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US 2024/0265776 A1Published application
Coordinating fund transfers between a gaming device and a gaming establishment account utilizing a mobile device
AssigneeIgt
InventorsJeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
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Abstract
A system that utilizes a mobile device and a funding instrument associated with an external funding source to first transfer funds from the external funding source to a gaming establishment account and then, responsive to a completion of the first transfer, automatically transfer funds from the gaming establishment account to an electronic gaming machine and/or a gaming table.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory device that stores a plurality of instructions that, when executed by the processor responsive to an occurrence of a funding transfer complete event associated with a funding instrument prohibited from causing any transfer of any amount of funds directly to a credit balance of a gaming device, cause the processor to:
- cause a modification of a gaming establishment account based on a first amount of funds associated with the funding transfer complete event, and
- after causing the modification of the gaming establishment account based on the first amount of funds, cause a transfer of a second amount of funds to the credit balance of the gaming device.
2 more elements
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 an occurrence of a first funding transfer complete event associated with a first funding instrument prohibited from causing any direct transfer of any funds to a credit balance of a gaming device, cause a multiple step process to transfer a second amount of funds to the credit balance of the gaming device, and
- responsive to an occurrence of a second funding transfer complete event associated with a second, different funding instrument permitted to cause a direct transfer of funds to the credit balance of the gaming device, cause a single step process to transfer the second amount of funds to the credit balance of the gaming device.
2 more elements
A method of operating a system, the method comprising:
- responsive to an occurrence of a funding transfer complete event associated with a funding instrument prohibited from causing any transfer of any amount of funds directly to a credit balance of a gaming device:
- causing, by a processor, a modification of a gaming establishment account based on a first amount of funds associated with the funding transfer complete event, and
- after causing the modification of the gaming establishment account based on the first amount of funds, causing, by the processor, a transfer of a second amount of funds to the credit balance of the gaming device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.