Patent ID: 6884174

Claim:
A method for determining settings on a gaming machine via a computerized network that is linked to a plurality of different gaming machines having different gaming machine platforms, the method comprising: generating a machine settings request at a host, the machine settings request comprising a plurality of variable sets for the plurality of different gaming machine platforms with each variable set being associated with a different gaming machine platform and each variable set comprising a plurality of variables; converting the settings request using a communication protocol to create a standardized settings request; transmitting the standardized settings request over a computer network to a gaming machine; receiving the standardized settings request at a gaming machine having a first platform; performing a variable translation at the gaming machine on the standardized settings request that pertain to the first platform to obtain translated variables for said first platform; retrieving machine settings including a variable set including a plurality of variables from the gaming machine based on the translated variables; transmitting a response containing the machine settings comprising a plurality of variables to the host machine; receiving a response from a gaming machine; and displaying or recording the response.