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US 2024/0257612 A1Published application
System and method for incentivizing the maintenance of funds in a gaming establishment account
AssigneeIgt
InventorsKevin Higgins, Jeffery Shepherd, Sina Miri, Dwayne A. Davis, Erik Petersen, Christopher Levin
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Abstract
A system that provides zero, one or more benefits to a user in association with maintaining an amount of funds in one or more gaming establishment accounts associated with one or more system components.
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 first amount of funds maintained, for a first amount of time, in a gaming establishment account:
- determine a first value available to be awarded in association with forgoing a first electronic transfer of the first amount of funds from the gaming establishment account to an external account for the first amount of time, and
- communicate data that results in a display device displaying the determined first value available to be awarded in association with forgoing the first electronic transfer, and
- responsive to the first amount of funds maintained, for a second, different amount of time, in the gaming establishment account:
- determine a second, different value available to be awarded in association with forgoing a second electronic transfer of the first amount of funds from the gaming establishment account to the external account for the second, different amount of time, and
- communicate data that results in the display device displaying the determined second, different value available to be awarded in association with forgoing the second electronic transfer.
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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 quantity of transaction fees avoided in association with a quantity of users forgoing a quantity of electronic transfers of funds from a quantity of gaming establishment accounts to a quantity of external accounts:
- determine, based on a value of the quantity of transaction fees, an award available to be won by at least one of the quantity of users, and
- communicate data that results in a display device displaying the determined award.
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A method of operating a system, the method comprising:
- responsive to a first amount of funds maintained, for a first amount of time, in a gaming establishment account:
- determining, by a processor, a first value available to be awarded in association with forgoing a first electronic transfer of the first amount of funds from the gaming establishment account to an external account for the first amount of time, and
- displaying, by a display device, the determined first value available to be awarded in association with forgoing the first electronic transfer, and
- responsive to the first amount of funds maintained, for a second, different amount of time, in the gaming establishment account:
- determining, by the processor, a second, different value available to be awarded in association with forgoing a second electronic transfer of the first amount of funds from the gaming establishment account to the external account for the second, different amount of time, and
- displaying, by the display device, the determined second, different value available to be awarded in association with forgoing the second electronic transfer.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.