Patent ID: 11935364
Assignee: IGT
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 6:
7. The method of claim 6, wherein notifying the user device comprises sending the award sharing message to an account of a corresponding player member on a social networking website, wherein one of the player members in the multi-player group plays a game in the gaming session independent of games in the gaming session played by other player members of the multi-player group, wherein the user device comprises a video game gambling machine, wherein the game is video poker, and further comprising:
when an award sharing message is opened by a notified player member of the multi-player group within a predetermined time, incrementing, by the processor of the gaming system, a value of an electronic record associated with the account of the notified player member to reflect the corresponding player member's allocable share of the winning outcome; and
when an award sharing message is not opened by the notified player member of the multi-player group within the predetermined time, incrementing, by the processor of the gaming system, a value of an electronic record associated with the account of a different player member to reflect at least a portion of the corresponding player member's allocable share of the winning outcome.