Patent ID: 8371934

Claim:
A self configuring progressive jackpot award system, comprising: a plurality of electronic gaming machines (EGMs), respectively comprising a plurality of EGM configuration options, and operating in accordance with the EGM configuration options, wherein a subset of the plurality of EGM configuration options relates to participating in a progressive jackpot award game; a progressive controller, coupled to the plurality of EGMs, for controlling the operation of the progressive jackpot award game, and comprising a plurality of progressive jackpot award game configuration options, wherein: a subset of the progressive jackpot award game configuration options correspond to the subset of EGM configuration options related to participating in the progressive jackpot award game, and the progressive controller automatically sends data representing the subset of progressive jackpot award game configuration options to the plurality of EGMs; and wherein the plurality of EGMs receives the progressive jackpot award game configuration option representative data from the progressive controller, stores the subset of EGM configuration options related to participating in the progressive jackpot award game represented by the data, and participates in the progressive jackpot award game in accordance with the EGM progressive jackpot award game configuration options.