Patent ID: 7281983

Claim:
A gaming system comprising: a communication device receiving incoming communications and sending outgoing communications, the communication device being selected from the group consisting of telephones and facsimile machines and including first incoming communications history data storing means storing incoming communications history data of each incoming communication received by the communication device, the incoming communications history data including time of receipt of each incoming communication and an identifying number of each incoming communication to the communication device, and output means for outputting the incoming communications history data that has been stored; a gaming machine for playing games, the gaming machine including input means for connection to the output means of the communication device for receiving from the communication device the incoming communications history data stored in the first incoming communications history data storing means, image displaying means for displaying an image, execution variable generating means, supplied with the incoming communications history data from the input means, for generating execution variables based on the incoming communications history data that is supplied, the execution variables changing prowess of games executed by the gaming machine, and game executing means for executing the games using the execution variables generated by the execution variable generating means.