Gaming Machine Host-Controlled Content Display
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current gaming systems face challenges in efficiently updating and managing content on gaming machines, leading to high costs and limitations in providing new and desirable gaming experiences to users, while also requiring extensive approval processes for content modifications.
Innovation Solution
A gaming system that allows remote content management through a host device, enabling secure and authenticated content output on gaming machines, with a master gaming controller that monitors resources to ensure optimal gameplay performance and decouples content output from the primary game process, allowing for dynamic and customizable content without altering the game outcome.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If content is updated and managed locally on gaming machines, then content integrity and security are maintained, but content update costs and complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the content management functionality from the gaming machine itself and places it on a remote server. The gaming machine only executes content that is downloaded and authenticated from the server, separating the complex content update tasks from the gaming device and reducing its management burden while maintaining security through server-side control.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a remote server as an intermediary between content creators and gaming machines. This server handles content storage, authentication, and distribution, acting as a mediator that simplifies the gaming machine's role to merely executing authenticated content while maintaining security and integrity requirements.
2Reliability
If extensive approval processes are implemented for content modifications, then game outcome integrity is ensured, but content update time and efficiency decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the content into two distinct parts: game logic (which determines outcomes) and content assets (which provide presentation). The game logic remains strictly controlled and authenticated on the gaming machine, while content assets can be updated more flexibly from the remote server, allowing faster updates without compromising outcome integrity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses authentication mechanisms that verify downloaded content against trusted references stored on the gaming machine. Instead of requiring full approval processes for every content update, the system uses cryptographic verification to efficiently confirm content integrity, reducing update time while maintaining security.
3Adaptability or versatility
If more hardware and software components are added to gaming machines for linked functions, then gaming capabilities and features are enhanced, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the gaming machine's content execution environment universal by designing it to run content downloaded from a remote server rather than requiring dedicated hardware for each game feature. This multi-functional approach allows the same basic gaming hardware to support diverse games and features through software content updates, reducing the need for additional physical components.
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AI summary
A gaming system including a number of host devices each coupled to one or more gaming machines, wherein content provided by the host device is output on the gaming machine. To output the content provided by the remote host, a host-controlled process that is authenticated by the gaming machine and executed in a secure memory location such that it is isolated from other processes executing on the gaming machine may be utilized. The host-controlled processes may be decoupled from the process used to execute the game of chance played on the gaming machine such that the content output by the host-controlled process doesn't alter the play of game of chance.