ES2745090A1 - FIDELIZED GAME MACHINE (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Game machine, of the type that is electronic and incorporates computing, process and storage media, with means of execution and multimedia presentation of at least one game of chance, in addition to man-machine interfaces for interaction with users, which presents an interface (5) to an information system (4) of a game room (3), including means and methods for obtaining from said SI (4) a reference ID (13) of the player who is playing and having means and methods for tracking said player ID (13) and its game history (14) that include a data server (8) and its own database (9); The machine (1) has games and prizes that are applied based on the loyalty of the players, altering their behavior to adapt to said loyalty. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

FIDELIZED GAME MACHINE

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention aims at a gaming machine that modifies its behavior according to the electronic identity of the player, obtaining said identity through an interface that allows queries to an Information System (SI) of the Game Room or Casino, with new specific orders for said Information System; The game machine has the means to manage the player's game history and present personalized games and prizes to these users.

BACKGROUND

It is already known by different patent documents, for example, the PCT patent WO2007036806, the problem existing in gaming machines to interest players equally between sessions, overcoming the need to organize a special session of forced prize in hours normally Participation losses. Said patent raised new awards that required high data processing costs that were reduced with said invention.

For casinos and game rooms, despite the different game modes, the advances in the attractiveness of the machines and the design of the interfaces or the games themselves and their mechanics that are an incentive for the amateur, face problems persist You get a better user experience and greater satisfaction in that your entertainment period.

One of the main objectives pursued by the present invention is to improve the reward for the time and money invested by a regular user in a machine that the game does not always reward and that today can cause disgust for the existence of accumulated prizes nurtured also with their own contributions, but which can fall on other users who, for example, have contributed less to the formation of such accumulated.

Accordingly, the present invention has as its main objective to provide a reward that rewards user loyalty in a perceptible and safe manner, in order to improve user satisfaction of said type of gaming machines.

Another problem that the present invention faces is that of maintaining the player's session. The problem derived from the perception in users that the prize is about to fall is known. This perception provokes the desire to keep playing on the machine, generating requests to the room administrators to prevent another person from using them, when said users need to be absent for any reason or personal need, until their return when they can continue the same session of game.

One of the solutions has been the blocking of the machine and its activation by means of an access code. This is the case, for example, of the US patent US2007 / 191090 which, by means of a function, activates a period of blocking of the machine that can resume its operation after the introduction of an unlocking key. One of the disadvantages of this situation is that the machine is left unused in the interval in which it is locked, with the losses that this represents for the room.

Another objective of the present invention and that is obtained with it is the possibility of having a specific session of a player in a room who, even absent from the game machine, can subsequently resume it without entering any password.

In order to organize sessions of each user and / or prizes that are awarded based on the loyalty of the users, for example, the volume of money spent by the player in a period, the problem of knowing who is playing on each machine is presented , data that is not available on these machines and that prevents the registration and tracking of your game history.

This problem is not easy to solve because users are not inclined to register, by entering their personal data, in a gaming machine. There are also legal provisions that complicate the collection of personal data and its storage. For example, the registration of users by means of wireless means supported by the mobile phone or wireless identification cards poses problems with the protection of personal data and eventually with the satisfaction of the game control regulations.

Nor is it satisfactory, due to the very essence of the method and game users, to force the introduction of, for example, a username and password on each machine to be used, due to the nuisance it entails, in addition to the danger of fraud derived from theft of a password that must be entered in multiple machines.

It is therefore another of the main objectives of the present invention to have player and game information that reflects loyalty data, maintaining user privacy, without storing personal data, and providing adequate security against fraud.

Another problem that the present invention intends to solve in order to organize the system that is characteristic of it is related to the technical problem of obtaining the game information, its transfer and storage in the game machine.

There are currently two large families of platforms and communication systems between the gaming machines and between them and the management of the room itself. Each of these systems includes specific physical means and uses its own "language" protocols to carry out communications.

In a succinct summary of the technology applied to the communication of gaming machines, in the mid-70s of the last century (S.XX), manufacturers implemented a SMIB (Slot Machine Interface Board - Roller Machine Interface Card ) which included the appropriate electronics to enable measurements of the machine game, many of them mechanical or electro mechanical.

