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US 2022/0189247 A1Published application
Settling outstanding line of credit liability with gaming establishment credit system
AssigneeIgt
InventorsJeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins, Erik Petersen
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Abstract
A system that operates to monitor for a line of credit settlement event and, responsive to an occurrence of such an event, pay off an amount of funds accessed from a gaming establishment credit system.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory device that stores a plurality of instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
- responsive to a handpay lockup event associated with an electronic gaming machine:
- determine an amount of an outstanding line of credit liability of an identified player at the electronic gaming machine, and
- cause the amount of the outstanding line of credit liability associated with the identified player at the electronic gaming machine to be transferred to a gaming establishment credit system.
3 more elements
A system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory device that stores a plurality of instructions that, when executed by the processor after an occurrence of a line of credit activation event associated with a first amount of funds drawn from a line of credit, cause the processor to:
- responsive to receipt of an input made to repay at least part of the first amount of funds drawn from the line of credit,
- cause a decrease of a first gaming establishment account based on a second amount of funds,
- cause a decrease of a second, different gaming establishment account based on a third amount of funds, and
- communicate data which results in the first amount of funds drawn from the line of credit to be decreased by the second amount of funds and the third amount of funds.
4 more elements
A method of operating a system, the method comprising:
- responsive to a handpay lockup event associated with an electronic gaming machine:
- determining, by a processor, an amount of an outstanding line of credit liability of an identified player at the electronic gaming machine, and
- causing the amount of the outstanding line of credit liability associated with the identified player at the electronic gaming machine to be transferred to a gaming establishment credit system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.