Patent ID: 8753212

Claim:
A method of a mobile device in a gaming environment, comprising: providing by the mobile device, an entertainment game portion of a hybrid game; transmitting by the mobile device, via a network to a multiplexer, a request for coupling the entertainment game portion of the hybrid game to a hybrid game control logic portion of the hybrid game via the network, the hybrid game control logic for coupling the entertainment game portion of the hybrid game to a gambling game portion of the hybrid game; receiving by the mobile device, via the network from the multiplexer, an approval of the mobile device to connect to the hybrid game control logic, the approval determined by the multiplexer on the basis that the mobile device is in a location where the entertainment game portion of the hybrid game is approved for a regulatory regime; and coupling by the mobile device, via the network through the multiplexer, the entertainment game portion of the hybrid game to the hybrid game control logic portion of the hybrid game when the mobile device receives the approval, whereby the hybrid game control logic couples the entertainment game portion of the hybrid game via the network to the gambling game portion of the hybrid game.