Patent ID: 8494939

Claim:
A method for corroborating a gaming machine jackpot payment, comprising: generating a jackpot winning signal by a gaming machine corresponding to a jackpot won by a player of the gaming machine, said jackpot winning signal including an amount of a jackpot value; determining a jackpot payment user authorization via a jackpot server, i) by identifying a jackpot payment user by comparing a jackpot user identification code entered at the gaming machine to a stored jackpot payment user identification code; ii) determining whether there is jackpot manual payment permission associated with said jackpot payment user; and if the jackpot payment user does not have an associated jackpot manual payment permission generating a jackpot manual payment permission request for the jackpot payment user; electronically corroborating the amount of the jackpot value of said jackpot winning signal by comparing the amount of the jackpot value of said jackpot winning signal to an amount of a jackpot manual witness payment value via the jackpot server, wherein the jackpot manual witness payment value is a selectable value on the server; declining to authorize the jackpot payment user to credit the jackpot value to the winning player if the amount of the jackpot value of said jackpot winning signal is greater than the amount of the jackpot manual witness payment value; or verifying the jackpot value if the amount of the jackpot value of said jackpot winning signal is equal to the amount of the jackpot manual witness payment value; determining whether authorization was granted as a result of the jackpot manual payment permission request to pay the jackpot value to the player without the requirement for a human jackpot payment corroborating witness; and if such authorization was granted; authorizing the jackpot payment user to credit the jackpot value to the winning player without a human jackpot payment corroborating witness if: the amount of the jackpot value of said jackpot winning signal is equal to the amount of the jackpot manual witness payment value; the jackpot user identification code matches the stored jackpot payment user identification code; and the associated jackpot manual payment permission exists or authorization was granted as the result of the jackpot manual payment permission request; and creating a jackpot transaction record at the jackpot server indicating authorization of a transfer of the jackpot value without a human jackpot payment corroborating witness including printing a jackpot payment transaction receipt having indicia indicating that authorization was granted without the requirement for a human jackpot payment corroborating witness.