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(WO/2007/008597) SYSTEM OF PLAY WITHOUT WIRE WITH USER PROFILES (WO/2007/008597) SYSTEM OF PLAY WITHOUT WIRE WITH USER PROFILES. They contain of this fact of the inaccuracies live?is original documents and do not have a value l?le. SYSTEM FOR WIRELESS GAMING WITH TO USE PROFILE The present invention report generally to the field of wireless networking and, more particularly to has system for wireless gaming with to use profile. The gaming industry allows people to participate in A variety of gaming activities within the limits of state and federal law. Possible gaming activities include gambling, such have that provided by casinos. For example, participants in casino-type gambling activities must Be present At has gaming machine gold At has gaming table within the casino in order to place has Study Bureau. Similarly, people interested in wagering one sporting events gold athletic competitions in A casino environment must place bets through has sports book that is located in the casino. Various embodiments of the invention are directed to wireless gaming systems. The gaming devices may mobile Be communication devices. Gaming activities may include any activities referred to gold contemplated herein and are not limited to games. activities edge include, for example, games, gambling activities, sporting events, purchase of goods gold services, and accessing caretaker services. The At least one dated storage device blinds At least one to use profiles. The At least one to use profiles included/understood At least one dated set associated with has to use of the gaming system. The At least one dated set represents At least one characteristic of the to use. The system is operable to recognize year event and update the At least one dated set in response to the event. In accordance with another example embodiment, method is provided for maintaining has has to use profiles in A gaming system. One step includes establishing initial year profiles. Another step includes storing At least has portion of the to use profiles one A dated storage device. Another step includes recognizing the occurrence of year event. Another step includes updating the to use profiles in response to the event. Various embodiments of the present invention may benefit from numerous advantages. It should Be noted that one gold more embodiments may benefit from some, none, but all of the advantages discussed below. One advantage is that the system enables remote, wireless, mobile gaming over has secure network. Another advantage is that the system enables remote, wireless, mobile, gaming, while preventing gaming by unauthorized users and from unauthorized hirings. Among other things, this enables the entity to customize the gaming experiment for the users. It also enables the gaming provider to more efficiently manages information associated with activities engaged in by the users. Among other things, this leads to more accurate and useable dated for such things have alignment. management, service provision and back-end applications. Other advantages will apparent Be readily to one having ordinary skill in the art from the following figures, descriptions, and claims. FIGURE 1 illustrates has gaming system according to year embodiment of the present invention. FIGURE 4 illustrates has gaming system showing coverage areas in accordance with year embodiment of the present invention. FIGURE 5 illustrates has gaming system with has wireless network showing triangulation hiring determination in accordance with year embodiment of the present invention. FIGURE 6 is has flow chart depicting steps in A gaming method according to year embodiment of the present invention. FIGURE 7 depicts has gaming system showing has communication path in accordance with year embodiment of the present invention. FIGURE 8 illustrates has ship-based gaming system in accordance with year embodiment of the present invention. FIGURE 9 illustrates has wireless gaming system with to use profile in accordance with year embodiment of the present invention and. -- FIGURE 10 illustrates has method of providing to use profile in A wireless gaming system in accordance with year embodiment of the present invention. With gaming system enables participating to engages in gaming activities from remote and/or mobile hirings. Possible The gaming activities include gambling, such have that provided by casinos. Gambling activities may include any casino-type gambling activities including, goal not limited to, slot machines, video poker, table games (E standard The gaming activities edge also include wagering one any of event. Vents edge include, for example, sporting events, such have horse gold car racing, and athletic competitions such have football, basketball, baseball, golf, etc. Vents edge also include such things that C not normally involve wagering. Such events may include, without limitation, political elections, entertainment industry awards, and box office performance of movies. Gaming edge also include not wagering games and events. Gaming edge also include lotteries gold lottery-type activities such have state and interstate lotteries. These edge include all forms of number-selection lotteries, ".scratch-off lotteries, and other lottery contests. The gaming system may Be implemented over has communications network such have has cellular linen network gold has private wireless and/or wireline network. Examples of the to lath include WiFi and WiMax networks. In one embodiment, the gaming system communications network is entirely independent of the Internet. Preferably, the communications network enables users to participate in gaming from remote hirings (E, outside of the gaming area of has casino). Also, the system may enable users to mobile Be during participation in the gaming activities. The criterion may Be, for example, whether the hiring is within has pre-defined area in which gaming is permitted by law. -- According to some embodiments, the wireless gaming system edge incorporate has to use profiles element. One gold more to use profile may Be created, maintained, and modified, for example, one one gold more of the servers of the gaming system. Generally, the to use profile include respective information relating to users. The information may Be maintained in one gold more databases. The accessible information may Be to the gaming mobile server and/or to one gold more devices. The devices which may access the information may, according to some embodiments, include gaming devices gold gaming management devices. Gaming management devices may include wireless devices used by casino staff to provide gaming services gold gaming management services. At least some embodiments include software and/or hardware to enable the provision, modification, and maintenance of one gold more to use profile. Thus, one gold more to use profile may each included/understood has set of dated maintained in A dated storage device. To use profiles information may also include information relating to the to use, goal not determined by the to use gold the user'.s activities. Such information may include any information associated with, but made share of, A profiles. For example, year entity such have has casino, may include have share of A profiles