Patent ID: 8917869
Filing Date: 2014-12-23
Classification: G07F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of providing fair play in an online gaming environment, the method comprising the steps of: providing separate and distinct servers for controlling different aspects of an online game, including a deal server, a play server and an audit server; creating, in the deal server, a randomized set of gaming elements associated with a selected online game; encrypting the randomized set of gaming elements; signing the encrypted, randomized set of gaming elements with an electronic signature associated with the owner of the deal server; transmitting the set of randomized gaming elements to the play server, as well as through the internet to any players, the transmission to the players necessarily occurring through the audit server; verifying a “fair deal” at the play server by authenticating the electronic signature of the owner of the deal server; continuing to send commands from the play server to the deal server for requesting and receiving additional gaming elements, wherein neither the play server nor the deal server are connected to the internet; and continuing to receive commands from players at the play server from the audit server and in response sending additional gaming elements through the audit server to the players.