Patent ID: 11928919
Assignee: PAVILION PAYMENTS GAMING SERVICES, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 14:
15. A casino comprising:
a plurality of gaming machines arranged in banks of one or more gaming machines per bank; and
a nodal network of wireless transceivers, each bank of gaming machines having a wireless transceiver, wherein:
each wireless transceiver is within wireless communication range of at least one other wireless transceiver in the nodal network;
at least one wireless transceiver is a terminal transceiver configured to communicate with an external network cloud; and
a casino patron can use a casino app running on a mobile device to communicate with the external network cloud via the nodal network from any location within the casino at which the mobile device is within wireless communication range of a wireless transceiver in the nodal network, that wireless transceiver being a connected transceiver, wherein:
the mobile device transmits to the connected transceiver an outgoing message that is propagated wirelessly through the nodal network via zero, one, or more of the other wireless transceivers to the terminal transceiver and from the terminal transceiver to the external network cloud;
the mobile device receives from the connected transceiver an incoming message that has been transmitted from the external network cloud to the terminal transceiver and then propagated wirelessly through the nodal network via zero, one, or more of the other wireless transceivers to the connected transceiver; and
when the terminal transceiver receives the incoming message from the external network cloud in response to the outgoing message, the terminal transceiver broadcasts a corresponding incoming message containing a thread ID number and then updates its list of threads to indicate that the corresponding thread is now terminated.