Patent ID: 8162756

Claim:
An apparatus comprising a computing device operable to: determine that a duration of time in which a gaming device has been activated is less than a first predetermined amount of time, in which the gaming device is permitted to be activated for the first predetermined amount of time; determine that a user of the gaming device is within a first area of a communication network to which the gaming device is connected, in which the communication network covers at least the first area and a second area, in which the user is permitted to engage in at least one activity via the gaming device from within the first area and is not permitted to engage in the at least one activity via the gaming device from within the second area; determine that the user has left the first area to the second area; determine that the user has returned to the first area from the second area; determine that a duration of time between the user leaving the first area to the second area and returning to the first area from the second area is less than a second predetermined amount of time; and based at least in part on determining that the duration of time in which the gaming device is permitted to be activated is less than the first predetermined amount of time and determining that the duration of time between the user leaving the first area to the second area and returning to the first area from the second area is less than the second predetermined amount of time, permit the user, upon returning to the first area from the second area, to engage in the at least one activity via the gaming device without requiring an identity verification by the user.