Patent ID: 8308572

Claim:
A multi-media gaming system having end user feedback and operational in a communication network which serves a plurality of wireless end user gaming devices, comprising: content distribution server, connected to a cellular multi-casting network that serves a plurality of wireless end user gaming devices, for simultaneously transmitting gaming content from a gaming content source to a group of wireless end user gaming devices, comprising a set of selected ones of wireless end user gaming devices, over a single unidirectional forward broadcast path of the cellular multi-casting network that extends from the content distribution server to the selected wireless end user gaming devices; feedback communication link of the cellular multi-casting network, having bidirectional paths, which are separate from the single unidirectional forward broadcast path, for each of the selected wireless end user gaming devices, including a private reverse path from each of the selected wireless end user gaming devices to the content distribution server and a private forward path that extends from the content distribution server to the selected wireless end user gaming devices, comprising: feedback aggregator, responsive to receipt of gaming input data relating to the gaming source received from at least one selected wireless end user gaming device over the private reverse path of the bidirectional link, for accumulating the gaming input data relating to the gaming source received from the selected wireless end user gaming devices over the private reverse paths; and feedback integrator for generating a modified gaming content by modifying gaming content received from the gaming source based on the accumulated gaming input data received from the selected wireless end user gaming devices over their private reverse paths.