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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2002
Clifton Lind, Austin, TX (US);
Gordon T. Graves, Austin, TX (US);
Gary L. Loebig, Austin, TX (US);
Jefferson C. Lind, Austin, TX (US);
Joseph R. Enzminger, Austin, TX (US);
Rodney L. Willyard, Austin, TX (US);
Robert Lannert, Broken Arrow, OK (US);
Clifton Lind, Austin, TX (US);
Gordon T. Graves, Austin, TX (US);
Gary L. Loebig, Austin, TX (US);
Jefferson C. Lind, Austin, TX (US);
Joseph R. Enzminger, Austin, TX (US);
Rodney L. Willyard, Austin, TX (US);
Robert Lannert, Broken Arrow, OK (US);
Multimedia Games, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
Each bingo card representation matched with a game designation set in a given bingo game (a 'matched bingo card representation') represents a respective game play record providing a result in the bingo game. The result represented by a matched bingo card representation is displayed to a player in the bingo-type game through a result representation provided at a suitable player station. Each result representation is correlated to one or more game results in the bingo-type game so that each game result in the bingo-type game is associated with a result representation. According to the invention, each result representation includes a graphical representation unrelated to the bingo-type game. That is, although the game results are simply bingo game results defined by predetermined patterns of matches between the various card designations and the designation set produced or called for a particular bingo-type game, the game results are displayed to the players with a graphical display including a graphic that is not merely a graphical representation or reproduction of a bingo card. Displaying the result of the bingo-type game to the player thus involves displaying the result representation associated with the particular game result in lieu or at least in addition to the representation of the matched bingo-type game card.