Patent ID: 8298085

Claim:
A gaming system being configured to load a game in a jurisdiction having jurisdictional limitations provided by a regulatory agency of the jurisdiction under regulatory requirements to the game, said gaming system comprises: an input/output device capable of communication with a gaming machine; and a resource manager for use with said gaming machine, being capable of dynamically facilitating communication between said input/output device and said gaming machine during operation of said gaming machine, wherein said resource manager comprises: a resource manager control task serving as a command and control interface for the gaming system to update and configure hardware and software objects, and to update and configure the resource manager; a low level software manager loading low level software objects for available hardware based on hardware type and revision; a high level software manager loading high level software objects from at least one repository corresponding to the low level software objects based on hardware type, software object name and low level software object revision, and prioritizing said loaded high level software objects from said at least one repository depending on said game to be loaded and said jurisdictional limitations; and one or more software objects having a low level component and a high level component related to said input/output device, and wherein said resource manager configures said input/output device using said jurisdictional limitations, said resource manager further comprising an error table instructing said resource manager to ignore, warn about, allow or lockup said one or more software objects based on the jurisdiction.