Patent ID: 9536391
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: G07F

Claim:
1. A system for obtaining and transmitting and storing random award-content information on an economic entity associated with a gaming establishment, the system comprising: an identifier attached to an article; the article is located and available to a user at a physical location associated with the gaming establishment; the identifier is intimately associated with an electromagnetically interrogatable code; the electromagnetic interrogatable code intimately associated with the identifier containing communicable information relating to a random award value; the identifier is associated with the article in a manner such that the electromagnetic interrogatable code intimately associated with the identifier cannot be identified until packing around the article has been opened or the identifier has been physically removed from the article; an intermediate system entry device selected from the group consisting of a hand-held information receiving and transmitting device or kiosk information receiving and transmission device that can interrogate the electromagnetic interrogatable code intimately associated with the identifier; the intermediate entry device comprising a camera, a scanner, RFID reader and/or NFC reader; the intermediate entry device configured to electromagnetically interrogate the identifier and to transmit the communicable information from the electromagnetic interrogatable code to a distal server; the distal server is in wireless two-way communication with the intermediate system entry device, the distal server capable of receiving, storing and transmitting the communicable information from the electromagnetic interrogatable code; the distal server, based upon the communicable information from the electromagnetic interrogatable code, is configured to identify the random award value that is transmitted to and received by the intermediate system entry device, the intermediate entry device, upon receiving the transmitted and received random award value, is configured to enable the random award value to be used for wagering credit in the gaming establishment.