Rfid-enabled systems for facilitating table games
AssigneeWalker Digital Table Systems, LLC
InventorsStephen Moore, Brian Besterman, Jeff Bischoff
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Abstract
A gaming table provides for use of RFID technology to track chip movement on a table game and to infer an association between a wager and a player position based on a chip identifier of a chip placed on a particular position of the table. In some embodiments, previous position history of the chip is also taken into account in determining a player position associated with a wager.
Claims19
1-20. (canceled)
A method for facilitating a card game, wherein the method is performed based on data received from an RFID-enabled gaming system that comprises a table apparatus, the table apparatus (i) having positioned thereon a plurality of player positions, each player position for association with a respective player position RFID antenna;
- and (ii) comprising a memory storing (a) information about RFID-enabled chips usable on the table apparatus for a card game;
- and (b) information about remote players that are not physically present at the table apparatus yet placing wagers on a card game conducted on the table apparatus, the method comprising:
- receiving an indication that a first RFID-enabled chip has been acquired at an RFID antenna associated with a particular player position, the indication including an identifier of the particular RFID antenna that acquired the first RFID-enabled chip and a unique identifier of the first RFID-enabled chip, thereby determining a first specific RFID-enabled chip and a first acquiring antenna;
- registering, for a current event of the card game, a first wager as corresponding to at least one of a player position or a player associated with the first acquiring antenna;
- receiving, for the current event of the card game, data defining a second wager placed by a remote player that is not seated at a player position of the table;
- registering, for the current event of the card game, the second wager as corresponding to the remote player;
- and
- resolving a result for the current event of the card game based on at least the first wager and the second wager.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.