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Dwayne R Nelson

Steven G LeMay

Kevin M Higgins

Patrick Danielson

William Brosnan

Cameron A Filipour

Jamal Benbrahim

Scott Timothy Gowin

Nicole Marie Beaulieu

Robert E Breckner

Warner Cockerille

Vincent Lai

Dwayne A Davis

Greg A Schlottmann

James A Vasquez

Jim A Vasquez

Erik B Petersen

Johnny Luigi Palchetti

Samantha Ascheri-Phillips

Andrew Kertesz

Derrick Price

Jeffrey Knox

Dennis Thomas Kleppen

Christopher D Carlisle

Warner R Cockerille, Iv

Jeff Mincey

Anthony R Escalera

David Haag

Jonathan Quitt

Suzanne O'Rourke

Steve G Lemay

Bryan D Wolf

Jeffery Shepherd

Larry R Hollibaugh

Alexey Kryuchkov

Steven Lemay

Richard E Rowe

Daryn Kiely

Andy Rodgers

James W Stockdale

William Chad Little

Xuedong Chen

Adrian R Marcu

Timothy Moser

Bradley Boudreau

Michael G Spendlove

Bruno Rittner

David Matthew Oles

Marc A Espin

Paul W Bolton

Richard Williams

Shuangliang Zheng

Andy Rogers

Suzanne Cockerille

Matthew Hiu

Dave Sharpless

Bayard S Webb

David Froy, Jr

Allan Snippen

Matthew Tarbox

Alfred Smith

Thang Doan

William M Salivar

Derek P McIntyre

Michael B Gardner

Greg Schlottman

Daniel J Kiely

Christina Spaulding

Alison Kenney

John Hurley

Curtis Baker

Chun Jia

Jennifer Hatok

Anthony J Baerlocher

Chauncey Warner Griswold

Cara L Iddings

Rick Rowe

Christopher T Brune

Craig Schaefer

Jacob Thomas Graham

Christopher Levin

Kenneth E Nelson

Janner Redera

Sean Gilliland

Rex Yinzok Lam

Gregory A Silva

Christopher John Richardson

Aaron P Taylor

Curtis L Baker

Ethan Edsall

Alexy Kryuchkov

Tyler Sorey

Cameron Rowe

William R Brosnan, Jr

Jacqueline Diane Alvarez

David Jenkins

Jeffery McIntosh

Julian Turner

Grace Elizabeth Cathcart Crosley

Joshua A Gentry

An electronic gaming machine includes a cabinet, a display mounted to the cabinet, a wireless interface for communicating with a portable electronic device, a network interface for communicating with a validation server, a bill validator coupled to a game controller configured to accept bills and printed ticket vouchers, and a removable cash box. The game controller includes a processor and a memory configured to control a wager-based game played on the EGM, redeem virtual ticket vouchers and printed ticket vouchers, receive an indication to transfer value to the EGM via a virtual ticket voucher, receive the virtual ticket voucher including a virtual ticket voucher validation number from the portable electronic device via the wireless interface, validate the virtual ticket voucher with the validation server via the network interface, deposit a credit amount associated with the virtual ticket voucher, and notify the validation server that the virtual ticket voucher is redeemed.

Virtual ticket-in and ticket-out on a gaming machine

Systems and methods that enable one or more users at one or more client devices interacting with a live streaming platform to make one or more inputs to potentially alter one or more game outcomes displayed in association with a streaming device that is also interacting with the live streaming platform.

Factoring inputs from client devices in a game outcome of a streaming device operating in a game streaming environment

Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to operating an electronic game according to a graph presentation representing a current state and possible future states for the game. Various embodiments described herein provide the player with a graph representing possible choices during game play with each choice influencing a future state and flow of the game. Embodiments allow player input as well as randomness to navigate the graph and determine the flow and outcomes of the game. Various embodiments determine how the player can navigate the graph, how the prizes are awarded based on the graph, and how the player can change the graph.

Node-based game evaluation and game play

Systems and methods that temporarily associate an award with a specific user such that during the temporary association, the award is only available to be won by that specific user.

Temporarily associating an award with a specific user

Gaming systems and methods that provide a symbol display accumulation sequence and a related accumulated symbol display use sequence, wherein the accumulation sequence includes an accumulation of symbol displays during one or more plays of one or more games during, and wherein the use sequence includes the use of the accumulated symbol displays.

Symbol display accumulation sequence and a related accumulated symbol display use sequence

A real-time environmental model of a plurality of shared virtual environments (SVEs) is provides, each SVE including a plurality of virtual persons and a plurality of virtual gaming devices. First display data corresponding to a first SVE is transmitted to a first player device, including user display data to render a portion of the first SVE based on a virtual orientation of the first player device and a virtual location of the first player in the first SVE. Second display data corresponding to a second SVE is transmitted to a second player device, including user display data that causes a display device in the second player device to render a portion of the second SVE, including a virtual person associated with the first player, based on a virtual orientation of the second player device and a virtual location of the second player in the second SVE.

Display of a virtual player in multiple virtual reality environments

Gaming systems and methods that provides zero, one or more social media benefits to a player in addition to any awards provided to that player in association with a play of a game.

Gaming system and method for offering social media activity in association with wagering

Gaming systems and methods for facilitating funds to and from an electronic gaming machine via a mobile device.

Gaming system and method for utilizing a mobile device to fund a gaming session

Gaming systems and methods that independently generate wager increases and associated wager increase displays for plays of a primary wagering game.

Independently generated wager increases and associated wager increase displays

Gaming systems and methods that utilize the results of one or more outcomes of one or more sporting events for a tournament. The gaming systems and methods display a video stream of a sporting event (such as a historical sporting event) for the tournament and determine the results of one or more plays of a tournament game at least in part based on such outcomes.

Tournaments based on sporting event outcomes

Systems and methods that utilize an electronic gaming machine to stream one or more events occurring in association with the electronic gaming machine to zero, one or more interested parties whom are remote from the electronic gaming machine.

System and method for streaming wagering games

Systems and methods that enable different users to obtain different outcomes in association with the same game streamed by a live streaming platform.

Individualized outcomes on wagers placed on a streamed game in a streaming environment

Systems and methods that synchronize the presentation of events on a client device with events occurring on a streaming device and being streamed to the client device by a live streaming platform.

Synchronization of events in a game streaming environment

Provided are systems for providing ticket and cashless discount offers. As system includes a processor circuit that receives, from a player, a request for a cashout that corresponds to a cash balance held by the player at the end of a gaming session. A cashout bonus status that corresponds to the player and to the gaming session is determined. A bonus portion that is based on the cashout bonus status and the cash balance is determined. The system transmits an offer message to the player. The offer message includes an offer to allocate the bonus portion and the cash balance to be spent with a predefined vendor that is associated with a game provider. If the player accepts the offer, the bonus portion and at least a portion of the cash balance are transferred to an account that is associated with the player and the predefined vendor.

Systems and methods for ticket and cashless merchant discount offers

An electronic gaming machine according to some embodiments includes a processing circuit, a display screen coupled to the processing circuit, and a transceiver coupled to the processing circuit and providing wireless communications with an augmented reality (AR) display device that is separate from the electronic gaming machine. The processing circuit displays a game element in a first screen area of the display screen, and transmits, via the transceiver, screen location data to the AR display device identifying a second screen area on the display screen, other than the first screen area, that is available for the AR display device to overlay AR graphics in a field of view of a user of the AR display device without overlaying the game element displayed in the first screen area of the display screen.

Augmented reality integration in electronic gaming machines

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Dwayne R Nelson