ELECTRONIC FUND TRANSFER FOR MOBILE GAMING

• US 20170228979A1
• Filed: 04/24/2017
• Published: 08/10/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/03/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Incorporated (Aristocrat Leisure Limited)
• Original Assignee: Nguyen Gaming LLC
• Inventors: Nguyen, Binh T.
• Granted Patent: US 10,586,425 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/10 specially adapted for electronic funds transfer [EFT] systems; specially adapted for home banking systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/123 Shopping for digital content
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3223 Realising banking transactions through M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3224 Transactions dependent on location of M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3209 Input means, e.g. buttons, touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3211 Display means
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3218 wherein at least part of the system is portable
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3225 Data transfer within a gaming system, e.g. data sent between gaming machines and users
• 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 17/3251 involving media of variable value, e.g. programmable cards, programmable tokens
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3288 Betting, e.g. on live events, bookmaking

Abstract

In one embodiment, a system and method to transfer money may include a mobile device associated with a player, a location server designed to: track a device position of the mobile device and track a vessel position, and a mobile gaming management server designed to: receive a fund transfer request from a gaming server for the mobile device, the fund transfer request including a fund amount; determine if the fund amount can be transferred to the mobile device based on the device position and the vessel position; and transfer the fund amount to the mobile device if it is determined that the fund amount can be transferred to the mobile device.

Claims

1. A method for transferring funds for playing a wager-based game on a vessel, comprising:

receiving a request to play the wager-based game from at least one of a plurality of mobile devices, the request including a fund amount for use in playing the wager-based game;

determining a vessel position of the vessel;

determining a device position of the mobile device;

determining whether the fund amount may be made available to the at least one of the plurality of mobile devices based on at least the vessel position of the vessel and the device position of the mobile device; and

rendering the fund amount available to the at least one of the plurality of mobile devices if it is determined that the fund amount is to be made available to the mobile device based on at least a vessel position of the vessel and a device position of the mobile device,

wherein the vessel position of the vessel is a global location relative to earth, and wherein the device position of each of the plurality of mobile devices is a position relative to the vessel.

2. A system for transferring money for use with a vessel having a plurality of gaming areas configured to permit a plurality of mobile devices to play wager-based games, each of the plurality of mobile devices associated with a player, said system comprising:

a location server operable to;

monitor a vessel position of the vessel, the vessel position being a global location relative to earth; and

a mobile gaming management server configured to communicate with the location server and a rules database having at least one vessel gaming rule, the mobile gaming management server operable to;

receive a fund transfer request associated with at least one mobile device, the fund transfer request including a fund amount used to play a wager-based game;

determine if the fund amount is permitted to be made available to the associated mobile device based on at least the vessel location and the at least one vessel gaming rule; and

render the fund amount available to the associated mobile device if it is determined that the fund amount is permitted to be made available to the associated mobile device.