Subsequently, in the mid-1980s, with most of the most advanced, electronic gaming machines, these SMIBs allowed serial communication, using the first communication protocols between them. IGT (International Game Technology) implemented the SAS protocol (Slot Accounting System) using a serial communication (19,200 bits per second) in which a Server interrogates each machine multiple times per second to know the status of the same and receive information in response. The SAS protocol of which they have made new versions, such as SAS 6 adopted by the industry in July 2002, incorporates a list of commands that regulate the transfer of information between machine and accounting, in a broad sense.

There are payment / payment systems in gaming machine based on TITO (ticket in ticket out - ticket ticket ticket ticket) that use barcode tickets to transfer funds from the room and user and between machines. Other advanced fund management systems, such as AFT (Advanced Funding System) of the IGT company allow you to control the transfer of funds in a room or casino. These systems are incorporated into SAS.

In the other major alternative, the S2S (System to System - System to System), the current stage of technology is used in the game machines themselves and in the communication interfaces, so there is no SMIB to add, dedicated to the communication that incorporates its protocol, but it is the same machine that has the communication ports to interact with the outside through a standard topology, using a communication language based on orders or commands and their responses to transmit the incidents and data of the game.

ALESIS, of Park Street Gaming, implements an S2S system and is the acronym for Logic Administrator of Electronic Equipment and Draw Systems, establishing a complete system for communication of game rooms and machines. An evolution of S2S is wS2S defined by WinSystems.

The GAS (Gaming Association Standars - Game Standards Association: www.gaming_gas.com) promotes G2S (Gaming to System) for communication between machines and rooms, defining protocols, mainly based on XML and web services , but still without a significant deployment in the sector.

It is therefore known in the art the room monitoring of the bets of players on machines of different manufacturers, mainly using, through a device outside the gaming machines, the means of payment / payment that facilitate the credit to play. The Rooms in this way, know their players and can offer discounts, incentives and specific gifts based on their own criteria. For example, it is widely used in said system to use a Room Card that identifies the player in the Room and contains his game credit, also incorporating the possible game credit benefits of the prizes received.

But in all these situations described, the identity of the players is unknown by the gaming machines, also among the gaming machines of the same manufacturer existing in a room, so that the communication protocols known and currently implemented they do not address any element that allows the traceability of the players' game history or identify the player, nor do known machines have the means to control the player's game history.

The present invention, in its different embodiments, is capable of being applied to any of these known systems, incorporating at the physical level and at the control level, devices and commands that manage the dynamics of managing a user ID, currently non-existent, said User ID completely bypassing the user's personal data but identifying him.

It is one of the main objectives of the present invention that it can be used in both systems (SAS and S2S), implementing new orders of communication, in an extension of the available commands of said protocols, to follow the player in a game room, so that their history and their characteristics or degree of loyalty are usable by the system of the present invention in a transparent way for the player, who does not need to carry out any additional transactions to benefit from it.

The present invention is capable of being applied to the different platforms of communication between machines and computerized management of game rooms, creating, in fact, a new scenario with commands and control orders that extend said protocols to allow implementing the novel features of the invention, as will be explained later.

Another objective pursued by the present invention is to establish a set of specific orders or commands that allow the implementation of the functions of the loyalty system described and that enable its use in a newly created communication scenario.

One of the important advantages obtained from the present invention is that, for example, the player's card or known Room Card, is transformed in practice, not physically, into a representation of the last game session made, incorporating the balance of the player and the accumulated amounts of the accumulated personalized prizes of the player that can recover when rejoining to play. This is thanks to the fact that said Room Card is automatically incorporated into the possible advantages within the present invention

Finally, another of the main objectives that the present invention intends to solve consists in incorporating novel means and rules of the game and its presentation that correspond to the aforementioned loyalty.

These and other advantages of the present invention will be more apparent throughout the description thereof.

BRIEF EXPLANATION OF THE INVENTION

The present invention has as its object a gaming machine that modifies its behavior according to the electronic identity of the player, as described in the preamble of the 1st claim; Its field is also the establishment of the physical and process conditions necessary to create and present personalized prizes to users, depending on the loyalty of the players in one or more gaming machines.

