Patent ID: 8078709

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of controlling a gaming network, the method comprising: polling, via one or more processors, a plurality of network devices of a casino, each network device assigned to a cluster of wager gaming machines, for current connectivity data, the current connectivity data comprising network device identification data and first gaming machine identification data for wager gaming machines directly connected to the network device via the gaming network at a current time, wherein the first gaming machine identification data comprise gaming machine address data; receiving the current connectivity data from each polled network device; retrieving previously-stored connectivity data, the previously-stored connectivity data comprising network device identification data and first gaming machine identification data for wager gaming machines directly connected to the network device via the gaming network at a time prior to the current time; determining changes in connectivity of the network devices and the wager gaming machines by comparing the current connectivity data with the previously-stored connectivity data; displaying, via a display device, the determined changes in connectivity of the network devices and the wager gaming machines, including data representing the current connectivity data and data representing the previously-stored connectivity data; and allowing, via an input device, a user to update the previously-stored connectivity data with the current connectivity data.