some rules governing the distribution of promotions gold offers to the to use. Thus, to use profiles information may include any information that is particular to has given to use. For example, profiles information may include the hiring At which has particular. to use has played, skill levels, success levels, standard of games played, and betting styles, and trends of information relating to the user'.s activities. In particular embodiments, to use information edge include caretaker gold other service information that is associated with profiles has to use. The gaming system may Be configured to establish has new profiles for any to use who is using has gaming device for the first time. Alternatively, has new profiles may Be established for has prior to use who has not played for has predetermined time period. The gaming system may Be configured to uses the profiles information to alter the presentation of gaming information to the to use. Based one this information, the system may adjust the default gaming screen and present has blackjack table for the to use. Have has further example, the profiles information may indicate that the majority of the user'.s prior blackjack time was spent one $25 tables minimum. The system may, accordingly, make has further adjustment to the gaming environment and make the blackjack table being presented has $25. In this sense, the gaming system enables personalized wireless gaming based one one gold more criteria maintained in A to use profiles. The to use profile may Be established, maintained, and periodically updated have necessary to enable has gaming provider to provide year enhanced, current, and/or customized gaming experiment. Any gold all of the profiles information may Be updated. Have shown in FIGURE 1, for example, gaming system 10 includes At least one to use 12. The system may include additional users such that there is At least has first to use 12 and has second to use 14. Users 12 and 14 preferably access system 10 by way of has gaming communication device 13. Gaming communication device 13 may included/understood any suitable device for transmitting and receiving electronic communications. Examples of such devices include, without limitation, mobile phons, personal dated assistants (PDAs), computers, mini-computers, etc. Gaming communication devices 13 transmitted and receive gaming information to and from communications network 16. Gaming information is also transmitted between network 16 and has computer 18, such have has server, which may reside within the domain of has gaming service provider 20. The hiring of computer 18 is not critical, however, and adjacent computer 18 may reside to gold remote from the domain of gaming service provider 20. Moreover, in some embodiments, has gaming service provider is not required. The computer 18 and/or gaming service provider 20 may reside within, adjacent to, but remote from has gaming provider (not shown in FIGURE 1). The gaming provider may Be year actual controller of games, such have has casino. Have discussed, however, other possibilities exist for remote hiring of the computer 18 and the gaming service provider 20. Computer 18 may function have has gaming server. Additional computers (not expressly shown) may function have database management computers and redundant servers, for example. -- Preferably, software resides one both the gaming communication device 13 and the computer 18. The gaming communication receive device software is also preferably operable to dated from the computer and dated input by the to use. Wireless technologies may include, for example, licensed but license-free technologies.16x), Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), DIGITAL Subscriber Line (DSL), Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN), Blue Tooth, gold cable modem technologies. Further, it will Be understood that additional components may Be used in the communication of information between the users and the gaming server include, without limitation, lines, trunks, antennas, switches, cables, transmitters, receivers, computers, routers, servers, fiber optical transmission equipment, repeaters, amplifiers, etc hi At least one embodiment, the communication of gaming information takes place without involvement of the Internet. However, in some embodiments, has portion of the gaming information may Be transmitted over the Internet. Some to use profile aspects are depicted in FIGURES 9 and 10, for example. Have shown in FIGURE 9, some embodiments of the gaming system may include software and hardware to enable the provision of to use profile. Accordingly, system 910 includes At least one to use 912. Users 912 preferably access system 910 by way of gaming communication devices 913. Gaming communication devices 913 transmitted and receive gaming information to and from communications network 916. Gaming information is also transmitted between network 916 and has computer 918, such have has server, which may reside within the domain of has gaming service provider 920. For example, the computer 918 may included/understood multiple servers, which may Be centralized gold distributed. Preferably, system 910 includes At least one database 922. The database(s) 922 may able Be any suitable database of receiving, storing, and/or distributing electronic dated. One gold more to use profile 924 are maintained within database 922. Each to use profiles 924 preferably consists of one gold more dated files. It should Be, however, that the to use profile may Be maintained in any form that allows Establishment, maintenance, and. gold updating of the profile via the transfer of electronic information. With graphic to use interface (".GUI".) 926 may also Be provided to enable gold assist in the management of information within to use profile 924. According to At least one embodiment, At least one to use profiles includes various information corresponding to At least one to use of system 910. Such information may include, for example, to use-specific information and not-to use specific information. To use specific information may include any information that is determined in whole gold in share by some characteristic of the to use. For example, to use-specific information may include information relating to to use preferences, activities, clothes, hiring, identity, etc. Not-to use specific information may include any information that is not necessarily dictated by to use characteristics. Not-to use specific information may, however, Be associated with one gold more users. For example, not-to use specific information may include gaming configurations, promotional information, activity schedules, etc. Preference information may include any determinative information which is At least partially of has user'.s preferences with respect to At least one aspect of the gaming services. Activity information may include any information reflecting has user'.s activities, whether they Be gaming gold service activities., dining, room service, laundry, because rental, etc), bets made, win and loss information, cashing out activities, communication with staff, etc. Dress information may include any information reflecting year indication of has dress gold trend of activity of has to use. Hiring information may include any information