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US 5,735,742 AGranted
Gaming table tracking system and method
AssigneeChip Track International
InventorJohn French
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InventorJohn French
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A fully automated accounting system accurately and automatically monitors and records all gaming chip transactions in a casino. The system employs a gaming chip having a transponder embedded therein and has an ongoing and "on-command" ability to provide an instantaneous inventory of all of the gaming chips in the casino, including those in storage in the vault as well as the chips in the cashiers cage and at each gaming table on the casino floor. The system is capable of reporting the total value of the gaming chips at any location, as well as the value of any particular transaction at any gaming table or at the cashiers cage. Optionally, the transaction history of each chip may be maintained in a data base embedded in the chip (or alternatively in a central computer), and read each time the gaming chip is scanned by a special antenna. If the chip is not where it is supposed to be according to its recorded transactional history (for example, a vault chip shows up on a gaming table without having passed through the cashiers cage), it will be identified and may be invalidated by nullifying a special casino security code.
A gaming chip, comprising a body and a transponder carried within the body, said transponder being encoded with permanent read-only identification information and further having a data bank for receiving and maintaining changeable information transmitted thereto from an RF antenna.
A system for tracking movement of gaming chips within a casino, wherein the gaming chips carry electronically ascertainable information about the gaming chips, the casino comprising a vault for receiving and storing gaming chips, a cashiers cage for disbursing and cashing out gaming chips, and a plurality of gaming tables, the system comprising:
A method of tracking movement of gaming chips in a casino, comprising:
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