Global Patent Index - EP 1161287 A4

EP 1161287 A4 20041117 - IMPROVED GAMING TABLE TRACKING SYSTEM AND METHOD

Title (en)

IMPROVED GAMING TABLE TRACKING SYSTEM AND METHOD

Title (de)

VERBESSERTES SPIELTISCHTRACKINGSYSTEM UND METHODE

Title (fr)

TABLES DE JEUX, SYSTEME ET PROCEDE DE SUIVI DES JETONS AMELIORES

Publication

EP 1161287 A4 20041117 (EN)

Application

EP 97949426 A 19971114

Priority

US 9720771 W 19971114

Abstract (en)

[origin: WO9925439A1] A fully automated accounting system (11) accurately and automatically monitors and records all gaming chip transactions in a casino. The system employs a gaming chip (13) having a transponder (17) embedded therein to provide an instantaneous inventory of all of the gaming chips in the casino, including those in storage in the vault (75) as well as the chips in the cashiers cage (77), and at each gaming table (19) on the casino floor. The system is capable of reporting the total value of the gaming chips at any location. The transaction history of each chip may be maintained in a data base embedded in the chip, and read each time the gaming chip is scanned by a special antenna (29). If the chip is not where it is supposed to be according to its recorded transactional history, it will be identified and may be invalidated by nullifying a special casino security code.

IPC 1-7

G07F 1/06; G06K 19/077; A44C 21/00; G07F 17/32

IPC 8 full level

G07F 17/32 (2006.01); A63F 3/00 (2006.01); A63F 9/24 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

G07F 17/32 (2013.01); G07F 17/3251 (2013.01); A63F 3/0005 (2013.01); A63F 3/00157 (2013.01); A63F 2009/2489 (2013.01)

Citation (search report)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT DE FR GB MC

DOCDB simple family (publication)

WO 9925439 A1 19990527; AU 2704799 A 19990607; EP 1161287 A1 20011212; EP 1161287 A4 20041117; HK 1043953 A1 20021004

DOCDB simple family (application)

US 9720771 W 19971114; AU 2704799 A 19971114; EP 97949426 A 19971114; HK 02103980 A 20020528