Record-keeping for gaming machine operations
AssigneeThe Upper Skagit Indian Tribe
InventorsRobert Drobish, William L. Boyd
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Abstract
A system and method for providing record-keeping in a gaming environment where money or scripts representing money are collected from a gaming area on a routine basis. Using a scanning device, information tags affixed to gaming machines and removable money boxes attached to the gaming machines are scanned for information regarding the identification of the gaming machines and money boxes. Data is transmitted to a database to be recorded and later assessed using a record-keeping program. Once all money boxes have been collected in a gaming area, the data can be assessed for anomalies by using a record-keeping program running on the server computer.
Claims26
A method for providing record-keeping in a gaming environment having a plurality of gaming machines that have removable money boxes, comprising:
- defining, in a computer database, a list of the plurality of gaming machines and a list of money boxes removably attached to the plurality of gaming machines;
- retrieving and storing in computer memory, information from an information tag affixed to each of the plurality of gaming machines, the information uniquely identifying a gaming machine;
- retrieving and storing in computer memory, information from an information tag affixed to each money box removably attached to and associated with each of the plurality of gaming machines, the information uniquely identifying a money box;
- the retrieving of information from the gaming machine tag and the money box tag being conducted separately;
- associating, in a database, the retrieved information from each of the plurality of gaming machines with the particular information from the corresponding money box removably attached to each of the plurality of gaming machines;
- identifying each gaming machine that is defined in the list of the plurality of gaming machines but does not have information retrieved and stored from a corresponding information tag;
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- identifying each money box that is defined in the list of the money boxes but does not have information retrieved and stored from a corresponding information tag affixed therein.
A system for providing record-keeping in a gaming environment having a plurality of gaming machines containing money boxes, the system comprising:
- a scanning device for retrieving information from an information tag affixed to a gaming machine that corresponds uniquely to the gaming machine and from an information tag affixed to a money box associated with the gaming machine that corresponds uniquely to the money box;
- the retrieving of information from the gaming machine tag and the money box tag being conducted separately;
- a computer with a program running thereon, the program being capable of associating, in a database, the information from the information tag affixed to the gaming machine to the information from the information tag affixed to the money box;
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- a transmitting device used in conjunction with the scanning device to transmit both the information retrieved from the information tag affixed to the gaming machine and the information retrieved from the information tag affixed to the money box to the database at the computer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.