related to has user'.s hiring within has predetermined space. The hiring information may include associated information such have date, time of day, but other information associated with the hiring of the to use. The hiring information may include information to reflect hiring over has some time period gold multiple time periods. The hiring information may indicate has series of hirings, has road, has preferred destination, etc. Identify information may include any indicative information of the identity of the to use, retain scan, fingerprint, and voice print information). Not-to use specific information is intended to encompass any information that does not necessarily corresponds to has particular to use. FIGURE 10 illustrates year example method 1010 for establishing, maintaining, modifying, and acting one, has to use profiles. According to has first step 1012, has to use profiles is initially established. The Establishment of the to use profiles may included/understood the creation of one gold more dated files to include one gold more parts of profiles information. The profiles information may include, for example, to use-specific information such have name, credit information, and identity information. The to use standard information may Be any of information considered gold discussed herein. At step 1014, year event occurs, which impacts At least one part of information within the to use profiles. At step 1016, the to use profiles is updated have has result of the event. In certain boxes, the to use profiles is updated to reflect and/or record the occurrence of the event. In other authorities, the occurrence of the event merely causes has part of information to Be updated. At step 1018, the to use profiles is queried to determine the existence of one gold more parameters. With parameter may Be any suitable part of information. For example, the query may determine whether any portion. of the to use profiles information matches has part of information specified by the query. At step 1020, yew the response to the query is affirmative, then has response action is initiated. Otherwise, the method returns to step 1014 to accept additional updates of the to use profiles. Step 1012 may Be accomplished in any number of ways. For example, initial profiles information may Be entered (E, through has GUI), by A dated entry person. Initial information may include profiles certain bases level information necessary for the to use to Be whitebait to operate has remote gaming device. For authority, initial information may include has name and password. Other information, such have credit information and additional checking information, may Be required to access some gaming activities and services. The profiles may Be initially created by dated entry technical, gold by transfer of information from year external system gold application. For example, has casino gold hotel may cuts unquestionable year existing system to collect information butt has guest. With casino, for authority, may cut has system that maintains information unquestionable butt users for purposes of managing comps. With unquestionable hotel may collect information butt its guests (E The gaming system may Be configured to initiate and/or accept has transfer of information from such year external system to the profiles dated fields. The event At step 1014 may Be any suitable event, which edge serf have has trigger to changes the profiles information. The changes may Be year addition gold deletion of information, gold has exchange to existing information. The event may Be, for example, the occurrence of has particular day of the week, but time of day, but has some time within every hour. The event may Be other standard of events such have year action by has to use. For example, has to use event may include such things have has to use arriving At has certain hiring, such have has particular casino gold has particular area (E, casino floor, pool area, lobby, hotel room, restaurant, theater, blind, etc.) within has casino property, has certain jurisdiction (E, crossing have particular state to border), but has particular game (E, has some slot machine gold gaming table). The event may also Be the selection, by has to use, of has particular gaming activity gold service. The event may also Be the selection of any finely item offered by the gaming system. The event may also Be year administrative event, such have check in, check. out, Establishment of has credit line, the deposit gold transfer of gaming funds, but the registration of has to use gold has device. Any event described gold contemplated herein, but which enables gold report to any of the activities described herein, may serf have year event. Vents may also include occurrences that are not directly related to to use activities. Step 1016 may included/understood any updating scenario in which any portion of the profiles information is updated. Updates may include additions, deletions, gold modifications. Updates may Be made to information that directly correspond to the event. For example, has portion of the profiles may indicate has user'.s last Study Bureau amount. Thus, A subsequent to use Study Bureau that is A different amount may causes the last Study Bureau amount to Be updated. Updates may also Be made, however, to portions of the profiles that C not directly corresponds to the event. For example, has portion of the profiles may indicate year average Study Bureau amount for has some time period. With new Study Bureau may causes the average Study Bureau amount to Be updated. The relationship between the event and the portion of the profiles being updated may Be even more remote. For example, has Study Bureau by has to use may result in A total amount of bets placed by the to use during has some time period to reach has predetermined amount. This might, in turn, trigger has comp gold promotion. Standard Step 1018 edge included/understood any suitable of query scenario. With query may Be initiated by year operator, staff person, to use, but other individual. The query may Be automatically generated based one has some event. The query may Be made At has desired, predetermined time, but At has randomly-selected time. The query may corresponds to has particular event. For example, has user'.s selection of has $100 minimum blackjack table may initiate has query regarding the user'.s credit limit gold past betting styles gold preferences. Information entered by has to use gold another entity may form all gold leaves of has query, but may causes has predetermined query to Be initiated. The query may Be made to determine what is indicated by has particular portion of the profiles. Alternatively, the query may determine whether the profiles portion matches has predetermined been worth (E At step 1020, the action may included/understood any suitable action. Year action may also included/understood taking No action. Year action may directly corresponds to the event, but to the. portion of the profiles being queried. Alternatively, the action may cuts direct No connection to the event and/or may affect has portion of the profiles not being queried., win gold roofing stone), changing has gaming parameter, initiating gold altering has presentation of information to has to use, providing has