PARTIAL CREDITS CASHOUT METHOD

• US 20100062836A1
• Filed: 09/05/2008
• Published: 03/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sg Gaming, Inc. (Scientific Games Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Bally Gaming Incorporated (Scientific Games Corporation)
• Inventors: YOUNG, J. SCOTT
• Granted Patent: US 8,187,086 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/25
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3239 Tracking of individual players
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3244 Payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3248 involving non-monetary media of fixed value, e.g. casino chips of fixed value
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3251 involving media of variable value, e.g. programmable cards, programmable tokens

Abstract

A system or method providing a player an ability to cashout a portion of credits accumulated during gaming. Anonymous cashing out of credit is available to a player through routes both external and internal to a gaming machine.

Claims

1. A method for providing partial credit cashout in a gaming system, comprising:

accumulating credits while playing an electronic gaming unit;

communicating accumulation of credits to a gaming monitoring unit or gaming transaction manager;

making a partial cashout request; and

printing out a ticket reflecting a cashout prior to a slot data system acknowledging recordation of the partial cashout request.

2. The method of claim 1, comprising communicating a partial cashout request from the gaming monitoring unit or gaming transaction manager to the slot data system.

3. The method of claim 1, comprising recording the partial cashout request in the slot data system.

4. The method of claim 1, comprising making an anonymous cashout request.

5. The method of claim 1, comprising defining a soft key configured to initiate a partial cashout request.

6. The method of claim 1, comprising providing a partial credit cashout touch screen button.

7. The method of claim 1, comprising determining possible cashout amounts.

8. The method of claim 7, comprising limiting a number of possible cashout amounts.

9. The method of claim 1, comprising issuing bar codes for tickets.

10. The method of claim 1, comprising continuing to play the electronic gaming unit subsequent to partial cashout.