The machine includes computing and storage means housed in an interface device that securely stores a coded identifier corresponding to the electronic identity of each player and data of their game stories in the room received the electronic identity of the player through communication between the gaming machine and the Information System (SI) of the Hall or Casino.

This interface incorporates methods of organization and grouping of the identifiers of the players in categories, as well as a database with the history of the players that allow the CPU of the game machine, to have the necessary information of the history of the players to organize some games and prizes based on the loyalty of the users in the machines of the manufacturer.

The concept of "loyal prize" is that of a safe reward or reward among the participants whose amount is determined, within a matrix of possible prizes for each hierarchy of players, for the game and / or the skill of the player.

The machine of the invention may include different types of games, within the concept of "loyal prize", in different possible embodiments thereof. For example, in one of these embodiments a roulette of sectors is used in which each sector represents a prize of a certain amount, different roulette operation mechanics can be enabled, with which result the player receives the prize that corresponds to that indicated in the "cursor" stop sector, according to each embodiment.

Naturally, other "loyal games" and other forms of distribution of the prize are possible, in money or in credit to continue playing, etc., without entailing a substantial difference within the present invention.

The invention obtains the information of the player through the Information Systems (SI) existing in a room or casino and, in addition, can be applied to any of the communication systems currently existing in game rooms.

Each time the player goes to play in a game machine, he enters his payment method, his ticket (TITO - entry and exit ticket), his room card or any electronic means of payment and / or credit accepted by the room or casino, and the corresponding device within the SI captures that player information, card, etc., as well as subsequently the expenses incurred with that support and the prizes obtained.

The interface of the invention interrogates the SI, by means of its own instructions to obtain a user identification and associated with the user's physical access to the machine, such as its room card. No personal data of this user is stored but an alphanumeric record that links to a user and a physical support. Computing and processing, communications, and storage media are available, which, for example, maintain a database with the user-related game history, confidentially and securely encoded in the gaming machine. The player ID is checked in the database (database) obtaining the player's game history.

In this way, all the objectives set forth by the invention have been obtained by providing a system that includes the devices and means to provide "loyal prize" in a game room context, even ignoring the identity of the users and without requiring the use of user / password pairs that are a nuisance and can represent a security bankruptcy when used periodically and on different machines.

BRIEF EXPLANATION OF THE DRAWINGS

For a better understanding of the invention, the present specification is accompanied by two sheets of drawings, provided only by way of illustration and not limiting the invention.

Figure 1 is a schematic representation of an embodiment of a gaming machine according to the present invention, with a block diagram showing different elements thereof described herein.

Figure 2 is another schematic representation of a logical block diagram, showing the relations of the game machine with the player, the information system of the game room and other machines in said room.

DETAILED EXPLANATION OF THE INVENTION

The present invention consists of a gaming machine (1), of the type that is electronic and incorporates computing, processing and storage media, having means of execution and multimedia presentation of at least one game of chance, in addition to man-machine interfaces for interaction with users, in which said machine (1) modifies its behavior according to the electronic identity of the player, including game methods and prizes that are applied based on the loyalty of each player.

The game machine (1) has an interface (5) to an information system (4), SI, of a casino or game room, with means and procedures to obtain said SI (4) the electronic identity of the player (2) and determine a unique player ID (13) of said player (2) using the game machine (1); has

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also of means and methods for tracking said player ID (13) and its game history (14) that include a data server (8) and its own database (9).

As previously stated, different information systems (4) of gaming rooms and casinos (3) are known in the art, such as those based on SaS and S2S, mainly. The present invention by means of the interface (5) is prepared to use at least said two most important systems at present, including the necessary electronics, and to satisfy the communication and protocol requirements thereof.

These information systems (4) allow the room or casino (3) to account for the gaming operations that occur in the gaming machines (1). This transfer of information between the gaming machines (1) and the information systems (4) allows them to know the available game credit but not the identity of the player (2). The invention establishes new orders, within these systems, focused on the mechanics of using physical supports (11) with which the player (2) accesses the game machine (1), linking them with a player ID (13) .

