Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – Credit/debit monitoring or manipulation
Patent
1995-08-07
1997-08-12
Layno, Benjamin H.
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
Credit/debit monitoring or manipulation
463 29, 463 41, 463 46, 273309, A63F 922, A47B 2500
Patent
active
056559666
ABSTRACT:
A bartop gaming system comprising a plurality of player stations interconnected to a table server which is connected to a modem provides players with a cashless way of playing a gaming system. The bartop gaming system allows a player to use a financial institution credit card for gaming purposes, thereby eliminating the need for the player to carry cash, as well as the need for the gaming system to handle cash. The table server controls the individual player stations, and utilizes the modem for communicating with a financial institution for credit card limit verifications, as well as for collecting gaming system usage and information and relaying that information to a central processing station in a remote location. The player station comprises a flat screen color LCD video display which results in a thin profile player station housing unit, thereby enabling the installation of the bartop gaming system through the removal and replacement of an existing bartop with the thin profile player stations installed into a replacement bartop, rather than through the removal and replacement of the entire bar comprising the bartop and bar base.
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Lefler Steven D.
Punak Stephen W.
Werdin, Jr. Ernest R.
Intergame
Layno Benjamin H.
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