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US 12,002,327 B2Granted
System and method for transferring funds to and from a gaming establishment device
AssigneeIgt
InventorsJeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
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Abstract
Systems and methods that account for a current balance of funds of a target device, such as a gaming establishment device, when determining whether or not to transfer an amount of funds between the target device and an account associated with the amount of funds.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory device that stores a plurality of instructions that, when executed by the processor responsive to a request of an amount of funds to be transferred from a gaming establishment account to a credit meter of an electronic gaming machine when an amount of funds displayed by the credit meter of the electronic gaming machine in an alphanumeric format and stored by a memory device of the electronic gaming machine is less than a designated credit meter amount of the electronic gaming machine and further responsive to a determination that a sum of the requested amount of funds to be transferred and the amount of funds displayed by the credit meter of the electronic gaming machine would be at least equal to the designated credit meter amount of the electronic gaming machine, cause the processor to decrease a probability that the electronic gaming machine becomes inoperable based on the amount of funds of the credit meter of the electronic gaming machine by causing a modification of the requested amount of funds to be transferred.
A system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory device that stores a plurality of instructions that, when executed by the processor responsive to a request of an amount of funds to be transferred from a gaming establishment account to a credit meter of an electronic gaming machine when an amount of funds displayed by the credit meter of the electronic gaming machine in an alphanumeric format and stored by a memory device of the electronic gaming machine is less than a designated credit meter amount of the electronic gaming machine and further responsive to a determination that a sum of the requested amount of funds to be transferred and the amount of funds displayed by the credit meter of the electronic gaming machine would be at least equal to the designated credit meter amount of the electronic gaming machine, cause the processor to decrease a probability that the electronic gaming machine becomes inoperable based on the amount of funds of the credit meter of the electronic gaming machine by rejecting the requested amount of funds to be transferred.
A method of operating a system, the method comprising:
- responsive to a request of an amount of funds to be transferred from a gaming establishment account to a credit meter of an electronic gaming machine when an amount of funds displayed by the credit meter of the electronic gaming machine in an alphanumeric format and stored by a memory device of the electronic gaming machine is less than a designated credit meter amount of the electronic gaming machine and further responsive to a determination that a sum of the requested amount of funds to be transferred and the amount of funds displayed by the credit meter of the electronic gaming machine would be at least equal to the designated credit meter amount of the electronic gaming machine, decreasing a probability that the electronic gaming machine becomes inoperable based on the amount of funds of the credit meter of the electronic gaming machine by modifying, by a processor, the requested amount of funds to be transferred.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.