Patent ID: 9555322
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: A63F,G07F

Claim:
1. A method of using a local game-area network to enable group gaming, the method comprising: providing a plurality of gaming device sub-systems in the local game-area network, each gaming device sub-system including a gaming device and a corresponding local game-area server, wherein each local game-area server is associated with a corresponding gaming device in each gaming device sub-system; designating one of the local game-area servers as an active local game-area server that has host status while the remaining local game-area servers act as clients, wherein only a single local game-area server is used to support the plurality of gaming device sub-systems, and the other local game-area servers in the plurality of gaming device sub-systems are inactive; moving the host status of the active local game-area server to an available local game-area server acting as a client in the local game-area network; and designating one of the local game-area servers is a back-up local game-area server.