METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STORING INFORMATION ON A WAGER GAMING VOUCHER
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1. A wager gaming voucher comprising:
- a single machine-readable indicium including, a remote database index associated with a set of one or more tables in a remote database; and
a portable voucher database to store voucher information.
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Abstract
Methods and apparatuses for processing and storing information on a wager gaming voucher are described herein. In one embodiment, a wager gaming voucher includes a single machine-readable indicium. The single machine-readable indicium includes a remote database index associated with a set of one or more fields in a remote database and a portable voucher database to store information.
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1. A wager gaming voucher comprising:
a single machine-readable indicium including, a remote database index associated with a set of one or more tables in a remote database; and
a portable voucher database to store voucher information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method comprising:
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reading a single wager gaming voucher indicium, wherein the single wager gaming voucher indicium includes, a portable voucher database including a monetary value; and
an index into a remote database; and
accessing the monetary value without accessing the remote database. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A machine-readable medium that provides instructions which when executed by a machine cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
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receiving an indication to generate a wager gaming voucher;
generating a portable voucher database;
determining an index for accessing data in a remote database, wherein the data is associated with the wager gaming voucher;
creating an indicium that includes the portable voucher database and the index; and
generating a voucher that includes the indicium. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27)
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28. A double-sided wager gaming voucher comprising:
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a first machine-readable indicium including game-specific information, the game-specific information usable by one of a set of wagering game types;
a second machine-readable indicium including a voucher identifier, the voucher identifier associated with data in a remote database, the voucher identifier usable by all of the set of wagering game types. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30)
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