IP Library Granted Patent US 7,749,066
Granted Patent B2
US 7,749,066 · App. 11/050,114 · Granted Jul 6, 2010

Enhanced process for gaming using multiple random progressive prize opportunities and bingo-type of gaming products thereby

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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 7,749,066
App. No.
11/050,114
Granted
Jul 6, 2010
Kind
B2
Abstract

Novel enhanced gaming systems employ unique, specialized, for example, FIRESTAR ™ type of indicia disposed upon at least one location of a plurality of pre-mapped locations housed on, for example, a multiplicity of bingo-type of cards. Percentages of indicia arrayed on, for example, card sets are controlled by a gaming proprietor's or operator's configuration settings as are the respective locations of the subject indicia, for example, by using a random number generator to induce players to participate in multiple opportunities to garner prizes, for example, for achieving a bingo-type of victory concomittant with pre-established winning requirements and a pre-selected occurrence of a unique specialized indicum. Progressive reports serve to keep players, proprietors/operators and gaming authorities apprised of earnings both in terms of amounts, odds and related data on occurrence of the same indicia in real time providing unique inducement and tracking value in both hard copy and electronic form.

Claims (7)

1. A method of playing a special bingo game, the method comprising:

displaying, on a display, a plurality of bingo cards;

receiving, using a computer, a selection of a location on a first bingo card of the plurality of bingo cards;

displaying, on a display, a first unique, specialized indicum at the selected location on the first bingo card; and

awarding, using the computer, a first special prize when, concurrently, a bingo resulting from a plurality of numbers called consecutively by an operator is completed on the first bingo card and the last number called of the plurality of numbers called to complete said bingo corresponds to the selected location on the first bingo card of the plurality of bingo cards.

2. The method of claim 1 , the method further comprising awarding, using said computer, a second special prize when, concurrently, said bingo resulting from the plurality of numbers called consecutively by the operator is completed on one or more of the plurality of bingo cards excluding the first bingo card and the last number called of the plurality of numbers called to complete said bingo corresponds to a location on the second bingo card of the plurality of bingo cards that is, location-wise, the same location as the selected location on the first bingo card.

3. The method of claim 2 , the method further comprising displaying, on said display, a second unique, specialized indicum at the location on the second bingo card that corresponds location-wise to the same location on the first bingo card that corresponds to the first indicum, wherein the second indicum is different from the first indicum.

Assignments (8)
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Nov 14, 2012
From: YURI ITKIS GAMING TRUST OF 1993
To: FORTUNET, INC.
Reel/Frame 029293/0548 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 5, 2012
From: GAMETECH INTERNATIONAL, INC.
To: FORTUNET, INC.
Reel/Frame 029086/0677 →
ASSIGNMENT OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Jun 27, 2012
From: U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
To: YURI ITKIS GAMING TRUST OF 1993
Reel/Frame 028456/0592 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Jun 16, 2011
From: GAMETECH INTERNATIONAL, INC.
To: U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
Reel/Frame 026461/0011 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Jan 24, 2011
From: ABLECO FINANCE LLC
To: GAMETECH INTERNATIONAL, INC.
Reel/Frame 025685/0230 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST IN PATENTS Recorded Sep 9, 2009
From: ABLECO FINANCE LLC
To: GAMETECH INTERNATIONAL, INC.
Reel/Frame 023220/0091 →
PATENT SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Mar 29, 2007
From: GAMETECH INTERNATIONAL, INC.
To: ABLECO FINANCE LLC, AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 019084/0913 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 28, 2007
From: HARTMAN, MICHAEL; NICHOLSON, CALVIN; KISENWETHER, JOSEPH
To: GAMETECH INTERNATIONAL, INC.
Reel/Frame 019074/0254 →