Electronic system for playing of reel-type games

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9129490-B2
Application number	US-201313921848-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 19, 2013
Priority date	Sep 26, 2006
Publication date	Sep 8, 2015
Grant date	Sep 8, 2015

Abstract

There is disclosed an electronic gaming system ( 100 ) comprising one or more player interfaces ( 6, 7, 17 ), and a main video display screen ( 1 ). The system enables players to simultaneously play a plurality of reel-type games and to place bets on lines of the games. The system displays a plurality of display windows on the main display screen, each window being associated with a respective one of the simultaneously played games and displaying the reels of that game, each reel displaying reel indicia. The system is configured for any one of the games to enter a feature phase when a feature-triggering event occurs. At the start of the feature phase, all the display windows on the main screen, except the particular display window associated with the feature phase, reduce in size or disappear, while the size of the feature game's display window increases, and the other games are also suspended, until the feature phase is completed.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electronic gaming system comprising:
a housing;
at least one interface including a plurality of input devices supported by the housing, said plurality of input devices including:
(i) an acceptor, and
(ii) a cashout device;

a display screen supported by the housing;
a processor; and
a memory device which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to operate with the at least one interfac…

Assignees

• Igt Reno Nev

Inventors

• Little David

Classifications

• G07F17/3213

  Physics · mapped topic

• G07F17/3211 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G07F17/3244

  Physics · mapped topic

• G07F17/34 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G07F17/3267

  Physics · mapped topic