Secured Gaming Table Integrating TITO and RFID for Cashless Transactions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current gaming systems face challenges in providing a seamless, cashless experience at gaming tables, particularly in validating and redeeming game vouchers and promotional coupons, which limits the integration of credit transfer across different gaming systems and machines.
Innovation Solution
A secured gaming table device utilizing ticket-in and ticket-out (TITO) and RFID technology, equipped with a gaming printer, barcode reader, bill validator, user interface, keypad, and RFID sensing device, connects to host systems for issuing and redeeming game vouchers and promotional coupons, enabling cashless transactions and expanding credit transfer capabilities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If cashless enabled games are introduced with gaming printers and voucher readers, then the speed of play and ease of transporting winnings is improved, but the device complexity and operational procedures become more complicated
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple cashless gaming components (gaming printer, barcode reader, bill validator, RFID sensing device, card reader/writer) into an integrated secured gaming table device. This merging allows the system to handle multiple transaction types (vouchers, cash, RFID chips, player tracking cards) through a single unified device, improving speed of play while managing complexity through integration rather than separate components.
Solution Approach 2:
The secured gaming table device is designed with multi-functionality to perform various cashless transactions including printing game vouchers, reading barcodes on vouchers, validating cash bills, sensing RFID chips, and processing player tracking cards. This universal device can replace multiple specialized devices, improving operational efficiency and speed while providing a comprehensive solution for different transaction types.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple cashless transaction methods (vouchers, RFID chips, player tracking cards) are integrated, then the versatility and credit transfer capabilities are improved, but the difficulty of validating and redeeming across different systems increases
Solution Approach 1:
The secured gaming table device acts as an intermediary between different cashless transaction systems (vouchers, RFID chips, player tracking cards, cash) and the host system. It provides a unified interface for validating and redeeming various transaction types by processing them through standardized procedures (barcode scanning, RFID sensing, bill validation, card reading) before communicating with the host system, thereby simplifying cross-system validation and redemption.
Solution Approach 2:
The device incorporates multiple specialized components (barcode reader for vouchers, RFID sensing device for chips, bill validator for cash, card reader/writer for player tracking cards) within a single universal platform. This allows the system to handle diverse transaction types through standardized processes, improving versatility while managing the complexity of validating different media types through a unified architecture.
3Ease of operation
If gaming tables are connected to host systems for voucher issuance and redemption, then the cashless transaction capability is improved, but the device complexity and infrastructure requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates multiple cashless transaction components and connectivity features into a single secured gaming table device that connects to the host system. By merging the printer, barcode reader, bill validator, RFID device, and communication interfaces into one unit, the system provides comprehensive cashless transaction capability while consolidating infrastructure requirements rather than requiring separate devices for each function.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Facilitates efficient cashless payouts, transaction receipts, and credit transfers between gaming tables, slot machines, and cashier cages, enhancing player convenience and reducing operational burdens for casinos while ensuring secure transactions.
Implementation Method 1
RFID sensing and/or reading device
Data Source
AI summary
A secured gaming table device that uses TITO and RFID to use and exchange vouchers, winnings from slot machines, promotions, and coupons; provide cashless payout from a gaming table; provide transaction receipts; link gaming tables; and connect and use systems in use, such as the TITO System and Player Tracking System, for credit transfer to and from game vouchers, player tracking cards, promotional coupons, cash, RFID chips, and non-RFID chips, among others, thereby expanding the use of credit transfer to include gaming tables. The secured gaming table device includes a gaming printer, barcode reader or scanner, bill validator, interface, and keypad, among others; and connects to host systems for the issuance and redemption of vouchers and/or promotional coupons at a gaming table.