User interface system and method for a gaming machine

摘要

An embedded user interface is equipped with a touch screen and audio device to operate as a user interface (UI) terminal to provide a gaming machine with the capability of executing applications from one or more web servers, and local applications executing in the gaming machine, simultaneously. The user interface includes a touch controlled browser rendering information from the gaming machine and interconnected web servers, providing the user with game data, local player session data, and back-end casino management data in a single interface.

主权项

1. A gaming machine including a gaming presentation, a gaming processor, and an embedded user interface, the embedded user interface comprising:
a display screen, wherein the display screen presents web content data to a user via the display screen; a plurality of input devices including: (a) an acceptor of a wager associated with a first monetary value, and (b) a withdrawal button actuatable to cause an initiation of a payout associated with a credit balance; at least one gaming device memory device storing a plurality of gaming device instructions; a dictionary component, wherein the dictionary component translates a text data message directed to be displayed to a player upon a display screen into an XML, HTML, or DHTML enhanced player message directed to be displayed to the player upon the display screen; and an embedded processor that employs an internal operating system and communicates with the gaming processor and two or more servers, wherein the embedded processor reads an incoming text data message directed to be displayed to the player upon the display screen and calls the dictionary component that enables display of the translated XML, HTML, or DHTML enhanced player message directed to be displayed to the player upon the display screen, and wherein the embedded processor and the two or more servers direct content to the display screen.