US 2013/0281204 A1 · EVENT BASED PUBLISHING/SUBSCRIBING IN A WAGERING GAME NETWORK

Abstract

A publisher-subscriber architecture with standardized and/or dynamic event/message look up can be implemented on wagering game establishment networks to establish a robust and flexible reporting and reacting mechanism. Processes that operate in accordance with the publisher-subscriber architecture can coordinate operations across multiple devices in a wagering game establishment, and even across multiple wagering game establishments, in response to an event occurring. Processes can operate as publishers and/or subscribers, and can reside on a WGM (e.g., standalone, portable, etc.) or a server. Processes operating as publishers on a WGM can publish information about events that occur on the WGM. Processes operating as subscribers can interpret published event information from different vendors and use published event information in a number of different ways.

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A method comprising:

in response to receiving a request to register a first process as a publisher in a wagering game network, determining one or more event types to be published by the process based, at least in part, on one or more event identifiers indicated by the request;
for each of the one or more event identifiers,
storing an indication of information to be published by the first process when an event corresponding to the event identifier occurs and an indication of the first process;
determining how the information will be published;
in response to receiving a request to register a second process as a subscriber in the wagering game network,
for each event type indicated in the request, registering the second process as a subscriber and indicating to the second process how to access the published information for the event type.

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A wagering game server comprising:

a processor;
one or more machine-readable storage media having program instructions stored thereon that are executable by the processor to cause the wagering game server to,
determine one or more event types to be published by a process based, at least in part, on one or more event identifiers indicated in a request to register the process as a publisher in a wagering game network;
for each of the one or more event identifiers, store an indication of the process;
store an indication of information to be published by the process when an event corresponding to the event identifier occurs;
determine how the information will be published;
for each event type indicated in a request to register a process as a subscriber in the wagering game network,
indicate the process as a subscriber to the event type;
indicate to the subscribing process how to access information published for the event type.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Event based publishing/subscribing in a wagering game network

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