Patent ID: 8171155

Claim:
In a download and data transfer gaming system including a gaming network including at least one host server, a tracking server, and a plurality of gaming devices, wherein the gaming devices are capable of uploading and/or transferring data as well as receiving downloaded data, and a memory device storing a set of data to be distributed, wherein the set of data can be divided into a plurality of different subsets of data, a method for improving the download capabilities in a gaming environment by redistributing a data transfer burden, comprising: the host server distributing an initial distribution of the plurality of different subsets of data to the plurality of gaming devices, wherein none of the plurality of gaming devices receives the entire set of data to be distributed from the host server; and the plurality of gaming devices distributing all further distributions of the plurality of different subsets of data only amongst each other until all of the gaming devices have received the entire set of data.