US 11,749,054 B2
Symbol frame with prize
Jeffrey Uss, Liberty Hill, TX (US); Hanna Sanborn, Georgetown, TX (US); Jennifer Mizzi, Round Rock, TX (US); and Rogelio Decasa, Jr., Renton, WA (US)
Assigned to Aristocrat Technologies, Inc., Las Vegas, NV (US)
Filed by Aristocrat Technologies, Inc., Las Vegas, NV (US)
Filed on Feb. 28, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/805,575.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/948,085, filed on Dec. 13, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0183199 A1, Jun. 17, 2021
Int. Cl. G07F 17/32 (2006.01); G07F 17/34 (2006.01)
CPC G07F 17/3213 (2013.01) [G07F 17/34 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An end user device (EUD), comprising:
a display system including one or more displays;
an interface system including at least one network interface and at least one user interface; and
a control system including one or more processors, the control system being configured for:
receiving, via the interface system, user input for initiation of an instance of a wagering game, the wagering game comprising a slot game;
determining a game outcome and corresponding display symbols for the instance of the wagering game, wherein determining the game outcome involves:
determining whether a game outcome presentation will involve displaying a prize-on frame in one or more predetermined display symbol locations based on a first random number generator (RNG) call generated by application programming interfaces (APIs), in accordance with a first lookup table associating the first RNG call with different outcome presentation options; and
determining a game outcome award based on a second RNG call, different from the first RNG call, generated by the APIs, in accordance with a second lookup table associating the second RNG call with different outcome award options;
controlling the display system to display user interface (UI) outcomes illustrating the game outcome, wherein displaying UI outcomes involves:
displaying the display symbols at a plurality of display symbol locations on a display device of the display system, wherein the plurality of display symbol locations are arranged in a plurality of display symbol rows and display symbol columns; and
for game instances in which it is determined that the game outcome presentation will involve displaying a prize-on frame in one or more predetermined display symbol locations, displaying the prize-on frame around one or more of the display symbols in the one or more predetermined display symbol locations; and
controlling the display system to present award effects corresponding to a game outcome award determination, wherein if the control system determined that no prize-on frame would be presented for an instance of the wagering game immediately prior to a current instance of the wagering game and the control system determines that a prize-on frame will be displayed during the current instance of the wagering game, the control system is configured to determine that the prize-on frame can only be displayed in a predetermined initial display symbol location.