Real-time marketing at gaming machines
CA 2550907 C · Owner: Harrah'S Operating Co. Inc. · Inventors: Norton, Dave; Oppenheimer, Mark; Stanley, Tim
Overview
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A program for rewarding players for gaming at a casino establishment provides a player with real-time incentives while the player is playing at a gaming machine in the casino. Information about the player and/or the player's gaming activity is collected while the player is at a gaming machine in a casino. This information is used by a marketing system to select an incentive to provide to the player. The incentive is then delivered to the player for example manually by a casino employee or automatically using a printer or other mechanism at the gaming machine. Various types of incentives can be provided to a player including incentives designed to provide the player with an experience that …
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- Filed June 27, 2006 and granted November 19, 2013. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 27, 2026.
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