Patents Assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Australia
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Patent number: 10395478Abstract: A gaming machine including a display. The display displays a first prize and a second prize. The first prize has a first prize threshold and the second prize has a second prize threshold. The display also displays an overflow prize, while the game controller contributes to the first prize at least a portion of the credit balance with respect to a wagering activity, and causes the display to display an increment of the overflow prize in response to the first prize having reached the first threshold. A payout mechanism configured to, in response to determining the first prize and the second prize are not to be awarded, cause a payout associated with the incremented overflow prize.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty LimitedInventors: Kevin Walsh, Michael P. Casey
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Patent number: 10395468Abstract: A gaming machine having a game controller and a display. The game controller causes the display to display a feature wheel including a plurality of display slices. A first display slice is associated with a first prize of a plurality of prizes and has a respective variable size being dependent on the first prize and visually identifies the first prize relative to a second prize associated with a second display slice.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty LimitedInventors: Michael P. Casey, Alex Gansert
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Patent number: 10380830Abstract: A gaming machine having at least a first and a second display located adjacent each other, and at least one speaker, a symbol selector selects symbols for positioning in respective ones of a plurality of first and second symbol positions, said first symbol positions being displayed in a gaming area of said first display; an outcome evaluator monitors said selection and determines when a trigger condition is satisfied; in response to said trigger condition being satisfied, triggers an event in which said controller selects: 1) one of a plurality of music tracks to be played through said speaker, each music track having at least one characteristic; and 2) a number of second symbol positions to be displayed on said second display; wherein the number of second symbol positions selected for display on said second display is determined at least in part by said at least one characteristic.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2015Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty LimitedInventors: Bradley Hendricks, Britta Nauta-Larsen, Alex Gansert, Francis Styck
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Publication number: 20190244473Abstract: Embodiments provide systems, apparatus, and methods for rendering supplemental information on an electronic gaming machine, where the supplemental information does not relate to game play on the machine. The supplemental information can include safety warnings, maintenance information, or other information. The electronic gaming device can detect user interactions with the electronic gaming machine, such as using sensors or a player interface that includes a touchscreen. The user interactions can be compared with a condition associated with the supplemental information. Feedback, such as visual, audio, or haptic feedback, or a combination thereof, can be provided to indicate to the user whether the condition is satisfied. Numerous additional aspects are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2018Publication date: August 8, 2019Applicant: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty LimitedInventor: Bruce W. Essex
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Patent number: 10373446Abstract: A gaming machine including a display, a game controller, and a selector. A player operates the selector to enable the player to place one of a plurality of possible wagers on a play of the game comprising at least a first wager consisting of a base wager, and second and third wagers each consisting of a base wager portion and an additional wager portion. There is no guarantee that the at least one added feature will eventuate in a specific play of the game as a result of the player having staked the additional wager portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2016Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITEDInventors: Natalie Bryant, Nicholas Luke Bennett, Peter Leslie Walker
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Patent number: 10373428Abstract: A gaming machine that provides a wagering game, including a user interface in communication with a game controller, through the operation of which a player selects one of a plurality of wager options that determine a number of symbols to be active and inactive in the wagering game. For at least one said wager option at least one, but not all of the plurality of symbols that define a possible said winning combination are rendered inactive for forming the winning combination.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2016Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty LimitedInventor: Gregory Leigh Plowman
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Patent number: 10373439Abstract: Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for electronic gaming are disclosed. In a first aspect, the method includes generating a plurality of reel strips, where each reel strip includes a column of symbol display positions, and where each symbol display position is adjacent to at least one other symbol display position. The method further includes selecting a first plurality of symbol display positions, displaying a symbol in each of the selected first plurality of symbol display positions, evaluating each of the selected first plurality of symbol display positions, merging, based upon the evaluating, at least two adjacent symbol display positions of the selected first plurality of symbol display positions, generating a game outcome based upon the merging, and generating a game award based upon the game outcome.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2017Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty LimitedInventors: Gary Penacho, Bradley John Hendricks, Lorin Santucci, Patrick Finch, Casey Lyle Condron, Joseph Masinter
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Patent number: 10366575Abstract: The present invention relates to a gaming system and to a method of gaming. A game is played by displaying a representation of selection of a plurality of symbols from a set of symbols. The game enables selection of at least one additional symbol in addition to those originally selected, to increase the number of symbol combinations available for assessing a game outcome. In an example, the additional symbol is displayed as being mounted on a substrate which is “flipped” to reveal the additional symbol. Another face of this substrate mounts the originally selected symbol. A plurality of additional symbols may be available for selection.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2018Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty LimitedInventor: Antoon Christiaan Visser
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Patent number: 10360758Abstract: A recommendation system is provided, including a non-transitory memory, a processor, and a player interface. The non-transitory memory is configured to store a database including the player's playing history for a plurality of electronic gaming machines. The processor is coupled to the non-transitory memory and configured to gain access to the database and execute computer-executable instructions. The computer-executable instructions include a promotions engine operable to generate a list of electronic gaming machine recommendations personalized for a player based at least on the player's playing history. The promotions engine is further operable to generate a promotion based on the list. The player interface is accessible by the player and includes a display configured to present the promotion.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2016Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty LimitedInventor: Richard Jeffrey Jordan
