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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 20, 2012
Andrew J. Cardno, Henderson, NV (US);
Simon Travers-jones, Wellington, NZ;
Andrew J. Cardno, Henderson, NV (US);
Simon Travers-Jones, Wellington, NZ;
Bally Technologies, Inc., Las Vegas, NV (US);
Abstract
A method is disclosed of data transfer between a source computer and multiple target computers. The method includes: transmitting a multi-media formatted transmission from the source computer over a first network to a server configured to receive the multi-media formatted transmission; extracting a data stream from the multi-media formatted transmission; transmitting the data stream in an Internet format over a second network to the target computers, the target computers each configured to receive the data stream in a finite set of protocols over the second network, the finite set of protocols including Internet protocols but excluding multi-media protocols; and extracting data from the data stream and reformatting the extracted data into a multi-media format at each target computer, wherein each target computer is able to reformat the extracted data into different multi-media formats.