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US 11,069,191 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.
Claims20
A method of providing a bonus or promotion, comprising:
- providing at least one sensor configured to detect the presence of at least one person in each of a first area and a second area a location;
- transmitting an output of the at least one sensor through a network to a bonus or promotional generator comprising at least one server that includes machine readable instructions for generating a bonus or promotion a database that includes bonus or promotion configuration data;
- generating at the server at least one bonus or promotion based on a variability in a number of persons in said first area as compared to the second area as determined from the output of the at least one sensor;
- transmitting from said server through said network the at least one bonus or promotion to at least display device.
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A system for providing a bonus or promotion, comprising:
- at least one sensor configured to detect the presence of at least one person in each of a first area and a second area a location;
- a bonus or promotion generator that receives an output of the at least one sensor over a first communications link and comprises at least one system server that includes machine readable instructions for generating a bonus or promotion based on a variability in a number of persons in said first area as compared to the second area as determined from the output of the at least one sensor, and at least one database of bonus and promotion information;
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- an output device that receives the bonus or promotion over a second communications link and outputs the bonus or promotion to the at least one person.
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A system for providing a bonus or promotion, comprising:
- at least one sensor configured to detect the presence of at least one person in each of a first area and a second area a location;
- a first communications link configured to send an output of the at least one sensor to a bonus or promotion generator that generates a bonus or promotion based a variability in a number of persons in said first area as compared to the second area as determined from the output of the at least one sensor;
- a second communications link configured to send an output of the bonus or promotion generator to an output device;
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- an output device that outputs the bonus or promotion to the at least one person.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.