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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2014
Wms Gaming Inc., Waukegan, IL (US);
Jeremy M. Hornik, Chicago, IL (US);
Jamie W. Vann, Chicago, IL (US);
Joel R. Jaffe, Glenview, IL (US);
Dion K. Aoki, Henderson, NV (US);
Dean Ehrlich, Arlington Heights, IL (US);
Candice Savino, Chicago, IL (US);
Bally Gaming, Inc., Las Vegas, NV (US);
Abstract
A gaming system community server communications controller sends information to a wagering-game server. A community server processor obtains gaming session information relating to a player's gaming session from the wagering-game server or wagering-game machine. The system determines whether the gaming session information satisfies a condition precedent to an award of player profile content comprising a currency in a community server secondary economy, game content available to the player on the community server, non-game content available to the player on the community server, game content available to the wagering-game machine player, non-game content available to the wagering-game machine player, and/or game content available to the player from the wagering-game server. The player profile content is stored in association with the player identified in the gaming session information and the information sent to the wagering-game server by the communications controller includes information relating to a location-based incentive available to the player.