US 12,272,210 B2
Systems and methods for administration of non-wagering account associated with multiple gaming environments
Kirk E. Sanford, Las Vegas, NV (US); Thomas M. Sears, Henderson, NV (US); and Omer Sattar, Las Vegas, NV (US)
Assigned to Sightline Payments LLC, Las Vegas, NV (US)
Filed by SIGHTLINE PAYMENTS LLC, Las Vegas, NV (US)
Filed on Apr. 12, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/227,796.
Application 17/227,796 is a continuation of application No. 15/015,605, filed on Feb. 4, 2016, granted, now 11,004,305.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/111,722, filed on Feb. 4, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2021/0233352 A1, Jul. 29, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G07F 17/32 (2006.01); G06Q 20/02 (2012.01); G06Q 20/10 (2012.01); G06Q 20/22 (2012.01)
CPC G07F 17/3241 (2013.01) [G07F 17/3244 (2013.01); G06Q 20/027 (2013.01); G06Q 20/10 (2013.01); G06Q 20/227 (2013.01); G07F 17/3246 (2013.01); G07F 17/3248 (2013.01); G07F 17/3251 (2013.01); G07F 17/3255 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-based method, the method performed by one or more computing devices the method comprising:
subsequent to an enrolling of a player into loyalty programs of each of a plurality of gaming environments, receiving a player identifier for the player, wherein each of the plurality of gaming environments respectively has an associated gaming account, wherein the gaming account of each respective gaming environment has a balance that is maintained by a casino computing system of the gaming environment, wherein the player identifier is a unique player identifier issued to the player and associated with the loyalty program of a current gaming environment and the gaming account of the current gaming environment;
based at least partially on the player identifier, identifying a stored value account of the player, wherein funds held by the stored value account are maintained by an issuer processor computing system and are associated with an open-loop stored value payment vehicle and are separately usable in payment transactions at one or more merchants external to the plurality of gaming environments via an open-loop payment network, wherein the funds held in the stored value account can be selectively transferred to any of the plurality of gaming accounts maintained by the respective casino computing systems of any of the plurality of different gaming environments through secured direct communication links established by a transaction facilitator, wherein enrollment of the player into the loyalty program at each of the gaming environments associates the player with a unique player identifier for each of the gaming environments, wherein each of the unique player identifiers is exclusively mapped to and linked to the same stored value account maintained by the issuer processor computing system via a master identifier mapping maintained by the transaction facilitator, wherein the plurality of gaming environments is an alliance of gaming environments that are each affiliated with the stored value account through the transaction facilitator, and wherein the plurality of gaming environments comprises the current gaming environment;
receiving a funding instruction through the transaction facilitator, wherein the funding instruction does not identify the stored value account, and wherein the funding instruction identifies a balance amount to be transferred from the stored valued account to the gaming account of the current gaming environment maintained by the casino computing system of the gaming environment; and
causing a decrease of a balance of the stored value account and an increase of the balance of the gaming account of the current gaming environment maintained by the casino computing system of the gaming environment via secured closed-loop transactions facilitated through the transaction facilitator.