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First Claim
1. A personal Storage Device with memory which can store the unique biometrics of its registered owner for the purposes of identification;
- can record the unique biometrics of any person attempting to use the device;
can confirm whether the user is the registered owner of the device;
can control access to electronic devices and their consumption;
can monitor and record the operational activity of its user;
can store pre-defined value, duration and budgetary constraints;
can compare operational activity to pre-defined values, durations and budgetary constraints;
can store legal tender value;
can visually indicate when it is electronically operative;
can be electronically locked and de-activated; and
can connect and communicate directly or remotely to other electronic devices.
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The patent involves the use of a personal Storage Device with memory which can store the unique biometrics of its registered owner for the purposes of identification; can record the unique biometrics of any person attempting to use the device; can confirm whether the user is the registered owner of the device; can control access to electronic devices and their consumption; can monitor and record the operational activity of its user; can store pre-defined value, duration and budgetary constraints; can compare operational activity to pre-defined values, durations and budgetary constraints; can store legal tender value; can visually indicate when it is electronically operative; can be electronically locked and de-activated; and can connect and communicate directly or remotely to other electronic devices. The device can be used in the identification and elimination of problem gamblers from gaining personal access to electronic gaming machines and other gambling devices or services whilst either physically present at a gambling venue or through their remote access to a gambling venue or gambling service via the internet, interactive television, intranets, extraneous, telephones or other digital communication services. In its USB derivative format the device can connect directly or remotely to the ubiquitous USB outlet of electronic devices without the need for additional and expensive electronic reader or writer hardware
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37 Claims
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1. A personal Storage Device with memory which can store the unique biometrics of its registered owner for the purposes of identification;
- can record the unique biometrics of any person attempting to use the device;
can confirm whether the user is the registered owner of the device;
can control access to electronic devices and their consumption;
can monitor and record the operational activity of its user;
can store pre-defined value, duration and budgetary constraints;
can compare operational activity to pre-defined values, durations and budgetary constraints;
can store legal tender value;
can visually indicate when it is electronically operative;
can be electronically locked and de-activated; and
can connect and communicate directly or remotely to other electronic devices. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 29, 31)
- can record the unique biometrics of any person attempting to use the device;
- 15. A Storage Device in accordance with all preceding claims that compares actual gambling losses and duration of play to a player'"'"'s pre-determined desired gambling losses and duration of play on a daily, weekly, monthly or annual basis, and is electronically locked and de-activated either by itself or by a central monitoring computer if the pre-determined financial or duration limits are exceeded in any pre-determined period of time.
- 17. A Storage Device in accordance with all preceding claims that compares actual gambling losses and duration of play to pre-determined publicly recognized or government mandated reasonable gambling loses and duration of play on a daily, weekly, monthly or annual basis, and is electronically locked and de-activated either by itself or by a central monitoring computer if the publicly recognized financial or duration limits are exceeded in any pre-determined period of time.
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27. A Storage Device in accordance with all preceding claims which can be unique to each individual gambling service provider or which can be made available to multiple gambling providers through commercial cooperation or government mandate, to accumulate a single gambler'"'"'s behaviours such as wagers, wins, losses, durations of play on a single USB Storage Device used across all agreed or approved gambling venues or service providers including gaming, wagering, and lotteries, and which would be de-activated if aggregate individual player financial or duration limits across all service providers of gambling or across pre-determined limits for any one individual service provider of gambling are exceeded, or individual publicly acceptable or government mandated limits, are exceeded.
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28. A Storage Device in accordance with all preceding claims which can connect directly or remotely to an electronic devices USB connectivity point and authenticate and identify the current user to be the original registered owner of the USB Storage Device, and then allows the user to connect to a unique website through which they can gain access to multiple service providers of gambling and have their gambling monitored and their access denied to the web site and/or the web sites service providers if their gambling exceeds any pre-defined limits associated with their unique storage device.
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30. A Storage Device in accordance with all preceding claims which can connect directly or remotely to the connectivity point of any telecommunications device such as a television, telephone, mobile telephone, personal organizer, Smartphone, and then authenticate and identify the current user to be the original registered owner of the Storage Device, and then allows the user to connect to a unique service provider master portal through which they can gain access to multiple service providers of gambling and have their gambling monitored and their access denied to the master portal if their gambling exceeds any pre-defined limits.
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32. A Storage Device in accordance with all preceding claims which can have its individual customer pre-set gambling limits and/or publicly recognized or government mandated reasonable gambling financial limits automatically updated by acceptably annual increases due to the effects of inflation etc.
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33. A Storage Device in accordance with all preceding claims which can have its individual customer pre-set gambling limits updated upon a customers request which is regarded as acceptable by the operators of the Storage Device and as acceptable by any associated government gambling regulator.
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34. A Storage Device in accordance with all preceding claims which operates using remote USB or Radio Frequency Identification (RAID) means to communicate between itself and electronic devices.
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35. A system of gambling that restricts access to gambling to only those players who use a USB Storage Device in accordance with all preceding claims, which has not been deactivated, and requiring every player to present themselves and their Storage Device at all gambling venues or devices to confirm their identity ownership of the device and to confirm their gambling is within their own acceptable limits or acceptable public limits and that their device has not therefore been de-activated to stop their further gambling.
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36. A system of gambling including:
- (a) identifying a person;
(b) issuing a person with a unique and identifiable USB Storage Device which they must use in order to be able to gamble;
(c) utilizing unique personal identification and authentication means to monitor the person'"'"'s gambling activities across a range of gambling devices and gambling communication channels using the USB Storage Device;
(d) setting limits on gambling behavior for each USB Storage Device owner in terms of both money which can be lost and duration of gambling by the person for pre-defined periods of time; and
(e) providing linkage to financial sources for electronically transferring verifiable funds to the USB Storage Device which are able to be selectively transferred to the device when the user wishes to undertake a gambling activity.
- (a) identifying a person;
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37. A system for regulating gambling substantially as hereinbefore described using a USB Storage Device.
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