WO2004103495A1 - Betting terminal with logging facility - Google Patents
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- WO2004103495A1 WO2004103495A1 PCT/IB2004/001638 IB2004001638W WO2004103495A1 WO 2004103495 A1 WO2004103495 A1 WO 2004103495A1 IB 2004001638 W IB2004001638 W IB 2004001638W WO 2004103495 A1 WO2004103495 A1 WO 2004103495A1
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- G—PHYSICS
- G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
- G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
- G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
- G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
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- G—PHYSICS
- G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
- G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
- G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
- G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
- G07F17/3225—Data transfer within a gaming system, e.g. data sent between gaming machines and users
- G07F17/3232—Data transfer within a gaming system, e.g. data sent between gaming machines and users wherein the operator is informed
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- G—PHYSICS
- G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
- G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
- G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
- G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
- G07F17/3225—Data transfer within a gaming system, e.g. data sent between gaming machines and users
- G07F17/3232—Data transfer within a gaming system, e.g. data sent between gaming machines and users wherein the operator is informed
- G07F17/3234—Data transfer within a gaming system, e.g. data sent between gaming machines and users wherein the operator is informed about the performance of a gaming system, e.g. revenue, diagnosis of the gaming system
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- This invention relates to a betting terminal and, more particularly, to a betting terminal of a type that is commonly employed in betting shops, entertainment venues and the like.
- the invention extends to a method of operating a betting terminal.
- Betting terminals have become increasingly common in a number of different jurisdictions that have a regulated gambling industry.
- Such a betting terminal has a player console that offers a player a menu of one or more games of chance that the player can select to play.
- the games of chance have outcomes that are determined by random events, usually generated by means of a random number generator implemented in software.
- the software random number generator may be executed locally within the player console itself or may be implemented externally in a gaming server to which the player terminal is linked by means of a communication network. In the latter topology, one or more separate player consoles may be connected to a single external gaming server by means of the communication network. It is usual for the player to play any of the games of chance by means of pre- purchased credit.
- the player console may be equipped with a coin-receiving mechanism and a banknote reader that will allow the player to acquire credit in a simple manner without the necessity of using prepayment tokens such as credit cards, debit cards and the like.
- the player console may also be equipped with a printer that prints out an encoded voucher on demand when the player desires to terminate his playing session and to cash out any credit that he may have accumulated. The voucher may be redeemed for value from an operator of the betting terminal.
- the games of chance offered by the player console may offer jackpot prizes that can be won from time to time.
- Such a player console operates in an "always on" mode, in the sense that no player login or authentication is required in order to play any of the games of chance.
- the player console may be located at a convenient location, such as a betting shop, an entertainment venue, or the like.
- the gaming server to which the player console is linked may also be located with the player console, or may be located remotely therefrom. Revenue derived by an operator of the betting terminal may be shared with a supplier of the terminal. Other similar commercial arrangements are possible between the operator and the supplier of the betting terminal.
- a betting terminal comprising: a gaming server operable under program control to regulate the progress of any one of a number of different selectable games; a user access facility usable by a player to select any one of the number of different selectable games for play and to place a wager on any turn thereof; a communication network providing communication between the user access facility and the gaming server; a storage means communicable with the user access facility by means of the communication network; and a logging facility operable to log transaction data relating to each wager placed by the player on the user access facility and to download the logged transaction data to the storage means.
- the transaction data relating to any wager to include data relating to a size and type of the wager, an outcome of the wager, the outcome of the wager being either successful or unsuccessful, a size of a prize won by the player when the wager is successful, and a corresponding identity of one of the number of different selectable games on which the wager was placed, for the logging facility to log the transaction data in a buffer capable of storing transaction data corresponding to a predetermined number of turns of any of the different selectable games, and for the logging facility to download the buffered transaction data to the remote storage means when the buffer is full.
- Still further features of the invention provide for a plurality of different user access facilities to be communicable with the gaming server by means of the communication network, each one of the plurality of different user access facilities having a corresponding unique identification code, and for the transaction data relating to any particular wager to also include a unique identification code of a user access facility from which the player placed the wager.
- games to be casino games
- the communication network to be an open communication network
- for the open communication network to be the Internet
- for the user access facility to be a computer workstation connectable to the World Wide Web of the Internet.
- the invention extends to a method of operating a betting terminal, comprising the steps of: operating a gaming sever under program control to regulate the progress of any one of a number of different selectable games; selecting, by means of a user access facility, any one of the number of different selectable games for play and placing a wager on a turn thereof, the user access facility being communicable with the gaming server; logging transaction data relating to each wager placed by the player on the user access facility; and downloading the logged transaction data to a storage means remote from the user access facility.
