Patent ID: 8317609

Claim:
A method for verifying the continued presence of a player at a gaming machine during a gaming session, the method comprising: a first player activating a gaming session on a gaming machine; triggering a mechanism to obtain verification data samples, wherein a verification data sample relates to one or more physical features of said first player; designating the first verification data sample as a reference template; obtaining a second verification data sample at a time period after said reference template was obtained; comparing the second verification data sample to the reference template to ascertain, regardless of the identification of the first player, if said second verification data sample is substantially similar to the reference template resolving that the first player remains present at the gaming machine during the gaming session and if the second verification data sample is not substantially similar to the reference template resolving that the first player is no longer present; and if it is resolved that the first player is not longer present suspending the gaming session for said first player.