Patent ID: 8105165

Claim:
A method, with a gaming system, for managing interaction between one or more other gaming systems comprising protected media, the method comprising: executing, with a processor of an information processing system, the following: receiving at least one remote unique identifier from a remote processing system, wherein the at least one remote unique identifier is associated with a remote software package that is stored on the remote processing system; comparing, in response to the receiving, the at least one remote unique identifier and a local unique identifier associated with a local software package stored on a local processing system, the local software package corresponding to the remote software package, wherein the at least one remote unique identifier indicates that the remote software package is one of a parent copy and a child copy of a software package executable and the local unique identifier indicates that the local software package is one of a parent copy and a child copy of the software package executable; and authorizing an operation of the local software package based upon the comparing.