# US 10,504,328 B2 · Gaming device with a secure interface

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- Number: US 10,504,328 B2
- Document ID: US10504328B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 16/168,262
- Filed: 2018-10-23
- Published: 2019-02-21
- Granted: 2019-12-10
- Earliest claimed: 1997-02-07
- Assignees: Aim Management, Inc.
- Applicants: Douglas M. Okuniewicz; AIM Management, Inc.
- Inventors: Douglas M. Okuniewicz
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10504328B2

## CPC

- G07F 17/3262: {Player actions which determine the course of the game, e.g. selecting a prize to be won, outcome to be achieved, game to be played}
- A63F 3/08: Raffle games that can be played by a fairly large number of people
- G06F 3/16: Sound input; Sound output (speech processing G10L)
- G07F 17/32: for games, toys, sports, or amusements
- G07F 17/3202: {Hardware aspects of a gaming system, e.g. components, construction, architecture thereof}
- G07F 17/3223: {Architectural aspects of a gaming system, e.g. internal configuration, leader-follower, wireless communication}
- G07F 17/3227: {Configuring a gaming machine, e.g. downloading personal settings, selecting working parameters}
- G07F 17/3246: {involving coins and/or banknotes}
- G07F 17/3248: {involving non-monetary media of fixed value, e.g. casino chips of fixed value}
- G07F 17/3255: {Incentive, loyalty and/or promotion schemes, e.g. comps, gaming associated with a purchase, gaming funded by advertisements}
- G07F 17/3267: {Game outcomes which determine the course of the subsequent game, e.g. double or quits, free games, higher payouts, different new games}
- G07F 17/329: {Regular and instant lottery, e.g. electronic scratch cards}
- G07F 17/34: depending on the stopping of moving members {in a mechanical slot machine}, e.g. "fruit" machines
- G07F 17/42: for ticket printing or like apparatus {, e.g. apparatus for dispensing of printed paper tickets or payment cards}
- A63F 3/081: {electric}
- A63F 2001/008: {adapted for being playable on a screen}
- G07F: COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS (coin sorting G07D3/00; coin testing G07D5/00; {handling coins or paper currencies apart from payment activated apparatus G07D; payment architectures, schemes or protocols G06Q20/00})
- A63F: CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

## Abstract

A system for an electronic gambling device output has been developed. The system includes, a first computing device with slot machine game logic circuitry that generates an output signal that is content tested and approved by a gaming regulatory authority for output by the slot machine. It also includes a second computing device that is external to the slot machine. This device controls the tested output content and output content that has not been tested by the gaming regulatory authority. The untested output content replaces or supplements the tested output content.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A slot machine, comprising:
game logic circuitry that has been approved for use m a specific jurisdiction by a regulatory authority;
a secure interface in information transmission connection with the game logic circuitry; where the secure interface is operative to monitor game logic circuitry signals and communicate those signals to a separate bonusing system; where the separate bonusing system is in information transmission connection with the slot machine via a secure interface; where the secure interface is incapable of allowing external communications from the separate bonusing system to alter the game logic circuitry signals;
an external output device in information transmission connection with the separate bonusing system; and
where the separate bonusing system is operative to analyze the game logic circuitry signals and command the external output device to generate an output in response to said analysis.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The slot machine of claim 1, where the external output is at least one of an audio output, a printed output, a displayed output, an entry to a drawing, coin, and cash.