US 12,283,160 B2
Participation awards for wide-area progressive wagering games
Joe Moore, Reno, NV (US); Christian Theumer, Sparks, NV (US); and Timothy Shortall, Ocean View, NJ (US)
Assigned to IGT, Las Vegas, NV (US)
Filed by IGT, Las Vegas, NV (US)
Filed on Jul. 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/443,511.
Prior Publication US 2023/0030404 A1, Feb. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. G07F 17/32 (2006.01)
CPC G07F 17/3258 (2013.01) [G07F 17/3213 (2013.01); G07F 17/329 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
a processor circuit; and
a memory comprising machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor circuit, cause the processor circuit to:
determine that a winning condition for a wide-area progressive wagering game has been satisfied for a gaming device of a plurality of eligible gaming devices;
determine a number of available secondary progressive awards;
transmit a message to each gaming device of the plurality of eligible gaming devices, the message comprising instructions that cause the gaming device to:
determine whether the gaming device meets a predetermined activity condition; and
transmit a responsive message comprising an indication of whether the gaming device meets the predetermined activity condition; and
select a subset of responsive messages that contains an indication that the respective gaming device meets the predetermined activity condition, wherein a number of responsive messages in the subset does not exceed the number of available secondary progressive awards;
for each responsive message in the subset of responsive messages, determine that the respective gaming device is part of a subset of active gaming devices of the plurality of eligible gaming devices, such that each active gaming device of the subset of active gaming devices comprises an active gaming session associated with a user of the active gaming device;
provide a primary progressive award to a user of the gaming device associated with the winning condition; and
cause each gaming device of the determined subset of active gaming devices to dispense a secondary progressive award comprising a non-monetary award.