Patent ID: 7938726
Filing Date: 2011-05-10
Classification: G07F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for ensuring that only regulatory certified authorized software components execute on a non PC-based gaming machine, the method comprising the steps of: providing a central server coupled to a network; providing a PC connected to the network and controlled by certificate software restriction policies configured in the central server, the PC including storage; coupling the PC to the network; providing an interface between the PC and the non PC-based gaming machine; packaging regulatory certified authorized software components that are executable to the non-PC gaming machine but not executable to the PC into a code signed installation package; configuring policies to enable execution in the PC of the code signed installation package; enforcing the certificate software restriction policies; sending the code signed installation package to the PC; executing the code signed installation package in the PC under certificate software restriction policy enforcement and storing the unpacked regulatory certified authorized software components in the storage; forwarding the unpacked regulatory certified authorized software components from the storage to the non-PC over the interface, and executing the unpacked regulatory certified authorized software components in the non-PC.