Patent ID: 6908384

Claim:
A cash/voucher terminal configured for use in a cashless gaming environment, where the gaming environment comprises player terminals having games usable for gambling and where cash cannot be used at the player terminals, and where the player terminals use cashless vouchers and the cashless vouchers further comprise indicia thereon, where the indicia further comprises a transaction identifier, the cash/voucher terminal comprising: an enclosure operably containing said cash/voucher terminal; a network interface for operably connecting said cash/voucher terminal to a communications network; a cashless voucher reader operably disposed within said cash/voucher terminal and configured to read cashless voucher indicia; a cash dispenser operably disposed within said cash/voucher terminal; and, where said cash/voucher terminal is further configured to receive cashless voucher indicia from said cashless voucher reader comprising a transaction identifier and where said transaction identifier was previously generated by a player terminal or an exchange terminal and sent, along with a value, to a server to be retrievably stored thereon using said transaction identifier, send said cashless voucher indicia operably out of said network interface, receive data from said network interface where said data comprises a cash value associated with said transaction identifier, and, send said cash value to said cash dispenser, where said cash dispenser dispenses a cash amount according to said cash value.