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US 12,731,457 B2Granted
Mobile device facilitated redemption of gaming establishment ticket vouchers
AssigneeIgt
InventorsJeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
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Abstract
Systems and methods that provide one or more mobile device facilitated non-cash avenues to redeem a ticket voucher associated with an 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, cause the processor to:
- receive ticket voucher data communicated from a mobile device, the ticket voucher data being associated with first information printed on a ticket voucher and stored by a gaming establishment ticketing system,
- independent of the receipt of the first information printed on the ticket voucher, receive authentication data communicated from the mobile device, and
- responsive to a determination that the received authentication data and the received ticket voucher data are each associated with the ticket voucher and a determination that the ticket voucher is available for a mobile device redemption, communicate data that results in an amount of funds associated with the ticket voucher to be associated with a payment instrument that is different from any amount of monetary currency.
3 more elements
A system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory device that stores a plurality of instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
- receive ticket voucher data communicated from a mobile device, the ticket voucher data being associated with information printed on a ticket voucher and stored by a gaming establishment ticketing system,
- independent of the receipt of the information printed on the ticket voucher, receive authentication data communicated from the mobile device,
- responsive to a determination that the received authentication data and the received ticket voucher data are each associated with the ticket voucher and a determination that the ticket voucher is available for a mobile device redemption, communicate data that results in an amount of funds associated with the ticket voucher being associated with a form of payment separate from any amount of cash, and
- responsive to the determination that the received authentication data and the received ticket voucher data are each associated with the ticket voucher and a determination that the ticket voucher is unavailable for any mobile device redemption, communicate data that results in a display, by a display device, of a notification that the amount of funds associated with the ticket voucher are not redeemable in association with the form of payment separate from any amount of cash.
4 more elements
A method of operating a system, the method comprising:
- receiving ticket voucher data communicated from a mobile device, the ticket voucher data being associated with first information printed on a ticket voucher and stored by a gaming establishment ticketing system,
- independent of the receipt of the first information printed on the ticket voucher, receiving authentication data communicated from the mobile device, and
- responsive to a determination that the received authentication data and the received ticket voucher data are each associated with the ticket voucher and a determination that the ticket voucher is available for a mobile device redemption, causing, by a processor, an amount of funds associated with the ticket voucher to be associated with a payment instrument that is different from any amount of monetary currency.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.