Slot machine group tournament management and scoring system

Abstract

It is a software system to manage the registration and scoring process for running casino-based slot machine tournaments (FIG. 1 ).

1 . Software system allows user (a casino) to set up a slot machine tournament (where ‘x’ number of players compete in a “session” to see who scores the highest number of credits, or who gets to a fixed number of credits in the shortest time), of ‘y’ number of sessions. The system organizes the sessions based on user input describing the number of sessions per ‘phase’ of the tournament, how many slot machines will be used for each session, and how the rankings are to be determined. 
     
     
         2 . The system handles the awarding of prizing based on scoring automatically. 
     
     
         3 . The system allows the scores from each session to be inputted manually, or collected automatically via computer network connection to the slot machines. 
     
     
         4 . The system allows for the collection of a digitized signature from each competitor via a touch screen computer to validate his/her score at the end of each session, and stores the digitized signature in a computer database. 
     
     
         5 . The system allows for the casino to send email to the competitors before, during, and after the tournament for the purposes of marketing and information dissemination.