Gaming System Proximity Verification for Remote Betting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current gambling systems lack flexibility and anonymity, as users must physically visit a terminal to perform actions related to bets, limiting their ability to track bet status and perform actions remotely while ensuring compliance with local regulations.
Innovation Solution
A computerized gaming system that allows users to upload physical tickets to a mobile app, enabling remote tracking and action performance, while verifying the user's location near a terminal before granting actions like collecting winnings or placing bets, ensuring compliance with local regulations by requiring proximity to a terminal for these actions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If users must physically visit a terminal to perform actions related to bets, then compliance with local regulations is ensured, but user flexibility and convenience are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the betting workflow into two parts: information access and actions can be performed remotely via mobile app, while critical actions (placing bets, collecting winnings) require physical terminal verification. This segmentation allows users to track bet status and receive updates remotely while ensuring regulatory compliance through location verification for critical operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces a location verification intermediary that mediates between remote user requests and terminal-based actions. The intermediary verifies user proximity to the terminal through GPS or other location services before granting permission to perform critical actions, thus maintaining regulatory compliance while enabling remote interaction.
2Ease of operation
If users upload physical tickets to a mobile app for remote tracking, then user convenience is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a digital copy of the physical betting ticket in the mobile app. Users scan or upload the physical ticket, and the system stores the ticket information electronically. This copy enables remote tracking of bet status, receiving updates, and managing betting information without requiring the original physical ticket, thus improving convenience while maintaining security through verification mechanisms.
3Reliability
If location verification is implemented before granting actions, then regulatory compliance is maintained, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs location verification in advance before the user attempts to place a bet or collect winnings. By checking GPS coordinates or other location data beforehand and confirming the user is within the required proximity to the terminal, the system streamlines the process and minimizes delays at the moment of action. The verification is integrated into the app workflow, so users are notified of location requirements before initiating critical operations.
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AI summary
A computerized method for facilitating a user's action at a terminal at a terminal location is provided. The method comprising: receiving a request from the user device to perform an action including any one of: collecting winnings derived from a placed bet and placing a bet; receiving from a computer device located at the terminal location, data indicative of a user device's location; determining if the user's device location and the terminal location meet a sufficiently close criterion indicative of an close distance of the user from the terminal, and if in the affirmative, granting the request; thereby enabling the user to collect the winnings or place the bet, only when located within the close distance to the terminal.