SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONNECTING GAMING DEVICES TO A NETWORK FOR REMOTE PLAY

• US 20090093312A1
• Filed: 12/09/2008
• Published: 04/09/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/1994
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Zynga Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Legal Igaming Incorporated
• Inventors: Carlson, Rolf E.
• Application Number:
  US12/331,332
• Publication Number:
  US 20090093312A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/42
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 7/58 Random or pseudo-random number generators
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 7/582 Pseudo-random number generators
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3223 Architectural aspects of a gaming system, e.g. internal configuration, master/slave, wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3225 Data transfer within a gaming system, e.g. data sent between gaming machines and users
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/323 wherein the player is informed, e.g. advertisements, odds, instructions
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3237 about the players, e.g. profiling, responsible gaming, strategy/behavior of players, location of players
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3241 Security aspects of a gaming system, e.g. detecting cheating, device integrity, surveillance computer security G06F21/00

Abstract

A system and method for connecting remote player devices to regulated host gaming devices in a network to provide remote game play. A host gaming device is configured to provide game information to a plurality of remote player devices to allow remote play of the host game device. Whether each remote player device is permitted to receive gaming data is based upon, at least in part, the geographic location of the remote player device.

Claims

1. A gaming system, comprising:

a network;

at least two servers, each of the at least two servers coupled to the network; and

at least one gaming machine coupled to the communication network, the at least one gaming machine configured to transmit transaction data to each of the at least two servers.

2. The gaming system of claim 1, wherein each of the at least two servers is configured to transmit an acknowledgement of the receipt of the transaction data to the gaming machine.

3. The gaming system of claim 1, where the at least two servers are located in different geographic locations.

4. The gaming system of claim 1, wherein the gaming machine and the at least two servers operate a gaming session.

5. The gaming system of claim 3, wherein the gaming machine and one of the servers continues operating the gaming session if the other server is disabled.

6. The gaming system of claim 1, wherein the transaction data is encrypted using a plurality of private keys.

7. The gaming system of claim 6, wherein the plurality of private keys are symmetric keys.

8. The gaming system of claim 1, wherein the transaction data is encrypted using a plurality of asymmetric keys.

9. The gaming system of claim 8, wherein the asymmetric keys comprise at least one public key and at least one private key.

10. A gaming system, comprising:

a network;

at least two servers, each of the at least two servers coupled to the network, each server comprising;

means for receiving transaction data;

means for processing transaction data; and

at least one gaming machine coupled to the communication network, the at least one gaming machine comprising;

means for transmitting transaction data, wherein the transaction data is transmitted to each of the at least two servers.

11. The gaming system of claim 10, wherein each of the at least two servers is configured to transmit an acknowledgement of the receipt of the transaction data to the gaming machine.

12. The gaming system of claim 10, where the at least two servers are located in different geographic locations.

13. The gaming system of claim 10, wherein the gaming machine and the at least two servers operate a gaming session.

14. The gaming system of claim 13, wherein the gaming machine and one of the servers continues operating the gaming session if the other server is disabled.

15. The gaming system of claim 10, wherein the transaction data is encrypted using a plurality of private keys.

16. The gaming system of claim 15, wherein the plurality of private keys are symmetric keys.

17. The gaming system of claim 10, wherein the transaction data is encrypted using a plurality of asymmetric keys.

18. The gaming system of claim 17, wherein the asymmetric keys comprise at least one public key and at least one private key.

19. A method for a gaming system comprising:

operating a game session between a gaming machine, a first and a second server;

processing user input;

generating transaction data based on the user input; and

transmitting the transaction data to at least two servers.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein each of the at least two servers is configured to transmit an acknowledgement of the receipt of the transaction data to the gaming machine.

21. The method of claim 19, where the at least two servers are located in different geographic locations.

22. The method of claim 19, wherein the gaming machine and one of the servers continues operating the gaming session if the other server is disabled.

23. The method of claim 19, wherein the transaction data is encrypted using a plurality of private keys.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the plurality of private keys are symmetric keys.

25. The method of claim 19, wherein the transaction data is encrypted using a plurality of asymmetric keys.

26. The method of claim 24, wherein the asymmetric keys comprise at least one public key and at least one private key.