Patent ID: 7470191

Claim:
A responsible gaming system for enrolling users with a gaming network and ensuring that all users are uniquely and anonymously registered users prior to enabling each user access to a gaming device, the responsible gaming system also for monitoring gaming restrictions associated with a user, the responsible gaming system comprising: a central administrative system (CAS) for receiving and verifying the uniqueness of biometric information received from a user, the CAS having a central database for storing coded biometric data from multiple users wherein personal identifying information including any one of or a combination of the user name, address, or age is not associated with the coded biometric information of a user on the central database and wherein no personal identifying information can be determined from the coded biometric information, the CAS also for monitoring gaming restrictions associated with a user; at least one biometric enrolment system operatively connected to the CAS for receiving and coding biometric information from a user at a remote location for submission to the CAS, the biometric system requiring all users to register with the gaming system prior to being able to access at least one gaming device and said biometric enrolment system also being arranged for receiving verification from the CAS of the uniqueness of the biometric data of a user and providing a gaming system registration ID if the biometric information is verified as unique; at least one gaming device operatively connected to the CAS for providing gaming to a user, the gaming device operative to a user only upon user entry of the registration ID and verification from the CAS that no gaming restrictions are associated with the user registration ID; and, a system account operatively connected to the CAS having financial account information for each user of the system relating to the user's gaming activity and wherein a user's financial account information is accessible to a user from a gaming device.