Patent ID: 11881082
Assignee: IGT
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. A player tracking unit comprising:
a slot machine interface board comprising:
a first communication interface; and
a second communication interface;

a processor; and
a memory device that stores a plurality of instructions that, when executed by the processor following a display device temporarily displaying, for a predetermined duration of time, a machine-readable code associated with an identifier of the player tracking unit and a mobile device scanning the temporarily displayed machine-readable code during the predetermined duration of time to establish a communication session involving the mobile device, cause the processor to:
responsive to determining a first mobile device connection status associated with the communication session:
cause an output device of the player tracking unit to output a first indication associated with the first mobile device connection status, and
responsive to a first event that occurs based on the first mobile device connection status:
serially receive, via the second communication interface and in association with a slot accounting system protocol, first data from a processor of an electronic gaming machine, and
communicate, via the first communication interface, at least part of the first data to a controller of a player tracking system, and

responsive to determining a second, different mobile device connection status associated with the communication session:
cause the output device of the player tracking unit to output a second, different indication associated with the second, different mobile device connection status, wherein during different predetermined durations of time, different temporarily displayed machine-readable codes are each associated with the same identifier of the player tracking unit, and
responsive to a second event that occurs based on the second, different mobile device connection status:
serially receive, via the second communication interface and in association with the slot accounting system protocol, second data from the processor of the electronic gaming machine, and
communicate, via the first communication interface, at least part of the second data to the controller of the player tracking system.