Universal game server

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8657685
APP PUB NO 20070184905A1
SERIAL NO

11735994

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A trusted disaster tolerant system architecture supporting concurrently a number of distributed online gaming operations such as slip-scan lottery, video lottery, fixed odd betting terminals, Internet gaming, and interactive TV. A personality front end resolves the peculiarities of the various client systems before submitting the relevant transactional payload to a trusted transactional cache. A universal game random generator may be used either at the central game server or at each individual gaming machine, thus conferring a significant trust to the entire estate of gaming machines fitted with the game random generator. An auditable trusted log allows to rapidly resolve any dispute. The instant-draw model and the differed-draw model are supported. The system may advantageously be used in casino environments.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Beney, Pierre-Jean Henderson, US 31 2384
Brunet, de Courssou Thierry Henderson, US 96 7280
Gatto, Jean-Marie London, GB 94 5452

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