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AssigneeAristocrat Technologies Pty Limited
InventorsJeffrey S. Topham, David Lawdensky, David Salour, Jeff C. Himmelright, Gary Frerking
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Certain embodiments provide systems and methods for multi-tiered gaming data download. The system includes a gaming device for local play of a game. The gaming device includes a communication interface receiving and transmitting data to download a game for play at the gaming device. The system also includes a plurality of download servers communicating with the gaming device to provide game data for download to and play at the gaming device. The system further includes a middle tier server acting as a hub to communicate with the plurality of download servers to provide game data from one or more of the plurality of download servers. The middle tier server allocates download server resources and schedules a download of game data from one or more download servers to the gaming device based on resource constraints at the plurality of download servers and availability for download at the gaming device.
A system for downloading a game, said system comprising:
A method for multi-tiered game download using at least one of a plurality of download servers, each of said download servers having one or more download resources, using a middle tier server and using at least one gaming device having a physical wager acceptor configured to accept a physical item associated with a monetary value for establishing game credits, said method comprising:
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