US 12,260,710 B2
System and method for multilevel autonomous tournaments
Daniel Marks, Decatur, GA (US); and Hua Xu, Marietta, GA (US)
Assigned to Aristocrat Technologies, Inc., Las Vegas, NV (US)
Filed by Aristocrat Technologies, Inc., Las Vegas, NV (US)
Filed on Oct. 26, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/495,710.
Application 18/495,710 is a continuation of application No. 17/454,781, filed on Nov. 12, 2021, granted, now 11,830,326.
Application 17/454,781 is a continuation of application No. 16/838,022, filed on Apr. 1, 2020, granted, now 11,176,780, issued on Nov. 16, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0054865 A1, Feb. 15, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A63F 9/24 (2006.01); A63F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2019.01); G07F 17/32 (2006.01)
CPC G07F 17/3276 (2013.01) [G07F 17/3213 (2013.01); G07F 17/3244 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions which, when executed by one or more processors of a tournament server, cause the one or more processors to at least:
a) generate a plurality of tournament entry sets, wherein each tournament entry set is associated with a corresponding tournament tier of N tournament tiers for a multilevel autonomous tournament, N is an integer greater than 1, each tournament entry set is associated with a corresponding threshold number of tournament entries for that tournament entry set, and the Nth tournament tier has a single tournament entry set associated therewith;
b) receive a plurality of player entry indications for the multilevel autonomous tournament, each player entry indication including information that associates the player entry indication with a particular player identifier;
c) associate, for each received player entry indication, the player identifier associated with that player entry identification with one of the tournament entries of one of the tournament entry sets for the first tournament tier;
d) select, for each tournament entry set associated with a tournament tier of the multilevel autonomous tournament other than the Nth tournament tier, after the corresponding threshold number of tournament entries for that tournament entry set have each been associated with a corresponding player identifier, and based at least in part on a random outcome, one or more of the tournament entries for that tournament entry set;
e) associate, for each tournament entry selected in (d), the player identifier associated with that selected tournament entry with a corresponding one of the tournament entries for the tournament entry set or one of the tournament entry sets of the tournament tier one tier higher than the tournament tier of that selected tournament entry; and
f) select, after the corresponding threshold number of tournament entries for the tournament entry set associated with the Nth tournament tier have each been associated with a corresponding player identifier, one of the tournament entries of that tournament entry set as a winner of the multilevel autonomous tournament.