Appeal No. 2005-1664
Application 09/878,111
are played, and the status of a player at one of the machines
(spec. at 8, lines 8-24). One aspect of the player status
relates to the level of player play and one aspect of the level
of player play includes the rate of play (spec. at 8,
lines 22-24). "The casino can therefore identify players based
on previous or current rates of play and vary the wager per unit
time for that player accordingly." (Spec. at 3, lines 28-30.)
We interpret "monitoring the level of play of a player on
multiple gaming machines" to mean monitoring the level of play of
a player as the player plays multiple machines in sequence.
Olsen teaches the use of a player tracking card (col. 12,
lines 48-53); this is the only mention of a player tracking card.
Olsen teaches that "the eligible players could be required to
always place maximum bets and should other than a maximum bet be
placed the right to continued participation in the bonus mode
would be lost" (col. 12, lines 36-39); that "[e]ligibility [for
the bonus mode] can be based upon other conventional conditions
at the gaming machine such as the insertion of a player tracking
card, in which case eligibility is lost when the card is removed"
(col. 12, lines 48-52); and that "[e]ligibility could also be
determined by requiring all players bet maximum bets during the
)T time frame (col. 12, lines 53-55). The player tracking card
and maximum bet are conditions for eligibility in addition to
playing within the )T time period. The system must monitor
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