Flexible loyalty points programs

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2011-05-24

2011-05-24

Vo, Peter DungBa (Department: 3718)

Amusement devices: games

Including means for processing electronic data

Credit/debit monitoring or manipulation

C463S042000, C463S043000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07946917

ABSTRACT:
A gaming machine comprising a non-physical contact data interface is described. The non-physical contact data interface may be capable of reading loyalty program data from a loyalty program instrument without contact between the loyalty program instrument and the non-physical contact data interface. The non-physical contact data interface may be one of a bill validator, a bar-code reader and a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag reader. The loyalty program instrument may be a substrate including at least one of a 1-D bar-code printed on the substrate, a 2-D bar-code printed on the substrate, a symbol printed on the substrate, alpha-numeric character printed on the substrate, a RFID tag embedded in the substrate, a RFID tag printed on the substrate and combinations thereof. The loyalty program instrument may be used to store an index to a record in a database or a portable data file.

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