Gaming device with a secure interface

• US 10,109,152 B2
• Filed: 04/17/2017
• Issued: 10/23/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/07/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: AIM Management, Inc.
• Original Assignee: AIM Management, Inc.
• Inventors: Okuniewicz, Douglas M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Elisca, Pierre E
• Application Number:
  US15/489,427
• Publication Number:
  US 20170221311A1
• Time in Patent Office: 554 Days
• Field of Search: 463 20, 463 21, 463 29, 463 35, 463 36
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2001/008 adapted for being playable on a screen
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/08 Raffle games that can be played by a fairly large number of people A63F3/0625, A63F3/065 take precedence; lottery apparatus G07C15/00; lottery gaming stations, online lottery or bingo G07F17/329
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/081 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/16 Sound input; Sound output speech processing G10L
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3202 Hardware aspects of a gaming system, e.g. components, construction, architecture thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3223 Architectural aspects of a gaming system, e.g. internal configuration, master/slave, wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3227 Configuring a gaming machine, e.g. downloading personal settings, selecting working parameters
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3246 involving coins and/or banknotes
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3248 involving non-monetary media of fixed value, e.g. casino chips of fixed value
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3255 Incentive, loyalty and/or promotion schemes, e.g. comps, gaming associated with a purchase, gaming funded by advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3262 Player actions which determine the course of the game, e.g. selecting a prize to be won, outcome to be achieved, game to be played
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3267 Game outcomes which determine the course of the subsequent game, e.g. double or quits, free games, higher payouts, different new games
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/329 Regular and instant lottery, e.g. electronic scratch cards
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/34 depending on the stopping of moving members in a mechanical slot machine, e.g. "fruit" machines
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/42 for ticket printing or like apparatus , e.g. apparatus for dispensing of printed paper tickets or payment cards

Abstract

A system for an electronic gambling device output has been developed. The system includes, a first computing device with slot machine game logic circuitry that generates an output signal that is content tested and approved by a gaming regulatory authority for output by the slot machine. It also includes a second computing device that is external to the slot machine. This device controls the tested output content and output content that has not been tested by the gaming regulatory authority. The untested output content replaces or supplements the tested output content.

Claims

1. A method for outputting an alternative output through a slot machine output device, comprising:

generating a slot machine outcome responsive to gaming logic that has been tested and approved for use by a gambling regulatory authority;

commanding a slot machine output device to generate a first output in response to at least one of slot machine input and the slot machine outcome; and

generating an alternative output through the output device that has not been tested by the gambling regulatory authority before the first output is generated by the output device where the alternative output comprises at least one of (a) replacing the first output with a second output generated by at least one of a second device and a third device and (b) supplementing the first output with a second output generated by at least one of the second device and the third device.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising;

generating the alternative output in response to sampling the slot machine events through a secure interface that is further operative to isolate external equipment and program communications from the internal components, software and data of the slot machine.