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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2017
Filed:
May. 16, 2014
Everi Games Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Keith W. Riggs, Austin, TX (US);
Paul Klingensmith, Austin, TX (US);
Jim McHugh, Austin, TX (US);
Lori Brooke, Austin, TX (US);
Raymond Dumbeck, Austin, TX (US);
Tushar Patel, Austin, TX (US);
Everi Games Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for controlling contributions to progressive prize pools includes providing a progressive server which manages standalone progressive prize pools for each of multiple individual gaming machines. The progressive server may further provide group progressive prize pools, allowing a gaming machine to have standalone pools and also be a member in a group pool. Where multiple standalone progressive prize pools are maintained for a single gaming machine, additional steps are taken to identify which pool or pools are to be increased when a standalone progressive contribution is made.