Direction interfaces and services on a gaming machine

Abstract

A disclosed a player tracking unit provides a touch screen display with a touch screen controller integrated into the touch screen sensor assembly. Game service interfaces may be presented on the touch screen display that allow a user to obtain one or more game services. With the touch screen sensor, a user may navigate through the game service interface and supply information required to obtain a game service. Types of interfaces provided with the gaming machine include a directions interface for directing the player to a location of interest and providing status information regarding services at a location of interest.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. Patent Application No. 09 / 957,742 entitled “POINT OF PLAY REGISTRATION ON A GAMING MACHINE,” filed Sep. 20, 2001, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety for all purposes. [0002] This application is related to U.S. Patent Application No. 09 / 961,051, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,712,698, entitled “GAME SERVICE INTERFACES FOR PLAYER TRACKING TOUCH SCREEN DISPLAY,” filed Sep. 20, 2001, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety for all purposes. [0003] This application is related U.S. Patent Application No. ______ (IGT1P211) filed on the same day as this application, by Nguyen, et al, and titled “Harm Minimization Interfaces and Services on a Gaming Machine,” which is incorporated herein in its entirety and for all purposes. [0004] This application is related U.S. Patent Application No. ______, (IGT1P181X1) filed on the same day as this application, by Nguyen, et al...

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Benefits of technology

[0016] In particular embodiments, the one or more game play limits may be selected from the group consisting of a time limit, a wager limit, an amount won, an amount lost, an amount banked, a number of games played, a rate of game play, a number of games where a win has occurred and a number of games where a loss has occurred. The one or more game play limits may be set by the player, a gaming machine operator, a gaming regulatory entity or combinations thereof. In response to one or more of the game play limits being exceeded one or more of the following steps may be taken on the gaming machine: 1) a message may be displayed on the gaming machine where the message is in one of a textual format, a graphical format, an audio format, a video format or combinations thereof, 2) the gaming machine may prevent the player from playing additional games, such as by initiating a cash-out sequence on the gaming machine, 3) a quality of a presentation on the gaming machine may be degraded to discourage additional game play on the gaming machine, 4) a maximum wager amount for the game of chance is decreased, 5) the player may be prevented from making a wager for an amount of time and 6) a rate at which the game of chance is presented may be decreased.

Problems solved by technology

Thus, a disadvantage of current player tracking units is that the player interface is not necessarily suited for providing increasingly complex and diverse gaming services to game players that are customized to an individual player's preferences.

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