US 2009/0024456 A1Published application

Casino operations management system

AssigneeIT Casino Solutions LLC

InventorsJulian Risnoveanu, Mircea Draghici

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Abstract

A system, computer program and computer-based method for managing casino operations. The system provides for employee management and information storage and retrieval for a significant number of casino operations. The system includes an attendance controller that receives, stores and displays attendance information for casino personnel. Casino personnel are issued cards that uniquely identify them and monitor them in the fulfillment of their roles. Players may also receive these types of cards, which can be used to record their casino activity and reward them for playing. The system provides for dealer rotation so that dealer rotation information may be received, stored and displayed. Organic light emitting diode devices, resident at casino tables, may be used to request and manage the table, including food and beverage requests for the table.

Claims21

Dependent claims

A casino operations management system, comprising:

an attendance controller module configured to receive, store and display attendance information for one or more casino entities, wherein the attendance information includes start times, end times, tardiness and absences;
an employee performance module configured to receive, store and display performance information for each of the individual casino personnel in one or more casino entities, wherein the performance information includes incidents;
a unique personnel identification card device configured to receive, store and transmit unique identification information for individual casino personnel in a casino entity;
at least one card scanner device corresponding to at least one casino location, the at least one card scanner device being configured to scan the unique personnel identification card device and thereby transmit unique identification information and location information for each of the individual casino personnel in a casino entity;
a dealer rotation module configured to receive, store and display dealer rotation information;
and
at least one organic light emitting diode device configured to receive and display information for a casino table, wherein the at least one organic light emitting diode device corresponds to a casino table, the at least one organic light emitting diode device having one or more inputs.

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A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein for casino operations management, the computer program product comprising:

attendance controller computer readable code for causing the computer to receive, store and display attendance information for one or more casino entities, wherein the attendance information includes start times, end times, tardiness and absences;
employee performance computer readable code for causing the computer to receive, store and display performance information for each of the individual casino personnel in one or more casino entities, wherein the performance information includes incidents;
dealer rotation computer readable code for causing the computer to receive, store and display dealer rotation information;
individual tip pool computer readable code for causing the computer to receive, store, display and transmit, individual tip pool information, wherein the individual tip pool information includes an amount due to be contributed from an individual in a casino entity to a tip pool.
employee cage computer readable code for causing the computer to receive, store, display and transmit a currency value received by each individual in a casino entity for a shift of the individual in a casino entity, the employee cage computer readable code further causes the computer to receive, store, display and transmit the currency value due from each individual in a casino entity at the end of the shift for each individual in a casino entity;
alert computer readable code for causing the computer to display an alert when the amount due has not been received for each individual in a casino entity, within a predetermined time after the end of the shift for the individual in a casino entity;
reporting computer readable code for causing the computer to display and print user-configurable reports;
and
jackpot computer readable code for causing the computer to receive, store, transmit and display jackpot information.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/218,376Filed 15 Jul 2008
Priority: 16 Jul 2007
Published: 22 Jan 2009
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

G07F 17/32
Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services: for games, toys, sports, or amusements
G06Q 10/06398
Performance analysis of employees; Performance analysis of enterprise or organisation operations: performance of employee with respect to a job…
G06Q 10/1097
Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting: using calendar-based scheduling for task assignment
G07F 17/3232
Data transfer within a gaming system, e.g. data sent between gaming machines and users: wherein the operator is informed

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Application60/959,610Us provisional application · filed 16 Jul 2007
US 8,571,905 B2Related patent
US 2009/0024456 A1This patent

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