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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2013
Applicant:
Jordan Gaming Consulting Group, Llc, Las Vegas, NV (US);
Inventor:
Richard Jeffrey Jordan, Las Vegas, NV (US);
Assignee:
Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited, North Ryde, NSW, AU;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 9/24 (2006.01); A63F 13/30 (2014.01); G07F 17/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/12 (2013.01); G07F 17/3276 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method of managing a gaming machine tournament, such as a slot tournament, are described that include organizing a gaming machine tournament that takes place on a set of gaming machines where each gaming machine has an interface into a tournament management system. The tournament game play parameters are configured using the tournament management system. Perks are provided to players, where the perks can be redeemed during tournament play and provide the player an advantage in the tournament play.