US 11,810,431 B2
Method for administering a package of shuffled playing cards
Yasushi Shigeta, Shiga (JP)
Assigned to ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD., Shiga (JP)
Filed by ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD., Shiga (JP)
Filed on Oct. 25, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/509,511.
Application 17/509,511 is a continuation of application No. 16/923,902, filed on Jul. 8, 2020, granted, now 11,210,908.
Application 16/923,902 is a continuation of application No. 16/451,700, filed on Jun. 25, 2019, granted, now 10,755,532, issued on Aug. 25, 2020.
Application 16/451,700 is a continuation of application No. 15/788,356, filed on Oct. 19, 2017, granted, now 10,546,465, issued on Jan. 28, 2020.
Application 15/788,356 is a continuation of application No. 14/455,241, filed on Aug. 8, 2014, granted, now 10,553,078, issued on Feb. 4, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2013213710 (AU), filed on Aug. 8, 2013; and application No. 2014201757 (AU), filed on Mar. 24, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2022/0122427 A1, Apr. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. A63F 13/56 (2014.01); G07F 17/32 (2006.01); A63F 1/06 (2006.01); A63F 1/18 (2006.01); A63F 9/24 (2006.01); A63F 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC G07F 17/3293 (2013.01) [A63F 1/062 (2013.01); A63F 1/18 (2013.01); G07F 17/322 (2013.01); G07F 17/3241 (2013.01); A63F 3/00157 (2013.01); A63F 2009/2419 (2013.01); A63F 2009/2489 (2013.01); A63F 2250/58 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A management system for managing gaming equipment, wherein a plurality of the gaming equipment is of a same type, and the gaming equipment has respective radio frequency identification (RFID) tags storing respective IDs that distinguish the plurality of the gaming equipment of the same type from one another, and a casino has a storage location where the gaming equipment is stored and a use location where the gaming equipment is used at a gaming table, the management system comprising:
a plurality of RFID readers, that include at least one first reader in the storage location and at least one second reader in the use location, configured to read the IDs from the RFID tags of the gaming equipment; and
a management control device, wherein:
the management control device is configured to manage movement of the gaming equipment between the storage location and the use location; and
the management of the movement includes determining whether the IDs read by the RFID reader at the storage location matches the IDs read by the RFID reader at the use location.