Peripheral devices for gaming device, management server and gaming system therewith

A peripheral device of a gaming device operating in connection with a management server to adjust a balance deposited by a player on the basis of characteristic data and balance data stored in the management server, the peripheral device comprising:

• a reader unit operable to read a characteristic peculiar to the player;
• a reception unit operable to receive a request for adjustment of the balance by the player;
• a cash-out device operable to cash out a controlled number of bills and coins;
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• a controller operable to convert the characteristic into a characteristic data, transmit the request with the characteristic or the characteristic data to the management server in response to the request, and receive the balance data from the management server to cause the cash-out device to cash out the controlled number of the bills and the coins.

A gaming system for management of a balance deposited by a player, the gaming system comprising:

• one or more peripheral devices, each of the peripheral devices including;
• a reader unit operable to read a characteristic peculiar to the player,
• a reception unit operable to receive an instruction of deposition to the balance and a request for withdrawal of the balance by the player, and
• a controller operable to convert the characteristic into a characteristic data, transmit the instruction or the request with the characteristic or the characteristic data in response to the instruction or the request, and receive a balance data specific to the player;
• and
• a management server including:
• a data base including one or more records, each of the records including a characteristic field and a balance field, the characteristic field and the balance field being correlated with each other, and
• a controller operable to receive the instruction or the request with the characteristic or the characteristic data from one of the peripheral devices, renew the characteristic field and the balance field in one of the records in response to the instruction, and search a specific record having a specific characteristic coinciding with the characteristic in the received data to transmit a specific balance data in the specific record as the balance data specific to the player to said one of the peripheral devices.