Local casino management system populating and updating process
AssigneePark Place Entertainment Corporation
InventorsGregory D. Larsen, George D. Paiva
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Abstract
Casino patrons are allowed to possess multiple identities at different casino properties within an affiliation of casino properties or at the same casino property within the casino enterprise, yet still be identified as the same patron. Patron identities are matched up based on identifying information provided by the patron, and a universal patron identifier number is assigned to each local patron account.
Claims16
A method of populating a casino management system (CMS) of a local casino property with patron activity data stored in patron records of CMS's at other affiliated casino properties when an existing patron of one of the other affiliated casino properties visits the local casino property which has no patron record in its CMS, wherein each patron record relates to a patron's local account number, and each local account number is assigned a universal patron identifier number (UID), the method comprising:
- (a) communicating identifying information obtained from the visiting patron to a remote account data repository, the remote account data repository including
- (i) all patron local account numbers, their assigned UID's, and the local CMS's where each local account number exists, and
- (ii) identifying information for each local account number;
- (b) using the identifying information obtained from the visiting patron and the identifying information in the remote account data repository to locate a corresponding UID for the visiting patron in the remote account data repository;
- (c) in the remote account data repository, using the UID to identify all local account numbers that correspond to the UID for the patron;
- (d) communicating the local account numbers and the local CMS's where each of the local account number exist back to the CMS of the local casino property;
- (e) the CMS of the local casino property initiating communication directly with the CMS of each of the casino properties that have the local account numbers, and retrieving the patron records of the identified local account numbers directly from the CMS's of the other casino properties and without further assistance from the remote account data repository or a central database of patron activity data;
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- (f) the CMS of the local casino property creating a new patron record for the visiting patron and adding the retrieved patron records to its data records, the local casino property thereby populating the local CMS with patron records of the visiting patron from the other casino properties.
A method of populating a casino management system (CMS) of a local casino property with patron activity data stored in patron records of CMS's at other affiliated casino properties when an existing patron of one of the other affiliated casino properties visits the local casino property which has no patron record in its CMS, wherein each patron record relates to a patron's local account number, and each local account number is assigned a universal patron identifier number (UID), the method comprising:
- (a) communicating a local account number obtained from the visiting patron to a remote account data repository, the remote account data repository including all patron local account numbers, their assigned UID's, and the local CMS's where each local account number exists;
- (b) using the local account number obtained from the visiting patron to locate a corresponding UID for the visiting patron in the remote account data repository;
- (c) in the remote account data repository, using the UID to identify all local account numbers that correspond to the UID for the patron;
- (d) communicating the local account numbers and the local CMS's where each of the local account numbers exist back to the CMS of the local casino property;
- (e) the CMS of the local casino property initiating communication directly with the CMS of each of the casino properties that have the local account numbers, and retrieving the patron records of the identified local account numbers directly from the CMS's of the other casino properties and without further assistance from the remote account data repository or a central database of patron activity data;
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- (f) the CMS of the local casino property creating a new patron record for the visiting patron and adding the retrieved patron records to its data records, the local casino property thereby populating the local CMS with patron records of the visiting patron from the other casino properties.
A method of updating a casino management system (CMS) of a local casino property with patron activity data stored in patron records of CMS's at other affiliated casino properties when a patron of the local casino property visits the local casino property, wherein each patron record relates to a patron's local account number, and each local account number is assigned a universal patron identifier number (UID), the method comprising:
- (a) selecting an update function at the local CMS;
- (b) communicating a local account number obtained from the visiting patron who has a preexisting patron record in the CMS of the local casino property to a remote account data repository, the remote account data repository including all patron local account numbers, their assigned UID's, and the local CMS's where each local account number exists;
- (c) using the local account number obtained from the visiting patron to locate a corresponding UID for the visiting patron in the remote account data repository;
- (d) in the remote account data repository, using the UID to identify all local account numbers that correspond to the UID for the patron;
- (e) communicating the local account numbers and the local CMS's where each of the local account number exist back to the CMS of the local casino property;
- (f) the CMS of the local casino property initiating communication directly with the CMS of each of the casino properties that have the local account numbers, and retrieving the patron records of the identified local account numbers directly from the CMS's of the other casino properties and without further assistance from the remote account data repository or a central database of patron activity data;
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- (g) the CMS of the local casino property updating its patron record for the visiting patron with any retrieved patron records from the other casino properties, the local casino property thereby updating the local CMS with patron records of the visiting patron from the other casino properties.
A computer-implemented method of allowing a patron to have more than one local account number within an enterprise of affiliated local casino properties while allowing local casino management systems (CMS's) at the local casino properties to store and relate the multiple account numbers to each other, the method comprising:
- (a) allowing an existing patron of one of the affiliated local casino properties to obtain a new local account number at any of the affiliated local casino properties, the patron providing identifying information when obtaining the new local account number;
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- (b) assigning a universal patron identifier number (UID) to each local account number, wherein the same UID is assigned to each local account number that has sufficiently similar identifying information to determine that the respective identities of the patrons are the same.
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