- the transaction data relating to any wager to include data relating to a size and type of the wager, an outcome of the wager, the outcome of the wager being either successful or unsuccessful, a size of a prize won by the player when the wager is successful, and a corresponding identity of one of the number of different selectable games on which the wager was placed, for logging the transaction data in a buffer capable of storing transaction data corresponding to a predetermined number of turns of any of the different selectable games, and for downloading the buffered transaction data to the remote storage means when the buffer is full.
- each one of the plurality of different user access facilities having a corresponding unique identification code, and for including in the buffered transaction data a unique identification code of a user access facility from which the wager was placed.
- Figure 1 is functional representation of a betting terminal according to the invention.
- a betting terminal is indicated generally by reference numeral (1).
- the betting terminal (1) includes a gaming server (2) and two user access facilities (3a and 3b) in the form of two player console each having a touch screen (4), a banknote reader (5), a coin receiving mechanism (6) such as a coin slot, and a thermal printer (7).
- Each player console also includes an Internet- enabled processor (8) which is in communication with the gaming server (2) by means of a communication network (9) that is, in this embodiment, the Internet.
- the player consoles (3a and 3b) are located remotely from the gaming server (2).
- Each player console (3) is usable by a player to play any one of a number of different video games that are available for play.
- a menu of available games is presented to the player on the touch screen (4) and the player is able to select any one of the games in the menu for play by touching corresponding icons (not shown) displayed on the screen in a manner that is well known in the art.
- the betting terminal (1) includes a logging database (10) remote from the player consoles (3) and accessible by means of the communication network (9).
- the operation of the logging database (10) will be described in more detail in the description that follows.
- the Internet-enabled processor (8) is a conventional personal computer operating under a Windows 2000 operating system, which is well known and commercially available from the Microsoft Corporation of Seattle, Washington, USA.
- the Internet-enabled processor (8) and the gaming server (2) execute different components of any available game that is selected for play by the player.
- Each game consists of a client process that is executed in the processor (8) and a server process that is executed in the gaming server (2).
- the client process of a selected game simulates the progress of the game on the touch screen (4), while the server process generates, upon request of the of the client process, one or more random events that determine an outcome or outcomes of a turn of the game.
- the client component obtains the result of the random event and utilises the result to display a corresponding outcome of the game to the player in an intelligible manner by means of the simulation on the touch screen (4).
- Each one of the available games is playable by the player against the consumption of credit.
- the player may insert one or more banknotes into the banknote reader (5) and coins into the coin slot (6) in order to procure credit to play any of the games, without the need to use payment tokens such as debit cards, credit cards or the like.
- a player's credit balance is displayed on the touch screen (4) at all times. The player utilises his credit to place a wager on every turn of the games that he selects for play.
- the outcome of any wager is either an unsuccessful outcome in which the player's wager is forfeited to an operator of the betting terminal (1), or a successful outcome in which the player's wager is paid out at predetermined odds.
- the betting terminal (1) includes a logging facility in the form of a non-volatile storage memory (11) and a logging application software program (12) that is executable in the processor (8) of each player console (3).
- the non-volatile storage memory (11) is a local Random Access Memory circular buffer that is sized to store transaction data corresponding to a predetermined number, say 20, of consecutive wagers made by the player.
- the transaction data is buffered in the non-volatile storage memory (11) by the logging application software program that executes in the processor (8) of the player console (3).
- the transaction data corresponding to any particular wager includes data relating to a size and type of the wager, an outcome of the wager, a size of a prize won by the player for a successful wager, an identification code corresponding to the selected game on which the wager was made, and an identification code corresponding to a player console from which the wager was made by the player.
- the logging application software program (12) downloads the buffered transaction data to the logging database (10) when the local buffer (11) is full and, once download is complete, flushes the local buffer. It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the downloaded contents from the local buffers (11 ) of the display consoles (3) are consolidated and merged into the remote logging database (10).
- the merged transaction data in the remote logging database (10) is available for the performance of offline queries by interested parties such as a supplier of the betting terminal (1).
- the betting terminal (1) may include more that two player consoles (3a and 3b) than indicated above.
- the betting terminal (1) may include only a single player console in which the gaming server (2) is integrated within the display console to provide, effectively, a standalone betting terminal.
- the functionality of the gaming server (2) and the processor (8) in the display console may be consolidated, necessitating only a single processor for the betting terminal (1 ).
- the remote logging database (10) may also be integrated within the display console.
- an open communication network such as the Internet may be dispensed with, and communication between the gaming server (2), the processor (8) and the logging database (10) can take place by means of a local communication bus or a closed network.
- the invention therefore provides a betting terminal (1 ) with a logging facility that enables the generation of a historical log file of transaction data relating to any wager placed by a player on a display console forming part of the betting terminal.
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