Hiearchical multi-tiered system for gaming related communications
AssigneeWMS Gaming Inc.
InventorsMary Burke, Nevin Liber, Mark Gagner, Craig Sylla, Matthew Ward
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Abstract
A system, apparatus and method for gaming-related communications in a hierarchical multi-tiered system are described herein. In some embodiments, a method includes transmitting a master configuration from a central operations of a hierarchical multi-tiered system to a local gaming site having one or more gaming components. The method also includes receiving a selected configuration for one or more of the gaming components based on the master configuration. The method includes downloading the selected configuration to the one or more of the gaming components through the hierarchical multi-tiered system.
Claims22
A method comprising:
- transmitting a master configuration from a central operations of a hierarchical multi-tiered system to a local gaming site having one or more gaming components;
- receiving a selected configuration for one or more of the gaming components based on the master configuration;
- and
- downloading the selected configuration to the one or more of the gaming components through the hierarchical multi-tiered system.
A method comprising:
- executing an operation, by a component at a local gaming site, in response to a determination that a network link between the local gaming site and a central operations is disrupted, wherein the operation is executable by the component at the local gaming site and executable by a component at the central operations.
The method of clam 5, further comprising receiving a request, from a gaming machine at the local gaming site, to execute the operation.
A machine-readable medium including instructions which when executed by a machine causes the machine to perform operations comprising:
- transmitting, from a central operations of a multi-tiered system, a request for one or more performance criteria to a gaming machine at a local gaming site;
- receiving a response that includes the one or more performance criteria from the gaming machine through the multi-tiered system;
- and
- transmitting a configuration update to the gaming machine through the multi-tiered system, if the one or more performance criteria are below a threshold.
A system comprising:
- a central data store to store a master configuration for a number of gaming components at a local gaming site;
- and
- a central administration unit to transmit the master configuration to the local gaming site, wherein the central administration unit is to receive a selected configuration for one of the number of gaming components based on the master configuration.
A system comprising:
- a gaming machine at a local gaming site;
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- a site controller to execute a scheduled operation related to the gaming machine, if a network link between the central operations and the local gaming site is disrupted, wherein a component in a central operations is scheduled to execute the scheduled operation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.