Patent ID: 9472047
Filing Date: 2016-10-18
CPC Classification: G07F

Claim Text:
1. A gaming machine for a player to concurrently playing two or more wagering games comprising: an electronic game display device; one or more electronic input devices; one or more controllers configured to detect by one or more electronic devices a physical item associated with a monetary value that establishes a credit balance for the gaming machine; a source library storing data for the operation and control of at least first and second different games and where each game is represented as a spinning reel video game having a plurality of video reels which, when prompted for play, sequentially spin and stop over a game cycle time to present a winning or a losing outcome; one or more of the controllers configured to (a) detect the player's assignment of wagers to play each of the games and (b) control the electronic display device to size and locate the display of the games at defined real estate at the electronic game display device for presentation to the player; one or more electronic input devices receiving a player input to play the games, the one or more of the controllers responsive to the play input configured to, based upon the cycle times for each of the games, choreograph the spinning of the reels such that a first reel of the first game starts to spin to start the spin cycle for the first game and while the first game is in its spin cycle the first reel of second game starts spinning to start the spin cycle of second game such that the spin cycles of the first and second games start sequentially, end sequentially and include a period of time where both spin cycles are processing, the spin cycles concluding to produce winning or losing game outcomes for each game; and the one or more of the controllers configured to issue an award for each winning outcome credited to the credit balance.