US 2020/0349797 A1Published application

Systems and methods for utilizing rfid technology to facilitate a gaming system

AssigneeWalker Digital Table Systems, LLC

InventorsCarolyn Moore, Surinder Singh, Brian Besterman

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Abstract

In accordance with some embodiments, an RFID-enabled table game system provides for determining whether there is a variance between an expected balance of inventory and an actual balance of inventory in a game element container. If a variance is detected, the RFID-enabled game system may identify at least one characteristic associated with an RFID-enabled game element that is determined to be a source of the variance (e.g., a player position at which the RFID-enabled game element had last been detected, a denomination or value of the game element, and/or an identifier associated with the game element). In some embodiments, an alert may be output to game provider personnel (e.g., a dealer of a card game) at the end of a game play when such a variance is detected, thus allowing the variance to be corrected in an efficient and timely manner.

Claims4

Dependent claims

An RFID-enabled table system for facilitating a game, comprising:

a dealer antenna corresponding to a dealer area of a table surface and operable to detect data relating to an RFID-enabled gaming element placed within the dealer area;
a plurality of player position antennas, each of the player position antennas corresponding to a respective player area of a table surface and operable to detect data relating to an RFID-enabled gaming element placed within the respective player area;
a gaming element container antenna operable to detect data relating to a gaming element placed within the container;
a display device;
a processor;
and
a memory storing a program for directing the processor, the processor being operable with the memory to:
receive a request to facilitate a Fill transaction relating to the game element container;
direct the game element container antenna to perform a baseline scan of inventory within the game element container prior to the Fill transaction, thereby obtaining baseline inventory data;
output a first prompt, via the display device, for RFID-enabled game elements comprising the Fill transaction to be placed in the dealer area;
receive, from the dealer antenna, data indicating a value of RFID-enabled game elements detected in the dealer area after the output of the first prompt;
output, via the display device, the value for verification;
output a second prompt, via the display device and responsive to receiving a verification of the value, for the RFID-enabled game elements comprising the Fill transaction to be added to the game element container;
direct the game element container antenna to perform a second scan of inventory within the game element container after determining that the RFID-enabled game elements comprising the Fill transaction have been added to the game element container, thereby obtaining second scan data;
and
verifying, based on the baseline scan data and the second scan data, that a value of RFID-enabled game elements added to the game element container equals the value of RFID-enabled game elements detected in the dealer area.

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An RFID-enabled table system for facilitating a game, comprising:

a dealer antenna corresponding to a dealer area of a table surface and operable to detect data relating to an RFID-enabled gaming element placed within the dealer area;
a plurality of player position antennas, each of the player position antennas corresponding to a respective player area of a table surface and operable to detect data relating to an RFID-enabled gaming element placed within the respective player area;
a gaming element container antenna operable to detect data relating to a gaming element placed within the container;
a display device;
a processor;
and
a memory storing a program for directing the processor, the processor being operable with the memory to:
direct the game element container antenna to perform an inventory scan to determine a value of RFID-enabled game elements located within the game element container, thereby receiving current inventory data;
identify, based on the current inventory data, at least one RFID-enabled game element that was not detected by at least one player position antenna during a most recent game event and that was not previously detected by the game element container antenna in a most recent previous scan of contents of the game element container, thereby identifying at least one unexpected RFID-enabled game element;
determine a value of the at least one unexpected RFID-enabled game element;
match the value to data defining the most recent game event;
and
change a status of the at least one unexpected RFID-enabled game element to a indicate that it is faulty.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/935,150Filed 21 Jul 2020
Priority: 15 May 2015
Published: 5 Nov 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification14 codes

G07F 17/322
Construction aspects of a gaming system, e.g. housing, seats, ergonomic aspects: casino tables, e.g. tables having integrated screens, chip…
A63F 1/067
Card game appurtenances: tables or similar supporting structures
A63F 1/18
Card game appurtenances: scoring or registering devices; Indicators
A63F 3/00157
Types of board games: casino or betting games

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Application62/161,915Us provisional application · filed 15 May 2015
Application15/813,151Division · filed 14 Nov 2017
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