Patent ID: 11915547
Assignee: EMPIRE TECHNOLOGICAL GROUP LIMITED
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A logistics system for management and fulfillment of gaming logistic requests, the logistics system supporting a plurality of gaming apparatus, each of the gaming apparatus configured to perform or facilitate a wager based game, and each of the gaming apparatus including or being proximate to a gaming support appliance having an electronic monitor integral or proximate thereto, the gaming support appliance maintaining physical assets that are used to facilitate the wager based game, the logistics system comprising:
a logistic management server configured to communicate with the electronic monitor of the gaming support appliance of each of the gaming apparatus, the logistic management server being configured to:
receive data from the electronic monitor;
determine, based on the data from the electronic monitor, status data for the physical assets maintained by the gaming support appliance;
electronically record the status data pertaining to the physical assets maintained by the gaming support appliance;
determine, based at least in part on the status data, whether the gaming support appliance associated with the electronic monitor needs a re-supply of the physical assets;
electronically transmit a re-supply request to a supply depository when it is determined that the gaming support appliance associated with the electronic monitor needs a re-supply of physical assets;
electronically transmit a delivery request for an attendant when it is determined that the gaming support appliance associated with the electronic monitor needs a re-supply of physical assets;
electronically record transaction information descriptive of events pertaining to the re-supply of physical assets, the events being recorded for the re-supply of a particular physical asset or assets including recordation of a plurality of intermediate events between initiation and completion of the re-supply request, the recordation of the plurality of intermediate events between initiation and completion of the re-supply request includes at least an indication of time that (i) the supply depository was notified of the re-supply request, (ii) the attendant picked-up the physical assets being re-supplied to the gaming support appliance needing the re-supply of the physical assets, and (iii) the re-supply of the physical assets to the gaming support appliance were delivered by the attendant to the gaming support appliance needing the re-supply of the physical assets; and
electronically record receipt of the re-supply of physical assets once the physical assets being requested by the re-supply request have been received at (i) the gaming support appliance associated with the electronic monitor that needed the re-supply of physical assets, or (ii) the gaming apparatus for the gaming support appliance associated with the electronic monitor that needed the re-supply of physical assets,

wherein each of the plurality of gaming apparatus is a table game and the gaming support appliance contains the physical assets used to play the table game, and
wherein the physical assets include physical gaming objects used in playing a game of chance on the table gaming apparatus.