Patent ID: 8201229

Claim:
An authorization system to selectively provide user access to a download and configuration system in a casino, comprising: a plurality of gaming machines coupled to a first communications network in a casino; a download and configuration system, communicatively coupled to the first communications network and to a second communications network, that provides content that modifies at least one other respective gaming machine of the plurality of gaming machines, wherein the respective gaming machine receives content from the download and configuration system; a plurality of control devices communicatively coupled to the second communications network; a security store that stores a plurality of security credentials and a plurality of user access lists, each respective security credential associated with a user account, and each user access list associated with a respective user account, the security store being accessible only by a security query, the security store configured to provide a respective security response in response to receiving a respective security query, wherein for a valid security query, the security response includes at least one of a respective security credential or a respective user access list, wherein the respective security credential provides authorization for the user account associated therewith to logon to the download and configuration system, and wherein the respective user access list defines an authorization to access at least a portion of the download and configuration system granted to the user account associated therewith; a user-authorization system communicatively coupled to the download and configuration system, the security store and the plurality of control devices, the user-authorization system configured to access the security store to provide the respective security query to the security store in response to receiving, from a respective control device, a logon request for a respective user account and configured to selectively grant or deny the respective user account access to the at least a portion of the download and configuration system in response to the respective security response from the security store by causing access to operations requested by the respective user account to be verified against the respective user access list, wherein the security store is accessible only by the user-authorization system.