Mobile Bonus Verification via Image Capture and Location Analysis
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current gaming systems lack features that provide enhanced excitement and increased opportunities for players to win, particularly in maintaining player interest and offering innovative ways to interact with gaming machines beyond traditional methods.
Innovation Solution
A mobile bonus feature system that utilizes a camera-enabled mobile device to enroll users in promotions, allowing them to interact with content displayed at video display devices, securely transmit images for verification, and award bonuses based on meeting specific criteria, incorporating image analysis and location-based services.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional gaming machine features are used, then player interest can be maintained to some extent, but the system lacks enhanced excitement and increased winning opportunities
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines mobile device functionality (camera, GPS, mobile computing) with traditional gaming machine operations to create a hybrid system that enhances player engagement through mobile promotions, image capture verification, and location-based bonuses without requiring complete redesign of the gaming machine itself
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile device serves multiple functions: it acts as a promotion enrollment tool, image capture device, location tracker, and bonus verification system, allowing a single device to provide numerous engagement features that would otherwise require separate specialized components
2Reliability
If mobile bonus feature system with image analysis is implemented, then secure bonus distribution is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces a mobile device as an intermediary between the player and the gaming machine, handling image capture, preliminary analysis, and communication with the gaming system. This mediator approach distributes complexity across multiple components rather than concentrating it in one system
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses image copies (photographs taken by mobile device camera) of the gaming machine display as verification material instead of requiring direct electronic communication or physical tokens. This copying approach simplifies the verification process while maintaining security through image analysis algorithms
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is a method and system for preventing replay attacks for mobile promotions associated with promotion devices. Upon the occurrence of a promotion winning event such as a designated outcome of a game played on the promotion device the user, via a software application accessible to their mobile device, forwards images of the event to a server over a network. The server determines entitlement to the promotion and analyzes data associated with the images and mobile device location and time to confirm that the event is new promotion winning event. Upon such confirmation an entitlement to the promotion is awarded to the user. The foregoing prevents unscrupulous users from logging multiple claims for the same promotion winning event.