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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2007
Russell P. Sammon, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jeffrey Y. Hayashida, San Francisco, CA (US);
Daniel E. Tedesco, Huntington, CT (US);
Stephan C. Tulley, Monroe, CT (US);
Gregory J. Scribner, New Milford, CT (US);
Carson C. K. Fincham, Ridgefield, CT (US);
Russell P. Sammon, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jeffrey Y. Hayashida, San Francisco, CA (US);
Daniel E. Tedesco, Huntington, CT (US);
Stephan C. Tulley, Monroe, CT (US);
Gregory J. Scribner, New Milford, CT (US);
Carson C. K. Fincham, Ridgefield, CT (US);
IGT, Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
Some embodiments are associated with wagering game devices and/or portable wagering mediums. Some portable wagering mediums are capable of outputting various indications related to one or more potential or current statuses of the portable wagering mediums. Some wagering game devices are operable to (i) determine a status of a portable wagering medium and (ii) cause, based on the determining, an outputting of an indication of the status via an output device coupled to the portable wagering medium. In some embodiments, a central server or other device conducts the determining of the status and/or the causing of the outputting. The status of a portable wagering medium may be based on one or more of many different factors or metrics.