Method and system for allocating loyalty reward points to gaming players
View Patent ↗A system for allocating loyalty reward points to a player at a gaming area, where the player has a loyalty reward card. The player further being associated with identifiable casino chips each having a radio frequency identification tag. The system has a recording device located in the vicinity of the gaming area for reading and recording the player details on the loyalty reward card, and RFID readers for detecting player casino chips located in play in the gaming area. The RFID reader is operatively connected to the recording device such that at the completion of bet placement the value of player casino chips in play in the gaming area detected by the RFID reader is communicated to the recording device thus enabling the value of bets placed by individual players to be calculated and thereby determining the allocation of loyalty reward points to individual players for the particular bet placement.
1. A loyalty reward points allocation system for allocating loyalty reward points to a player at a gaming area having a loyalty reward card with player details recorded thereon, said system comprising:
at least one uniquely identifiable casino chip having an electronic identification means, said identifiable casino chip being associated with said player;
a recording means located in the vicinity of said gaming area for reading and recording the player details on the loyalty reward card;
a first casino chip detection means for detecting said player associated casino chip located in play in said gaming area, said first casino chip detection means being operatively connected to said recording means; and
wherein said first casino chip detection means is operatively connected to said recording means such that at the completion of bet placement the value of said player casino chip in play in said gaming area detected by said first casino chip detection means is communicated to said recording means thus enabling the value of bets placed by individual players to be calculated and thereby determining the allocation of loyalty reward points to individual players for the particular bet placement;
wherein said plurality of identifiable casino chips are divided into sets of coloured or marked chip sets, wherein each of said coloured or marked chip sets have a master chip that electronically carries on it the code that other associated coloured or marked chips are encoded with.
2. The loyalty reward points allocation system according to claim 1 further comprising a second casino chip detection means associated with a single player and operatively connected to said recording means for detecting said player casino chip out of play in said gaming area and associating said detected casino chips with the player.
3. The loyalty reward points allocation system according to claim 2 , wherein said player casino chips detected by said second casino chip detection means includes casino chips won from other players at said gaming area.
4. The loyalty reward points allocation system according to claim 3 , wherein said detected casino chips includes additional casino chips purchased at said gaming area.
5. The loyalty reward points allocation system according to claim 4 , wherein said second casino chip detection means includes a plurality of second casino chip detection means which are each operatively connected to said recording means, and wherein each player at said gaming area is allocated an individual second casino chip detection means.
6. The loyalty reward points allocation system according to claim 5 , wherein said second chip detection means allocated to each player is associated with their details read and recorded by said recording means from their said loyalty reward card.
7. The loyalty reward points allocation system according to claim 6 , wherein said first casino chip detection means detects and communicates the value of said player casino chip in play at the completion of each round of bet placement over the duration of the game to said recording means.
8. The loyalty reward points allocation system according to claim 7 , wherein said recording means records the value of said player casino chip in play at the completion of each round of bet placement over the duration of the game, the total value of player casino chips in play during the game at the completion of each round of bet placement, and the accumulated value of player casino chips in play at the completion of the game.
9. The loyalty reward points allocation system according to claim 8 , wherein the allocation of loyalty reward points to individual players is based upon the accumulated value.
10. The loyalty reward points allocation system according to claim 6 , wherein each player's said second casino chip detection means detects said casino chips adjacent to each player's said second casino chip detection means and communicates the casino chips detected to said recording means.
11. The loyalty reward points allocation system according to claim 10 , wherein said recording means associates with each individual player casino chips detected by said players second casino chip detection means which have been won from other players.
12. The loyalty reward points allocation system according to claim 1 , wherein said gaming area is a gaming table, said electronic identification means is radio frequency identification tag, and said first casino chip detection means is a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader.
13. A loyalty reward points allocation system comprising:
a gaming table having an in-play portion and individual player positions;
a loyalty reward card having a player's detail recorded thereon;
a plurality of uniquely identifiable casino chips having an electronic identification means, said identifiable casino chip being associated with a player, said identifiable casino chips having a frequency identification tag therein;
a recording means located in the vicinity of said gaming area for reading, recording, and transmitting the player details recorded on said loyalty reward card;
a first casino chip detection means for detecting said player associated casino chip located on said in-play portion of said gaming table, said first casino chip detection means being operatively connected to said recording means, said first casino chip detection means being mountable underneath said gaming table surface adjacent to said in-play portion of said gaming table, said first casino chip detection means being a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader; and
a plurality of second casino chip detection means which are each operatively connected to said recording means, said second casino chip detection means being mountable underneath said gaming table surface adjacent to said individual player positions of said gaming table, said second casino chip detection means being a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader;
wherein said plurality of identifiable casino chips are divided into sets of coloured or marked chip sets, wherein each of said coloured or marked chip sets have a master chip that electronically carries on it the code that other associated coloured or marked chips are encoded with.