Patent ID: 7480857

Claim:
A method for configuring a first gaming system to send or receive formatted data, the formatted data including a plurality of formatting tags, the method comprising: receiving by the first computing device via a network, an indication of a set of formatting tags including a set of formatting tags recognized by a second computing device; determining by the first computing device, based on the set of formatting tags received via the network, a first mapping in response to the receiving of the indication, the first mapping comprising a mapping of identifiers to formatting tags in the set of formatting tags; configuring by the first computing device at least one of an encoder, a decoder, and a parser of the first computing device with the first mapping, thereby allowing the first computing device to send or receive formatted data in accordance with the set of formatting tags recognized by the second computing device without interfering with the gaming operations of the first gaming apparatus; transmitting to the second device an indication of the first mapping; identifying formatting tags from formatted data to be sent to the second computing device; and replacing each identified formatting tag in the formatted data to be sent based on the first mapping with a corresponding identifier indicative of the formatting tag.