US 2021/0012431 A1 · Currency Tracking and Accounting Systems

Abstract

Devices, systems and methods are provided to enable casino operators to track and account for printed casino currency items. In one example, a currency accounting system includes a currency scanner, a network communications interface, and a processor. The processor is configured to receive, from the currency scanner, an identifier of a printed casino currency item; transmit the identifier of the printed casino currency item via the network communications interface to a remote currency tracker; receive, via the network communications interface and in response to transmission of the identifier of the printed casino currency item, an identifier of a currency acceptance location through which the printed casino currency item passed; and generate a currency report using the identifier of the printed casino currency item and the identifier of the currency acceptance location.

Claims21

Dependent claims

1-15. (canceled)

A currency tracking system, comprising:

a computer-readable memory storing a data structure that associates identifiers of printed casino currency items with identifiers of currency acceptance locations;
a network communications interface;
and
a processor configured to:
receive, via the network communications interface, an association between a first identifier of a printed casino currency item and a second identifier of a currency acceptance location;
store the received association in the data structure;
receive, via the network communications interface, a transmission including the first identifier;
retrieve the second identifier from the data structure, using the first identifier as an index;
and
transmit, via the network communications interface and in response to the processor receiving the transmission including the first identifier, the second identifier.

7 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

17/034,266Filed 28 Sep 2020

Priority

23 May 2019

Published

14 Jan 2021

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification17 codes

G06Q 40/12
Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes: accounting
G07F 17/3246
Payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes: involving coins and/or banknotes
G06K 7/1417
The method being specifically adapted for the type of code: 2D bar codes
G06Q 10/08
Administration; Management: logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management

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