Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – Access or authorization
Reexamination Certificate
2003-07-09
2009-02-17
Pezzuto, Robert E. (Department: 3714)
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
Access or authorization
Reexamination Certificate
active
07491122
ABSTRACT:
A gaming machine that authenticates its gaming software substantially continuously and repetitiously while the gaming machine is powered on. A processor, while running the gaming machine's gaming program, determines whether the data in each of a plurality of memories is authentic. The processor may read multiple memories in a parallel fashion while making memory contents authenticity determinations. The processor may also read multiple memories in a serial fashion while making memory contents authenticity determinations. The processor may also read same memories in a parallel fashion and read other memories in a serial fashion while determining the authenticity of each memory's contents. Furthermore, the contents of a memory may be analyzed to decipher between executable data and graphics data such that the executable data's authenticity is determined more often than the graphics data's authenticity.
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Deodhar Omkar
Nixon & Peabody LLP
Pezzuto Robert E.
WMS Gaming Inc.
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