Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited

Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.

Jeffrey S Topham

Gary Frerking

Jeff C Himmelright

David Lawdensky

David Salour

Scott Christopher Olive

Lattamore D Osburn

Gareth Stuart Phillips

Christine Judith Denlay

Michael Dugan

Kent Reisdorph

John Denlay

An integrated active control system includes gaming devices, a server, and a network connecting the server and gaming devices. The gaming devices include gaming terminals and gaming tables. The integrated active control system aggregates gaming transaction information from the gaming devices and determines, for example, the effectiveness of the gaming establishment's floor configuration. Based on this effectiveness determination, at least one of the gaming devices are instructed to change their configuration. Staffing information may also be considered and reconfigured. The integrated active control system further monitors and configures gaming chips. The gaming chips are programmable, and may store monetary chip value and chip identification information. The programmable gaming chips are monitored for tracking the wagers made with the chips as well as for detecting their location.

Integrated active control system for managing gaming devices

Certain embodiments provide systems and methods for multi-tiered gaming data download. The system includes a gaming device for local play of a game. The gaming device includes a communication interface receiving and transmitting data to download a game for play at the gaming device. The system also includes a plurality of download servers communicating with the gaming device to provide game data for download to and play at the gaming device. The system further includes a middle tier server acting as a hub to communicate with the plurality of download servers to provide game data from one or more of the plurality of download servers. The middle tier server allocates download server resources and schedules a download of game data from one or more download servers to the gaming device based on resource constraints at the plurality of download servers and availability for download at the gaming device.

Casino game download system and method of use

A gaming machine is disclosed which comprises at least one meter arranged to generate game meter data. The gaming machine is arranged to forward meter data generated by the at least one meter to a remote data storage device arranged to store meter data associated with a plurality of games. The gaming machine is also arranged to retrieve meter data associated with a game from the remote data storage device when the gaming machine is requested to provide the meter data associated with the game. An associated gaming system and method of gaming are also disclosed.

Gaming system

A gaming machine () is disclosed which comprises at least one meter () arranged to generate game meter data. The gaming machine () is arranged to forward meter data generated by the at least one meter () to a remote data storage device () arranged to store meter data associated with a plurality of games. The gaming machine () is also arranged to retrieve meter data associated with a game from the remote data storage device () when the gaming machine is requested to provide the meter data associated with the game. An associated gaming system and method of gaming are also disclosed.

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Las Vegas, NV, United States of America

Jeffrey S Topham