Method and apparatus for modifying gaming machines to provide supplemental or modified functionality
First Claim
1. An apparatus for modifying the functionality of a legacy gaming device having a legacy gaming device processor, comprising:
- a display device for providing game play information to a user;
a second processor, communicatively coupled to the display device via an interrupted legacy communication path interrupting a legacy display device signal, the interrupted legacy communication path disposed between the display device and the legacy gaming device processor, the second processor performing instructions for generating a substitute signal to provide the modified functionality of the legacy gaming device.
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Abstract
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for transferring credits from one gaming device to another via the use of coded scrip is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of accepting a cash-out command in the gaming device, scanning a magnetically manifested code uniquely identifying a scrip stored in the gaming device, transmitting a cash-out message comprising the code to a remote processor having access to a database configured to store and retrieve codes from a plurality of gaming devices, receiving a scrip dispense message from the remote processor, and dispensing the scrip. The apparatus comprises a scrip storage unit, a scrip dispensing unit having a scrip transducer for reading and recording a magnetically manifested code on a scrip retrieved from the scrip storage unit, and a processor, communicatively coupled to the scrip transducer and a remote computer having access to a database for storing and retrieving code information from the plurality of gaming devices.
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112 Claims
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1. An apparatus for modifying the functionality of a legacy gaming device having a legacy gaming device processor, comprising:
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a display device for providing game play information to a user; a second processor, communicatively coupled to the display device via an interrupted legacy communication path interrupting a legacy display device signal, the interrupted legacy communication path disposed between the display device and the legacy gaming device processor, the second processor performing instructions for generating a substitute signal to provide the modified functionality of the legacy gaming device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 112)
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15. An apparatus for modifying the functionality of a legacy gaming device having a legacy I/O device communicating legacy I/O device signals with a legacy gaming device processor via a legacy communication path, comprising:
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a signal interrupting and substitution device, coupled to the legacy communication path to interrupt the legacy I/O device signals and to provide substitute signals therefor; and a second processor, coupled to the signal interrupting and substitution device, the second processor performing instructions for generating the substitute signals to provide the modified functionality. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. An apparatus for modifying the functionality of a legacy gaming device having a legacy gaming device processor, comprising:
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a plurality of legacy I/O devices for providing gaming information to a user and for accepting user input; and a second processor, communicatively coupled to the plurality of I/O devices via at least one interrupted legacy communication path between the legacy I/O devices and the legacy gaming device processor, the second processor for accepting input from the legacy I/O devices via the at least one interrupted legacy communication path, processing the accepted input, and providing output generated at least in part from the accepted input to the legacy I/O devices. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42)
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43. An apparatus for modifying the functionality of a legacy gaming device having a legacy gaming device processor, comprising:
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a plurality of legacy I/O devices for providing gaming information to a user and for accepting user input; and means for accepting input from the legacy I/O devices via at least one interrupted legacy communication path between the legacy I/O devices and the legacy gaming device processor, for processing the accepted input, and for providing output generated at least in part from the accepted input to the legacy I/O devices. - View Dependent Claims (44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57)
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58. An apparatus for modifying the functionality of a legacy gaming device having a legacy gaming device processor, comprising:
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a plurality of legacy I/O devices for providing gaming information to a user and for accepting user input; and a second processor, communicatively coupled to the plurality of I/O devices via at least one interrupted legacy communication path interrupting legacy I/O device signals, the at least one interrupted legacy communication path being between the legacy I/O devices and the legacy gaming device processor, the second processor performing instructions for generating a substitute signal to provide the modified functionality. - View Dependent Claims (59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72)
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73. A method of modifying a function of a gaming device having a plurality of legacy input/output (I/O) devices communicating I/O device signals with a legacy gaming device processor via a plurality of legacy communication paths, comprising the steps of:
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interrupting, with a signal interrupting and substitution device, at least one of the I/O device signals communicated on at least one of the legacy communication paths; generating, with a second processor, a substitute I/O device signal, the substitute I/O device signal providing the modified function; and providing the substitute I/O device signal from the second processor to the signal interrupting and substitution device on the at least one of the legacy communication paths. - View Dependent Claims (74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86)
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87. An apparatus for modifying the functionality of a legacy gaming device having a legacy I/O device communicating legacy I/O device signals with a legacy gaming device processor via a legacy communication path, comprising:
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a means for interrupting the legacy I/O device signals and providing substitute signals therefor, the interrupting means coupled to the legacy communication path; a means for generating a substitute signals for the legacy I/O device signals to provide the modified functionality, the means for generating the substitute signals coupled to the signal interrupting and substitution means. - View Dependent Claims (88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99)
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100. A method for modifying the functionality of a legacy gaming device having a legacy I/O device communicating legacy I/O device signals with a legacy gaming device processor via a legacy communication path, comprising:
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interrupting the legacy I/O device signals with a signal interrupting and substitution device coupled to the legacy communication path; generating, via a second processor communicatively coupled to the signal interrupting and substitution device, substitute signals for the legacy I/O device signals to provide the modified functionality. - View Dependent Claims (101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111)
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