| US 7,481,707 B1 | ||
| Bingo bonusing system and method | ||
| Robert A. Luciano, Jr., Reno, Nev. (US); and Warren R. White, Fife, Wash. (US) | ||
| Assigned to Bally Gaming, Inc., Las Vegas, Nev. (US) | ||
| Filed on Feb. 05, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/772,543. | ||
| Claims priority of provisional application 60/451970, filed on Mar. 03, 2003. | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 17/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 463—19 | 17 Claims |
| 1. A method of providing a bingo bonus game in a bingo gaming system, the method comprising:
receiving a wager from two or more players to establish a gaming session in the bingo gaming system, wherein the wager is
exchanged for a virtual bingo card;
generating a bingo ball draw to be presented to the at least two players, wherein the bingo draw includes a predetermined
number of bingo balls;
sending one or more balls from the bingo ball draw to the gaming machines until a winning event occurs at a bingo gaming terminal;
presenting the winning event from the bingo game as a game outcome of non-bingo game of chance;
determining, for each virtual bingo card in the gaming session, if a bonus win event occurred; and
presenting the bonus win event as a game outcome of a non-bingo game of chance.
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