Gaming Machine Controller Rerouting Printer Communications for Secure Transactions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current casino gaming systems lack a secure and regulatory-compliant method for gaming patrons to use their own payment instruments at electronic gaming machines, failing to integrate with existing legacy systems and meet stringent security and regulatory requirements.
Innovation Solution
A client device and system that includes an electronic gaming machine processor, printer, printer sharing module, and controller, which reroutes communications between the processor and printer, allowing for wireless financial transactions and voucher generation, integrated with a backend server and casino management system to ensure regulatory compliance and security.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a casino provides traditional ATM machines for cash withdrawals, then patrons can access cash, but the system lacks integration with gaming machines and requires separate cash handling infrastructure
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the ATM functionality directly into the electronic gaming machine by integrating a printer, controller, and communication interfaces into the gaming machine itself. This merging eliminates the need for separate ATM machines and cash handling infrastructure, allowing patrons to perform financial transactions at the gaming machine location.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a printer as an intermediary device that serves as a bridge between the gaming machine and financial transaction processing. The printer generates physical vouchers or tickets that represent financial transactions, mediating between the digital gaming system and the physical cash equivalent without requiring traditional ATM cash dispensing mechanisms.
2Ease of operation
If casinos allow unrestricted electronic fund transfers, then transaction convenience is improved, but regulatory compliance and consumer protection become difficult to enforce
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a controller that monitors and controls the printer based on outcomes from the electronic gaming machine processor. The system provides feedback loops where transaction requests are processed, approved or denied based on regulatory rules, and results are communicated back to the patron through printed vouchers. This feedback mechanism ensures regulatory compliance while maintaining convenience.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary actions by generating printed vouchers that document transaction details before actual fund transfers are completed. These pre-printed vouchers serve as regulatory records and consumer protection measures, establishing a paper trail that ensures compliance before the transaction is finalized.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If casinos implement comprehensive transaction monitoring, then consumer protection is improved, but system complexity and processing time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service functionality where the gaming machine's own controller monitors and controls the printer based on transaction outcomes. The system automatically generates printed vouchers and monitors transactions without requiring external intervention, providing consumer protection through automated record-keeping while minimizing processing time delays.
4Adaptability or versatility
If traditional POS systems are used for banking transactions, then banking requirements are met, but gaming regulatory requirements are not satisfied
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a multi-functional system where the electronic gaming machine serves both gaming and financial transaction functions. The integrated controller and printer system can handle both gaming operations and regulated financial transactions, eliminating the need for separate POS systems and satisfying both banking and gaming regulatory requirements through a single unified device.
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AI summary
A client device, a system and a method for enabling financial transactions for an electronic gaming machine is described. The client device includes an electronic gaming machine processor, a printer, a printer sharing module and a controller. The printer sharing module is electrically coupled to the printer and the electronic gaming machine processor. The controller is electrically coupled to the printer sharing module. The controller reroutes the communications between the electronic gaming machine processor and the printer and allows the controller to communicate with the printer so that the controller instructs the printer to print a voucher. The system also includes a wireless communications module that enables communications with at least one other wireless communication module over short distances using point to point or broadcast packets that allow for bi-directional data transmission between each client device located on a casino gaming floor.