Patent ID: 7104889

Claim:
A system for modifying payout data stored on a gaming machine comprising: a gaming machine network; a gaming machine designed or configured to offer a wagering event on a game of chance and communicate over the gaming machine network, wherein a payout of the wagering event is generated by execution of game code stored in a compiled format on the gaming machine using first payout data; a processor for executing the game code; the first payout data that allows the payout for a particular outcome to the game of chance to be determined wherein the first payout data is stored in a non-volatile write-enabled memory device on the gaming machine in a first format and wherein the first format is a high level, non-binary and non-executable format that is not usable to the game code; a payout data interpreter program executed by the processor adapted for converting the first payout data stored in the first format to a second format that is usable to the game code executed by the processor; a network interface for allowing a communications with the gaming machine network; and a network host configured to store second payout data formatted in the first format and communicate with the gaming machine over the gaming machine network via the gaming machine network to thereby transmit the second payout data to the gaming machine to thereby modify the first payout data wherein the modification of the first payout data stored on the gaming machine changes one or more of its payouts and wherein alter the modification to the first payout data, the modified first payout data is converted to the second format so that additional wagering events can be generated using the modified first payout data without re-compiling the compiled game code.