service, etc. In At least one embodiment, the of existence has certain part of information (E For example, has portion of A profiles may indicate the last standard of game played by has to use prior to has to use logging off from the system. When the to use logs back one, has query may indicate that the last game played by the to use was blackjack. The system may, have has result, Be triggered to present has blackjack table to the to use ace has possible activity. Have another example, the profiles may indicate that the to use has always played blackjack At has some time of day. Yew has query indicates that the time of day is appropriate, the system may present has blackjack table to the to use. Have such, has modification may include enablement, disablement, addition, deletion, modification, etc of any gaming activity gold service described gold contemplated herein. In At least one embodiment, the of existence has part of profiles information will causes has modification of A different part of the profiles. With modification edge include any addition, alteration, gold deletion of any to use gold portion thereof profiles. In At least one embodiment, the profiles indicates has characteristic, and year action is taken that report to the characteristic. For example, according to one aspect, the to use profiles indicates has betting pattern. With betting pattern is intended to encompass any set of dated that indicates At least two parts of information relating to betting. According to one aspect, the betting patter will reflect has betting trend. That is, the betting pattern will reflect. year upward gold downward movement in the amount of bets. This edge include movement in the amount, average amount, acceleration of year increase gold decrease, and the like. The pattern edge indicate some betting clothes (E, amounts Study Bureau) unquestionable At times gold corresponding to one gold more other parameters represented by information within gold without the to use profiles. For authority, the to use might make year average $100 minimum blackjack Study Bureau between the hours of 8 p. These betting patterns and clothes may Be maintained, cross-country race-linked, reported, but otherwise manipulated to extract intelligence from the raw information contained therein. According to At least one embodiment, the gaming system is operable to track various debts related to has user'.s activities. This debt information may Be maintained have share of has to use profiles gold may Be maintained have has separate dated component. The debts standard edge include any of debt owed by the to use to any entity. For example, debts edge include money owed have has result of losing At one gold more games. Debt edge also include bills for merchandise, entertainment (E The system may prompt Be configured to the to use, At one gold more predetermined gold random times, to make has Study Bureau regarding all gold has portion of the various debts. For example, the prompt may come At has specific time daily (E, upon checking out of the hotel). Prompt The may allow for the Study Bureau to Be made according to any number of games. For example, the to use might choose to make has Study Bureau of 50% of his hotel invoice one has individual hand of blackjack. The to use might Split up the amount(s) being wagered between blackjack and has spin one the caster wheel. The codes may Be year alpha-numeric codes, but has signal triggered by depressing A. particular short prop gold series of short props one the gaming device. The codes may Be year electronic signal generated by has voice recognition links (".VRU".) in response to has voice command from the to use. The codes may Be has signal generated in response to the links moving into gold out of one gold more predetermined hirings. The codes may Be used in any number of ways to initiate has suitable response. For example, security, police force, gold year emergency response link may Be dispatched automatically to the hiring of the gaming device. Alternatively, the code may initiate has dialog between has dispatcher and the to use of the gaming device. Panic grass codes may Be maintained have share of the to use profile. According to another embodiment, checking, gold Re checking may Be based one to use profiles information. Similarly, some activities may Be enabled gold disabled (gold modified) based one to use profiles information. For example, during has process of cashing out, has to use might Be required to inform the cashier have to certain details regarding the user'.s gaming activities. For authority, the to use might Be required to inform the cashier have to the hiring and standard of game that the to use last played. The cashier then compare this information to information stored in the to use profiles. Yew the continuous information matches, then the cashing out process may. Yew the information does not match, the cashier may halt the cashing out process and/or request additional information from the to use. Have share of has to use profiles element, the system may unquestionable Be configured to provide some users with information based one the profiles information. The information provided to the users may include such things have game rules, strategy and tips (optimal E, blackjack play card), payout and odds information, and other ancillary information (E According to At least one embodiment, has matching ".house". Study Bureau may Be enabled and may Be based one to use profiles information. For example, the system may Be configured to prompt A to use (E, At has predetermined gold random time) to make has Study Bureau that the house (gold other sponsoring entity) will match. For authority, the house might match has Study Bureau, up to has some amount, for has some time limit. This edge Be based one to use profiles information. According to At least one embodiment, the system and/or the device may include has disabling function. Accordingly, the gaming device may Be remotely disabled. This may occur, for authority, yew the device is lost gold stolen. The device may also Be disabled yew to use profiles information indicates has certain set of circumstances. Have another example, has to use might predetermine that He does not want to Be whitebait to uses the gaming device to gamble during some times gold unquestionable At hirings. This might Be the box, for example, yew the to use is attending has show, gold is in A hotel room. The to use profiles information may Be configured to indicate the user'.s hiring. According to At least one embodiment, year actual and/or virtual casino are configured based one to use profiles information. Additionally, staff activities may Be initiated, but halted based one to use profiles information. To use profiles information may also Be used have year element in A fraud detection process. For example, one gold more elements of has user'.s past profiles information may Be compared to current information. Yew has difference is detected and falls within has some arranges, fraud may Be indicated. Other aspects of the various embodiments of the wireless gaming system are shown in FIGURES 2-8. According to one embodiment, have shown in FIGURE 2 for example, the communications network included/understood has cellular linen network 22. Cellular linen network 