Gaming server and gaming system

US20060068915A1Inactive Publication Date: 2006-03-30UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORP
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US · United States
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Publication Date
2006-03-30
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Not applicable · inactive patent

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Abstract

A gaming server and a gaming system which provides a player with the fascinating aspect of a game, while preventing inappropriate alteration of the gaming object data, and in which the advantage of the player who can use the gaming object data can be carried on to another player. Specifically, this gaming server is a gaming server which is connected to a gaming machine on which can be played a game using an image of a gaming object which shows a figure or other object appearing in a game, the gaming server comprising changing means for changing the correspondence between gaming object data indicating the characteristics of each gaming object and player information for identifying a player who can utilize the gaming object data in the game.
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RELATED APPLICATIONS

[0001] This application claims the priority of Japanese Patent Application No. 2004-287721 filed on Sep. 30, 2004, which is incorporated by reference. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

[0002] 1. Field of the Invention

[0003] The present invention relates to a gaming server which is connected to a gaming machine on which can be played a game using an image of a gaming object which shows a figure or other object appearing in a game, and to a gaming system in which such a game can be played.

[0004] 2. Description of the Prior Art

[0005] There has been conventionally known a gaming machine on which can be played a game by recording the identification information on a character appearing in a game in an object to be read such as a card, and displaying a game image using the character corresponding to the identification information read from the card or the like (so called a “video gaming machine”). For example, Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2002-301264 disclos...

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[0047] Embodiments of the present invention are described hereinafter. It should be noted that the same reference characters are used to indicate the same elements, thus the overlapping explanations are omitted accordingly.

[0048] (The Entire Configuration of the Gaming System)

[0049]FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of a gaming system 100 which is equipped with a plurality of gaming machines 1 according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the plurality of gaming machines 1 and a card machine 6. The gaming system 100 is the same as the gaming system of the present invention, and has two game arcades A and B that are provided with one and two arcade servers 2 respectively, totaling three arcade servers, the plurality of gaming machines 1 (eight machines in the present embodiment) and card machines 6 connected communicably to the arcade servers via dedicated lines, an in-arcade router 7 provided in each of the game arcades A and B, and a center se...