Method and system for providing gambling games

摘要

Methods and systems for providing gambling games to users wherein the games are not tied to a particular gaming operator. Specifically, a third party gaming system provides central access to a library of gambling games offered by multiple gaming operators. Players connect to the third party gaming system and select a game from the library of gambling games. Once a player has selected a game, the third party gaming system provides the player with a game client for the selected game and operator configuration parameters for a suitable gaming operator system. The game client then dynamically reconfigures itself using the configuration parameters to connect to the gaming operator system to play the game. In some cases after the user has selected a game they are provided with a list of gaming operators that offer the selected game and the player can select which operator that they wish to play with.

主权项

1. A system to provide a plurality of gambling games to a player, the system comprising:
a third party gaming system remotely located from a plurality of gaming operator systems, each gaming operator system from the plurality of gaming operator systems configured to act as a host of wagering activity for at least one of the gambling games, the third party gaming system configured to:
store a reconfigurable game client for each of the plurality of gambling games each reconfigurable game client enabling the player to play a gambling game from the plurality of gambling games with at least two gaming operator systems from the plurality of the gaming operator systems;receive a request from an end-user device associated with the player to play a selected gambling game of the plurality of gambling games;provide the reconfigurable game client for the selected gambling game to the end-user device;generate a list of gaming operator systems from the plurality of gaming operator systems that are capable of acting as a host of wagering activity for the selected gambling game;provide the list of gaming operator systems to the end-user device;receive data from the end-user device indicating a selected gaming operator system from the list of gaming operator systems;generate operator configuration parameters for the reconfigurable game client, the operator configuration parameters comprising connection information for the selected gaming operator system;obtain an operator string table for the reconfigurable game client, the operator string table comprising game strings specific to the selected gaming operator system; andprovide the operator configuration parameters and the operator string table to the end-user device such that the end-user device configures the reconfigurable game client to communicate with the selected operator system and to enable, using the game strings, the selected gambling game to be played on the end-user device on the selected gaming operator system.