Aristocrat Technologies, Inc. (20250087054). AUTOMATIC ON-BOARD CONTROLLERS FOR ELECTRONIC GAMING DEVICES

AUTOMATIC ON-BOARD CONTROLLERS FOR ELECTRONIC GAMING DEVICES

Organization Name

Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.

Inventor(s)

Jeremiah O’hara of Las Vegas NV (US)

Anthony Patton of Las Vegas NV (US)

Samarth Raman of Las Vegas NV (US)

AUTOMATIC ON-BOARD CONTROLLERS FOR ELECTRONIC GAMING DEVICES

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250087054 titled 'AUTOMATIC ON-BOARD CONTROLLERS FOR ELECTRONIC GAMING DEVICES

Original Abstract Submitted

the present disclosure concerns automatic distributed on-board controllers (obcs) for electronic gaming machines (egms). in particular, various schemes to host a distributed obc across multiple peer machines are disclosed herein. traditionally, a “progressive” controller for a set of egms comprises a set of services that runs on dedicated servers/hardware and provides progressive functionality (e.g., tracking and administering various “progressive jackpots”) for a large number of egms. one aim of the obc schemes disclosed herein is to eliminate the need for dedicated servers or additional hardware for smaller scale progressive setups, such as a relatively small area or a moderately-sized bank of connected egms (e.g., less than 32 games) on a casino floor. the embodiments disclosed herein may advantageously help to reduce the cost of running progressives or other forms of group-related or synchronized media information for smaller banks of games, as well as provide additional fault tolerance and data redundancy.