Bally Gaming Assigned Patent

Gaming device having HDD-based media

Bally Gaming (Bally Technologies, Inc.), Las Vegas, NE has been assigned a patent (8,317,608) developed by Joshua D. Larsen and Pravinkumar Patel, Las Vegas, NE for "gaming device having hard drive based media and related methods."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various embodiments are directed to a gaming device that uses an internal hard drive for primary media storage. The software is installed on the hard drive without requiring physical access to the hard drive including, but not limited to, removal or replacement of the hard drive. According to one method, an install flash program is used to format and/or reformat an internal hard drive. Additionally, the install flash program is used to install media stored on a removable storage device onto the internal hard drive."

The patent application was filed on Nov. 13, 2009 (12/618,517).