Gaming machine
AssigneeAristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
InventorDrazen Lenger
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Abstract
A method of conducting a software update of a gaming machine, including: starting a boot process of the gaming machine; determining during the boot process that a memory device potentially containing at least one software component more recent than a corresponding software component currently stored in gaming machine memory is in data communication with the gaming machine; determining that the memory device contains at least one authentic, more recent software component; and updating gaming machine memory with each more recent software component.
Claims20
A method of conducting a software update of a gaming machine, comprising:
- starting a boot process of the gaming machine;
- determining during the boot process that a memory device potentially containing at least one software component more recent than a corresponding software component currently stored in gaming machine memory is in data communication with the gaming machine;
- determining that the memory device contains at least one authentic, more recent software component;
- and
- updating gaming machine memory with each more recent software component.
A gaming machine comprising:
- a processor;
- gaming machine memory storing updateable software components and storing instructions to cause the processor to conduct a boot process, the gaming machine arranged to:
- determine during the boot process that a memory device potentially containing at least one software component more recent than a corresponding software component currently stored in gaming machine memory is in data communication with the gaming machine;
- determine that the memory device contains at least one authentic, more recent software component;
- and
- conduct an update process of gaming machine memory in respect of each more recent software component.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.