Patent ID: 8721436

Claim:
A gaming machine for communicatively coupling to one or more peer gaming machines via a peer-to-peer gaming network, the gaming machine comprising: one or more display devices; one or more processors; and one or more memory devices storing instructions that, when executed by at least one of the one or more processors, cause the gaming machine to: store, via at least one of the one or more memory devices, a first set of data indicative of configuration parameters of the gaming machine, and a second set of data indicative of machine performance of the gaming machine; receive, from the one or more peer gaming machines via the peer-to-peer gaming network, a third set of data indicative of configuration parameters of the one or more peer gaming machines, and a fourth set of data indicative of machine performance of the one or more peer gaming machines; analyze, via at least one of the one or more processors, the third and fourth sets of data to determine one or more modifications to the configuration parameters of the gaming machine to thereby improve the machine performance of the gaming machine; and automatically modify at least one of the configuration parameters of the gaming machine based upon the results of the analysis.