Authentication of Game Results

Abstract

A gaming system includes a game server and a client server. The client server requests random numeric outcomes from the game server and supplies various state and game information. The game server generates one or more random numeric outcomes. The game server communicates the random numeric outcomes to the client server to be used in making a win determination. For purposes of future authentication, the game server stores a digitally-signed file that includes the random numeric outcomes and the state and game information.

Description

RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 10 / 308,603 filed Dec. 2, 2002 entitled “Authentication of Game Results.”TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0002]This invention relates in general to games of chance, and more particularly to a gaming system that provides for authentication of generated results.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0003]The gaming industry has enjoyed a substantial increase in popularity over the last decade. This increased popularity has produced an extremely competitive market for game operators.[0004]Despite the increasingly competitive nature of the industry, a game operator responsible for paying out prizes may be unwilling to rely on innovations developed by others if the game operator lacks the expertise to understand the technology, its potential for error, and how it will impact the game operator's prize obligations. Therefore, to facilitate the introduction and acceptance of innovations into this competitive marke...

AI Technical Summary

Benefits of technology

[0007]In accordance with the present invention, the disadvantages and problems associated with a gaming system have been substantially reduced or eliminated. In particular, the invention provides a method and system for providing random numeric outcomes to be used in determining whether a win has occurred in a game of chance, the method and system being both flexible and fraudproof.

[0010]Important technical advantages of certain embodiments of the present invention include the ability to authenticate win determinations made on the basis of random numeric outcomes. Other important technical advantages of certain embodiments of the present invention include providing random numbers for a plurality of game operators and game devices, producing outcomes for a variety of games, and updating a signature key to provide a verifiable signature.

Problems solved by technology

Despite the increasingly competitive nature of the industry, a game operator responsible for paying out prizes may be unwilling to rely on innovations developed by others if the game operator lacks the expertise to understand the technology, its potential for error, and how it will impact the game operator's prize obligations.

However, a system in which the game operator conducts the game but the game sponsor is responsible for paying winners will encourage fraud by game operators who can alter game situations to generate excessive winners.

Images