Acres Technology

Patent Investment & Licensing Company

Mark N Dailey

John F Acres

Warren Rapelye White

William Dale Hermansen

Cyrus A Luciano

Patrick B Ferguson

John G Schmitz

Alex White

Anthony Morelli

Andrew King

Embodiments of the present invention are directed to distributed systems that include networked master and slave circuits that are each connected to a plurality of electronic gaming machines on a casino floor. Each circuit receives digital information from a data port on an electronic gaming machine to which it is connected and also transmits commands, such as TITO commands, to the electronic gaming machine via the data port. A slave circuit can also function as the master circuit, e.g., when a master circuit fails.

Distributed system for managing and providing services to electronic gaming machines

The present system incorporates mobile computing devices to play games, such as electronic pull-tabs, in a plurality of venues, each having a local wireless network. Each network communicates with a central system that generates decks of game outcomes and associated awards. All wagers and awards for each game are tracked on the central system, which also provides each game award and associated outcome from a deck stored on the central system.

Electronic wagering

Embodiments of the present invention are directed to distributed systems that include networked master and slave circuits that are each connected to a plurality of electronic gaming machines on a casino floor. Each circuit receives data from a data port on an electronic gaming machine to which it is connected and also transmits commands, such as TITO commands, to the electronic gaming machine via the data port. If a master circuit fails, the system automatically selects one of the slave circuits to be the new master circuit.

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