# US 9,520,025 B2 · Gaming system > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 9,520,025 B2 - Document ID: US9520025B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 12/706,076 - Filed: 2010-02-16 - Published: 2010-08-19 - Granted: 2016-12-13 - Earliest claimed: 2009-02-17 - Assignees: Universal Entertainment Corporation - Applicants: Toshimi Koyama; Jun Fujimoto - Inventors: Toshimi Koyama; Jun Fujimoto - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9520025B2 ## CPC - G07F 17/3251: {involving media of variable value, e.g. programmable cards, programmable tokens} - G07F 1/06: Coins specially adapted to operate coin-freed mechanisms - G07F 17/32: for games, toys, sports, or amusements - G07F 17/322: {Casino tables, e.g. tables having integrated screens, chip detection means} - G07F 17/3232: {wherein the operator is informed} - A63F 3/00157: {Casino or betting games (horse races A63F3/00082)} - G07F 17/3248: {involving non-monetary media of fixed value, e.g. casino chips of fixed value} - G07F: COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS (coin sorting G07D3/00; coin testing G07D5/00; {handling coins or paper currencies apart from payment activated apparatus G07D; payment architectures, schemes or protocols G06Q20/00}) - A63F: CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR ## Abstract A gaming system is provided enabling real-time cash management to be performed, even while in the play of a game to be performed by employing game media rendering their items of recorded information readable. Having received a result of detection of game chips on a game betting board from a game betting device, a server device accumulates the result of the detection, and judges whether or not movement of game chips has occurred between a dealer and each player, in comparison with a past result. When movement of game chips has occurred between the dealer and such each player, data relevant to a game chip table, a player table, and a dealer table is updated so as to reflect a result of the movement. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A gaming system, comprising: a first storage device which stores a first association table defining first association information associating game medium identification information for identifying a game medium and holder identification information for identifying the holder holding a game medium with each other; a second storage device which stores a second association table defining second association information associating negotiable value information for identifying a negotiable value of the game medium and the holder identification information of the holder holding the game medium with each other; a third storage device which stores a third association table defining third association information associating negotiable value information of the game medium and the game medium identification information of the game medium with each other; a game medium detection device which detects the game medium placed on a game betting board on which a game is to be played, the game betting board having a plurality of regions, and a region in which the game medium is placed, from among the plurality of regions, and generates detection information; and an update control device which, if it is judged based upon the detection information that a game medium is moved from a first region of the plurality of regions to a second region which is different from the first region, updates the holder identification information associated with the game medium identification information of the moved game medium, from among items of the holder identification information of the first association information, and further, reads out the negotiable value information associated with the game medium identification information of the moved game medium with reference to the third association information from the third storage device, and updates the negotiable value information associated with the game medium identification information of the moved game medium to the negotiable value information read out from the third storage device, from among items of the negotiable value information of the second association information, wherein the first region is a region in which a game medium held by a first holder is to be placed, and the second region is a region in which a game medium held by a second holder who is different from the first holder is to be placed. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The gaming system according to claim 1, further comprising: a game management section that manages game information on the game to be performed on the game betting board, wherein the update control device judges a change of a person holding the game medium based on the game information managed by the game management section. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The gaming system according to claim 1, wherein the update control device, the first storage device, the second storage device, and the third storage device operate on a same server. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The gaming system according to claim 1, further comprising: a conversion section that converts each currency into a value of currency being a standard for the negotiable value of the game medium based on a current currency exchange rate. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The gaming system according to claim 1, further comprising: a registration section that registers the detection information detected by the game medium detection device in the first association table if the detection information detected by the game medium detection device is not defined in the first association table. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The gaming system according to claim 1, further comprising: a deletion section that deletes the game medium identification information for identifying a game medium a term of validity of which has expired, from the first association table, the first association table defining the term of validity of the game medium identification information for identifying the game medium in association with the game medium identification information for identifying the game medium.