US 11,727,758 B2
Gaming device with jackpot increments for non-triggering prize value symbols
Matthew Chan, East Killara (AU); Blake Davis, Macquarie Park (AU); and Igor Suslik, St. Ives (AU)
Assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Australia PTY Limited, North Ryde (AU)
Filed by Aristocrat Technologies Australia PTY Limited, North Ryde (AU)
Filed on Aug. 12, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/401,241.
Claims priority of application No. 2020902882 (AU), filed on Aug. 13, 2020; and application No. 2020239625 (AU), filed on Sep. 21, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0051523 A1, Feb. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. G07F 17/32 (2006.01); G06F 7/58 (2006.01)
CPC G07F 17/3258 (2013.01) [G06F 7/588 (2013.01); G07F 17/3213 (2013.01); G07F 17/3251 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A gaming device comprising:
a display device configured to display a graphical user interface (GUI);
a processor; and
a memory device storing data indicative of (a) a jackpot prize meter value, (b) a current award value for awarding a jackpot prize, (c) a set of reel strips, each reel strip of the set of reel strips comprising prize value symbols and non-prize value symbols and (d) instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
control at least one of a volatility or return to player by selecting symbols from the set of reel strips for symbol positions, based at least in part on an output of a random number generator;
control the display device to render and display the selected symbols at the symbol positions on the GUI;
responsive to the displayed symbols including at least one but fewer than a threshold number of the prize value symbols, modify the data indicative of the jackpot prize meter value to increment the jackpot prize meter value, based at least in part on values of the prize value symbols displayed on the GUI; and
responsive to the jackpot prize meter value being modified to reach the current award value, render and display on the GUI an awarding of the current award value.