Patent ID: 8221239

Claim:
A method, comprising: transmitting, periodically and regularly, an authentication request over a network to a gaming device for authenticating a gaming application resident on the gaming device, wherein the request identifies a specific configurable portion of the gaming application that is a subset of the gaming application, and transmitting with the request a seed value for use by the gaming device in calculating the result, and transmitting with the request an offset value into storage associated with the gamming application, the offset value is a beginning portion of the gaming application to be used by the gamming application in calculating the result, and also transmitting with the request a length value that when combined with the offset value permits the gaming application to identify the configurable portion of the gaming application for use in calculating the result; and receiving a result from the gaming device over the network in response to the request, wherein the result is compared against a known value and if a match occurs, the configurable portion is considered authenticated.