Patent ID: 11908279
Assignee: SIGHTLINE PAYMENTS LLC
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 12:
13. A computer-based method of player tracking, the method performed by one or more computing devices comprising instructions stored in a memory, which when executed by one or more processors of the one or more computing devices, cause the one or more computing devices to perform the method comprising:
storing in computer memory of the one or more computing devices, a player identifier of a player for a gaming environment, wherein the player identifier is associated with a general purpose reloadable prepaid card of the player, wherein the general purpose reloadable prepaid card is usable by the player for payment transactions at any of a plurality of merchants associated with a bank card network;
subsequent to the use of the general purpose reloadable prepaid card for one or more payment transactions, receiving transaction-related information associated with the one or more payment transactions;
generating a player intelligence report for the player based at least partially on the transaction-related information, wherein the player intelligence report identifies the one or more of the plurality of merchants; and
providing the player intelligence report to a computing system associated with the gaming environment, and wherein the player intelligence report comprises at least some of the transaction-related information.