Patent ID: 8574056

Claim:
A method for storing and supplying lottery ticket record information to a gaming machine from which a request is initiated, the method comprising: (a) storing a number of game record groups at a game server adapted to communicate with a number of gaming sites, each game record group including a number of game records for a lottery game and each game record in a respective game record group including result indicating data which indicates a result associated with the respective game record; (b) communicating two or more of the game record groups to a site controller located at a gaming site and stored at the site controller; (c) in response to a game availability request associated with a respective game and made by a player station services controller in response to a player station being in a condition that a player may use the station to enter a game play request, selecting a respective game record group at the site controller, communicating the selected game record group from the site controller to the player station services controller located at the gaming site, and storing that respective game record group at the player station services controller, wherein the player station services controller is separate from the player station located at the gaming site; and (d) communicating the result indicating data from a respective game record stored at the player station services controller to the player station in response to a game play request from the player station, the respective game record comprising one of a number of different game records included in the selected game record group stored at the player station services controller.