Patent ID: 9214055
Filing Date: 2015-12-15
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A gaming machine-enabled game system having a video extension system, the system comprising: a physical network that connects and enables communication between components in the gaming machine-enabled gaming system; a gaming server connected to the physical network, the gaming server including one or more processors and a game library, wherein the game library includes one or more library video engines; and a plurality of gaming machines, each gaming machine comprising: wherein the game application includes one or more game modules, wherein each game module is associated with a corresponding library video engine in the gaming server-based game library or OS video engine in the gaming machine-based operating system; and wherein the system enables game modules within the gaming application that have new features which are not supported by the OS video engine of the gaming machine-based operating system to be instead supported by corresponding library video engines within the gaming server-based game library, wherein a game module having the new features accesses the library video engines of the gaming server and not the OS video engine, and a game module without the new features accesses the OS video engine.