Cash Ticket Feature Trigger Indicia Gaming System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional casino gaming systems that use cash tickets for wagering and payouts require complex coin handling apparatus and extensive regulatory approvals for new features, making it difficult to rapidly deploy new patron-desirable features without modifying existing systems.
Innovation Solution
A casino cash ticket system that uses special indicia printed on cash tickets to trigger game features when inserted into gaming machines, allowing kiosks to issue tickets with multiple functions, including new game features, and using OCR or other scanning technologies to validate and activate features without requiring core modifications to existing systems.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional cash ticket systems are used with core modifications required, then system reliability and security are maintained, but device complexity increases and deployment time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the ticket functionality by introducing a separate feature trigger indicium layer on the ticket that can be detected by existing bill acceptors. This allows new features to be added without modifying the core gaming machine system, maintaining reliability while reducing complexity through modular ticket design.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses an intermediary approach by introducing a feature trigger indicium as a mediator between the existing ticket system and new game features. This intermediary layer allows communication of new features to existing machines without requiring core system modifications, thus maintaining reliability while avoiding increased device complexity.
2Reliability
If extensive regulatory approvals and coordination are required for new features, then system reliability is maintained, but productivity decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-configuring the feature trigger indicium on the ticket before the ticket is issued. This allows the gaming machine to automatically detect and activate new features when the ticket is inserted, eliminating the need for extensive post-deployment coordination and regulatory approvals for each feature update, thus improving productivity while maintaining reliability.
3Adaptability or versatility
If coin handling apparatus is used, then gaming machine functionality is maintained, but device complexity increases and space requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the cash handling function from the gaming machine by using external cash tickets as the medium of exchange. This eliminates the need for complex coin acceptors, coin storage, and coin dispending apparatus within the gaming machine, reducing device complexity and space requirements while maintaining gaming functionality through ticket-based wagering.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables the rapid deployment of new game features and benefits to patrons by minimizing system complexity and regulatory hurdles, allowing for additional credits, bonus games, and other incentives without altering the gaming machine's core configuration.
Implementation Method 1
using OCR or other scanning technologies to validate and activate features
Data Source
AI summary
A casino gaming system includes gaming machines which are configured to accept and read tickets. The ticket may comprise cash-value tickets or non-cash value tickets. The tickets may also include secondary feature triggering indicia. A player may obtain a ticket from a system kiosk. The player may then present that ticket to a gaming machine, such as by inserting it into a media reader such as a bill acceptor. Associated monetary value or non-monetary credits may be credited to the machine. In addition, if the ticket includes a feature triggering indicia, when such an indicia is detected, the gaming machine preferably triggers or initiates the feature.