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US 12,586,441 B2Granted
Selective redemption of gaming establishment ticket vouchers
AssigneeIgt
InventorsJeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
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Abstract
Systems and methods that associate zero, one or more redemption attributes with a ticket voucher, wherein the associated redemption attribute determines one or more channels by which the ticket voucher may be redeemed.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory device that stores a plurality of instructions that, when executed by the processor responsive to an occurrence of a gaming establishment cashless ticket voucher request, cause the processor to:
- determine, based on an analysis of monitored activity data received, via a network interface, from a device operating independent of the processor, if any monitored activity associated with the gaming establishment cashless ticket voucher request qualifies as potential suspicious activity, wherein activity data is monitored in association with a plurality of electronic gaming machines and comprises at least one of:
- an identified occurrence of an amount of currency received to modify a credit meter followed by a cashout event without at least a threshold amount of wagers placed, and an identified occurrence of at least a threshold quantity of credit meter movements from a beginning of a session to an ending of the session caused by the cashout event,
- responsive to the determination being that a monitored activity associated with the gaming establishment cashless ticket voucher request qualifies as the potential suspicious activity and responsive to a separate determination to approve the gaming establishment cashless ticket voucher request, cause a gaming establishment cashless ticket voucher associated with an amount of funds to be issued, wherein the issued gaming establishment cashless ticket voucher comprises a displayed redemption limitation notification pertaining to a restricted redemption of the gaming establishment cashless ticket voucher to access the amount of funds and an electronic record of the issued gaming establishment ticket voucher is associated, in a gaming establishment cashless ticket voucher database, with a restricted redemption attribute, and
- responsive to the determination being that the monitored activity associated with the gaming establishment cashless ticket voucher request does not qualify as the potential suspicious activity and responsive to the separate determination to approve the gaming establishment cashless ticket voucher request, cause the gaming establishment cashless ticket voucher associated with the amount of funds to be issued, wherein the issued gaming establishment cashless ticket voucher comprises no displayed redemption limitation notification and the electronic record of the issued gaming establishment ticket voucher is not associated, in the gaming establishment cashless ticket voucher database, with any restricted redemption attribute.
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A system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory device that stores a plurality of instructions that, when executed by the processor responsive to an occurrence of a gaming establishment cashless ticket voucher request, cause the processor to:
- determine, based on an analysis of monitored activity data received, via a network interface, from a device operating independent of the processor, if any monitored activity associated with the gaming establishment cashless ticket voucher request qualifies as a potential suspicious activity, wherein activity data is monitored in association with a plurality of electronic gaming machines and comprises at least one of:
- an identified occurrence of an amount of currency received to modify a credit meter followed by a cashout event without at least a threshold amount of wagers placed, and an identified occurrence of at least a threshold quantity of credit meter movements from a beginning of a session to an ending of the session caused by the cashout event, and
- responsive to the determination being that a monitored activity associated with the gaming establishment cashless ticket voucher request qualifies as the potential suspicious activity and responsive to a separate determination not to approve the gaming establishment cashless ticket voucher request, cause a display, by a display device, of a denial of the gaming establishment cashless ticket voucher request and forgo causing any gaming establishment cashless ticket vouchers associated with any amount of funds to be issued in association with the occurrence of the gaming establishment cashless ticket voucher request.
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A method of operating a system, the method comprising:
- responsive to an occurrence of a gaming establishment cashless ticket voucher request:
- determining, by a processor and based on an analysis of monitored activity data received, via a network interface, from a device operating independent of the processor, if any monitored activity associated with the gaming establishment cashless ticket voucher request qualifies as potential suspicious activity, wherein activity data is monitored in association with a plurality of electronic gaming machines and comprises at least one of:
- an identified occurrence of an amount of currency received to modify a credit meter followed by a cashout event without at least a threshold amount of wagers placed, and an identified occurrence of at least a threshold quantity of credit meter movements from a beginning of a session to an ending of the session caused by the cashout event,
- responsive to the determination being that a monitored activity associated with the gaming establishment cashless ticket voucher request qualifies as the potential suspicious activity and responsive to a separate determination to approve the gaming establishment cashless ticket voucher request, causing a gaming establishment cashless ticket voucher associated with an amount of funds to be issued, wherein the issued gaming establishment cashless ticket voucher is caused to include a displayed redemption limitation notification pertaining to a restricted redemption of the gaming establishment cashless ticket voucher to access the amount of funds, and an electronic record of the issued gaming establishment cashless ticket voucher is caused to be associated, in a gaming establishment cashless ticket voucher database, with a restricted redemption attribute, and
- responsive to the determination being that the monitored activity associated with the gaming establishment cashless ticket voucher request does not qualify as the potential suspicious activity and responsive to the separate determination to approve the gaming establishment cashless ticket voucher request, causing the gaming establishment cashless ticket voucher associated with the amount of funds to be issued, wherein the issued gaming establishment cashless ticket voucher comprises no displayed redemption limitation notification and the electronic record of the issued gaming establishment ticket voucher is not associated, in the gaming establishment cashless ticket voucher database, with any restricted redemption attribute.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.