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US 10,055,938 B2Granted
Crowd based bonus and promotional system and method
AssigneeCertus Technologies
InventorRick Rowe
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Abstract
A bonus and/or promotion system, such as for a casino or other retail location, includes one or more sensors for detecting the presence of one or more persons at a location and a bonus or promotion generator configured to generate and output bonuses or promotions based upon detected levels of persons in an area. The bonus or promotion generator may provide an output to existing audio and/or visual display devices of the location for announcing bonuses or promotions.
Claims17
A method of providing a progressive bonus comprising:
- providing at least one sensor configured to detect the presence of at least one person in a first area of a plurality of areas at a location;
- transmitting an output of said at least one sensor through a network to a progressive bonus generator comprising at least one server that includes non-transitory machine readable instructions for generating a progressive bonus and a database that includes progressive bonus configuration data;
- increasing a progressive bonus amount when at least one person is detected in said first area of said location,
- generating at said at least one server a bonus award comprising at least a portion of said progressive bonus amount;
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- transmitting from the server via the network information regarding said bonus award to at least one display device of said location.
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A system for providing a progressive bonus comprising:
- at least one sensor configured to detect the presence of at least one person, said at least one sensor located in a designated location;
- a progressive bonus system server, said server comprising a processor, at least one non-transitory computer readable medium storing machine readable instructions to generate a progressive bonus, and at least one database of progressive bonus information;
- a first communication link between said at least one sensor and said progressive bonus server, an output of said at least one sensor being provided to said progressive bonus system server via said first communication link;
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- at least one second communication link between said progressive bonus system server and at least one existing system at said location,
- said progressive bonus system server being configured to generate a progressive bonus dependent upon at least a number of persons detected in at least one area of said location as detected by said at least one sensor and received via said first communication link, and
- information regarding said generated progressive bonus is provided to said at least one existing system via said at least one second communication link.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.