Patent ID: 7753795

Claim:
A method for maintaining community integrity in a gaming network, comprising: monitoring one or more devices interacting with a game in the gaming network for indicia of violation of one or more rules, the one or more rules defining fair game play; identifying at least one user associated with one of the one or more monitored devices as a cheater based on at least the indicia of violation of the one or more rules defining fair game play, the indicia of violation indicating the presence of illicit game play; querying the one or more monitored devices associated with the at least one user identified as a cheater to determine the presence of new code or modified code associated with violating the one or more rules defining fair game play; and penalizing the cheater for engaging in illicit game play when a response to a query is not received or when the response includes an incorrect response, and the illicit game play is in violation of the one or more rules defining fair game play, wherein penalizing the cheater includes overwriting code on the device associated with the at least one user identified as a cheater.