Methods and devices for authentication and licensing in a gaming network
CA 2617653 C · Owner: Igt · Inventors: Lemay, Steven; Orner, Lance; Kinsley, Michael
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Methods and devices are provided for managing licenses in gaming networks. Some aspects of the invention are provided as a license manager module that operates as part of a server-based system for provisioning and configuring gaming machines. Security and authentication techniques are provided to prevent unauthorized gaming software usage. Such gaming software may be for , example, downloaded to gaming machines in the network under the control of a gaming establishment's game management server that is in communication with a license manager device. In preferred implementations a gaming machine is , prevented from executing software for a game of chance unless the license for that …
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- Filed July 27, 2006 and granted December 29, 2015. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 27, 2026.
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