior art system and methods."
Plain-language scope (per the supplied excerpt): A computer-implemented method lets a user play an electronic game at a terminal. Steps include: receiving a player request to play; facilitating play of the game; establishing a bonus time period for the player; receiving an indication that play of a second game occurs at a particular point in time; determining whether the bonus time period runs coincident with that point in time; determining whether the second game results in a prize; and, if both conditions hold, awarding at least a portion of the prize to the player.
Further disclosed features: triggering play of the second game; capturing an image of a player's display if the bonus time period is coincident, and storing it on the terminal; notifying the player of the award; decrementing the bonus time period; incrementing it when additional play requests are received; and receiving requests from multiple players to play a game.
Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/US8545317/en
What the excerpt does not establish: The full claim set, dependent-claim specifics, complete written description and drawings, and any independent claims beyond the described method.
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