Wireless Gaming Location Detection via Signal Intermediaries
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Solution Overview
Problem
The gaming industry faces limitations in allowing participants to engage in gaming activities from remote or mobile locations, as existing systems require physical presence within a casino or designated area, restricting accessibility and flexibility.
Innovation Solution
A wireless gaming system with location determination capabilities, utilizing a network of signal detection devices to enable or disable functionalities based on the device's location, allowing gaming from remote or mobile locations while ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If physical presence within a casino or designated area is required for gaming activities, then regulatory compliance is ensured, but accessibility and flexibility are restricted
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces signal detection devices as intermediaries between the gaming communication device and the regulatory system. These devices detect signals from mobile devices and determine locations without requiring physical presence at fixed gaming terminals, thus enabling remote gaming while maintaining regulatory compliance through technological mediation
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical system of physical presence verification with an electronic signal-based location determination system. Instead of requiring participants to be physically present at gaming machines or tables, the system uses wireless signals and signal strength detection to verify location compliance, substituting physical constraints with electronic verification
2Adaptability or versatility
If location determination system is implemented, then gaming from remote locations is enabled, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes existing wireless network infrastructure multi-functional by having signal detection devices serve dual purposes: providing standard wireless network services and simultaneously performing location determination for gaming compliance. This eliminates the need for separate dedicated location tracking hardware, reducing overall system complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The gaming communication device itself participates in the location determination process by transmitting signals that are detected by the network infrastructure. The device does not require additional specialized hardware beyond standard wireless communication capabilities, as the existing network infrastructure performs the location verification function
3Measurement precision
If signal detection devices are deployed throughout the property, then location accuracy is improved, but installation cost and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the location determination function with existing wireless network access points and signal detection infrastructure. By combining these functions into unified devices deployed throughout the property, the system achieves accurate location tracking without requiring separate dedicated location detection hardware, thereby reducing deployment complexity and cost
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables participants to engage in various gaming activities from anywhere within a designated area, enhancing accessibility and flexibility while ensuring that gaming occurs only within permitted zones, thus addressing the need for remote and mobile gaming solutions.
Implementation Method 1
a wireless network at least partially covering a property, the wireless network comprising a plurality of signal detection devices; receiving at the plurality of signal detection devices a signal from at least one wireless communication device
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AI summary
In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a system and method for wireless gaming with location determination are provided. In a particular embodiment of the present invention, the system includes a gaming server; a wireless network at least partially covering a property, the wireless network comprising a plurality of signal detection devices; and a gaming communication device operable to transmit and receive gaming information to and from the gaming server via the wireless network. A location of the gaming communication device on the property may be determined based upon a signal received by the plurality of signal detection devices from the gaming communication device. Based upon the location of the gaming communication device on the property, a predetermined functionality of the gaming communication device may be enabled.