In this description, the generic physical support name (11) receives any means used by the player (2) to access the game machine (1). For example, they are physical media (11): a room card, TITO tickets (entry-exit tickets), etc. In relation to any of these supports (11), the invention manages the ups, downs, issuance of duplicates, modifications, etc. The result is to obtain a player ID (13) associated with, for example, a room card or physical support (11).

Although said room card (9) does not have any encoded information of the player (2) or its game history (14), by allowing the present invention to obtain from the information system (4) the electronic identity of the player (2) and determine a player ID (13), the means existing in the interface (5) that contain the Data Server (8) and at least one DB (9) with said game history (14) of each player (2), linking that player ID (13) with the data existing in the game machine (1), it turns out that in practice, and invisible to the user, when accessing with his card From room (9) to a game machine (1) within the invention, the machine (1) knows which user it is, recovers its game history (14) and its degree of loyalty (15), and can adapt his behavior, as will be explained shortly, to offer a unique and tight gaming experience to each player.

The interface (5) has the physical and process means necessary to perform its functions. Your CPU (6) has process and computing, data and program storage, etc ... It has an electronic communications module (7) that interfaces with the CPU (10) of the gaming machine (1 ), with access to its data bus, so that the information stored in said database (9) can be transferred to the CPU (10) of the gaming machine (1); This communication module (7) has external communication ports, such as Ethernet and / or others. Its operational capacity allows it to implement the management methods of a player ID (13), its game history (14), the hierarchy of users (15) and communications with the information system (4) and eventually with others game machines (1).

The invention uses an identity determination system that is transparent to the player and does not represent an additional requirement for information, thus discarding the use of a user register in the game machine (1). It is used that the information systems (4) of room and casino (3) do have the identity of the user of a gaming machine (1). The interface (5) plays the role of a global interface with the information system (4) of Sala (3), incorporating the set of SaS orders, for example. The invention has an additional layer of own orders configured to obtain a player ID (13) linked to the physical support (11) of entry to the machine used by the player (room card, TITO - entry and exit ticket, etc. .) and its mechanics.

The constructive essence of the invention allows and in fact is contemplated as part thereof, the existence of a plurality of gaming machines (1) in the same room (3), said machines (1) being of the type of the present invention, communicating with each other and updating their records and databases (9) to have a game history (14) associated with an updated User ID (13) in each one of them.

In the most common configuration, the interface (5) implements the TCP / IP protocol as a communication protocol, although other communication protocols are possible to adapt to the different information systems (2) currently available, both SaS and S2S , among others.

Access to different similar machines, within the present invention, and their linking via Ethernet ports and TCP / IP protocol can be facilitated when, for example, several gaming machines (1) are grouped, in one of the possible embodiments of the invention, in a single set or group of machines that, in addition, can have at least some common and shared element.

In general terms, the own commands are related to the management of the Player_ID (13), the Support_ID (12) that unequivocally identify each physical support (11) with a player ID (13), associating them at the same time with the relative information in the database of each player (2), their game history (14) and their level of loyalty or user hierarchy (15).

The player ID (13) is a data encoded by the interface (5) that can be carried out by different known means, but which, in its result, starting from identical data, will obtain identical IDs (13), without collisions. This can be done by multiple procedures, within the state of the art, such as obtaining a hash key given a reference of the identity of a player (2) by the information system (4). The database (9) associates different support IDs (12), for example, different room cards, as belonging to the same player (2), if applicable, etc.

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The data server (8) incorporates relational databases (9) where the information required by the system is maintained. Said databases (9) can be of any known type. For example, it is possible to build databases (9) that include User tables (2) and room cards; in generic terms, Player ID (13) and physical media (11), relating said Player_ID (13), Support_ID (12) and additional information (registration date, withdrawal date, account type or Support_Index, Support Status, etc. .), The BBDD (9) stores and relates the encoding of the identity of the player, the identification of physical media (11) or cards, the game history, level of loyalty, fractions of prizes in progress accumulated loyalty, etc. .

In one embodiment, for example, the Player_ID field (13) is an alphanumeric sequence of 20 positions and the Support_ID field (12) in a field of 200 binary digits.

