In addition, to conserve serial interfaces internally in the slot machine, serial devices may be connected in a shared, daisy-chain fashion where multiple peripheral devices are connected to a single serial channel. IGT Gaming-machines may alternatively be treated as peripheral devices to a casino ...
In particular, player tracking programs are very popular with players of mechanical slot gaming machines and video slot gaming machines. In a gaming machine, a player tracking program may be implemented using a player tracking unit installed in the gaming machine and in communication with a remote...
12.The system of claim 11, wherein the NV-RAM stores critical gaming programs and functions therein. 13.The system of claim 11, wherein the EEPROM stores critical gaming machine data and functions therein. 14.The system of claim 11, wherein the back plane comprises the PCI-e controller fo...
When an instance is stored on the gaming machine 2, it may be loaded from the mass storage device into a RAM for execution. In some cases, after a selection of an instance, the game software that allows the selected instance to be generated may be downloaded from a remote gaming device,...
FIG. 2 is a perspective view of one embodiment 210 of a slot machine, EGM, or gaming device suitable for use in the previously depicted system of FIG. 1, in which aspects of the present invention may be realized. FIG. 2 represents a base gaming device 210 that can be employed in the...
Various gaming software programs, loaded into RAM for execution, may be managed as “processes” by the gaming machine's operating system. The gaming machine's operating system may also perform process scheduling and memory management. An example of an operating system that may be used with the...
After the state of the gaming machine is restored during the play of a game of chance, game play may resume and the game may be completed in a manner that is no different than if the malfunction had not occurred. Typically, battery backed RAM devices are used to preserve this critical ...
In an alternative embodiment, how the generated or selected game outcome is to be presented or displayed to the player, such as a reel symbol combination of a slot machine or a hand of cards dealt in a card game, is also determined by central server 56 and communicated to the initiated ...
Typically, battery backed RAM devices are used to preserve this critical data although other types of non-volatile memory devices may be employed. These memory devices are not used in typical general-purpose computers. As described in the preceding paragraph, when a malfunction occurs during the ...
A disclosed gaming machine provides methods and apparatus of verifying the authenticity of gaming software stored in and executed from RAM on the gaming machine. When presenting a g