# US 10,872,494 B2 · System capable of adding multi-currency function

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- Number: US 10,872,494 B2
- Document ID: US10872494B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 14/371,366
- Filed: 2012-12-17
- Published: 2014-11-27
- Granted: 2020-12-22
- Earliest claimed: 2012-01-10
- Assignees: Universal Entertainment Corporation
- Applicants: Universal Entertainment Corporation; Aruze Gaming America, Inc.
- Inventors: Kengo Takeda
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10872494B2

## CPC

- G07F 17/3244: {Payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes}
- G06Q 20/0457: {the tickets being sent electronically}
- G06Q 20/381: {Currency conversion}
- G06Q 30/04: Billing or invoicing
- G06Q 30/06: Buying, selling or leasing transactions
- G06Q 40/02: Banking, e.g. interest calculation or account maintenance (credit or loans G06Q40/03)
- G07F 17/3248: {involving non-monetary media of fixed value, e.g. casino chips of fixed value}
- G07F 17/42: for ticket printing or like apparatus {, e.g. apparatus for dispensing of printed paper tickets or payment cards}
- G07F: COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS (coin sorting G07D3/00; coin testing G07D5/00; {handling coins or paper currencies apart from payment activated apparatus G07D; payment architectures, schemes or protocols G06Q20/00})
- G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

## Abstract

Provided is a system that is capable of adding a multi-currency function to an existing ticket/cashless server. The system according to the present application communicates information to issue a barcode ticket for taking out a credit from a gaming machine via a path connected with a game controller and, in the case of receipt of a bill, sends information on the bill to the ticket/cashless server via a path different from the path.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A multi-currency system comprising:
an issuance system including a gaming machine in which a game controller performs game processing;
an issuance server which communicates information to issue a barcode ticket for taking out a credit from the gaming machine via a first path connected with the game controller; and
a reception system for receiving a bill to perform the game processing in the gaming machine,
wherein, in the case of reception of a bill in the currency of a first country, 1) the reception system converts the amount of the bill in the currency of the first country to an amount in the currency of a second country and sends information as to the amount of the bill in the currency of the second country to a reception server via a second, non-transit path, which is different from the first path and which does not go through the game controller, and
2) the reception server sends the information as to the amount of the bill in the currency of the second country to the issuance server.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

A multi-currency system according to claim 1,
wherein, in the case of reception of a bill in the currency of a first country, the reception system converts the amount of the bill in the currency of the first country to an amount in the currency of a second country using at an exchange rate between currencies of the first and second countries and stores the converted amount in association with a gaming machine which has received the foreign bill.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

A multi-currency system according to claim 1,
wherein the issuance server sends a print instruction to print a validation code for identifying a barcode ticket on the barcode ticket in a barcode style via the second, different path and stores a credit to be taken out from the gaming machine in association with the validation code, and
wherein the multi-currency system determines whether a received barcode ticket is authentic based on barcode data of the received barcode ticket and validation codes stored in the issuance server.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

A multi-currency system according to claim 1,
wherein, in the case of reception of a barcode ticket, the reception system sends barcode data of the received barcode ticket to the issuance server via the second, different path, and
wherein the issuance server determines whether the barcode data sent from the reception system matches any one of stored validation codes.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

A multi-currency system according to claim 1,
wherein, in the case of reception of a barcode ticket, the reception system sends a request to send validation codes to the issuance server via the second, different path,
wherein, in response to the request to send validation codes, the issuance server sends stored validation codes to the reception system via the second, different path, and
wherein the reception system determines whether barcode data of the received barcode ticket matches any one of the validation codes sent from the issuance server.

### Claim 6

A multi-currency system comprising:
an issuance system including a gaming machine in which a game controller performs game processing and an issuance server for communicating information to issue a barcode ticket for taking out a credit from the gaming machine, the issuance server communicating information via a first, transit path which goes through the game controller; and
a reception system for receiving a bill to perform the game processing in the gaming machine, the reception system being connected to the issuance server in a manner such that when a bill is received by the reception system, information as to the amount of the bill is sent to a reception server via a second, non-transit path which does not pass through the game controller and the reception server sends the information as to the amount of the bill to the issuance server,
wherein the reception system is configured to accept bills in the currency of a first country and bills in the currency of a second country,
wherein, in the case of reception of a bill in the currency of the first country, the reception system sends information as to the amount of the bill in the currency of the first country to the reception server via the second non-transit path and the reception server sends the information as to the amount of the bill in the currency of the first country to the issuance server, and
wherein, in the case of reception of a bill in the currency of the second country, the reception system sends information as to the amount of the bill in the currency of the second country to the reception server via the second, non-transit path and the reception server sends the information as to the amount of the bill in the currency of the second country to the issuance server.

### Claim 7

A multi-currency system comprising:
an issuance system including a gaming machine in which a game controller performs game processing and an issuance server for communicating information to issue a barcode ticket for taking out a credit from the gaming machine, the issuance server communicating information via a first, transit path which goes through the game controller; and
a reception system for receiving a bill to perform the game processing in the gaming machine, the reception system including a bill acceptor for receiving bills in the currency of a first country and bills in the currency of a second country and a reception server connected with the bill acceptor and the issuance server to be able to communicate, the reception system being configured such that the bill acceptor, the reception server, and the issuance server communicate via a second, non-transit path which does not go through the game controller,
wherein the reception system is configured to accept bills in the currencies of both the first and second countries,
wherein, in the case of reception of a bill in the currency of the second country, the reception system sends information as to the amount of the bill in the currency of the second country to the reception server, and the reception server converts the amount of the bill in the currency of the second country into an amount in the currency of the first country and sends information as to the amount of the bill in the currency of the first country to the issuance server, and
wherein, in the case of reception of a bill in the currency of the first country, the reception system sends information as to the amount of the bill in the currency of the first country to the reception server via the second, non-transit path, and information as to the amount of the bill in the currency of the first country is sent to the issuance server via the second, non-transit path.