Patent Application Number: 2008225074
Filing Date: March 12, 2008Priority Date: March 12, 2007
Inventors: Jeffrey S. Topham, Bradley Johnson, Philip Jeffrey Anderson, Kent Young
Applicants: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
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A system for providing a royalty calculation, the system comprising: one or more electronic gaming machines configured to receive gaming software from a communications link; a first server configured to provide said gaming software to said one or more electronic gaming machines over a first communications link; a second server configured to provide said gaming software to said first server over a second communications link; and a royalty calculator configured to calculate a royalty for use of said gaming software at said one or more electronic gaming machines.
Patent/Application # 20100017886
Description
A system for tracking the activation and hence the usage of software securely on remote devices, the information is then used for, but not limited to, royalty calculation.
This prior art focuses more on the technical aspect of implementing such system or method, such as the encryption and authentication aspect of the concept, but it is nonetheless obvious to someone in the gaming industry to implement a similar method for distribution of gaming software on gaming machines.
Patent/Application # US20020002510
Description
This patent describes a client-server system for downloading mobile phone content with monitoring and accounting means in order to remunerate the content provider.
Title WMS Gaming and Cyberview Technology enter into server based gaming system technology transfer and IP
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Description
News article that appears to relate to the the download of content from particular servers for gaming machines. The system does refer to the calculation of royalties and the storage of content on an online server. The dates are clearly well before the priority date relevant in the Australian application
Patent/Application # 2005/0075943
Description
This refers to a method/system for payment of a copyright levy (read – royalty) for a work when it is transferred in digital form. It involved the customer themselves enrolling with a content-provider using their details. The customer then downloads their content – and then the levy is calculated and passed onto the owner of the material. A customer can also register as a copier, so that a levy is charged if the customer makes a copy of the data and passes it on; this would be policed by a ‘copy agent’ engaged whenever the work is transferred.
Title Communications of the ACM, Volume 14 , Issue 2 (February 1971) Pages: 74 - 78
ISBN ISSN:0001-0782
Description
The services received by a process from a time-sharing operating system can be characterized by a resource count ∑ wiRij where Rij is the number of units of service received by process j from resource i and wi is the cost per unit of the service. Each class of users can be characterized by a policy function. Priority changes dynamically as a function of the difference between the service promised to the user by the policy function and the service he actually receives.
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