A system and method for maintaining player's game state (award credits, partial award states, and non-award or non-credit states) in a gaming environment is disclosed. In particular, the player may restore the game state from previously played games either from the same game device or from another game...http://www.google.de/patents/US20020094871?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US20020094871 - Method and apparatus for maintaining game state
