Patent ID: 7841517

Claim:
A system for identifying a user in a gaming environment, the system comprising: a digital card for storing the user's gaming information; and a user-customizable digital image stored on the digital card, wherein the digital image is verifiable as a gaming environment image by examining a set of digital image sources, wherein the digital image visually distinguishes the user from all other users in the gaming environment; wherein the digital image is revocable from the gaming environment by a gaming authority that is providing the gaming environment to ensure the digital image is appropriate for users in the gaming environment, wherein the digital image is configured to correspond to at least two contexts of the gaming environment, wherein the digital image has at least a dual nature and is configured to have a first appearance in a first context of the at least two contexts and a second appearance in a second context of the at least two contexts, and wherein the first context corresponds to a first set of users and the second context corresponds to a second set of users.