Gaming device and method for providing player selection of modifiers to game components

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9153105-B2
Application number	US-201514645113-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 11, 2015
Priority date	Oct 23, 2007
Publication date	Oct 6, 2015
Grant date	Oct 6, 2015

Abstract

In one embodiment, the gaming device and method disclosed herein provides a player one or more modifiers to apply to different components or characteristics of a game. In one such embodiment, the gaming device enables a player to selectively apply or associate a plurality of modifiers to a single game component or apply the plurality of modifiers across the plurality of game components. For each game component with at least one applied modifier, the gaming device disclosed herein modifies said game component based on each applied modifier. The gaming device generates any awards based on any modified game components and any unmodified game components and provides any generated awards to the player.

First claim

The invention is claimed as follows:

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

at least one processor; and
at least one memory device storing a plurality of instructions which when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor…

Assignees

• Igt Reno Nev

Inventors

• Caputo Scott A
• Kniesteadt Carl V
• Weiss Alan

Classifications

• G07F17/326

  Physics · mapped topic

• G07F17/3213

  Physics · mapped topic

• G07F17/3244 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G07F17/34 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G07F17/3293

  Physics · mapped topic