In this way, an identifier of the player (13) has been obtained which in its literal does not apparently mean anything readable, protecting and preserving, without containing it, the identity of the player, so that each time he uses that support (9), the system generating the same Support_ID (12), links it to a player (2) through its Player_ID (13) contained in the DB (9) and obtains its game history (14), accumulated fractions, etc., enabling Restoring a game session when interacting with the same or similar machine. Fractions of accumulated loyalty prizes can be transferred from one machine (1) to another, from one game to another.

The result is very convenient, because the problems of storing confidential information of players susceptible to violating the protection of their identity and personal data are avoided, while, in another consideration, the player is prevented from registering procedures in the system that can Represent an additional interaction than usual when attending a game session.

This process does not represent any additional action of the user, so that the appearance and reality of the operation of the card for the user, is that it incorporates the game data and prize values that the player has accumulated and, as a result, can now be used on different machines and / or resume his last game session.

The invention is also characterized by incorporating additional games to the main one of the gaming machine (1), whose purpose is the presentation of the loyal prize or prizes (17) in the gaming machines (1) for said players (2), of according to a hierarchy (15) of said users that elaborates the computing means of said gaming machine (1) that together with the game and / or the ability of the players determines the amount of their prizes. These prizes are offered from a matrix of possible prizes, all representing positive and greater than zero prize values.

The invention thus contemplates a method of realizing a hierarchy (15) of unique User IDs (13), in which said method contemplates information relative to the volume of money spent by the player (2) in said gaming room or casino (3), in machines (1) of the invention. This hierarchy (15) establishes, for example, types of players such as: vip, gold, silver and bronze, according to a level from highest to lowest.

The method includes, mainly, to elaborate this hierarchy, data related to: Amount played in the last session

Amount played from the last week

Amount played in a medium term, parameterized by the system

Amount played in a long term, parameterized by the system

History of awards received

The loyal prize (17) is characteristic of the present invention. It is a prize that is awarded in a secure way, in a loyal game (16) whose result is an always positive prize amount and greater than zero, within a matrix of possible prizes, previously established according to the hierarchy (15) established for each degree of loyalty. We describe some possible examples of loyal games (16).

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Sector Roulette

A typical example of one of these loyal games (16) within these loyal prizes (17) is to present in the gaming machines (1) a roulette of sectors (18) in which each sector (19) represents a particular prize . As all sectors incorporate a prize, the player (2), regardless of his luck or ability, will get a prize that can be in cash or in game credit.

The loyal game (17) can include not only the game to select one of the possible prizes, but also some skill of the player, or simply some user interaction. Typically the game can be triggered and the prize obtained automatically, or instead activated automatically and offer a few seconds of waiting for a user action. The game incorporates, in each case, the mechanism of activation, interaction and termination of the game and its own way of visualizing the prize, through images, sounds or even in room screens, within a joint room event that triggers this type of loyal games (16) of loyal prize (17) on all game machines (1) at the same time.

Each game roulette presents personalized sectors and prizes based on each player hierarchy (15) and each player (2), for example, taking into account the volume in play that day in the room, the amount played by the player, the moment, the number of active and inactive players in the room, etc.

Big / Minor

Another possible embodiment of a loyal game (16), according to the present invention, and illustrating different possibilities of using the advantages provided by it, is the "Big / Minor" game.

In this case, these are two progressive and cumulative prizes that are configured in relation to the hierarchy of loyalty (15) of the players (2). There are different possibilities to configure the prize, linking it to a unique Player_ID (13), to a game machine (1) or to a type of such machines, and to a room (3).

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These awards have an initial and final value. As the value of the prize, starting from the initial value approaches the final value, the probability of the prize coming out increases, which is triggered in another case upon reaching the final value.

The modification of the current value is made by accumulation of value to the game amount, incorporating a fraction of the amount played, by player, machine or room, depending on the type accounted for.

The system has a mechanism for presenting or executing the game to activate the accumulation of said prize, carry out its raffle and show the accumulated amount. Similarly to other examples of realization, the game and the prize are announced on the machine in room screens or on several machines simultaneously that initiate this type of game for several users.

One of the attractions of this example of realization is that while the player is using any game machine (1), one of bingo or rollers or another, this type of prize is nourished that can give him an additional and independent prize of the loyal game current. Once a high level of prize probability has been reached, it is normally paid to the player.

