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

Claim 5:
6. The method of claim 2, wherein one of the player members in the multi-player group plays a game independent of games played by other player members of the multi-player group, wherein the user device comprises a virtual gaming machine, and further comprising:
initiating, by the processor of the gaming system, the allocating and notifying after at least a predetermined amount of money is received by the gaming system to fund games played by the player members of the multi-player group; and
when an award sharing message is opened by a player member of the multi-player group, incrementing, by the processor of the gaming system, a value of an electronic record associated with an account of the player member to reflect the player member's allocable share of the winning outcome, wherein each of the player members share equally in the winning outcome; and wherein the predetermined event occurs when an amount of money is used by the player members of the multi-player group to play games in the gaming session on virtual gaming machines or when a selected number of the player members have stopped playing games in the gaming session as part of the multi-player group.