WO1999006971A1 - Systeme de machine a sous securise - Google Patents
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- the invention relates to a system of secure slot machines so as to avoid fraud or embezzlement.
- the invention applies to all slot machine systems, the machines of which have an electronic coin mechanism known as a validating reader operating with portable electronic payment means such as smart cards or any other equivalent means.
- the invention also applies to machines having a mixed means of payment, that is to say a coin changer (or tokens) and a chip card changer.
- Chip cards can be unit loading cards or credit cards that provide access to game credit.
- the invention aims to prevent any fraud on the sums of money actually won by the players.
- the solution proposed for this is to store on the chip card of the player significant information for the games and in particular the total value which has been loaded (sums loaded) on the card as well as the value of the gains made (sums won in the game) by this player.
- the total value that has been loaded will be stored on the card by the game manager (usually the casino cashier), and the value of the winnings will be stored by the validator of the slot machine.
- this significant information will be accompanied by a certificate allowing verification of the authenticity of this information.
- the subject of the invention is therefore more particularly a secure slot machine system comprising means of payment by smart card, a reader / validator of smart card and means of management of the credits available for the games of the players, mainly characterized in that it includes control means capable of recording on the card of a player significant game information, specific to said card and able to perform a verification of this information.
- the credit management means comprise internal management means for each slot machine and at least one terminal for loading or opening credits for the game and verification, and the means for control are distributed on the internal management means of each machine, on the reader-validator and on the terminal.
- the terminal control means include a calculation and processing unit and an associated memory comprising a credit authorization program and recording of at least significant information on this credit and verification of significant information recorded on player cards.
- the control means of a reader-validator comprise a calculation and processing unit and an associated memory comprising a program for recording significant information of the game and for verifying this information.
- the means for controlling the internal management means of a slot machine comprise a processing unit, a program memory and a data memory.
- the program memory includes a program for recording significant game data in the data memory and means for activating the recording of significant game data on the card before the card is returned by the machine.
- the significant game information recorded on the card includes at least one piece of data representing the rotational value of the initial credit opened by this card - and one piece of data representing the gains made.
- the significant information of the game also includes:
- the available credit information is the result of updates to the initial credit information as a result of realized losses or gains.
- the system includes means for calculating authentication certificates for the significant information recorded.
- the means of calculating authentication certificates are distributed.
- the terminal of then comprises means for calculating the certificate of authentication of the initial credit information and means for verification.
- each reader-validator of the game machine will also include means for calculating the certificate of authentication of the gains made and means of verification.
- FIG. 1 represents a secure slot machine system according to the invention
- FIG. 2 represents the electronic diagram of the circuit of the loading terminal 400 capable of implementing the invention
- FIG. 3 represents an electronic diagram of a reader-validator for slot machines capable of implementing the present invention
- FIG. 4 shows the electronic diagram of the internal management means of a slot machine according to the invention.
- the secure slot machine system proposed by the invention therefore comprises one or more slot machines. These are slot machines as found in casinos and which have been represented under the reference 100 in Figure 1.
- the machine has an electronic coin mechanism 200 which will be called in the following reader-validator of smart cards.
- the reader-validator 200 is connected to the electronics 130 of the machine 100, for example by a serial link of RS232 type.
- the machine and the reader have the input-output interfaces adapted to this link.
- the machine is equipped with a display screen 120 which allows the player to know at all times what is the balance he has for playing and the amount of winnings made.
- the machine 100 which has been shown can of course be an exclusively electronic coin operated machine, but also a double coin operated machine, that is to say a machine which comprises, in addition to this electronic coin operated, a coin operated coin ) symbolized by the reference 110.
- the player In the case of a double coin-operated machine, the player will, in accordance with the invention, be able to play with coins or tokens and have his winnings returned only in the form of coins.
- Integrated circuit cards include at least one electrically programmable memory, for example an EEPROM 310 memory.
- These integrated circuit cards can also be cards with unit loading, of the rechargeable type. These cards include for this an electrically programmable memory of the Boulier memory type.
- the secure slot machine system further includes a terminal for issuing or opening or credit loading (all these expressions being equivalent within the meaning of the present invention), and verification 400, for the players who present their smart card.
- This terminal is in practice the casino cashier terminal.
- the delivery consists of recording units of value in the electrically programmable memory whose value corresponds to the amount of credit desired by the player and possibly also to record in a zone provided the amount of this initial credit.
- the operation consists in debiting an open account with the amount of credit dedicated to the game.
- the terminal 400 can be produced for example from a microcomputer equipped with a chip card reader as found on the market, responsible for an application program making it possible to perform the reader functions. smart card recorder.
- the secure slot machine system illustrated in this FIG. 1 includes control means capable of recording significant game information on the players' cards, specific to said cards.
- Significant game information is understood to mean information such as the initial game credit CO which has been issued to a player and the amount of the winnings GI, from the bets made from this credit, between the time the player has inserted his card into the machine's card reader and when he requests the return of this card.
- this significant information may also include information on the credit available to CJI at the end of the various updates to the initial credit CJO having been made following losses or gains made by the player.
- control means according to the invention are distributed on the one hand, the slot machine and more precisely the credit management means 130 of this slot machine, on d on the other hand, the reader-validator 200 connected to this slot machine and also on the 400 credit and verification terminal.
- this circuit comprises a calculation and processing unit 410 produced for example by a microprocessor connected to at least one electrically erasable memory 420.