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This type of prize is an accumulated one that is nourished with small contributions of the games developed by a player (2). The present invention allows this prize, the accumulated amount thereof, to be shown to the player each time he accesses both the same game machine (1) and other machines within the same room and within the present invention. Once the game machine (1) recognizes the player by granting a unique Player_ID (13), of those existing in the database (9) of the data server (8), his game history (14) and fractions are recovered in the process of said accumulated prize.

The present invention may, as illustrated by the game examples presented, incorporate different ways and procedures of presenting the prize and the game to grant it. In any case, these are procedures used by the game machine (1) of the present invention.

The system of the present invention allows, as already mentioned, to recognize a player unequivocally, to grant personalized game sessions and prizes that are specific to that player or to a group of players of the same hierarchy (15) of players. It should be noted that the present game machine (1) and the methods and technical means that configure it, grant unexpected advantages that the known technique solved in a much more cumbersome and deficient way.

This is the case, for example, of the preservation of the players' prize expectations. The existence of accumulated prizes that are nourished by the contributions of the players, including the perception of the player that the prize "is about to fall", have forced numerous situations in which the player wants to preserve the machine for himself to exhaust this expectation The need to make a motivated pause for any personal reason, rest, go to the bathroom, provide credit, etc., temporarily leaving the machine, generate an anxiety in the player who claims to the room that "nobody touches his machine until come back. ”

Until the present invention, said situation could be resolved by paralyzing the game in a machine until the player could return to the game, which is not very satisfactory for the room that sees the activity of the machine diminished in a period in which it is likely to be used by other players.

The present invention also improves different procedures specifically oriented to that end, such as US Patent 2007/191090, whose object is to preserve the state of play of a machine and possible prizes, blocking access to the machine until an activation code is entered.

In the present invention, the loyal prize (17) is maintained, in a functional sense, in the physical support (11) used, for example, a room card (9), magnetic, by the player recognized as the holder of said support ( 9), so that said player

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(2) You can resume your game session where you left off, restoring the system to all previous game conditions. Even when it is the case, it is kept in the game room for that player to be used in different machines (3), obviating the known technique that forces to establish game machine locks to preserve the player's prize expectations

The invention includes a plurality of gaming machines (1) in a room (1), each with an interface (5) and a data server (8); each data server (8) incorporating Databases (9), BBDD, which relate said player_ID (13) of the player (2) with a game history (14). The invention also includes commands within the communication protocols of said gaming machines (1) that relate said interface (5) with other gaming machines (1) and the Player_ID (13), Support_ID (12), operational / cancellation and replacement of said physical media (9), game information, prizes, etc. For practical purposes it is as if the fraction of the prize accumulated by the user was stored on his card.

In the main embodiment described, the game machine (1) has in its interface (5) a data server (8) containing the databases (9) that store the information necessary for the management of the identity of the player and of your game sessions, history, etc. In another case, the invention can be implemented, when more than one gaming machine (1) is available in the same room or casino (3) using a single data server (8) that has a single database copy (9) of the information related to the players (2). Although without loss of generality a data server (8) could be used in a physical device independent of said gaming machines (1), the simple solution is to use one of the gaming machines (1) and its interface (5) as said data server (8), other machines communicating with said data server (8) to obtain the information they need.

As has been said, in the preferred embodiment, each gaming machine has its own interface (5), its own data server (8) and the databases (9), there being synchronization methods between machines (1) for keep your databases (9) updated.

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In another of the possible embodiments of the present invention, the interface (5) and its components do not exist as independent elements, but are the same means of the game machine (1), its own CPU (8), the means of computation, its storage media and memories, its communication interfaces who perform all the functions of the interface (5) without entailing any deviation within the present invention. All the functions described for the interface (5) are performed by the game machine (1). This is a common situation in advanced gaming machines (1) that communicate with S2S type information systems.

In another possible case of realization, the invention provides for linking the gaming machine (1) with an external network, for example, by means of the Internet or another network, linking with a global management server that allows to share the history (14 ) of game players (2) globally and offer the characteristics of the present invention in a plurality of rooms. The invention in this context is also capable of being used with different gaming platforms, such as consoles, game terminals, smart mobile phones, tablets, computers, etc. It is a generalization in which the information obtained from the information system (4) of a room or casino (3) is shared through the interface (5) and the gaming machine (1) with the global management server ( SGG).

