Patent ID: 9495834
Filing Date: 2016-11-15
CPC Classification: G07F

Claim Text:
1. Apparatus for determining an award of a set of prizes where each prize in the set has a respective prize value, the apparatus including: memory for storing prize data indicative of prize values (CP an input device configured to receive input signals from a respective plurality of slot machines, each of the slot machines including an acceptor configured to receive credit value to establish a credit balance, a wager input device configured to receive one or more wagers from one or more players, each wager being deducted from the credit balance, and a redemption device configured to enable the one or more players to redeem the credit balance; a component configured to: (i) process the input signals for successive time periods, thereby to determine a contribution amount based on the wagers received at the slot machines for each time period; (ii) access weighting data, wherein the weighting data includes a weighting value (W (iii) for each time period, apply the weighting values to the contribution amount, thereby to determine a plurality of increment values (IV an increment device configured to maintain, for each prize value (CP a comparator configured to determine, for each period, whether incrementing of the accumulated values (AV