Patent ID: 8696358
Filing Date: 2014-04-15
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A system for facilitating responsible gambling by a human entity, said system comprising: an identification device to identify the human entity and required to pursue gambling; a gambling facility to verify the identification device and to facilitate pursuit of gambling; a storage device in communication with the gambling facility to store information related to the pursuit of gambling by the human entity, said information based at least on monitoring actual pursuit of gambling by the human entity; and a modeler module in communication with the storage device to identify whether the human entity has a gambling problem and/or exhibits gambling behavior that may become problematic by comparing at least some of the stored information based on monitoring actual pursuit of gambling by the human entity with at least one behavior model; wherein the at least one behavior model determines one or more categories of gambling behavior based on statistical modeling, the at least one behavior model comprising: up to date information about the actual pursuit of gambling by the human entity; information on the psychological understanding of gambling behavior; and historical gambling behavior patterns describing: whereby the system facilitates responsible gambling by the human entity by using the modeler module to identify a category of gambling behavior for the human entity.