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

Claim 0:
1. A player tracking system, comprising:
a player tracking computing system comprising one or more processors and non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon, which when executed by at least one of the one or more processors, cause the player tracking system to:
link a loyalty profile of a player with a general purpose reloadable prepaid card issued to the player maintained by an issuer processor computing system on a bank card network;
communicate with a loyalty computing system of a gaming environment to update the loyalty profile of the player based on transaction-related information received from the issuer processor computing system, wherein the transaction-related information is associated with at least one payment transaction initiated at one of the plurality of merchants associated with the bank card network, wherein the general purpose reloadable prepaid card is used during the at least one payment transaction to access funds maintained in a financial account, wherein the one of the plurality of merchants is unaffiliated with the gaming environment;
generate a player intelligence report for the player based at least partially on the transaction-related information received from the issuer processor computing system, wherein the player intelligence report identifies the one or more of the plurality of merchants; and
provide 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.