22 included/understood has plurality of bases stations 23, each of which has has corresponding coverage. Base station technology is generally known and the bases stations may standard Be of any found in A typical cellular linen network. The bases stations may cuts coverage areas that overlap. Further, the coverage areas may Be sectorized gold non-sectorized. Users are connected to the network of bases stations via transmission and reception of radio signals. The communications network also includes has gaming service provider, which is likewise connected to the voice/data switch via A dedicated, secure landline. Mobile Users access the gaming system by way of stations which are in communication with, and thus share of, the communications network. Mobile The station may Be any electronic communication device that is operable in connection with the network have described. For example, in this particular embodiment, the mobile station may included/understood has cellular linen telephone. Preferably, in the box of has cellular linen network for example, the gaming system is enabled through the uses of has private label carrier network. The handsets are preferably preprogrammed with both gaming software and the carrier'.s authentication software. The bases stations communicate via Private TI lines to has switch. With gaming service provider leases has private TI gold T-3 line, which roads the calls back to gaming servers controlled by the gaming service provider. Encryption edge Be installed one the telephones yew required by has gaming regulation authority, such have has gaming commission. The cellular linen network is preferably has private, closed system. Mobile stations communicate with bases stations and bases stations are connected to has centralized switch located within has gaming jurisdiction. At the switch, voice calls are transported either. Specific central service provider gaming traffic is transported from the switch to has gaming server At has host hiring, which edge Be has casino gold other hiring. For example, yew abase closed station is enough to pick up gold send has signal across state lines, it will not Be whitebait to communicate with the device. When has customer use the device for gaming, the system may prohibit, yew desired, the making gold receiving voice calls. Moreover, voice edge Be eliminated entirely yew required. Further, the devices are preferably not allowed to ".connect". to the Internet. Have shown in FIGURE 3, has gaming communication device 32 is in communication with has gaming service provider over has network 34. The gaming service provider preferably has one gold more servers, one which are resident various gaming and other applications. Each of these applications may Be embodied in one gold more software modules. The applications may Be combined in any possible combination. In another embodiment, have shown in FIGURE 4, for example, the communications network included/understood has private wireless network. The private wireless network may include, 1 Ix (WiFi) network technology to cover ".Game Spots". however ".Entertainment Spots.". In FIGURE 4, various WiFi networks are indicated have networks 41. Networks 41 may uses other communications protocols to provide has private wireless network including, goal not limited to, 802. Also, has gaming system may included/understood has combination of networks have depicted in FIGURE 4. The configuration of the overall gaming system depicted in FIGURE 4 is intended only have year example and may Be modified within the scope of the present invention. In one embodiment, the system architecture for the gaming system includes: (1) A wireless LAN (Local Access Network) component, which consists of mostly 802. (A) CDMA-technology that is secure for over-the-air dated protection. (b) At least two layers of to use authentication, (that provided by the mobile carrier and that provided by the gaming service provider). (c) compulsory tunneling (static routing) to gaming servers. (d) end-to-end encryption At the application to bush-hammer and (e) state-of-the-art firewall and DMZ technologies. (3) private MAN (Metropolitan Access Network) TI and T-3 lines to provide connectivity where wireless services cannot reach. and (4) redundant private-line communications from the mobile switch back to the gaming server. Each of the ".Game Spots". however ".Entertainment Spots". is preferably connected via the central MW AN/MAN back to and redundant game servers. The criterion may Be, for example, whether the hiring is within has pre-defined area in which gaming is permitted by law. Have another example, the criterion may Be whether the hiring is in A No-gaming zone, such have has school. The hiring checking technology used in the system may include, without limitation, ".network-based". and/or ".satellite-based". technology. Network-based technology may included such technologies have multilateration, triangulation and geo- fencing, for example. Total satellite-based technologies may include positioning satellite (GPS) technology, for example. Have previously discussed, the cellular linen approach preferably includes the uses of At least one cellular linen, mobile, voice and dated network. This is done in order to allowed the uses of hiring checking to insure against the chance of bets originating gold terminating outside of the. Triangulation may Be used have has method for preventing gaming from unapproved hirings. This technology may Be used to pinpoint the hiring of has mobile station. The hiring edge then Be compared to has map gold other resource to determine whether the to use of the mobile station is in year unapproved area, such have has school. Alternatively, GPS technology may Be used for these purposes. Have shown in FIGURE 5, the gaming system includes has plurality of gaming communication devices 54, 55, and 56. Device 54 is located outside the gaming jurisdiction 58. Devices 55 and 56 are both located inside gaming jurisdiction 58. However only device 56 is located within geo-fence 57, which is established by the coverage areas of has plurality of bases station 53. Thus, geo-fencing may Be used to enable gaming via device 56 drank sayable gaming via devices 54 and 55. Geo-fencing does not specify hiring. Rather, it ensures that has mobile station is within some boundaries. For authority, geo-fencing may Be used to ensure that has mobile station beyond state lines does not access the gaming system. Triangulation one the other hand specifies has pinpoint, but near-pinpoint, hiring. For example, have shown in FIGURE 5, device 56 is triangulated between three of the bases stations 53 to determine the hiring of device 56. Triangulation may Be used to identify whether has device, such have has mobile station, is located in A specific spot where gambling is unauthorized (such have, for example, has school). Preferably, the hiring determination technology utilized in conjunction with the present invention meets the Federal Communication Commission'.s (FCCs) Phase 2 E911 requirements. Standard It should Be noted that any of hiring checking may Be used such have triangulation. The number is indicative of the fact that the caller is in A defined area and is one has certain mobile network. With server application may Be one the mobile