Patent ID: 7341516

Claim:
A method of providing an incentive program with a plurality of gaming devices, comprising the steps of: accepting a secure memory device in a terminal communicatively coupled to one of the plurality of gaming devices; wherein the secure memory device is issued to a member of the incentive program, the memory device having a secure memory for storing and retrieving tamperproof customer incentive information and a customer-unique identifier; wherein the terminal exchanges information between the memory device and the one of the plurality of gaming devices; wherein the plurality of gaming devices includes at least a subset of gaming devices that are communicatively isolated from any entity communicatively connected with any of the other of the plurality of gaming devices; collecting information describing member-related gaming device activity; securely transmitting the information regarding the member-related gaming device activity to the memory device for storage in the secure memory; accepting the memory device in a second terminal communicatively coupled to a second one of the plurality of gaming devices wherein the second terminal exchanges information between the memory device and the second gaming device; receiving a request in the second terminal to issue an incentive based on the member-related gaming device activity; and providing the incentive based only on information retrieved from the memory device accepted in the second terminal.