Patent ID: 8549276

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a plurality of gaming machines adapted for accepting wagers, playing games based on the wagers and granting payouts based on results of the games, the method comprising: creating a standardized gaming platform including an operating system and one or more standardized gaming modules adapted to perform various gaming machine functions, said standardized gaming platform being hardware platform independent; forming a first hardware platform and a second hardware platform, said first and second hardware platforms being substantially disparate; designing a first universal interface layer adapted to facilitate communication between said standardized gaming platform and said first hardware platform, wherein the first universal interface layer includes one or more first universal gaming modules; designing a second universal interface layer adapted to facilitate communication between said standardized gaming platform and said second hardware platform, wherein the second universal interface layer includes one or more second universal gaming modules; constructing a first gaming machine containing said first hardware platform and said first universal interface layer and a second gaming machine containing said second hardware platform and said second universal interface layer; and installing said standardized gaming platform in both of said first gaming machine and said second gaming machine.