Blockchain System for Multi-Property Responsible Gaming Data Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing responsible gaming management systems are limited to individual casino sites, hindering the secure and efficient tracking and management of gaming data across multiple properties, which decreases their effectiveness and practicality.
Innovation Solution
A blockchain system that enables secure, decentralized management of responsible gaming data across multiple casino properties by using a blockchain data structure to share and update player data, including wagering limits, in real-time, ensuring compliance and data integrity through encryption and authorization mechanisms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a decentralized blockchain system is implemented to share responsible gaming data across multiple casino properties, then data security and compliance enforcement are improved, but system complexity and implementation costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the blockchain network into multiple independent nodes, each operated by different casino properties. Each node maintains a copy of the distributed ledger and can independently validate transactions, allowing the system to scale while maintaining security. This segmentation enables casinos to join or leave the network without affecting others, reducing implementation complexity for individual participants.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a responsible gaming manager as an intermediary component that operates between the blockchain network and casino gaming systems. This manager handles the complexity of blockchain interactions, including transaction creation, validation, and state management, while presenting a simplified interface to casino operations. The intermediary absorbs the technical complexity, allowing casinos to benefit from blockchain security without directly managing the underlying system complexity.
2Reliability
If real-time monitoring of wagering limits is implemented across multiple properties using blockchain, then compliance with wagering limits is improved, but data processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-calculates and stores wagering limits and player profiles in the blockchain before gaming sessions begin. Responsible gaming parameters such as daily, weekly, and monthly spending limits are set in advance and encoded into smart contracts. This preliminary setup allows for rapid real-time validation during gameplay without requiring complex calculations at the moment of wagering, thus maintaining both compliance enforcement and fast processing.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces traditional centralized database query mechanisms with blockchain-based smart contract execution. Instead of requiring real-time communication with central servers to verify limits, the system uses self-executing smart contracts that automatically check compliance based on pre-stored conditions. This substitution eliminates network latency associated with centralized systems and enables faster, more reliable compliance checking through cryptographic verification.
3Ease of operation
If a centralized responsible gaming management system is used at individual casino sites, then implementation simplicity is maintained, but the ability to track and enforce limits across multiple properties deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The blockchain system creates a universal platform that serves multiple casino properties simultaneously through a single distributed ledger. Each casino can access and contribute to the same responsible gaming database, enabling the system to function both as a local compliance tool for individual properties and as a multi-property tracking system. The same blockchain network and smart contracts serve all participating casinos, providing versatility without requiring separate implementations for each property.
Data Source
AI summary
A blockchain system, and related devices, systems, and methods are provided. A blockchain node device node device receives a first message from a gaming device in communication with the blockchain node device, the first message including a request for first play data corresponding to historical wagering activity by a player and wagering limit data associated with a limitation on wagering activity by the player. The blockchain node transmits a first blockchain block of a plurality of blockchain blocks of a blockchain data structure to the gaming device, wherein the first blockchain block includes the first play data. The blockchain node receives a second message from the gaming device, the second message including a second blockchain block including hash data associated with the first blockchain block and second play data corresponding to further wagering activity by the player. The blockchain node adds the second blockchain block to the blockchain data structure.