Patent ID: 8317604

Claim:
A candle device comprising: a housing including an attachment interface for mounting the candle device to an external surface of a cabinet of a wager-based gaming machine; a plurality of lighting elements disposed within an interior portion of the housing that are externally visible through the housing when activated; a wireless communication interface for wirelessly communicating with a remote device; a candle controller, including a processor and a memory, configured to: 1) receive candle control commands from a game controller disposed within the cabinet and in response control the plurality of lighting elements in accordance with the candle control commands, 2) receive communications from the wager-based gaming machine including transactional data associated with value-input and value output transactions generated on the wager-based gaming machine, encrypt the communications and send the encrypted communications via the wireless communication interface to the remote device, 3) control output of video content to a video display coupled to the wager-based gaming machine wherein the video display is separate from the candle device; a secure portion of the housing including one or more anti-tampering mechanisms, said candle controller disposed within the secure portion of the housing.