Patent ID: 9412234
Filing Date: 2016-08-09
CPC Classification: G07F

Claim Text:
1. A method of operating a computerized gaming system being in data communication with a plurality of gaming devices and comprising a processor-based bonus controller, the method comprising: responsive to participation requests received by the bonus controller from gaming devices among the plurality of gaming devices, determining by the bonus controller two or more gaming devices matching to at least one criterion stored in a memory comprised in the bonus controller; generating by the bonus controller a participation group of gaming devices, the group constituted by gaming devices issued participations requests and determined as matching to the at least one criterion; associating, using the bonus controller, each gaming device in the group with one of a plurality of sequential bonus levels, and maintaining in the memory a data structure comprising data indicative of associated bonus levels, wherein said associating associates at least one gaming device in the group with a bonus level that is different from the bonus level of at least one other gaming device in the group; and responsive to receiving from at least one of the gaming devices in the group data indicative of awarding a bonus win in a game running on the at least one gaming device: