Patent ID: 7727071

Claim:
A method of playing a game of chance with a central game system linked to one or more remote terminals, comprising: receiving, at one of the remote terminals, a request from a player to play a game of chance from a plurality of games of chance stored on the central game system, the one terminal including a display configured to display game play features for the plurality of games of chance, the central game system storing a correct version of audiovisual software and game-play software corresponding to the requested game of chance, the request initiating a process of the player playing the requested game of chance; in response to receiving the request to play the game of chance, determining whether a storage buffer includes the correct version of at least one of the audiovisual software and the game-play software stored at the central game system; caching, in the storage buffer, the correct version of at least one of the audiovisual software and the game-play software if in response to determining that the correct version is not included in the storage buffer, wherein caching the correct version occurs during the process of the player playing the requested game of chance; executing the correct version of at least one of the audiovisual software and the game-play software cached in the storage buffer; and displaying, on the display of the one terminal, a game session of the requested game of chance according to the correct version of at least one of the audiovisual software and the game-play software.