Cash-out methods and systems yielding enhanced time-deferred value

• US 8,190,507 B2
• Filed: 07/30/2007
• Issued: 05/29/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LNW Gaming Incorporated
• Original Assignee: WMS Gaming Incorporated (Scientific Games Corporation)
• Inventors: Arezina, Vladimir I., Gagner, Mark B., Hornik, Jeremy M., Schwartz, Richard T., Thomas, Alfred
• Primary Examiner(s): Maguire, Lindsay M.
• Application Number:
  US12/375,367
• Publication Number:
  US 20090327060A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,765 Days
• Field of Search: 705/37, 705/26.3
• US Class Current: 705/37
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0213 Consumer transaction fees
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/08 Auctions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3255 Incentive, loyalty and/or promotion schemes, e.g. comps, gaming associated with a purchase, gaming funded by advertisements

Abstract

A method of exchanging assets within a wagering establishment computer-based marketplace layer including the acts of accessing a wagering establishment marketplace layer using a peripheral device, offering a first asset for exchange in the wagering establishment marketplace layer to all participants in the wagering establishment marketplace layer. The method also includes the acts of receiving an offer to exchange a second asset for the first asset from an anonymous one of the participants in the wagering establishment marketplace layer, accepting the offer to exchange the second asset for the first asset from the anonymous one of the participants in the wagering establishment marketplace layer, and transferring the first asset in exchange for the second asset.

Claims

1. A method of exchanging assets within a wagering establishment computer-based marketplace layer, comprising:

establishing a first wagering layer account for a first participant, said establishing a first wagering layer account including verifying a first set of personal identification data for said first participant and assigning said first participant a first status score, said first status score being indicative of the quantity of data in said first set verified for said first participant, said first wagering layer account having a first anonymous participant ID;

accessing a wagering establishment marketplace layer using a peripheral device;

offering a first asset for exchange in said wagering establishment marketplace layer to all participants in said wagering establishment marketplace layer, said first asset being a non-gameplay related asset issued by said wagering establishment and associated with said first wagering account;

receiving an offer to exchange a second asset for said first asset from a second participant in said wagering establishment marketplace layer, said second participant having an established second wagering layer account including a second anonymous participant ID and a second status score indicative of a quantity of data in a second set of personal identification data verified for said second participant, said second asset being associated with said second wagering layer account;

displaying said second anonymous participant ID, said second status score, and said offer to exchange said second asset for said first asset;

accepting said offer to exchange said second asset for said first asset from said anonymous one of said participants in said wagering establishment marketplace layer; and

transferring said first asset in exchange for said second asset by transferring said first asset from said first wagering layer account to said second wagering layer account and transferring said second asset from said second wagering layer account to said first wagering layer account,

wherein said first set of personal identification data includes a greater quantity of personal identification data than said second set of personal identification data such that said second status score is indicative of a lower risk than said first status score, said first set of personal identification data including at least credit card information for said first participant, and said second set of personal identification data including at least credit card information and an email address for said second participant.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said peripheral device comprises at least one of a handheld gaming machine, an upright gaming machine, a kiosk, a handheld electronic device, and a computer.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said act of accessing comprises establishing a wireless communication link between a server providing access to said wagering establishment marketplace layer and said peripheral device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said participants comprises at least one of another player, another person, a computer programmed to conduct trades, and a representative of said wagering establishment.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of said acts of offering, accepting, and transferring is brokered by said wagering establishment.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein said wagering establishment charges a fee for the act of brokering.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein said first asset is received in association with a wagering activity.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein said second asset comprises at least one of a monetary value, a comp, a game-related asset, an unrealized potential, and a non-game asset, said second asset being different than said first asset.