Patent ID: 11887440
Assignee: ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. A method comprising:
receiving, by one or more processors of a tournament management system, information indicating win amounts associated with winning outcomes occurring on a plurality of gaming devices while the gaming devices are participating in a common tournament session of a multiplayer gaming tournament, wherein:
the plurality of gaming devices includes all of the gaming devices participating in the common tournament session and the win amounts are for all winning outcomes occurring on any of the gaming devices participating in the common tournament session at any time during the common tournament session, and
the common tournament session is of a fixed duration and all players participating in the common tournament session play simultaneously;

determining, by the one or more processors of the tournament management system and for each win amount, a corresponding score value based, at least in part, on that win amount;
activating, by the one or more processors of the tournament management system, a first all wins multiplier feature at a predetermined first time, the first all wins multiplier feature associated with a first all wins multiplier value that is greater than one, thereby causing a first all wins multiplier mode to be activated simultaneously for all of the gaming devices participating in the common tournament session;
multiplying, by the one or more processors of the tournament management system, the win amount for each winning outcome that occurs on any of the gaming devices participating in the common tournament session while the first all wins multiplier feature is active by at least the first all wins multiplier value to produce the corresponding score value for that win amount;
deactivating, by the one or more processors of the tournament management system, the first all wins multiplier feature at a second time after the predetermined first time, thereby causing the first all wins multiplier mode to be deactivated simultaneously for all of the gaming devices participating in the common tournament session; and
sending, by the one or more processors of the tournament management system and for each score value produced, a score update message to the gaming device from which the corresponding win amount originated, the score update message indicating that score value.