Patent ID: 6633881
Filing Date: 2003-10-14
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
A method for providing record-keeping in a gaming environment having a plurality of gaming machines that have removable money boxes, comprising:defining, in a computer database, a list of the plurality of gaming machines and a list of money boxes removably attached to the plurality of gaming machines; retrieving and storing in computer memory, information from an information tag affixed to each of the plurality of gaming machines, the information uniquely identifying a gaming machine; retrieving and storing in computer memory, information from an information tag affixed to each money box removably attached to and associated with each of the plurality of gaming machines, the information uniquely identifying a money box; the retrieving of information from the gaming machine tag and the money box tag being conducted separately; associating, in a database, the retrieved information from each of the plurality of gaming machines with the particular information from the corresponding money box removably attached to each of the plurality of gaming machines; identifying each gaming machine that is defined in the list of the plurality of gaming machines but does not have information retrieved and stored from a corresponding information tag; and identifying each money box that is defined in the list of the money boxes but does not have information retrieved and stored from a corresponding information tag affixed therein.