Patent ID: 9626832
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: G06Q,G07F

Claim:
1. A method of operating a player tracking system, the method comprising: (a) receiving at the player tracking system, from a mobile device: (b) causing the player tracking system to authenticate the virtual player tracking card identifier and the virtual player tracking card password received from the mobile device; (c) after a gaming machine in a gaming network receives a player input of a virtual player tracking card personal identification number, receiving at the player tracking system the virtual player tracking card personal identification number from the gaming machine; (d) causing the player tracking system to identifying the gaming machine that transmitted the virtual player tracking card personal identification number to the player tracking system; and (e) crediting an account associated with the authenticated virtual player tracking card identifier and the personal identification number based on an amount of game play on the gaming machine which is tracked by the player tracking system.