Transaction Aggregator for Distributed Jackpot Systems
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing distributed network architectures face challenges in managing and providing content across disparate systems due to compatibility issues, proprietary protocols, and location-based restrictions, limiting the ability to offer unified services like jackpots across various devices and technologies.
Innovation Solution
An event-driven distributed network architecture that includes transaction engines, a transaction aggregator, and transaction services, enabling the provision of jackpots as a service by aggregating transactions and providing coordinated services across multiple systems, using a casino management layer to manage player accounts and determine jackpot outcomes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a single entity controls and monitors content across disparate distributed systems, then centralized control and coordination are achieved, but system complexity and integration difficulties increase due to different protocols, constraints, and technologies
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a transaction aggregator as an intermediary component that sits between the transaction engines and the central controller. This aggregator receives transactions from multiple transaction engines using different protocols and technologies, normalizes them into a common format, and forwards them to the central controller. This mediator approach allows centralized control to be maintained while avoiding direct integration complexity between disparate systems, as the aggregator handles protocol translation and compatibility issues.
2Reliability
If proprietary protocols and location-based restrictions are enforced across distributed systems, then system security and compliance are maintained, but interoperability and service portability across different devices and technologies are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The transaction aggregator is designed with universal functionality to handle multiple types of transactions from different transaction engines using various proprietary protocols. It can adapt to different protocol requirements while maintaining a single standardized interface to the central controller. This multi-functionality enables the system to maintain compliance with location-based restrictions and proprietary protocols for each specific system while simultaneously achieving interoperability across all distributed systems through a unified approach.
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AI summary
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed in relation to an event-driven distributed networked jackpot architecture. An example apparatus includes a transaction aggregator to monitor transactions with respect to a user device and a transaction engine regarding content provided to the user device; and transaction services to process the transactions from the transaction aggregator to at least: determine occurrence of an event with respect to the user device based on an evaluation of the transactions; when the event is determined to occur, trigger a notification of the event to the user device; and update a record based on the processing of the transactions.