Patent ID: 9626826
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: G07F

Claim:
1. A portable electronic device having an identifier associated with the user of the portable electronic device, comprising: an indoor location identifying device configured to indicate a location of the portable electronic device in a casino environment; a processor configured to receive real-time casino data from a server, the real-time casino data is associated with the location of the portable electronic device in the casino environment, at least one user-generated interest criteria search input, and data access privileges of the portable electronic device; an authentication device configured to verify and authorize data access privileges of the portable electronic device's software application based on at least one digital signature associated with the software application and stored on the portable electronic device, the digital signature and the identifier transmitted to the server and compared to a stored digital signature and a stored identifier stored on the server for authentication; a memory configured to store the real-time casino data and a casino data application; and a display configured to present the real-time casino data; wherein the user-generated interest criteria search input is used by the server to generate the real-time casino data, the real-time casino data indicating relative gaming performance data for gaming machines located proximate to the indoor location of the portable electronic device.