Patent ID: 7708639

Claim:
A lottery type progressive gaming method including: (a) generating a set of game records through a game controller, each game record being associated with a predetermined result in a lottery game, one or more of the lottery game results being associated with a predetermined lottery game prize; (b) designating, using a game controller, a subset of the set of game records to include one or more progressive prize bearing records independent from the respectively associated lottery game results, each of the progressive prize bearing records being associated with a win in a progressive game and also being associated with a progressive prize; (c) storing a number of the game records, including one or more of the progressive prize bearing records, in memory accessible by a game services site controller, and operating the game services site controller under the control of program code to assign respective game records from the stored number of the game records to respective players, each assigned game record from the number of game records being assigned in response to a game play request which is (i) associated with a respective one of the players, and (ii) initiated through a player station for the respective player, the game play request including a request to play the lottery game, the progressive game, or both the lottery game and the progressive game; (d) determining a value for the progressive prize through the game services site controller operating under the control of the program code; (e) in the case when the progressive game is requested and one of the designated progressive prize bearing records is assigned to the respective one of the players, awarding the associated progressive prize to the respective one of the players; and (f) in the case when the lottery game is requested and one of the designated progressive prize bearing records is assigned to the respective one of the players, separately awarding one or more lottery game prizes to the respective one of the players in accordance with the lottery game results associated with the one assigned of the designated game records or one or more non-designated of the assigned game records.