Patent ID: 9536387
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: G07F

Claim:
1. A system for a gaming machine including a video display, one or more input devices and a hardware or firmware subsystem configured to accept game credit purchases and wagers from a player using one or more types of currencies comprising: a bill or note validator comprising said gaming machine to receive and recognize a primary currency and a secondary currency, each issued by a different jurisdiction and related by an exchange rate, if inserted by a player into said gaming machine, said bill or note validator encoding a monetary denomination of said secondary currency into electronic bar code data having a unique prefix and a special known code to match said monetary denomination of said secondary currency if said secondary currency is recognized by said bill or note validator; an electronic slot management system host computer including a stored currency conversion rate coupled to said gaming machine for electronically receiving said encoded monetary denomination bar code data of said secondary currency to decode said encoded monetary denomination and to convert a monetary value of the secondary currency to an equivalent amount of electronic funds in the primary currency using the stored currency conversion rate; and a game credit meter comprising said gaming machine to store a total amount of game credit purchased by the player of said gaming machine including game credit purchased by the player in response to the player inserting one or more bills or notes of either or both of the primary currency and the secondary currency into said gaming machine via the bill or note validator; wherein a collect event prompted by the player initiates a withdrawal of the game credit stored by the credit meter.