High volume electronic lottery ticket distribution system

An electronic lottery gaming system for storing a large amount of electronic lottery ticket data in a manner that allows a system to quickly respond to incoming electronic lottery game play requests and supply required lottery ticket record information to a gaming machine from which the request is initiated which includes a site controller co-located at a first gaming site together with a number of player stations, the site controller being adapted to receive a first game record group from a game server, and the site controller including site controller data storage for storing the first game record group, wherein the first game record group includes a number of game records for a lottery game and each game record includes result indicating data which indicates a result associated with the respective game record, the electronic lottery gaming system characterized by,

• a player station services controller associated with the first gaming site and being located separately from each of the player stations at the first gaming site, the player station services controller being adapted to receive the first game record group from the site controller responsive to a game availability request made in the event that a player station is being placed in a condition that a player may use the player station to enter a game play request, and including player station services data storage for storing the first game record group, the player station services controller also being adapted to communicate the result indicating data for a respective one of the game records in the first game record group to a respective player station at the gaming site in response to a game play request from that respective player station.

A program product stored on one or more non-transitory computer readable media and executable for storing a large amount of electronic lottery ticket data in a manner that allows a system to quickly respond to incoming electronic lottery game play requests and supply required lottery ticket record information to a gaming machine from which the request is initiated, the program product including:

• (a) game server program code being executable to store a number of game record groups at a central storage device and to communicate a first game record group to a site controller upon request, the first game record group being included in the number of game record groups, each game record group including a number of game records for a lottery game and each game record in a respective game record group including result indicating data which indicates a result associated with the respective game record;
• (b) site controller program code being executable to receive the first game record group communicated under control of the game server program code, to store the first game record group at data storage associated with the site controller, and to communicate the first game record group to a player station services controller responsive to a game availability request made by the player station services controller and indicating that a player station is being placed in a condition that a player may use the player station to enter a game play request, wherein the site controller and the player station services controller are located at a common gaming site;
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• (c) player station services program code being executable to receive the first game record group communicated under control of the site controller program code and to store the first game record group at data storage associated with the player station services controller, the player station services program code also being executable to communicate the result indicating data for a respective game record in the first game record group to a respective player station in response to a game play request from that respective player station, wherein the game play request is a separate communication from the game availability request and wherein the player station is separate from the player station services controller.