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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2014

Filed:

Feb. 23, 2012
Applicants:

Adam J. Thompson, Henderson, NV (US);

Eugene T. Bond, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);

Richard A. Powell, Henderson, NV (US);

Inventors:

Adam J. Thompson, Henderson, NV (US);

Eugene T. Bond, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);

Richard A. Powell, Henderson, NV (US);

Assignee:

IGT, Las Vegas, NV (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 9/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a gaming system and method providing one or more incentives to delay termination of a gaming session. In general, for a player, the gaming system utilizes gaming session data collected from the player's previous gaming sessions to determine one or more termination causation events for the player. When a designated number of the termination causation events occur during a current gaming session of the player, the gaming system provides an incentive to the player, wherein the incentive is configured to cause the player to delay expected termination of the player's current gaming session. In certain embodiments, the gaming system optimizes an incentive available to be provided to a player based on the effectiveness of prior incentives provided to the player.


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