Patent ID: 8235816

Claim:
A system, comprising: a gaming machine location system configured to generate, for a plurality of gaming machines on a gaming floor, physical location data of the gaming machines with respect to the gaming floor; one or more emitters, each emitter being associated with a respective gaming machine or a respective bank of gamine machines on the gaming floor a gaming machine control module configured to establish operational parameters of a linked progressive system, receive, based on the outputs of the one or more emitters, the physical location data from said gaming machine location system, generate and display a graphical representation of the physical location data, translate said physical location data to network address data, select one or more subject gaming machines from said plurality of gaming machines based on the floors physical location data, associate said one or more subject gaming machines with the linked progressive system, automatically reconfigure said one or more subject gaming machines from a remote location based upon said established operational parameters and said physical location data, and communicate information regarding said one or more subject gaming machines to said linked progressive system; and a communication apparatus configured to communicate the network address of said subject gaming machine information from said gaming machine control module to said linked progressive system.