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Patent number: 10354480Abstract: A gaming system comprising: a display comprising a plurality of display portions associated with respective ones of a plurality of gaming devices; and a group game controller arranged to: control the display to display an object as moving between the display portions by displaying the object in individual ones of the display portions; determine display portions at which to display the object in each of a plurality of stopped display states, at least some of which correspond to respective ones a plurality of prizes; control the display to display the object in each stopped display state in the respective determined display portion; and award any prize associated with each stopped display state to a player of the respective gaming device upon at least one eligibility criteria being met in respect of the gaming device.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2013Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty LimitedInventor: Colin Fong
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Patent number: 10347084Abstract: A method of gaming comprising: determining which of a plurality of gaming devices, each operable for independent play of one or more games, are eligible for an additional game; initiating an additional game; and determining in response to initiation of the additional game, which eligible gaming devices will participate in the initiated additional game, the determination including a random determination in respect of at least one of the eligible gaming devices to determine whether the respective eligible gaming device will participate in the additional game.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2017Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty LimitedInventor: Sek Joung
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Patent number: 10339752Abstract: An electronic method of gaming in a gaming system comprises receiving a selection of one of a plurality game options; forming, based on the selected game option, a set of symbols to be used in the generation of at least one game outcome generating a game outcome with the game controller by selecting subsets of the symbols of the respective reels of the formed set of symbols for display on a display of the gaming system in a plurality of columns of symbol display positions with which the respective reels are associated; and making an award upon the symbols displayed at the symbol display positions in the game outcome including a winning combination of symbols.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2015Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty LimitedInventors: Ben McLenaghan, Oliver Crispino
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Patent number: 10339761Abstract: A gaming machine comprises a symbol selector for selecting a plurality of symbols from a set of symbols for display during play of a base game, the set of symbols including a plurality of non-configurable symbols and a plurality of configurable symbols; a random number generator for generating random prize values; a value assigner for assigning a generated random prize value to each selected configurable symbol; and an outcome evaluator for monitoring play of the base game, wherein a feature game is triggered in response to a trigger event, the trigger event comprising a predefined number of the plurality of configurable symbols being selected by the symbol selector for display.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2018Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITEDInventor: Scott Christopher Olive
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Patent number: 10332353Abstract: A method is described for running a feature on a gaming system comprising a plurality of gaming consoles linked by a communication network. The method comprises running at least one elimination round of the feature. A set of participating gaming consoles are determined for the elimination round and a group of options is displayed on the participating gaming consoles. Selections of options from the group are entered by players at the participating gaming consoles and a winning option is displayed from the group of options. Consoles are eliminated from the set of participating consoles unless the winning option was selected at the respective console; and further elimination rounds are commenced unless termination criteria are met. A flashing sequence of lights and sounds may be exhibited to reveal the winning option.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2016Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty LimitedInventor: Clive Evan Davies
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Patent number: 10332334Abstract: An electronic method of operating a gaming system comprising a game controller. The method comprises forming, using the game controller, at least one dynamically generated reel strip by a) conducting a random determination to select one of a plurality of different arrangements of a defined number of stacked symbols, each arrangement dividing the defined number of stacked symbols into a different number of stacks of the symbol, and b) adding the selected arrangement to symbols predefined for the respective reel strip; selecting symbols, using the game controller, from a set of reel strips including the at least one dynamically generated reel strip; displaying the selected symbols on the display; and making, using the game controller, an award if the selected symbols include one or more winning outcomes.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2016Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty LimitedInventors: T. Grant Bolling, Jr., Kurt Larsen
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Patent number: 10332337Abstract: An electronic gaming machine comprising a display, a memory storing program instructions for each of a plurality of different games, a game controller for executing the program instructions, the game controller configured to conduct plural game instances in respective ones of a plurality of game areas on the display based on one or more player selections from among the different games, the game controller configured to operate in a first mode when conducting less than a defined number of game instances and a second mode when conducting a defined number of game instances, wherein when operating in the second mode, the game controller is configured to add at least one additional game feature to each of the defined game instances irrespective of the player game selections of games for the respective game areas.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2018Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty LimitedInventor: Dinh Toan Tran
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Patent number: 10332352Abstract: A gaming machine has a display and a game controller arranged to control images displayed on the display. The game controller is arranged to play a spinning reel game wherein one or more random events are caused to be displayed on the display and, if a predefined winning event occurs, the machine awards a prize. When at least one special symbol appears on the display, the special symbol is held in a superimposed representation in that position for at least one further game while at least that reel carrying the special symbol is re-spun for the at least one further game.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2017Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITEDInventors: Nicholas Luke Bennett, Natalie Bryant
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Patent number: 10325444Abstract: A gaming method and system, the method comprising providing one or more reels in a spinning reel game, the reels being displayed as three dimensional and displayed as provided with game symbols along and around the reels, displaying spinning of the reels and thereby sequentially displaying at least some of the game symbols displayed as provided along the reels, displaying rotating of the reels and thereby sequentially displaying at least some of the game symbols displayed as provided around the reels, stopping the spinning and the rotating of each of the reels at a respective stop position, and determining a game outcome based on at least some of the game symbols displayed when each of the reels is in its respective stop position.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2016Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty LimitedInventor: Colin Fong
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Patent number: D852830Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2017Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty LimitedInventors: Gary Penacho, Patrick Finch
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Patent number: D858557Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2018Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITEDInventors: Gary Penacho, Thomas Tuomey
