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US 9,524,613 B2Granted
Crowd based bonus and promotional system and method
AssigneeCertus Technologies
InventorRick Rowe
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Abstract
A bonus and/or promotion system, such as for a casino or other retail location, includes one or more sensors for detecting the presence of one or more persons at a location and a bonus or promotion generator configured to generate and output bonuses or promotions based upon detected levels of persons in an area. The bonus or promotion generator may provide an output to existing audio and/or visual display devices of the location for announcing bonuses or promotions.
Claims18
A method of providing a bonus or promotion comprising:
- providing at least one sensor configured to detect the presence of at least one person in a first area of a plurality of areas at a location;
- transmitting an output of the at least one sensor through a network to a bonus or promotional generator comprising at least one server that includes non-transitory machine readable instructions for generating a bonus or promotion and a database that includes bonus or promotion configuration data;
- generating at the server at least one bonus or promotion utilizing said output of said at least one sensor transmitted to the server via the network and the bonus or promotion configuration data, the at least one bonus or promotion being dependent upon a number of persons detected in the first area;
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- transmitting from the server via the network information regarding said bonus or promotion to at least one display device located in the first area, the bonus or promotion being redeemable in a second area of the plurality of areas at the location.
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A system for providing a bonus or promotion comprising:
- at least one sensor configured to detect the presence of at least one person, said at least one sensor located in a designated location and generating raw detection data;
- a bonus and promotion system server, said server comprising a processor, at least one non-transitory computer readable medium storing machine readable instructions to generate a bonus or promotion, and at least one database of bonus and promotion information;
- a first communication link between said at least one sensor and said bonus and promotion system server, an output of said at least one sensor including said raw detection data being provided to said bonus and promotion system server via the first communication link;
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- at least one second communication link between said bonus and promotion system server and at least one existing system at said location, said bonus and promotion system server being configured to generate bonus or promotion information dependent upon at least a number of persons detected in at least one area of said location based on the raw detection data received via the first communication link, and said bonus and promotion system server being configured to transmit said bonus or promotion information and at least a portion of said raw detection data to the at least one existing system via the at least one second communication link.
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A method of providing a bonus or promotion comprising:
- providing at least one sensor configured to detect a rate of movement of at least one detected person in at least one area of a location;
- calculating via a processor on a server executing non-transitory stored machine readable instructions a status of persons in said at least one area using said at least one sensor;
- generating via the processor on the server at least one bonus or promotion which is dependent upon said calculated status of persons in said at least one area;
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- presenting via an external device in communication with the server information regarding said bonus or promotion to at least one person.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.