Patent ID: 11861979
Assignee: ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 7:
8. A method of authorizing a mobile device in a gaming establishment having a gaming manager operable to store and manage a player account, and a controller coupled to the gaming manager and having a processor and memory storing a plurality of instructions, when executed, cause the processor to initiate a game or service, the method comprising:
determining if the mobile device is coupled to the controller over one of a wired and a wireless network;
receiving information of the mobile device, including mobile device capabilities information, when the mobile device is coupled to the controller, wherein the mobile device capabilities information comprises at least one of power capacity, display resolution, memory capacity, processor capacity, disk space, or software version;
determining whether the mobile device is able to participate in the game based on the mobile device capabilities information;
comparing by the processor the player account associated with the mobile device received from the gaming manager with the information received from the mobile device; and
authorizing one or more transfer funds into or out of the player account and the mobile device to participate in the game based on the player account and the mobile device capabilities information, when the mobile device remains a trusted gaming device within the gaming establishment determined from the player account received from the gaming manager.