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US 20090312093A1 (19) United States (12) Patent Application Publication (10) Pub. No.: US 2009/0312093 A1 WALKER et al. (43) Pub. Date: Dec. 17, 2009 (54) METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR cation No. 10/419,478, filed on Apr. 18, 2003, which is AUTHENTICATING DATA RELATING TO a continuation-in-part of application No. 10/420,068, USAGE OF A GAMING DEVICE filed on Apr. 21, 2003. (76) Inventors: JAY S. WALKER, Ridgefield, CT (60) Provisional application No. 60/417,415, filed on Oct. (US); James A. Jorasch, Stamford, 9, 2002. CT (US); Russell P. Sammon, San Francisco, CA (US); Scott T. Publication Classification Friesen, New York, NY (US); (51) Int. Cl. Michael S. Downs, Stamford, CT A63F 9/24 (2006.01) (US); Steven M. Santisi, Ridgefield, CT (US) (52) U.S. Cl. .......................................................... 463/25 Correspondence Address: (57) ABSTRACT WALKER DIGITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC Methods and apparatus for managing and authenticating 2 HIGHRIDGE PARK usage of features of gaming devices is presented. The meth STAMFORD, CT 06905 (US) ods include tracking and/or accumulating usage data relating to gaming device features, determining an authentication (21) Appl. No.: 12/511,203 code based on the usage data, outputting the authentication code to an operator for transmission to an interested party, and (22) Filed: Jul. 29, 2009 Verifying the authentication code. 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