Gaming service automation machine with digital wallet services

US11775942B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Aristocrat Technologies, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Michelle Cupersmith · Las Vegas, US
• Victor Blanco · Austin, US
• Sina Miri · Menlo Park, US
• Christopher Cleveland · Las Vegas, US
• Tammy Rambo · Las Vegas, US
• Rajneesh Sharma · Las Vegas, US
• Jennifer Andrea Potokar · Henderson, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 25, 2021
• Grant date: Oct 3, 2023
• Expiry date: Dec 17, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04W4/40
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A robot includes a propulsion system configured to move the robot within an operations venue, a wireless interface configured to communicatively connect the robot with a wireless network, a touchscreen display device, a contactless reader device, a memory device, a processor. The processor is configured to receive, from a robot management system (RMS) and via the wireless interface, a relocation request identifying a service location within the operations venue and at which the robot is to provide a service, control the propulsion system to navigate the robot to the service location in response to receiving the relocation request, receive, from a user, an authorization request to add funds to a digital wallet of the user, and transmit, via the wireless interface, an authorization request message to a funds transfer data center associated with the user, the authorization request message configured to request adding the funds to the digital wallet of the user.