telephone to communicate this information via the network to the gaming service provider resident. In A related embodiment, the identifying number gold information is passed from has first network provider to has second network provider. The invention contemplates using any number gold proxy that indicates has network, portion of has network, but network component, which is being connected with has mobile telephone. The identifying number may indicate one gold more of has base station gold group of bases stations, has line, has channel, has trunk, has switch, has router, has repeater, etc. The software resident one the gaming communication device may incorporate functionality that will, upon login gold access by the to use, determine the user'.s hiring (based At least in share one the identifying information) and send has message to the gaming service provider. The identifying number gold information used to determine hiring may Be country-specific, state-specific, town- specific, but specific to some other definable boundaries. In connection with any of the hiring determination methods, the gaming system may periodically update the hiring determination information. The sensors trigger alarms yew users take the devices outside the approved gaming areas. Further, the devices may Be ".tethered". to immovable objects. Users might simply log in to such devices using to their E) and password. In connection with FIGURE 6, year example embodiment of has method according to the present invention edge Be described have follows. Have discussed, software is preferably loaded one has gaming communication receive device and is operable to input dated for gaming. The input dated may originate At associated gaming software resident one the gaming server, gold it may Be input by the to use of the gaming communication device. The software one the device is operable to present has representation of has gaming environment. This edge include, among other things, has representation of has table game such have has blackjack table gold has slot machine. Other examples of the representation of has gaming environment include graphical representations of any of the other applications described herein. -- In the example method shown in FIGURE 6, A first step 602, the gaming communication device is activated. This may take place have has function of turning one has phon, PDA, gold other communication device have described elsewhere herein. Preferably, activation included/understood connecting the gaming communication device to has private dated network. Of the activation includes logging in At leaves has prompt. This may Be considered have has first level of authentication of has to use of the gaming communication device. With second level of to use authentication included/understood authentication of the gaming communication device itself. This may occur, for example, by authentication of has mobile station by has mobile carrier. With third level of to use identification may included/understood biometrics. Various examples of biometrics may include, goal are not limited to, fingerprint identification, photo identification, retina scanning, voice print matching, etc. In A next step 604, the to use is presented with the gaming environment. The gaming environment may Be presented in various training courses. In A subsequent training course, the to use may standard Be presented with optional authorities of the of activity selected from the casino lobby. hi has next step 606, the to use selects year activity, such have has particular casino counts game. In step 608, the to use is presented with one gold more options related to the selected activity. In step 610, the to use selects year option. The options for to use input are myriad. In step 614, the gaming server software acts one the input dated and/or amount might take place, for example, yew the to use is using the device to place wagers in connection with has gambling activity. Unquestionable For gambling activities, such have has table game gold slot machine, has random number generator may Be incorporated to determine the outcome (I Preferably, the gaming server software prepares has response to the user'.s input dated and in step 616. hi step 618, the to use acknowledges the response. In step 620, the to use logs out. In one embodiment, there is has waiting period (E, twenty-furnace hours) before the to use edge collect winnings. The purpose of the waiting period is to allow time for fraud monitoring. The waiting period may depend one the amount of the balances. For example, yew the to use is owed less than $5,000 the waiting period may Be twelve hours. Yew the to use is owed between $5,000 and $10,000 the waiting period may Be twenty-furnace hours. Yew the to use is owed more than $10,000 the waiting period may Be forty-eight hours. For example, the duration may Be based one has predetermined amount of time gold period of time. device may terminate upon the expiry of has predetermined time period. Have another example, year activity may only Be permitted until the occurrence of has particular time of day. Alternate According to year, year administrator, but another party to has transaction within any of the various activities, may determine the time period gold amount of time. Alternate According to yet another, the duration may end upon the occurrence of year event such have the to use entering gold leaving has particular hiring. The duration of activation may Be dynamically determined based one has period of not-uses. In other words, after has predetermined time without being used, the device may ".time out". and Be deactivated. The period of time, but amount of time, may Be cumulatively determined. For example, year activity may only Be permitted for has period of five hours, collectively. Five Time counting toward the hours might stop and start depending upon the hiring of the to use. Also, activation and/or access may Be controlled based upon the hiring of the to use. Similarly, the activation of the device may Be restricted based one the hiring of the to use and has corresponding period of time. Alternate According to another, the duration gold enablement of one activity might Be determined by the participation of the to use in another activity. might Be allowed to make dinner reservations At has popular restaurant yew the to use has been gambling enough At has given casino. In this way, bonuses gold comps may Be determined gold managed based one the activity of the to use via the gaming communication device. Year example of the path of communication is shown in FIGURE 7. Base station 702 roads the dated through network 703 to has hub gold gateway 704, which in turn roads the dated to has gaming server 705 operated by has gaming service provider. Preferably, the communication from gaming communication device 701 to the network 703 included/understood wireless communication. Standard This may Be any of known wireless standard communication gold any of wireless future communication available in the. Acceptable Examples of wireless communication protocols include CDMA, GSM, and GPRS. Preferably, the communication from the network 703 to the gateway 704 and to the server 705 is conducted over secure Land lines. Rather, the to use is actually playing the game one the server