Appeal No. 2005-1664
Application 09/878,111
whether the machine with a player tracking card has a maximum bet
placed within the )T time frame, which broadly constitutes
"monitoring the level of play of a player" at that particular
machine, where the "level of play" is both the amount of the bet
and the occurrence of a bet within the )T time frame (the speed
of play). Since the player inherently has the capability of
removing the player tracking card from one machine and going to
another machine, the system will monitor the level of play at a
machine when the player has moved to another machine. However,
we agree with appellant that Olsen does not monitor the level of
play of the player on multiple machines. The system in Olsen
monitors the level of play on a particular machine, which
indirectly monitors the level of play of the player at that
machine: there is no teaching of keeping track of the level of
play of the player on multiple machines, i.e., as the player
moves from machine to machine. Therefore, the rejection of
claims 49 and 57, and their dependent claims 54-56 and 58-61,
must be reversed.
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