Patent ID: 8568227
Filing Date: 2013-10-29
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A game platform and video extension system for a gaming machine, wherein game videos interact with the game platform and video extension system, the system comprising: a game operating system, wherein the operating system provides services to render graphics for the gaming machine, and wherein the operating system includes a OS video engine and a window server; and a game, wherein the game includes a game library and game application; wherein the game library includes one or more library video engines, and wherein each video engine may be used in conjunction with the window server of the operating system; wherein the game application includes one or more game modules, wherein each game module is associated with and supported by a corresponding library video engine in the game library or OS video engine in the game operating system, and wherein the game application uses an application program interface of the operating system to display video content; and wherein the system enables game modules within the gaming application that have new features which are not supported by the video engine of the game operating system to be instead supported by corresponding library video engines within the game library, thereby not requiring game operating system enhancements to play game modules that have new features that are unsupported by the game operating system; wherein a first game module having the new features accesses the window server and not the OS video engine, and a second game module without the new features accesses the OS video engine directly.