Franco E Crivelli

Joseph Randolph Hedrick

William R Wells

Greg Parrott

Eric Meyerhofer

Gregory Hopkins Parrott

Essam Mikhail

Scott Timothy Gowin

John Leagh Beadell

Scott H Jones

Juan C Hernandez

Anthony J Frabbiele

Michael Thomas Garamendi

Robert H Carson, Jr

Craig A Paulsen

Rick Rowe

Stewart Thoeni

Marc A Espin

Bhavani Prasad

Mark P Mahaffey

Mike Garamendi

Matthew D Cloutier

Margaret A Jones

Stephen Gus Gill

Kyle Kaifesh

Gary H Sullivan

A gaming environment may provide a user with a community gaming experience by providing, via a first interface at a first gaming machine, a display of a wagering game to a first player; determining an initial game outcome for a play of the wagering game by the first player, wherein the initial game outcome is a losing game outcome; based on the losing game outcome by the first player, receiving, from a second player, a selection of an option to wager on a final game outcome, the final game outcome being based in part on the losing game outcome; displaying, via a second interface at a second gaming machine, the final game outcome to the second player; and providing an award to the second player based on the final game outcome.

Community gaming experience

A reel assembly for a gaming machine includes an inner drive ring defining an annular inner rim, an outer ring, and a support substrate. The outer ring is spaced from and coaxially positioned relative to the inner drive ring, and the outer ring defines an annular outer rim. The support substrate has opposing side edges each coupled to a different one of the annular inner rim and the annular outer rim. The support substrate extends substantially unsupported between the annular inner rim and the annular outer rim in a substantially continuous manner maintaining the annular inner rim spaced from the annular out rim.

Reel basket assembly

A motorized reel assembly for a gaming machine includes a reel assembly, and an encoder disc. The reel assembly includes a central hub defining a central opening and a pair of flange-receiving apertures on opposing sides of the central opening. The encoder disc includes a disc hub, a flagged exterior ring, and coupling flanges. The disc hub defines a disc cavity extending through a center of the disc hub. The flagged exterior ring is concentrically positioned and extends around the disc hub. The coupling flanges each protrude from the disc hub toward the central hub on opposite sides of the disc cavity. Each of the coupling flanges extends through a different flange-receiving aperture of the pair of flange-receiving apertures of the central hub and interfaces with a surface of the reel assembly facing away from the disc hub to at least partially secure the encoder disc to the reel assembly.

Reel basket encoder

A lighting assembly for a reel slot machine includes an interface board and a flexible printed circuit board (PCB). The interface board is substantially planar, electrically couplable to the reel slot machine, and includes a first electrical connection plug and a second electrical connection plug spaced from the first electrical connection plug. The flexible PCB defines a first end and a second end, the first end and second ends of the flexible PCB are electrically coupled to the first electrical connection plug and the second electrical connection plug, respectively. The flexible PCB bows away from each of the first and second ends to define a bowed primary face facing away from the interface board. The flexible PCB further comprises a plurality of light sources coupled to the bowed primary face. During use, the plurality of light sources selectively illuminate to provide lighting to a reel of the reel slot machine.

Lighting assembly for reel slot machine

A gaming apparatus is provided that has a display unit capable of generating video images, an input device and a controller operatively coupled to the display unit and input device. The controller has a processor and a memory operatively coupled to the processor. A network interface may be operatively coupled to a network and to the controller. The controller may be programmed to allow the user to: play a game, access the network, view additional data on the display, input player data into the gaming unit, create a player card, input an event bet slip and select additional information on the event underlying the bet for viewing.

Gaming machine with scanning capability

A gaming machine includes an electronic gaming module which includes a game controller, and also includes a separate security interface module which monitors door switches and various devices. The security interface module has a separate unswitched power supply and also has a separate communication connection with a backend system so that it can continue to communicate with a backend system even when the electronic gaming module is powered down.

Gaming machine security interface module

A machine having a card processing assembly. The machine has a plurality of card holders connectable to the card processing assembly. One card holder is configured to hold data cards associated with one condition. At least one other card holder is configured to hold data cards associated with another condition.

Machine having a card processing assembly

A machine having a card processing assembly. The card processing assembly has a card drive and a heating device. The heating device is operable to cause a human-readable symbol to be viewable on a data card.

Methods and systems for issuing cashless instruments and providing a printer interpreter for a gaming machine are disclosed. A printer and specialized printer interpreter (controller) are provided to facilitate the conversion of a specific credit amount to a currency amount in differing units (first form of currency), and the subsequent issuance of a cashless instrument reflecting that currency amount. Where the printer interpreter is reconfigurable, a second currency amount in different units (second form of currency) could also be selected. Multiple different currencies and their corresponding languages can be available to the printer interpreter, such that a given credit amount can be issued to a cashless instrument in one of many different currencies. Game execution operations of the MGC are isolated from the printer interpreter, such that recertification of the gaming machine or system is not necessary when reconfiguring the printer interpreter from one form of currency to another.

Printer interpreter for a gaming machine

A gaming apparatus is disclosed where the gaming apparatus may have a display unit that is capable of generating video images, an input device and a controller operatively coupled to the display unit and the input device where the controller may have a processor and a memory operatively coupled to said processor. The controller may be programmed to allow a person to insert an object into the input device, scan an image of the object, save the scan of the object to a memory, display the scan of the object, determine if the scan of the object is recognized, communicate to the player that the object is not recognized if the scan of the object is not recognized, allow the player to modify the scan of the object if the scan of the object is recognized, allow the player to approve the scan of the object if the scan of the object is recognized and store the scan of the object as approved by the player as an approved scan in a memory if the player approves the scan of the object.

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