Patent ID: 8308568
Filing Date: 2012-11-13
Classification: A63F,G07F

Abstract:
1. An apparatus comprising a computing device operable to: determine that a user of a gaming device is within a first area, in which the user is permitted to engage in at least one activity via the gaming device from within the first area; permit the user to engage in the at least one activity via the gaming device based at least in part on determining that the user is within the first area; determine that the user has left the first area to a second area, in which the user is not permitted to engage in at the least one activity via the gaming device from within the second area; determine that the user has returned to the first area from the second area; determine that a duration of time between the user leaving the first area to the second area and returning to the first area from the second area is less than a predetermined amount of time; and based at least in part on determining that the duration of time is less than the predetermined amount of time, permit the user, upon returning to the first area from the second area, to engage in the least one activity via the gaming device without requiring an identity verification by the user.