Patents Represented by Attorney Philip Anderson, Esq
  • Patent number: 8282478
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed by which, in one embodiment, a player of a gaming device may select to commit to limitations on their gaming activity over a period of time. The commitment and data corresponding to an identifying biometric feature of the player are stored. When the player plays a gaming device the system and method compares a capture biometrical image of the player with the stored image and if there is a match the limitation is enforced. Biometrical data for files where the temporal period of the limitation has passed are ignored to reduce the number of files with which the comparison must be made reducing the number of false matches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Bally Gaming, Inc
    Inventor: Martin Lyons