Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – Access or authorization
Reexamination Certificate
2007-11-21
2009-11-03
Suhol, Dmitry (Department: 3714)
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
Access or authorization
C463S001000, C463S025000, C463S030000, C463S039000, C463S040000, C463S042000, C463S043000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07611411
ABSTRACT:
Systems and methods for conducting cashless gaming or player tracking within a gaming environment are disclosed. Players with associated player accounts are provided player tracking instruments having rewriteable displays. Also provided are gaming devices or machines having display panels adapted to display content and scan input through set display and read regions. Data on player tracking instruments is updated and displayed thereupon, and the input display panels of the gaming devices are used to read this data. These input display panels can also be used to read biometric information from players to confirm proper player account associations. The player tracking instruments may contain an RFID tag to receive communications from a transceiver associated with the gaming device or machine. A feedback loop from a master gaming controller to a transceiver to a player tracking instrument to an input display panel and back to the master gaming controller can be created.
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Gadda Christian E.
Griswold Chauncey W.
Mattice Harold E.
Wilder Richard L.
Hylinski Steven J.
IGT
Suhol Dmitry
Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP
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