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US 2019/0197822 A1Published application
System and method for centralizing funds to a primary gaming establishment account
AssigneeIgt
InventorsJeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates generally to a system that utilizes a primary or central gaming establishment account to accumulate funds from one or more secondary or peripheral gaming establishment accounts and escrow such funds prior to use.
Claims18
A system comprising:
- a gaming establishment component processor;
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- a gaming establishment component memory device which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the gaming establishment component processor, cause the gaming establishment component processor to:
- for each of a plurality of edge gaming establishment accounts, determine, at designated intervals, if an automatic gaming establishment account transfer event occurs in association with that edge gaming establishment account, and
- responsive to the automatic gaming establishment account transfer event occurring in association with one of the edge gaming establishment accounts:
- automatically communicate data associated with an amount of funds to be electronically transferred from that edge gaming establishment account to a central gaming establishment account, and
- modify at least one of:
- a balance of the central gaming establishment account based on the amount of funds being electronically transferred to the central gaming establishment account, and
- a balance of that edge gaming establishment account based on the amount of funds being electronically transferred from that edge gaming establishment account.
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A method of operating a system, the method comprising:
- for each of a plurality of edge gaming establishment accounts, determining, by a gaming establishment component processor and at designated intervals, if an automatic gaming establishment account transfer event occurs in association with that edge gaming establishment account, and
- responsive to the automatic gaming establishment account transfer event occurring in association with one of the edge gaming establishment accounts:
- automatically communicating data associated with an amount of funds to be electronically transferred from that edge gaming establishment account to a central gaming establishment account, and
- modifying, by the gaming establishment component processor, at least one of:
- a balance of the central gaming establishment account based on the amount of funds being electronically transferred to the central gaming establishment account, and
- a balance of that edge gaming establishment account based on the amount of funds being electronically transferred from that edge gaming establishment account.
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