Abstract: 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 is favorable to the casino and incentives designed to keep the player gaming in a casino for a longer amount of time.

Abstract: 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 is favorable to the casino and incentives designed to keep the player gaming in a casino for a longer amount of time.

Abstract: Automatic restriction and exclusion of customers from one or multiple casino properties prevents problem gamblers and others from gaming. When a customer is to be excluded from gaming at the casino, a flag is set in the player account in a player database, including the type of restriction, such as whether the customer is excluded completely from the casino, or only restricted from certain activities. When the customer presents her loyalty card, her account is examined to determine whether she is excluded or restricted from the activity she is attempting to engage in. If so, the game is deactivated and a casino employee is notified. The system works in a multi-property environment including a plurality of casinos and indicates whether the restriction or exclusion applies at the property at which the customer is attempting to game.

Abstract: A system for generating and presenting an offer tailored to a particular user. Information about the user is collected from multiple properties. The information is used to generate tailored offers to the user. The offers are presented to the user. The user easily accepts desired offers.

Abstract: Multiple, simultaneous enterprise promotions are enabled by an enterprise promotions application, the promotions definable to apply to a single location, a plurality of locations, or all of the enterprise's locations. The enterprise promotions application recieves data from the locations regarding patron activity, from which the system generates entries in one or more promotions according to each promotion's rules. For a promotion, patrons' entries can be activated for one or more drawings, wherein one or more winning entries are selected. The system also provides for the automatic, rules-based generation of comps and the management thereof.

Abstract: A method of processing a semiconductor wafer (10) is provided. The method comprises the steps of: providing a semiconductor wafer (10) as a semiconductor substrate (12), preprocessing the semiconductor wafer (10) by depositing on the semiconductor wafer (10) at least one additional layer (14, 16), and further processing the preprocessed semiconductor wafer (10). The preprocessing is accomplished in a first factory (18) and the further processing is accomplished in a second factory (20). The present invention is further related to a preprocessed semiconductor wafer (10) an to a system for processing a semiconductor wafer (10).