Patent ID: 6875110
Filing Date: 2005-04-05
Classification: A61P,G07F

Abstract:
1. A multiplexer communication device for multiplexing communications between a master gaming controller on a gaming machine and one or more game service servers, the multiplexer communication device comprising: a plurality of communication ports connected to a multi-port communication board wherein each communication port transmits and receives messages between the gaming machine and the multiplexer communication device in an application specific protocol wherein the application specific protocol is programmed in regulated gaming software that is executed by the master gaming controller for allowing the master gaming controller to receive and to send messages in the application specific protocol and wherein each communication port is configured to accept a physical communication connection compatible with the application specific protocol and wherein each communication port is configurable to utilize a physical communication protocol that allows messages in the application specific protocol to be parsed by the communication multiplexer device; only one output communication port that transmits messages addressed to one or more game service servers and receives messages from one or more game service servers addressed to one of the plurality of communication ports using a second communication protocol; a logic device that does not communicate with the master controller on the gaming machine, said logic device adapted for: a memory device for storing a) information regarding the application specific protocol and the physical communication protocol used at each of the plurality of communication ports, b) the second communication protocol and c) a mapping between each of the plurality of communication ports and one or more of the des tion devices, said mapping allowing the logic device to determine the destination device or the destination port for each message received by the communications multiplexer device.