Decoupling of the graphical presentation of a game from the presentation logic

US6902481B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• IGT · US

Inventors

• Robert Breckner · Reno, US
• Greg A. Schlottmann · Sparks, US
• Nicole M. Beaulieu · Reno, US
• Steven G. LeMay · Reno, US
• Dwayne R. Nelson · Las Vegas, US
• Johnny L. Palchetti · Henderson, US
• Jamal Benbrahim · Reno, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 7, 2002
• Grant date: Jun 7, 2005
• Expiry date: Dec 16, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A63F2300/6018
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A disclosed gaming machine is designed to execute a modular gaming software architecture. A plurality of gaming software modules may be loaded into RAM on the gaming machine and executed to play a game of chance. Many of the gaming software modules are designed to communicate via application program interfaces so that the logic in many of the gaming software modules may be designed independently of each other. In particular, the modular gaming software architecture allows presentation state logic to be decoupled from implementations of presentation components, such as graphical, audio and gaming device components, used in a presentation of the game of chance on a gaming machine.