Idt Corporation

Jae Man Yi

Steven G LeMay

David C Williams

Kurt Larsen

Richard E Rowe

Erik B Petersen

Richard Jay Schneider

Nicole Marie Beaulieu

Cara L Iddings

William Chad Little

Daniel J De Waal

Warner R Cockerille, Iv

Vincent Salvatore Manfredi

Adrian R Marcu

Jacob Thomas Graham

Bryan E Bullard

David A Gipp

Reid M Weber

Gregory A Schlottmann

Glenn Keith Russell

Kevin M Higgins

Glen Keith Russell

Gregory Hopkins Parrott

David L Salls

Zachery Tyler Wilson

Paul Heenan

Shenea Strader

Alejandro Parrilla Pereira

Shannon L Council

Shawn A Hupp

Gilbert F Leiker

Kimberley K Maya

Adam C Rud

Oscar E Salgado

Corey E Stisser

Gregory A Scholttmann

A method for tracking an event of an externally controlled interface (ECI) is described. The method includes generating the externally controlled interface independent of an outcome of a wager-based game regulated by a regulatory authority, and logging the event of the externally controlled interface.

Methods and systems for tracking an event of an externally controlled interface

A system for interfacing with a third-party application is described. The system includes a third-party device, a server-based system configured to communicate with the third-party device, and a gaming device configured to communicate with the server-based system to display content of the product or service. The gaming device is configured to generate an outcome of a wager-based game independent of the content that is displayed.

Methods and systems for interfacing with a third-party application

In various embodiments, the gaming system and method disclosed herein enables a player to allocate portions of a selected predetermined wager amount amongst a plurality of linked games. In one such embodiment, the player selects allocation percentages such that the total of the allocated portions according to the allocation percentages equals the selected predetermined wager amount. For each of the plurality of linked games, the gaming system determines and displays a game outcome, and determines and displays an award associated with the determined game outcome. The gaming system further provides the determined award for each of the plurality of linked games to the player.

Gaming system and method for providing plays of multiple games

Gaming machines, systems and methods for sizing or resizing visible reel symbols are disclosed. Gaming machines include an exterior housing, master gaming controller, display device and mechanical or virtual reels. Reels include a plurality of reel stops, each containing a visible reel symbols or a blank or ghost region. Visible reel symbols are expanded into adjacent reel stops, which can be ghosts or blank reel stops, such that blank areas are reduced. A reel configurator sizes or resizes the visible reel symbols, which reel configurator can be located at a remote host or within the gaming machine itself. A remote host can provide downloadable virtual reel strips and visible reel symbols to gaming machines within a system including processor-based machines. Resizing of visible reel symbols can involve stretching the symbols in a direction that extends into one or both reel stops adjacent to the reel stop containing the stretched reel symbol.

Reel symbol resizing for reel based gaming machines

A gaming system including a number of host devices each coupled to one or more gaming machines, wherein content provided by the host device is output on the gaming machine. To output the content provided by the remote host, a host-controlled process that is authenticated by the gaming machine and executed in a secure memory location such that it is isolated from other processes executing on the gaming machine may be utilized. The host-controlled processes can be executed on a processor-based gaming machine with layered displays. The layered displays may include a front screen and back screen that provide actual physical separation between visual representations on the front and back screens. The downloaded content from a host to a gaming machine with layered displays may be monitored to ensure that content needed for each of the display layers is received prior to instantiating the display of the downloaded content via the host-controlled process.

Multi-layer display 3D server based portals

Methods for emulating rotating physical reels on a display screen are disclosed. Graphics for 'static' reel symbols are intentionally blurred for those reel symbols 'in motion.' Gaming machines include an exterior housing, master gaming controller, display device and virtual reels. Virtual reels include reel stops, static reel symbols and corresponding dynamic blurred reel symbols. A blurred reel symbol generator provides corresponding blurred reel symbols for existing static reel symbols, and can be located at a remote host and/or within the gaming machine. A remote host can provide downloadable virtual reel strips, reel symbols and blurred reel symbols to gaming machines. The blurred reel symbol generator can accept manually entered blurred reel symbol images, and/or can also generate blurred reel symbol images itself in automated fashion. Blurred reel symbols can be generated on the fly at runtime, or can be taken from a stored location.

Reel blur for gaming machines having simulated rotating reels

Gaming machines, systems and methods for emulating rotating physical reels on a display screen are disclosed. Graphics for 'static' reel symbols are intentionally blurred for those reel symbols 'in motion.' Gaming machines include an exterior housing, master gaming controller, display device and virtual reels. Virtual reels include reel stops, static reel symbols and corresponding dynamic blurred reel symbols. A blurred reel symbol generator provides corresponding blurred reel symbols for existing static reel symbols, and can be located at a remote host and/or within the gaming machine. A remote host can provide downloadable virtual reel strips, reel symbols and blurred reel symbols to gaming machines. The blurred reel symbol generator can accept manually entered blurred reel symbol images, and/or can also generate blurred reel symbol images itself in automated fashion. Blurred reel symbols can be generated on the fly at runtime, or can be taken from a stored location.

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Reno, NV, United States of America

Jae Man Yi