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System for managing IP addresses in a network gaming environment

  • US 8,721,454 B2
  • Filed: 08/23/2012
  • Issued: 05/13/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/16/2006
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A gaming system for managing internet protocol (IP) addresses, the gaming system comprising:

  • one or more gaming machines, wherein each gaming machine includes one or more gaming presentations that are displayable to a user and each gaming machine is assigned an external IP address, wherein at least one gaming machine of the one or more gaming machines further includes more than one in-game network devices that are IP address-capable and an in-game switch that manages an internal IP address scope for the more than one in-game network devices, and wherein at least one gaming machine is wirelessly connected to one or more servers;

    wherein the in-game switch determines whether an updated internal IP address scope has been received from a local server, and wherein the in-game switch determines whether an updated external IP address has been received from a remote server;

    wherein, in response to the in-game switch having determined that no updated internal IP address scope and updated external IP address were received, the in-game switch leases a temporary internal IP address selected from a default IP address scope to each of the more than one in-game network devices.

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