Patent ID: 7794323

Claim:
A gaming system, comprising: a first gaming organization computer located at a facility of a gaming data authoring organization; a network; a second gaming organization computer located at a facility of a gaming regulatory organization; a gaming apparatus including: a display unit; a value input device; a controller operatively coupled to the display unit and the value input device, the controller comprising a processor and a memory operatively coupled to the processor and having first encrypted gaming data stored in the memory and second encrypted gaming data stored in the memory, the first encrypted gaming data having been generated by encrypting gaming data with a private encryption key of the gaming data authoring organization, and the second encrypted gaming data having been generated by encrypting the gaming data with a private encryption key of the gaming regulatory organization having the second gaming organization computer connected via the network with the first gaming organization computer of the gaming data authoring organization; the controller being programmed to retrieve the first encrypted gaming data from the memory; the controller being programmed to decrypt the first encrypted gaming data with a public encryption key of the first gaming data authoring organization to form first decrypted gaming data; the controller being programmed to retrieve the second encrypted gaming data from the memory; the controller being programmed to decrypt the second encrypted gaming data with a public encryption key of the gaming regulatory organization to form second decrypted gaming data; the controller being programmed to determine whether the first decrypted gaming data decrypted by using the public encryption key of the gaming data authoring organization is identical to the second decrypted gaming data decrypted by using the public encryption key of the gaming regulatory organization; and the controller being programmed to enable a game play operation on the gaming apparatus upon determining that the first decrypted gaming data is identical to the second decrypted gaming data.