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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2013

Filed:

Jul. 21, 2011
Applicants:

Binh Nguyen, Reno, NV (US);

Bryan D. Wolf, Reno, NV (US);

Brian Underdahl, VC Highlands, NV (US);

Steven G. Lemay, Reno, NV (US);

Inventors:

Binh Nguyen, Reno, NV (US);

Bryan D. Wolf, Reno, NV (US);

Brian Underdahl, VC Highlands, NV (US);

Steven G. LeMay, Reno, NV (US);

Assignee:

IGT, Reno, NV (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 9/24 (2006.01); A63F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 19/00 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Various gaming-related services are provided, including but not limited to security services, harm minimization services, player identification services, bonusing/progressive services, accounting services, financial/banking services, network tunneling services, cheating detection services, etc. Such services may be provided, at least in part, by software agents that can be configured for different platforms and/or operating systems. Some software-based player tracking methods of the invention can aggregate data from multiple devices used by a player for gaming.


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