Patent ID: 7708638
Filing Date: 2010-05-04
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A method including: (a) on one of multiple computer devices in an electronic gaming system, maintaining gaming activity data for a first gaming activity network data structure for holding data regarding a first linked series of gaming system events and comprising at least: (b) on one of the multiple computer devices in the electronic gaming system, maintaining gaming activity data for a second gaming activity network data structure for holding data regarding a second series of linked gaming system events and comprising at least: (c) determining that the first and second gaming activity network data structures are related to each other; (d) in response to determining such relationship, merging the gaming activity data for the first gaming activity network data structure with the gaming activity data for the second gaming activity network data structure to produce merged gaming activity data in one of the multiple computer devices; (e) determining an activity network characteristic for the merged gaming activity data; (f) determining if the activity network characteristic for the merged gaming activity data bears a predefined relationship to a target characteristic, the target characteristic being correlated to possible presence of an illegal gaming system activity to be detected; and (g) electronically producing an alert to a system operator in the event the activity network characteristic for the merged gaming activity data bears the predefined relationship to the target characteristic.