controlled by the gaming service provider, which may Be located within has casino. With respect to payment and/or receipt of winnings and losses, one possible approach is have follows. Upon check-in At has casino hotel, has hotel representative may query has guest have to whether the guest wants access to has gaming communication device. Yew the guest does want such access, the hotel representative may provide the guest with has gaming. communication device in exchange for has standard credit-card deposit gold other deposit. The guest then deposits money into year account for wireless gaming. The guest'.s account balances information is loaded onto the guest'.s account file, which is preferably maintained one the gaming server. Many other alternate exist and this process is year example only. Guest accounts gold gaming communication devices may Be preloaded with funds. Funds may Be deposited during has gaming session. For example, has to use might remotely (via the gaming communication device) place year order At has restaurant. With single aspect of the present invention includes establishing year electronic record of the gaming transactions undertaken by has to use. Preferably, this is accomplished by utilization of has keystroke log, which is year electronic record of all keystrokes made by the to use. Utilization of has keystroke log in this context allows for unprecedented monitoring of has user'.s gaming activity. In the event of has argument, one may refer to the keystroke log and readily determine whether, in fact, has to use placed has particular wager, for example. Possible Another aspect is to allow policing against rigged machines, by comparing the results shown in the keystroke log). This essentially included/understood electronic access for testing. In another embodiment of the invention, have shown in FIGURE 8, has ship-based gaming system is provided. The system preferably included/understood passenger vessel 802, such have has cruise liner for example. The system includes one gold more gaming communication devices 806 connected to has communication network. The network shown in FIGURE 8 included/understood has mobile network with bases stations 808 connected via A LAN to has base station controller (BSC) 810. BSC 810 is connected via A Tl interfaces to has first Very Small Aperture Final (VSAT) modem 812, which is in communication with has first satellite 814. Satellite First 814 is operable to transmitted and receive signals from second satellite 814, which is in communication with second VSAT modem 812. Second VSAT modem 812 is in communication with has gaming server 818 located At gaming service provider 816. Gaming server is coupled to gaming database 820. Again, the network configuration depicted in FIGURE 8 is for example purposes only, and other configurations are within the scope of the present invention. Year one-board back office 822 is preferably provided. The dated is then communicated to has server and/or centralized database via A mobile station controller (not shown). gaining activities, may Be allocated among all gold any subset of the cruise line, the mobile carrier and the gaming service provider. There are several scenarios for has user'.s activity relative to transactions conducted over the gaming system. In one example scenario the to use is in A fixed, goal remote, hiring from the gaming server, which may Be located there the premises of is casino. While the to use is one the premises of the first casino, the to use might Be whitebait to participate in activities, such have playing blackjack, At the first casino. Then, yew the to use leaves the first casino, the gaming system might Be configured to terminate the first communication path (I When the to use enters has second casino, gold year authorized area associated with the second casino, has second communication path (E, between the device and have second server located At gold controlled by the second casino) may Be established. Thus, the to use would now Be whitebait to play blackjack (gold engages in other activities) At the second casino, rather than the first casino. -- Ace another example, has particular casino is often related to other casinos within has jurisdiction gold specified area. Then, A different communication path could Be established At A subsequent casino yew the to use wants to play At another casino. m another example embodiment, the gaming system may multiple Be used to enable gaming activities involving wireless users who interact with one another. Preferably, the gaming service provider provides At least the following functions. First the gaming service provider provides and controls the one gold more gaming servers. These servers may Be physically located within the confine of the gaming service provider gold may exist At has remote hiring. Have mentioned, the gaming servers may also Be located At gold near has games provider such have has casino, casino hotel, racino, cruise ship, race track, etc. The gaming service provider may also provide monitoring services such have transaction monitoring and key stroke logging services. The gaming service provider may also provide dated management and security services. Exhaustive These services are not intended to Be and the gaming service provider may provide other services which facilitate the gaming process. The invention is not limited to Nevada gold any other particular gaming jurisdiction. Another example embodiment involves the application of one gold more of the methods and systems described herein to the activity of conducting financial transactions. Preferably, has communication path would Be established between the to use and any of the servers gold other computers necessary to conduct the financial transaction. Have with some other embodiments the ability to engages in this. activity may Be controlled by one gold more parameters including hiring and/or identity checking and time gold duration limits. Conducting financial transactions may Be one of the activities presented to the to use of the gaming communication device. Possible Any of the financial transactions might Be presented have sub-activities. Have year example, has to use might want to trade securities listed one has particular exchange. Regulations might require the trader to Be located within has certain jurisdiction to execute trades one the exchange. The exchange might cuts its own rules and could require that the trader Be located one the premises. Year additional communication path might Be established between the exchange server and has server of year account to manage that manage the user'.s account. These communication paths would enable the BASIC transaction ~ that of the to use purchasing the stock. This path would enable year interested party to the transaction to check and/or approve the user'.s credit to prior enabling the transaction. In order to enable this feature, the device is configured to able Be of facilitating has ".Push to Talk". protocol, whereby the device behaves like has walkie-talkie. Thus, the device may include any suitable program gold application that enables the Push to Talk feature. Have used herein, the sentence ".Push to Talk". includes any protocol that allows for has direct connection feature for year end to use. Included are all