Patent ID: 8647207
Filing Date: 2014-02-11
Classification: A63F,G07F

Abstract:
1. A method for updating information in a client-server based network gaming system including a plurality of gaming system units comprised of application servers and client gaming machines arranged in a client-server architecture, the method comprising: storing network address information for gaming system units that are connected in the gaming system; determining dependent on the stored network address information an address of one or more receiver gaming system units to be updated, the one or more receiver gaming system units consisting of less than all of the gaming system units; generating an update command message comprising: communicating the update command message via a network to a plurality of application servers, and receiving the update command message at one of the plurality of application servers as determined by the address in the update command message; at the application server, determining from the control command whether the application server itself is a said receiver gaming system unit; at the application server, determining from the control command message whether the one or more client gaming machines of the application server is a said receiver gaming system unit and if so, forwarding the update command to the one or more client gaming machines; executing the update command comprised in the update command message in the one or more receiver gaming system units.