Patent ID: 8317622

Claim:
A method of establishing a data feed from a data source on an online wagering game community server for a wagering game machine within a wagering game establishment, the method comprising: evaluating a request for the data feed against import rules that regulate data imported into the wagering game establishment, wherein the request originates from the machine within the wagering game establishment; determining that the data source and the request are valid based, at least in part, on said evaluating the request for the data feed against the import rules; forwarding the validated request to a first machine operating as a data liaison external to the wagering game establishment, wherein the data liaison subscribes to the data source for the data feed based, at least in part, on the validated request; a data import/export controller ensuring that the data feed forwarded from the data liaison complies with the import rules to generate an import rules compliant data feed, wherein the data liaison forwarded the data feed to a second machine operating as the data import/export controller within the wagering game establishment; and supplying the import rules compliant data feed to the wagering game machine in the wagering game establishment.