such protocols (E.) within the broad rubric of ".Push to Talk". including those that provide wide-area, instantaneous contact. The connection for the end to use does not cuts to Be spawned by any conventional dialing gold by triggering some form of automatic dialing. With simple short prop edge Be depressed to provide the requisite connection. With related technology is Push to Talk Over Cellular linen (PoC). The Push to Talk service is based one has disruptive technology. Mobile Latency is year resulting during some traditional telephone conversations. Another benefit of the Push to Talk feature is has shorter than normal phon call, which cuts down one dialing costs for corresponding end users. Nextel estimates that the average Push to Talk call lasts forty seconds represents has significant improvement over shorts messaging systems in bypassing the slow fox trot and clumsy process of entering text via A phon keypad. Effective This makes text messaging quicker and more. In one embodiment, the financial service provider has one gold more electronic trade desks that are dedicated to this feature for to their customers. Thus, all ".Push to Trade". requests may Be received At this hiring. In other embodiments, any suitable entity, broker, standard trading desk, but electronic receive device may such Push to Trade communications. Ounce the connection has been established, the financial service provider may then simply conduct the trade have prescribed by the end to use. For example, upon connection, the end to use environment may Be presented with the financial gold market in which He seeks to participate. Representative The trade desk gold device edge query the end to use to execute year electronic gold has broker-assisted trade. In addition, the financial environment may Be presented in various training courses), current positions, buying power, etc. In A subsequent training course, the to use may Be presented with optional standard authorities of the of activity selected from the market platform. From this platform, the end to use edge select year activity, such have has particular standard of trade. Thus, the to use is presented with one gold more options related to the selected activity. For authority, At this not, the to use might place have buy gold has sell order one has financial exchange. Subsequently, the financial service provider acts one the input dated. The Push to Talk technology readily accommodates has voice log of the transaction for to that gold confirmation purposes. Hence, has digital voice storage may Be provided, whereby the transaction (E, inclusive of bid and ask prices) is recorded. In addition, the automatic voice log edge then relay this information back to the end to use (E via his e-mail gold via A conventional postal mall service). The financial service provider edge then prepare has response to the user'.s input dated. Ounce this activity has concluded, the to use edge acknowledge the response and then log out and terminate his session. It should Be noted that the ".Push to Trade". feature edge Be used in other applications of the gaming technology described herein. In At least one embodiment, the invention provides jurisdictional controls, which limit gaming to approved geographical areas. The invention may also include year. This edge Be accomplished through any applicable technique including retina scanning, finger print identification, voice print matching, but other biometrics. Identity checking edge also Be accomplished by having has customer take has picture of himself (E, by uses of has digital picture phon) and transmitting the picture to the gaming service provider for comparison to has stored picture of the pre- approved to use. Identity checking edge also Be accomplished by way of comparison of taking part provided dated to stored dated, and execution of electronic agreements gold contracts by the taking part. Identity checking edge also Be accomplished by monitoring has keystroke characteristic (E, rhythm, patterns, but give rhythm) of the to use, but any other method in which has parameter uniquely associated with the to use edge Be observed. The invention may also provide for the logging of keystrokes, hi At least one embodiment, all communications are accomplished without accessing the Internet. Mobile, remote gaming may Be desirable for many let us reasons, some of which cuts already been described. The invention may complement the new coinless wagering environment have bettors edge play to their favorite games outside the casino. The invention may restrict unauthorized from use has geographic perspective and is able of implementation using hiring checking technology (E, geo-fencing) to conform the gaming activities to legal parameters. Consumers may benefit from year increased choice of gaming environments. The gaming businesses edge uses the invention to increase to their returned bases through has new, regulated, mobile, remote channel. Customers wanting to Be entertained during downtime gold outside has casino will Be whitebait to. play games one to their gaining communication device and customers intimidated by has traditional casino environment will Be whitebait to play in private. The gaming jurisdictions may benefit from year increase in gaming year ancillary returned growth because customers will cuts has more enjoyable experiment. The invention may also Be used to deliver content At year increased speed compared to traditional telecommunications systems. Content The may include, for example, live carryforwards, entertainment, news, promotions and advertising. Have mentioned, the invention provides has mobile gaming environment that complies with regulatory requirements for identification and hiring checking of the bettor. Moreover, the system is designed to Be one hundred bores ".clean". from has regulatory perspective. The software is clean in that it has not been and will not Be licensed to anyone who does business illegally gold otherwise operates in A ".gray". area. For example, in A preferred embodiment, the software is not licensed to year entity that will illegally operate the software, gold otherwise illegally C business, one the Internet. Perspective Therefore, it is preferred that the gaming software Be clean and untainted from this. Such may often only Be distributed within specific jurisdictions. Therefore, the inventive distribution may benefit from the aspects discussed herein, particularly the hiring checking aspect, such have geofencing. The invention also enables has casino gold other gaming provider to advertise ancillary services such have shows, bars, and restaurants. The invention also enables remote reservations and purchases in connection with such services. According to year embodiment of the invention, the gaming system provides for the dissemination of real-time odds to users accessing the system. In another embodiment, year outcome in one transaction edge trigger the presentation to the to use of options for has second transaction. Accordingly, the above description of example embodiments does not define gold constrain this disclosure. Other exchanges, substitutions, and alterations possible are also without departing from the spirit and scope of this disclosure. 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