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Redemption of virtual tickets using a portable electronic device

  • US 10,297,105 B2
  • Filed: 09/13/2011
  • Issued: 05/21/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/09/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium for tangibly storing a computer program used by a processor of a portable electronic device, the computer program causing the processor of the portable electronic device to:

  • after receipt, via a wireless interface, of data associated with a virtual ticket voucher from an electronic gaming machine, store, via a memory device, the virtual ticket voucher, wherein the virtual ticket voucher is a bearer instrument redeemable only once for one of;

    an amount of cash and an amount of wagering credits on the electronic gaming machine;

    cause a rendering, via a display device, of an image of at least a front side of the virtual ticket voucher, wherein the image is rendered in a format similar to a printed ticket voucher issued by the electronic gaming machine, wherein the rendered image of the virtual ticket voucher excludes a portion of information necessary to redeem the virtual ticket voucher, and wherein said excluded information is at least one of displayed information and embedded information, such that the rendered image of the virtual ticket voucher cannot be redeemed without the excluded portion of information separately communicated to the portable electronic device; and

    after data associated with the excluded portion of information necessary to enable a subsequent redemption of the virtual ticket voucher is separately communicated from the electronic gaming machine to the portable electronic device via the wireless interface, send, via the wireless interface, data associated with the virtual ticket voucher to the electronic gaming machine, wherein following receipt of the data associated with the virtual ticket voucher, the electronic gaming device displays an electronic gaming machine credit balance at least partially based on the amount of wagering credits.

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