Patent ID: 8636597
Filing Date: 2014-01-28
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A method for providing concurrent two way communication of each of one or more electronic gaming machines in a network with a plurality of diverse casino master controllers, the method comprising: including in each of the one or more electronic gaming machines a universal game module configured to interface with the plurality of diverse casino master controllers; configuring a computer processor in each universal game module to sort and provide two way communications in the network between each of the one or more electronic gaming machines and the plurality of diverse casino master controllers; checking in each of the computer processors for the receipt of messages; evaluating in each of the computer processors a source of a received message; evaluating in each of the computer processors a message type of the received message, wherein the message type corresponds to at least one of: a priority message, an exception message, or a polling message that polls a gaming machine for events that occurred on the gaming machine; establishing in each of the computer processors communication control hierarchy based on the message source and message type; establishing in each of the computer processors message sequence precedence based on the message source and message type; prioritizing in each of the computer processors message transmission to and from an electronic gaming machine such that processing of polling messages by an electronic gaming machine is suspended until a priority message or exception message is processed.