Patent ID: 8376846

Claim:
A gaming machine including a cabinet, a gaming presentation, a gaming processor, and an embedded user interface configured as a kiosk, the embedded user interface comprising: a source of incoming kiosk text data messages for a user; a web content capable display screen, wherein the display screen presents web information to a user, and wherein the web content capable display screen is separate from the gaming presentation of the gaming machine; a dictionary component, coupled to the message source, wherein the dictionary component translates an incoming kiosk text data message for the user into a kiosk web content message for the user by looking up the kiosk text data message in a dictionary data file which provides a mapping of possible kiosk text data messages to corresponding kiosk web content messages; and an embedded processor that employs an internal operating system and communicates with the gaming processor, wherein the embedded processor reads an incoming kiosk text data message for the user from one or more kiosk servers connected to a gaming network, provides the incoming kiosk text data message to the dictionary component, retrieves the kiosk web content message corresponding to the incoming kiosk text data message from the dictionary component, and displays the corresponding web content message to the user on the web content capable display screen; whereby the web content capable display provides kiosk operations in addition to a gaming experience by displaying the corresponding kiosk web content message to the user rather than displaying the incoming kiosk text data message to the user.