CA2468547A1 - Peer-to-peer gaming system - Google Patents

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CA2468547A1
CA2468547A1 CA002468547A CA2468547A CA2468547A1 CA 2468547 A1 CA2468547 A1 CA 2468547A1 CA 002468547 A CA002468547 A CA 002468547A CA 2468547 A CA2468547 A CA 2468547A CA 2468547 A1 CA2468547 A1 CA 2468547A1
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Glen Keith Russell
Michael B. Shelby
R. Jeffrey Jordan
James R. Norton
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    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
    • G07F17/3202—Hardware aspects of a gaming system, e.g. components, construction, architecture thereof
    • G07F17/3216—Construction aspects of a gaming system, e.g. housing, seats, ergonomic aspects
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
    • G07F17/34—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements depending on the stopping of moving members in a mechanical slot machine, e.g. "fruit" machines

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A gaming system is disclosed. The gaming system includes at least two gami ng components. Each gaming component includes a controller and a communications interface. The gaming system also includes a communication link to allow the controller s of the gaming components to communicate with other controllers of other gaming components on a peer-to-peer basis through the communication interfaces.

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1. A gaming system, comprising:
at least two gaming components, each gaming component comprising:
a controller; and a communications interface; and a communication link to allow the controllers of the gaming components to communicate with other controllers of other gaming components on a peer-to-peer basis through the communication interfaces.
2. The gaming system of claim 1, wherein one of the at least two gaming components comprises a game processing unit.
3. The gaming system of claim 2, wherein at least two gaming components comprises two gaming components operable to communicate directly without the game processing unit.
4. The gaming system of claim 1, wherein at least two gaming components are selected from the group comprised of: a game processing unit, a camera, a printer, a storage device, a coin hopper, a light display, button panels, a ticket reader, a bill validator, a speaker, a microphone, a card reader, a biometric device, and a keypad.
5. The gaming system of claim 1, the link to allow communications between the other components without any interaction of a game processing unit.
6. The gaming system of claim 2, the link to allow communications between the other components without any interaction of a game processing unit.
7. The gaming system of claim 1, the gaming system further comprising a second communications link, wherein one link is used by gaming components arranged in a cabinet and one link is used for communications between components arranged in the cabinet and components located outside of the cabinet.
8. The gaming system of claim 1, the communications link further to allow gaming components to be added and removed while power is on.
9. The gaming system of claim 1, the communications link further to provide power to at least one gaming component.
10. The gaming system of claim 1, the communications link further comprising a link compliant with IEEE 1394.
11. A gaming system, comprising at least two gaming components arranged in a cabinet, each gaming component comprising:
a controller; and a communications interface;
at least one gaming component located outside the cabinet;
an interior communications link to allow the gaming components arranged in the cabinet to communicate with other components arranged in the cabinet;
an exterior communications link to allow the gaming components arranged in the cabinet to communicate with the gaming component located outside the cabinet;
and a bridge to provide connection between the interior communications link and the exterior communications link.
12. The gaming system of claim 11, wherein one of at least two gaming components arranged in a cabinet comprises a game processing unit.
13. The gaming system of claim 12, wherein at least two gaming components comprises at least two gaming components operable to communicate directly without the game processing unit.
14. The gaming system of claim 11, wherein the interior communication link comprises an IEEE 1394 backplane communications bus.
15. The gaming system of claim 11, wherein the exterior communications link further comprises an IEEE 1394 cabled communications bus.
16. The gaming system of claim 11, the remote communications link further to provide power to at least one gaming component remote from the cabinet.
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