Patent ID: 8616977
Filing Date: 2013-12-31
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A method of measuring performance of a gaming device that is new to a location having a plurality of existing gaming devices on a network, the method comprising: tracking play for a historical game session on at least one of the networked gaming devices at the location; storing the tracked play for the historical game session in a player database; thereafter implementing a previously unimplemented gaming device at the location; connecting the previously unimplemented gaming device to the network; tracking play for a current game session on the previously unimplemented gaming device; storing the tracked play for the current game session in the player database; categorizing identified players into at least one player group based on at least one predefined criterion using at least one of the current and historical game-session tracked play stored in the player database; communicating tracked play for the current and historical game sessions via the network to a computing device connected to the network; comparing, via the computing device, tracked play of the at least one player group for the current game session with tracked play of the at least one player group for a historical game session; and marketing the previously unimplemented gaming device based on the comparison.