Patent ID: 7753779

Claim:
A radio frequency (RF) gaming chip communication system, comprising: a first gaming chip; a processor-readable memory carried by the first gaming chip gaming chip and configured to store chip information and instructions; a first antenna carried by the first gaming chip, communicatively coupled to the processor-readable memory, that receives a first radio frequency (RF) signal that comprises at least previous stack information from a second gaming chip, wherein the at least previous stack information corresponds to at least a portion of respective chip information of the second gaming chip; and a second antenna carried by the first gaming chip that communicates a second RF signal that comprises current stack chip information; and a processing system having at least one processor carried by the first gaming chip and communicatively coupled to the processor-readable memory and to the first and the second antennas, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to: generate current stack information based at least on a combination of at least a portion of the previous stack information and at least a portion of the chip information, provide the second antenna with the second RF signal, and provide the first antenna with an RF acknowledgement signal in response to receipt by the first antenna of the first RF signal, wherein the first antenna communicates an RF acknowledgement signal to the second gaming chip that transmitted the first RF signal; and wherein the first antenna has a communication range and the second antenna have co-extensive communication ranges.