US 8,078,540 B2Granted

Gaming machine, gaming information authentication and acquisition device, and gaming information acquisition device

AssigneeUniversal Entertainment Corporation

InventorTatsuhiko Tanimura

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Abstract

A gaming machine includes a gaming operation execution device, a loading device and a processing device. The gaming operation execution device executes gaming operations. The loading device includes a connector for connecting a storage medium, a first program memory part for storing a first authentication program, a second program memory part for storing a second authentication program, and a first processor for authenticating the first authentication program with the second authentication program. The processing device includes a memory, a reading unit for reading out the gaming information from the storage medium and for reading out the first authentication program authenticated by the first processor, a second processor for authenticating the gaming information with the authenticated first authentication program, a writing unit for writing the authenticated gaming information to the memory, and an operation control unit for controlling the gaming operation execution device.

Claims6

Dependent claims

A gaming machine, comprising:

(i) a board including a memory in which a game program for executing a game and an authentication program for authenticating the game program are stored;
(ii) a motherboard which is different from the board and connects to the board, the motherboard including another memory which is different from the memory, said another memory configured to read out and store the game program stored in the memory;
and
(iii) a CPU which is provided on the motherboard, for executing the game based upon the game program stored in said another memory,
the CPU being configured to:
(a) read out the authentication program from the memory of the board, and then, store the read out authentication program in said another memory of the motherboard;
(b) execute the authentication program stored in said another memory in the process (a), and then, authenticate the game program in the memory of the board, based upon the executed authentication program;
(c) write the game program in the memory of the board, to said another memory of the motherboard, in a case where the game program in the memory of the board is authenticated as a result of the authentication process (b);
and
(d) execute the game based upon the game program written to said another memory of the motherboard in the process (c).

7 more elements

A method of controlling a gaming machine having

a board including a memory in which a game program for executing a game and an authentication program from authenticating the game program are stored,
a motherboard which is different from the board and connects to the board, the motherboard including another memory which is different from the memory, said another memory reading out and storing the game program stored in the memory, and
a CPU which is provided on the motherboard, for executing the game based upon the game program stored in said another memory, the method comprising:
(a) reading the authentication program from the memory of the board, and then, storing the read out authentication program in said another memory of the motherboard;
(b) executing the authentication program stored in said another memory at the step (a), and then, authenticating the game program in the memory of the board, based upon the executed authentication program;
(c) writing the game program stored in the memory of the board, to said another memory of the motherboard, in a case where the game program in the memory of the board is authenticated as a result of the authentication step (b);
and
(d) executing the game based upon the game program written to said another memory of the motherboard at the step (c).

5 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/656,779Filed 16 Feb 2010 · continuation
Priority: JP 2005-12139719 Apr 2005
Published: US 2010/0151939 A117 Jun 2010
Granted: 13 Dec 2011
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G07F 17/32
Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services: for games, toys, sports, or amusements
G06F 21/575
Certifying or maintaining trusted computer platforms, e.g. secure boots or power-downs, version controls, system software checks, secure updates…:…
G07F 17/3241
For games, toys, sports, or amusements: security aspects of a gaming system, e.g. detecting cheating, device integrity, surveillance
G07F
Coin-freed or like apparatus

Family

Application11/404,892Parent of this continuation · filed 17 Apr 2006
US 2010/0151939 A1Pre-grant publication · published 17 Jun 2010
US 7,693,282 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2006/0247004 A1Published application
US 8,078,540 B2This patent

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