Shared Payment Reader Display for PCI-Compliant Cashless Gaming
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional cashless payment systems for gaming machines require a separate, externally mounted payment terminal that interferes with the placement and access to gaming machines, violating PCI compliance and restricting space usage.
Innovation Solution
A PCI-compliant payment terminal is integrated into the gaming machine's enclosure, sharing a display with the casino device for secure payment transactions, allowing passthrough usage during non-transaction states and restricting access during transactions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a separate, hardened payment terminal is used to ensure PCI compliance and security, then payment security is improved, but the terminal interferes with gaming machine placement and restricts access to gaming machine peripherals
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the payment terminal and gaming machine into a single integrated unit. The payment terminal is embedded within the gaming machine cabinet, allowing both functions to coexist in one device. This merging eliminates the need for separate external mounting while maintaining PCI compliance through the hardened enclosure and secure communication protocols between the payment controller and gaming machine controller.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated system allows the gaming machine cabinet to serve multiple functions: housing the gaming machine components and simultaneously accommodating the PCI-compliant payment terminal. The display system is shared between both functions, and the controller manages multiple operational modes (gaming and payment processing) within a single device structure.
2Reliability
If a separate, externally mounted payment terminal is used to ensure PCI compliance, then payment security is improved, but the terminal interferes with the placement of gaming machines adjacent to each other
Solution Approach 1:
The payment terminal is integrated within the gaming machine cabinet structure, eliminating the need for external mounting. This allows gaming machines to be placed adjacent to each other without the external payment terminals interfering with proximity requirements or floor space utilization.
Solution Approach 2:
The payment terminal is nested within the gaming machine cabinet, with the payment controller and display embedded in the existing cabinet structure. This nesting approach allows the payment functionality to be contained within the gaming machine's physical boundaries, preventing interference with adjacent machine placement.
3Reliability
If a separate payment terminal is used, then PCI compliance is achieved, but the terminal restricts access to the internals of the gaming machine
Solution Approach 1:
The payment terminal components are integrated within the gaming machine cabinet in a manner that does not block access paths to internal components. The hardened enclosure contains the payment controller and display, but is positioned and designed to allow service personnel to access gaming machine internals without removing or moving the payment terminal.
Data Source
AI summary
A disclosed example of usage, via a casino device, of a display contained within a hardened enclosure of a point-of-sale (POS) terminal. An amount is specified for purchase of credits using the display. A POS controller permits, via a communication port of the POS terminal, a passthrough usage of the display by the casino device for the purchase. The casino device provides, to POS terminal, user input for performance of a payment-card transaction. The POS controller further prevents the passthrough usage of the display by the casino device during the payment-card transaction. The POS terminal detects, in response to performance of the payment-card transaction, authorization of the amount. The casino device performs, in response to receipt of the authorization, a funds transfer to a game controller. The game controller increments, based on the amount, a credit meter. The POS controller restores the passthrough usage of the display.