Patent ID: 7771276

Claim:
A wide area progressive gaming system, comprising: a plurality of progressive servers, each progressive server of the plurality of progressive servers dedicated to administering a different one of a plurality of progressive games; a plurality of gaming terminals remote to the plurality of progressive servers, each of the plurality of gaming terminals being configured to play at least one progressive game of the plurality of progressive games; a plurality of site controllers, each of the plurality of site controllers configured to manage a subset of the plurality of gaming terminals, and each of the plurality of site controllers configured to: upon loss of communication between the subset of gaming terminals managed by a particular site controller and at least one of the plurality of progressive servers, continue updating the at least one progressive game as wagers are made on the subset of gaming terminals managed by the particular site controller until the communication is restored; and a communications server to facilitate communication from each of the plurality of gaming terminals to at least one progressive server of the plurality of progressive servers based on a progressive game of the plurality of progressive games for which each of the plurality of gaming terminals is configured.