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

Claim 13:
14. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising a plurality of instructions for authorizing a mobile device to initiate a game or service 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, the instructions, which, when executed, cause one or more processors to perform the steps of:
detecting when the mobile device is coupled to the controller;
receiving information from the mobile device when the mobile device is coupled to the controller, including mobile device capabilities information, wherein the mobile device capabilities information comprises at least one of power capacity, display resolution, memory capacity, processor capacity, disk space, or software version;
receiving the player account associated with the mobile device from the gaming manager when the mobile device is coupled to the controller;
identifying:
whether the mobile device is able to participate in the game based on the mobile device capabilities information, and
whether the mobile device is a trusted gaming device, based on the player account received from the gaming manager and 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 be able to participate in the game, when the mobile device remains the trusted gaming device within the gaming establishment.