Wireless Communication Assembly for Electronic Gaming Machines
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current gaming machines face challenges in efficiently collecting and transmitting large amounts of gameplay data to cloud-based gaming systems, often requiring physical modifications and proprietary networks.
Innovation Solution
The integration of a wireless communication assembly into electronic gaming machines, enabling them to connect to a cloud-based game management system via cellular connections, facilitates the wireless transmission of gameplay data and allows for real-time updates and remote management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If gaming machines use serial ports or Ethernet connections to report gameplay data, then data transmission to cloud-based systems is achieved, but physical network modifications and proprietary networks are required
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces wired mechanical connection systems (serial ports, Ethernet cables, physical network infrastructure) with a wireless communication system. The gaming machine uses a wireless transceiver to transmit gameplay data to cloud-based systems via wireless signals, eliminating the need for physical network modifications and proprietary wired infrastructure.
Solution Approach 2:
The wireless communication assembly provides universal connectivity capability, allowing the gaming machine to communicate with various cloud-based systems through standard wireless protocols. This multi-functional communication approach replaces multiple specialized physical connection types (serial, Ethernet, proprietary networks) with a single universal wireless interface.
2Loss of information
If gaming machines collect and transmit large amounts of gameplay data, then comprehensive data analysis is enabled, but data transmission efficiency becomes challenging
Solution Approach 1:
The wireless communication assembly enables continuous data transmission from the gaming machine to cloud-based systems without interruption. The system maintains persistent wireless connectivity, allowing gameplay data to be transmitted in real-time as it is generated, ensuring both data completeness and transmission efficiency through continuous rather than batched communication.
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure relates generally to gaming machines, systems, and methods. As an example, a method is disclosed that includes enabling a user to interact with a game of chance via a user interface device of the electronic gaming machine, storing an amount of credit available for the player to play the game of chance in a credit meter, presenting the amount of credit available to the user via the user interface device, providing information from the credit meter to a wireless communication assembly, and transmitting, with the wireless communication assembly, the information from the credit meter to a game management system.