EP1528514A1 - Système et méthode de comptabilité pour des salles de jeux et jetons et table de jeu pour ce système - Google Patents

Système et méthode de comptabilité pour des salles de jeux et jetons et table de jeu pour ce système Download PDF

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EP1528514A1
EP1528514A1 EP03425698A EP03425698A EP1528514A1 EP 1528514 A1 EP1528514 A1 EP 1528514A1 EP 03425698 A EP03425698 A EP 03425698A EP 03425698 A EP03425698 A EP 03425698A EP 1528514 A1 EP1528514 A1 EP 1528514A1
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Mario Dino Di Floriano
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
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    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
    • G07F17/3225—Data transfer within a gaming system, e.g. data sent between gaming machines and users
    • G07F17/3232—Data transfer within a gaming system, e.g. data sent between gaming machines and users wherein the operator is informed
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
    • G07F17/3244—Payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes
    • G07F17/3251—Payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes involving media of variable value, e.g. programmable cards, programmable tokens

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  • the present invention relates to an accounting system for gambling houses, in particular it relates to a system for the automatic and real-time accounting for one or more casinos belonging to the same operator.
  • the Applicant could notice that this would be extremely desirable, not only for statistical purposes, but also for a variety of other purposes, such as personnel assessment, security, and marketing.
  • personnel assessment, security, and marketing For example, to learn in real time the statement of account of each individual gambling table, but also to verify whether there are temporary abnormal circumstances (heavy losses or large winnings, or abnormal increases in the cash flow), or to alert the central cashier's cage in time when the cash desk of a gambling table is about to run out of chips. Again, by monitoring the accounting of an individual gambling position, it is possible to carry out marketing actions targeted at the individual player, too.
  • a first element is the fact that the player occasionally takes some chips outside the gambling house, both to indulge a collecting urge, and to use them again at a later time.
  • a second element is the possibility of using the same gambling chips in different gambling houses - possibly located miles away from each other - belonging to the same casino chain.
  • the object of the present invention is instead to provide a system and an automatic accounting method for gambling houses which, through an original exploitation of RFID technology, simultaneously overcomes all the above described drawbacks.
  • a system is intended to be supplied which allows real-time accounting of the flow of gambling chips inside a single casino, as well as in a plurality of casinos belonging to the same chain, accounting in the same manner the flow of gambling chips relating to an individual gambling activity (i.e. at the desk of the single gambling table) and, within this, relating to a single gambling position.
  • gambling chips and tables are intended to be provided alongside the equipment necessary to implement a real-time automatic accounting system.
  • the system devised by the Applicant provides that, inside gambling chips, one or more transponder TAGs are embedded, in particular passive RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) components.
  • passive RFID Radio Frequency Identification
  • Such RFID components are known per se (please see, for example, those identified in standards ISO 14443 e ISO 15693) and basically consist of a standard microchip, operating at radio frequency (low frequency 100 - 150 kHz, medium frequency 13.5 MHz, or high frequency 2.5 - 5 GHz), provided with a pertaining spiral aerial, all of which may be supported by a carrier of various nature.
  • the prerogative of this technology lies in the fact that inside a very small chip (both in terms of width and thickness), advantageously of a passive type (i.e. not powered), it is possible to store a series of data - in particular a univocal identification number (ID) (for example a 128-bit code) as well as other data in a specific additional memory area (for example a 256-bit memory area) - which can then be remotely read (within a range of about 15-100 cm) energising the spiral aerial through the electro-magnetic field generated by specific reading antennas.
  • ID univocal identification number
  • a specific additional memory area for example a 256-bit memory area
  • the unique identification number also called RFID serial number, is preset by the manufacturer, whereas the end user can determine and customise (during the assembling phase or before use through writing/rewriting techniques) the contents of the additional memory area.
  • RFIDs also have the advantage of being relatively impervious to environmental conditions and to radiofrequency noise, as well as being extremely inexpensive (of the order of a few tenths of a Euro).
  • RFIDs can also be divided into read-only types (type A) or read-and-write types (type B), but to the purpose of the present invention it is mainly important that the data contained in a passive-type microchip may be remotely read.
  • An exemplary RFID can have a plan extension of 1 mm 2 and a thickness of a few microns, hence it can easily be embedded in the thickness of a gambling chip, for example during the moulding stage of a plastic chip, or it can be inserted in a chip recess and sealed therein by applying resin or glue.
  • Each gambling chip is therefore uniquely identifiable through reading of its identification codes, which can be the RFID serial number and/or a code stored in the additional memory area.
  • the RFID additional memory area contains at least a code or identification mark representing the chip exchange value.
  • a series of further data may then be fed into such memory area, which may be of interest for the accounting of a gambling house: for example the type of chip, the casino to which it belongs, the year of manufacturing, and so on.
  • each gambling table T (fig. 1) are located one or more duly sensitive reading antennas A, i.e. sufficiently sensitive in order to detect the RFID TAGs of the individual chips F lying on the gambling surface.
  • an exemplary sensitivity level may be of about 15 cm, so that all the chips lying within the space of the first 10 cm above the gambling surface may be detected.
  • Each antenna A is linked, through a wiring known per se, to a signal transducer L, which is in turn linked to a local computer PC.
  • the local computer PC placed underneath the table, is for example an industrial-type personal computer, equipped with an integrated operating system (LinuxTM, Windows® for Pocket PC or other) and with small memory-resident proprietary application software.
  • Each local computer PC is further linked to a local network (fig. 2) within the individual gambling house (for example a cable LAN or a wireless LAN).
  • a master computer M preferably in redundant cluster configuration which collects, consolidates, processes, stores, and displays on a console C all the information that may be derived from the data coming from the antennas distributed in the gambling house.
  • each gambling table in each gambling table is provided an antenna in proximity with the cash desk counting device, one in proximity with the cash desk containing the croupier's tips, and one opposite each gambling position.
  • the system allows to have an automatic and real-time accounting not only globally of the individual gambling tables, but also of the individual gambling positions.
  • the system further comprises a series of personal badges, into which are encoded an equal number of passive RFID TAGs, which are handed out to the players as soon as they enter the casino.
  • the reading antennas placed opposite the gambling positions on the tables are directional and more sensitive (for example, they have a range of up to about 100 cm): it is therefore possible to detect all the chips lying on the table in front of the player, as well as the individual badge worn by each player.
  • Fig. 3 shows a diagram of a typical system comprising a plurality of gambling houses, linked to each other by a geographical network (for example a VPN with a series of redundant firewalls) and with a central server (or a plurality of cluster servers) where the software is implemented which carries out the proper accounting processing of the data, both the detailed one of the individual gambling house, and the consolidated one of the whole casino chain.
  • a geographical network for example a VPN with a series of redundant firewalls
  • a central server or a plurality of cluster servers
  • the system provides to place a reading antenna also in proximity with the gambling house central cashier's cage, to be able to detect the flow of chips coming into and going out from the cash desk of the individual casino. This piece of information can be useful to establish how much of the exchange value of the chips exchanged during a certain time frame remained inside the same casino or is circulating outside it or inside other casinos.
  • the system according to the invention allows to fully achieve the objects detailed in the preamble.
  • a series of advantageous results can be obtained, such as
  • each gambling table be equipped with its own local computer, but a system could also be conceived as incorporating a single master computer receiving the signals arriving from the various transducers L of the antennas A located in the gambling house.
  • the individual reading antennas can be placed, as well as within the gambling tables, in a number of other positions inside the casino, according to the operator's specific requirements.

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