Patent ID: 8591322

Claim:
An electronic gaming system, comprising: a server; a plurality of electronic gaming machines, each of the gaming machines including a logic system that is configured for communication with the server, each gaming machine further including a non-transitory computer readable memory configured for communication with the logic system, the memory including instructions executable by the logic system for running on the gaming machine a persistence game having one or more recordable persistence states leading to a redeemable persistence award, each persistence state having a persistence value representing a portion of the persistence award, the persistence game interruptible at any one of the gaming machines and resumable at any other of the gaming machines at a recorded persistence state; and a theoretical coin-out meter configured for communication with the logic system for storing in the memory unawarded persistence values accumulated by the gaming machine from advancing the persistence game during game play among the one or more persistence states; wherein a program stored on a non-transitory machine-readable medium and executed by the server reconciles a persistence award redeemed at one of the gaming machines with unawarded persistence values accumulated at another one or more of the machines.