System and method for a player to commit to limitations with biometrical enforcement
AssigneeBally Gaming, Inc.
InventorMartin Lyons
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Abstract
A system and method are disclosed by which, in one embodiment, a player of a gaming device may select to commit to limitations on their gaming activity over a period of time. The commitment and data corresponding to an identifying biometric feature of the player are stored. When the player plays a gaming device the system and method compares a capture biometrical image of the player with the stored image and if there is a match the limitation is enforced. Biometrical data for files where the temporal period of the limitation has passed are ignored to reduce the number of files with which the comparison must be made reducing the number of false matches.
Claims22
A gaming system for enforcing gaming limitation criteria related to play of gaming devices comprising:
- a device for generating data corresponding to a biometric feature of players of the gaming device;
- a processor;
- apparatus for a player to enter data corresponding to limitation criteria related to the player's play of a gaming device, said limitation having a defined temporal retention period;
- a data structure storing said limitation data in association with a corresponding player biometric data in an associated player file;
- said processor configured to, if said biometric data matches stored biometric data in a player file in said data structure, enforce said limitation criteria upon the player;
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- said processor is configured to expunge said biometrical data from said player files in said data structure when said corresponding retention periods have expired.
A system for enforcing gaming limitation criteria for multiple venues each including one or more gaming devices comprising:
- a device for generating data corresponding to a biometric feature of players of the gaming devices;
- a processor;
- apparatus associated with said gaming devices for a player to enter data corresponding to limitation criteria at said device, said limitation having a defined temporal retention period;
- a data structure storing said limitation data in association with a corresponding player biometrical data from said venues in associated player data files;
- said processor configured to, if said generated biometrical data matches stored biometrical data in a player data file in said data structure enforce said limitation criteria upon the player;
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- said processor is configured to expunge said biometrical data from player data files when said corresponding retention periods have expired.
A method for a player to place limits on gaming related criteria including one or more of losses, wins, time of play or amount wagered on a gaming device comprising:
- enabling a processor and data structure for storing player biometrical data with player selected limitation criteria including a defined temporal retention period in player data files;
- providing for communicating to said processor data corresponding to biometrical data captured of a player at said gaming device;
- configuring said processor for expunging said biometrical data from player data files when said corresponding retention period has expired and for comparing said captured biometrical data to said remaining stored data and if said captured data corresponds to stored biometrical data enforcing said player selected limitation criteria.
A method for enforcing gaming related restrictions on a player playing a gaming device and for reducing forcing said restrictions based upon false positive comparisons, said system comprising:
- (a) enabling a processor and data structure to receive and store for a player in a player data file data corresponding one or more of said restrictions, an associated biometrical sample data for identification purposes and an associated temporal period for enforcement of said one or more restrictions;
- (b) configuring said processor to expunge from said player data files in said data structure biometrical sample data when said associated temporal periods have expired;
- (c) configuring said processor to receive biometrical data captured of a player playing a gaming device, compare said captured data to biometrical data remaining in said player data files at said data structure and if said biometric data matches data stored in a player data file enforce said restriction on the player associated with the corresponding player data file,
- whereby expunging of said biometric data at step (b) reduces the number of biometric data files in said data structure and probabilities of said comparison resulting in a false match.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.