Similarly with other embodiments, a player ID (13) of greater length is required to accommodate without error the plurality of possible players, and a field ID_Support (12) also of greater length, as there is a larger eventual set of physical supports ( 9) Game credit. The communication protocols incorporating the commands of the invention can be constructed in XML over an Internet TCP / IP network, accessing the information of the databases (9), global, through Web services and stored procedures of said databases. Communication can be established, in a preferred way, through secure transmission protocols, including through encrypted transmissions in order to preserve the data.

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The Database (9) or databases, BBDD, store and relate the game history (14) with said unique Player_ID (13). They can contain different tables, indexes, etc., whose purpose is the efficient management of their information and their recovery when the user accesses the machine (1) and the identity obtained with that existing in said database is checked (9).

The game history (14) contains simplified information of each player's game sessions (2). In an example of preferred embodiment, the periods, day, day of the week, time and duration of each game session, the prizes received and the amounts put into play, session data including the amounts of the accumulated prizes are stored , etc.

With each incorporation of the player (2) to a game session in one of the machines (1) within the system of the invention and with each modification of its game history (14), the computing means of said interface (5) calculate and assign the category of the player within the aforementioned loyalty hierarchy (15). This hierarchy (15) determines the amount and presentation of the loyal prize (17).

In the preferred embodiment of the invention, the system allows the configuration of certain characteristics of its operation. Specific parameters of the game room (1) and other system parameters are involved in this configuration. In this way the system described in the present invention is adjustable to the incentive policies of the game sessions developed by each room (3).

Thus, the days, hours of the day and other parameters of the gaming sessions of the users that are related to the probability of obtaining the loyal prizes characteristic of the present invention are configurable.

In general, the system incorporates as parameters all the mathematical rules that make up the operation of the different games (16) for awarding loyal prize (17), as previously described, and how the accumulations of these prizes are nurtured with each session of game players (2).

All this within complex procedures that are part of the state of the art and the legal regulations of prizes and games of chance.

Finally, the game machine incorporates a clock (20) that has the mission of firing the characteristic events of awarding loyal prize (17) in several gaming machines (1), simultaneously, when appropriate, within the same room (one). In this way, it is possible to synchronize, when the event is a hall (1), the firing of a loyalty prize delivery game (17), for example, in the embodiment that uses a roulette of sectors, for a plurality of game machines (1) simultaneously in all of them. The impact of this loyalty award event (17) can be reinforced by any conventional means, large room screens, sound announcements, reproduction of notices on TV panels, etc., highlighting the event and / or meaning the prizes obtained. Also, according to the configured room parameters, the invention contemplates the announcement of said loyalty award events in a preset time and / or day.

It is understood that in the present case, how many details of finish and shape may not change the essence of the invention can be variable.

