Patent ID: 8721448
Filing Date: 2014-05-13
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A local game-area network in a casino environment, the network comprising: a plurality of gaming device sub-systems in the local game-area network, each gaming device sub-system including a gaming device, a corresponding local game-area server, and a local game-area data storage medium, wherein each local game-area server is associated with a corresponding gaming device in each gaming device sub-system, and wherein each local game-area data storage medium is associated with a corresponding local game-area server in each gaming device sub-system; wherein each local game-area server in the local game-area network is operatively associated with every other local game-area server in the local game-area network; wherein one of the local game-area servers is designated as an active local game-area server that acts as a host while the remaining local game-area servers act as clients, wherein only a single local game-area server and local game-area data storage medium are used to support the plurality of gaming devices, and the other local game-area servers and local game-area data storage mediums in the plurality of gaming device sub-systems are inactive; and wherein host status of the active local game-area server moves dynamically to an available local game-area server that was acting as a client in the local game-area network, in response to the active local game-area server becoming non-operational.