Adaptive Location Checking for Smartphone Gambling Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing casino gaming systems lack effective methods for securely and efficiently tracking and managing game play, particularly in card games, to prevent fraud and ensure fair play, while also providing real-time data for analysis and automated accounting.
Innovation Solution
A system utilizing a card dispensing shoe with a scanner and associated software to track card distribution, player decisions, and betting strategies, combined with a central processing unit for real-time evaluation and monitoring, and a smart discard rack to reconcile hands, ensuring secure and accurate tracking of game play.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If location checking frequency is increased to enhance security and prevent fraud, then security reliability is improved, but system resource consumption and processing load increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic adjustment of location checking frequency based on game state. The system transitions from fixed-frequency checking to adaptive frequency modulation, where checking intensity varies according to risk levels detected during different phases of gameplay. This resolves the contradiction by making security enforcement flexible rather than uniformly resource-intensive.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameter of location verification frequency based on detected game conditions. When fraud risk indicators are present, the system increases checking frequency; when game state indicates low risk, frequency decreases. This parameter adaptation allows the system to maintain high security when needed while conserving resources during normal operation.
2Measurement precision
If location checking frequency is increased to detect fraud in real-time, then measurement precision of game state is improved, but processing time and system latency increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies partial verification by selecting specific game events for location checking rather than verifying every action. The system performs location validation only at critical decision points or when anomaly detection triggers, rather than continuously checking every player move. This partial action approach maintains detection precision for fraud while reducing overall processing time.
Solution Approach 2:
The system skips location verification steps during low-risk game phases and rushes through normal gameplay processing. Location checking is performed selectively at high-risk moments rather than uniformly throughout the game, allowing the system to maintain security oversight while minimizing time loss during normal play.
3Reliability
If comprehensive player behavior tracking is implemented to prevent collusion and fraud, then security monitoring capability is improved, but device complexity and data processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments fraud detection into modular components: location verification module, behavior analysis module, correlation engine, and enforcement module. Each segment handles specific aspects of fraud detection independently, then integrates findings. This segmentation reduces overall system complexity by breaking down the comprehensive tracking function into manageable, specialized subsystems.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements multi-functional tracking components that serve multiple purposes. The same location data used for basic presence verification is also analyzed for movement patterns, timing anomalies, and correlation with game events. This universal use of collected data reduces the need for separate specialized sensors and systems, thereby reducing overall device complexity while maintaining comprehensive fraud prevention capability.
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AI summary
Techniques for adaptively checking the location of a smart phone that provides a user access to a gambling service are described. For example, a user is provided access to the gambling service via a smart phone, which uses a program wrapper to provide a gambling app. The distance of the smart phone from a border of a U.S. state where gambling is allowed may be determined. The rates at which location checks are performed to determine the distance may vary. The distance may be determined by obtaining geographic location data (e.g., including GPS information, WiFi signal information or cellular signal information, etc.) from the wrapper, which is associated with a gambling application installed on the smart phone. The gambling application provides access to the gambling service. A portion of the gambling application is written in a programming language different from the wrapper.