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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2003
Jean-marie Gatto, London, GB;
Thierry Brunet DE Courssou, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Pierre-jean Beney, London, GB;
Jean-Marie Gatto, London, GB;
Thierry Brunet De Courssou, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Pierre-Jean Beney, London, GB;
Other;
Abstract
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.