Patent ID: 8317590

Claim:
A method for making electronic lottery result information available to a player station in an electronic lottery system, the method including: (a) storing a number of game record groups at a first data storage device of a first data processing device located at a gaming site, each game record group including a number of unused lottery game records of a type required for one or more game presentations provided through a respective player station at the gaming site, and each lottery game record in a respective game record group including result indicating data which indicates a result associated with the respective lottery game record; (b) in response to a first game availability request for a first game presentation provided through a first player station at the gaming site, selecting a first game record group stored at the first data storage device, communicating the first game record group from the first data storage device to a second data storage device of a second data processing device located at the gaming site but separate from the first player station, and storing the first game record group at the second data storage device, the first game record group including lottery game records of a type required for the first game presentation; (c) in response to a game play request for the first game presentation provided through the first player station, communicating result indicating data from a respective lottery game record included in the first game record group stored at the second data storage device to the first player station, the game play request being separate from the first game availability request; and (d) communicating the first game record group from the second data storage device to the first data storage device in response to a determination through the electronic lottery system that no game presentation requiring unused lottery game records of the type included in the first game record group is available through a respective player station which is configured to provide game play requests to the second data storage device.