Patent ID: 8545316

Claim:
A gaming system comprising: a plurality of gaming devices, each gaming device including at least one input device; at least one display device associated with at least one of said gaming devices; and at least one controller configured to operate with each of said gaming devices and said at least one display device to: (a) maintain a progressive award having a reset value, said progressive award associated with a designated quantity of at least two occurrences of a progressive award triggering event; (b) display a current value of said progressive award; (c) for each of said gaming devices, enable a player of said gaming device to place a wager to play a primary game; (d) upon a progressive award increase event, increment the displayed value of said progressive award; and (e) when a progressive award triggering event occurs: (i) cause one of the gaming devices to provide a currently displayed value of said progressive award, (ii) increment a tracked quantity of occurrences of the progressive award triggering event, (iii) if the tracked quantity of occurrences of the progressive award triggering event equals the designated quantity of at least two occurrences of the progressive award triggering event: (A) reset the displayed value of said progressive award to said reset value, and (B) reset the tracked quantity of occurrences of the progressive award triggering event to a reset quantity, and (iv) if the tracked quantity of occurrences of the progressive award triggering event is less than the designated quantity of at least two occurrences of the progressive award triggering event, repeat steps (c) to (e) at least once, wherein the displayed value of said progressive award continues to increment from said provided value of said progressive award.