Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited

Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.

Donovan Meyer

Thomas Rizos

Rajendrasinh Banesinh Jadeja

Frank E Rodriguez

Victor Blanco

Michelle Cupersmith

Eric F Taylor

Steven M Santisi

Jeremiah O'Hara

James Urbaniak

Jennifer Pinder

Grant Nossier

Jon Hanlin

A robot management system (RMS) includes a plurality of service robots deployed within an operations venue that includes a plurality of gaming devices, an operator terminal presenting a graphical user interface (GUI) to an operator, and a robot management system server (RMS server) configured in networked communication with the plurality of service robots. The RMS server is configured to: identify location data for the service robots; create an interactive overlay map of the operations venue that includes a static map of the operations venue, overlay data showing the location data of the plurality of service robots over the static map, and an interactive icon for each service robot of the plurality of service robots; display, via the GUI, the overlay map; receive a first input indicating a selection of a first interactive icon associated with a first service robot; and display current status information associated with the first service robot.

Gaming service automation system with graphical user interface

A centralized gaming system is provided. The centralized gaming system includes a thin gaming device providing game play in a communal game and a central gaming server configured to: store a ball call for the communal game on behalf of the thin gaming device and at least one legacy gaming device; receive an outcome request message from the thin gaming device; allocate a bingo card to the game instance associated with the outcome request message from a card pool of predetermined bingo cards; evaluate the allocated bingo card based on a current state of the ball call of the communal game; determine a reward value based on the evaluation of the allocated bingo card; and transmit an outcome results message to the thin gaming device in response to the outcome request message.

Gaming machine and method for centralized gaming

Systems and techniques for providing flexibly reconfigurable meters on electronic gaming machines are provided; such meters may be considered to be 'transient' with respect to meters that are hard-coded into the electronic gaming machine operating system or platform software or wagering game software and may be reconfigured by updating one or more meter definition files. Some such electronic gaming machines may provide for automated output of meter information.

Composite meters for electronic gaming machines

An electronic gaming machine architecture is provided in which a gaming platform application and wagering game applications are executed in separate processes but may share access to common display windows; such display windows may be caused to be generated by the gaming platform application, which may then assign specific display windows to the various wagering game applications, along with window handles usable to direct graphical content thereto. The wagering game applications may then direct graphical content to the display windows, while the gaming platform application may retain control over the size, position, transparency, and/or z-order of the display windows.

Electronic gaming machines with out-of-process rendering

A robot includes a camera, a wireless interface, a propulsion system, a memory device, and a processor. The processor is configured to control the propulsion system to navigate the robot proximate a gaming device, initiate, using the wireless interface, a connection with the gaming device, request a data exchange with the gaming device, and receive, via the wireless interface and using a wireless communications protocol, data from the gaming device.

Gaming services automation machine with data collection and diagnostics services

A gaming device may be configured for receiving, via a user interface, user input corresponding to a request for play of a gambling game and for determining whether the gambling game is a base game or a sub game. Upon determining that the gambling game is a sub game, the gaming device may be configured for controlling a display system to provide a sequence of images corresponding to an instance of the sub game, for determining sub game data and sub game metadata corresponding to the instance of the sub game, for adding a sub game trace to a game history data structure corresponding to the sub game data and the sub game metadata and for adding a game round index marker to the game history data structure corresponding to the instance of the sub game.

Logging, recovery and replay of wagering game instances

A method of replay of a gambling game may involve receiving user input corresponding to a request for replay of the gambling game. The request may include a game round indication pertaining to an individual free game from within a feature game comprising a plurality of free games. The method may involve querying a game history data structure and retrieving game round metadata corresponding to the individual free game. The method may involve controlling a display to provide a sequence of images corresponding to the game round metadata. The sequence of images may correspond to a replay of the individual free game.

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Austin, TX, United States of America

Donovan Meyer