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1. - GAME MACHINE, of the type that is electronic and incorporates computing, processing and storage media, with means of execution and multimedia presentation of at least one game of chance, in addition to man-machine interfaces for interaction with users, CHARACTERIZED by an interface (5) to an Information System (4), YES, of a Casino or Game Room, said interface (5) including: • means and methods for obtaining from said SI (4) the electronic identity of the player (2) who is playing on said Game Machine (1), • means and methods for creating and tracking a player ID (13) associated with said player (2) and his game history (14) that include a Data Server (8) and a database of its own (9), • means, such as an electronic module, for interface with the CPU (10) of said Game Machine (1), so that the information stored in said DB (9) can be obtained by said CPU (10) of said Game Machine (1); said game machine (1) including game methods and prizes related to the information obtained from said interface (5) that are applied based on the loyalty of the players and in which said game machine (1) alters its conduct for adapt to such loyalty. 2. - GAME MACHINE, according to claim 1, CHARACTERIZED in that said interface (5) has a CPU (6) that includes process and computer means, and data and program storage means, as well as a communication module (7) with access to the data bus of the CPU (10) of said gaming machine (1) and to Ethernet and / or other communication ports. 3. - GAME MACHINE, according to the preceding claim, CHARACTERIZED in that said interface (5) can use, at least, the SaS (Slot Accounting System) and S2S (System to System - System a System) of communication with said Information System (4). two 4. - GAME MACHINE, according to the preceding claim, CHARACTERIZED because said player ID (13) is unique and exclusive to the electronic identity of each player (2). 5. - GAME MACHINE, according to the preceding claim, CHARACTERIZED because a Support_ID (12) of the physical support (11) is determined, such as a room card, with which the player (2) accesses the game machine (1) which can be checked in said database (9) to obtain said player ID (13), said Support_ID (12) being unique for each physical support (11). 6. - GAME MACHINE, according to the preceding claim, CHARACTERIZED said database (9), BBDD, has the player's game history (14) (2) for each player ID (13), as well as the balance or The player's game credit (2), his game sessions, including the ongoing fractions of the accumulated loyalty prizes. 7. - GAME MACHINE, according to the preceding claim, CHARACTERIZED in that said means of determining said player ID (13) include the generation of an encoded alphanumeric identifier of each player (2), of suitable length, in order to ensure the no duplication of records in relation to the expected number of possible players. 8. - GAME MACHINE, according to the preceding claim, CHARACTERIZED because said player ID (13) is an alphanumeric field of 20 positions. 9. - GAME MACHINE, according to the preceding claim, CHARACTERIZED because said Support_ID (12) is a binary field of 200 positions. 10. - GAME MACHINE, according to claim 1, CHARACTERIZED in that said interface (5) and its communication module (7) use the TCP / IP protocol. 11. - GAME MACHINE, according to the preceding claim, CHARACTERIZED in that said interface (5) allows communication with other gaming machines (1), of the type described by claim 1. 12. - GAME MACHINE, according to the preceding claim, CHARACTERIZED because said communication with other gaming machines (1) makes queries of updating game histories (4) to said Data Server (8) and said database (9 ) between said machines (1) for each player ID (13), in order to keep all databases (9) synchronized. 13. - GAME MACHINE, according to claim 11, CHARACTERIZED because the data server (8) and the database (9) are unique in a set of game machines (1) in the same room (3) and said gaming machines (1) make queries to said data server (8) to obtain data from players (2), physical media (11) and game histories (14). 14. - GAME MACHINE, according to the preceding claim, CHARACTERIZED because the unique data server (8) and database (9) are shared on the Internet, said room (3) being the global Internet network, also allowing a plurality of different gaming devices, consoles, PCs, smartphones, tablets, etc. 15. - GAME MACHINE, according to claim 1, CHARACTERIZED in that the CPU (10) of the gaming machine (1) has the physical, storage, computation and communications means corresponding to the interface (5), as well as the methods , data server (8) and database (9) to perform all the functions of said interface (5). 16. - GAME MACHINE, according to claim 1, CHARACTERIZED in that said modification of behavior of said game machine (1) is that the games offered are reconfigured taking into account the game history (14) of each player, the volumes historical betting on any machine two (1), and can be increased depending on the historical bet levels recorded on the machines (1) in the room (3). 17. - GAME MACHINE, according to claim 1, CHARACTERIZED because the amount of the loyal prize (17) of a loyal game (16) is related to said hierarchy (15) of the player (2) and a plurality of parameters of said interface (5), always being a positive value and greater than zero. 18. - GAME MACHINE, according to the preceding claim, CHARACTERIZED in that said loyal prize (17) is presented simultaneously in a plurality of gaming machines (1) of said game room (3), when said event is synchronized by means of a clock ( twenty). 19. - GAME MACHINE, according to claim 19, CHARACTERIZED because the loyal prize (17) is made by the final result obtained in the spinning of a roulette of sectors (18) in which each sector (19) represents a prize, amount , bonuses, game credits, when said turn is stopped and a cursor indicates one of said sectors (18) as a winning sector. 20. - GAME MACHINE, according to claim 19, CHARACTERIZED in that the loyal prize (17) is made by means of a cumulative prize nourished by contributions from the amounts wagered by the players (2) that increase their amount from a Small value to one Large, the probability of obtaining it being an ascending function related to the approximation to said Large value. 21. - GAME MACHINE, according to any one of the preceding claims, CHARACTERIZED because the loyal prize (17) is made through a cumulative prize nurtured with contributions of the amounts wagered by the player himself (2). two