- This memory will for example be an EEPROM memory and will contain the programs of '' applications for reading and recording on smart cards. This program is adapted according to the different types of chip cards provided and this in a manner known to a person skilled in the art.
- a working memory 430 is generally present for storing the temporary data being processed by the unit 410. It is a volatile memory of RAM type.
- the electronic circuit 450 operates read or write operations on the memory 310 of the card 300 at the request of the operator 310 (the cashier of the casino).
- This memory includes identification information of the holder Id. It also includes the serial number of the NS card. According to the invention, it also includes significant information D of the game in the memory 310.
- significant information is the total value that has been loaded (amount of initial available credit) for the player.
- This amount is referenced CJO on the diagram. It is entered on the player's card by the cashier's terminal 400.
- the initial credit information CJO can be written on the card by the terminal, but it can also be transferred to a centralized management center, the machine system. of games then being connected to this center by a communication network. In this case, the initial CJO credit amount can be checked by this center through terminal 400.
- This solution is suitable for square credit cards.
- the player then goes to a slot machine and inserts his card. He plays by betting money, loses or wins.
- the slot machine via the validating reader 200 updates the player's credit and possibly enters data corresponding to the amount available CJI. This amount is the result of updates to the player's initial CJO credit following various games initiated by the player between the time he inserted his card and the time he requested his return.
- the amount stored corresponding to the available credit CJI is equal to the amount stored corresponding to the initial credit before any game started, increased by gains made and / or reduced by losses made.
- the validating reader will enter, under the control of the electronics of the slot machine, a GI data item corresponding to the amount of the gains made.
- the significant information is accompanied by a CERO certificate of authenticity for the CJO data and CERG for the GI data.
- the significant information will comprise on the one hand, the initial credit referenced CJO, on the other hand, the available credit CJI and also the gains made GI.
- these data are accompanied by an authentication certificate calculated by the body which will have recorded them on the card.
- the terminal goes into calculating the CERO certificate making it possible to authenticate this data and this from an FT cryptography function (for example the DES algorithm will be chosen) and by means of a key.
- secret KT securely stored in its program memory 420.
- the terminal When the player represents his card to be reimbursed for the gains made or the credit still available, the terminal will recalculate the CERO certificate and check that the calculated certificate corresponds the certificate which had been calculated when the card was delivered.
- the terminal being the only one to possess the key which was used for the calculation of the certificate is consequently the only one to find the same value of certificate insofar as the initial credit information has not been falsified.
- the reader 200 receives this information from the electronics of the machine 130. This transmission is occasioned by the command to restore the card by the player, that is to say from the moment the player presses a button 111 for requesting the return of the card.
- the reader 200 then records this significant information on the card.
- the reader then has a secret key KL for this calculation and a cryptographic function FL such as the DES algorithm by example.
- the CERG certificate of authentication of the gain will be obtained at the end of a calculation of an encrypted datum including the gain GI and the serial number of the card by means of the function FL and the secret key KL.
- the CERI certificate is then the result of the calculation of the value encrypted by the DES cryptographic function and of the key KL of the data formed by the value CJI and the serial number of the card.
- CERI FL (CJI, NS, KL).
- the FL function is for example the cryptography function defined by the DES algorithm.
- a separate secret key can of course be provided for each of these calculations.
- This reader conventionally comprises a processing unit 210 connected by a communication bus to a program memory 220.
- This memory is an electrically non-volatile memory, for example electrically programmable (a EEPROM type memory).
- the processing unit is also connected to a RAM-type working memory 230.
- the reader also comprises a conventional card insertion mechanism 240.
- the processing unit 210 (microprocessor) detects the presence of a card and powers it up and sends it its first "Reset” command.
- the card receives this command and sends a "Response to Reset". This response allows recognition of the type of card so that communication can be continued according to a determined protocol.
- the reader 200 further comprises an input-output interface 250 allowing connection through a serial link with the slot machine, and more particularly with the electronics 130 of the slot machine.
- the interface bears the reference 250 in this figure.
- the program memory 220 of the reader 200 comprises in a protected zone Z a verification function VT adapted according to the cryptography algorithm used FT in order to carry out an authentication of the significant information CJO which will have been recorded by the loading and verification terminal.
- the memory 220 also comprises, in the protected zone Z, the secret key or keys KL which make it possible to calculate the certificate of authentication of the available credit information and the gains made.
- the verification terminal 400 for its part includes in its program memory 420 a verification function VL adapted to the encryption algorithm FL used which allows it to verify the calculations of the CERI and CERG certificates which have been carried out by the reader 200.
- the terminal will detect fraud and may refuse the order to reimburse the gains made or the credit available.
- FIG. 4 illustrates the electronics of the game machine, this electronics also being of known type. It comprises a processing unit 130 (for example microprocessor) connected to one or more memories and in particular to a non-volatile program memory 132, for example electrically programmable.
- a processing unit 130 for example microprocessor
- a non-volatile program memory 132 for example electrically programmable.
- This unit 130 is also connected to a working memory 133 of RAM type which makes it possible to store information relating to the game (s) engaged by the player during the entire duration of the game.
- the processing unit 130 also allows you to control a display screen 131 so that the player can view the significant information of the game, in particular the balance it has.
- the electronic circuit 130 also comprises an input-output interface 134 similar to the interface 250 which makes it possible to establish the connection between the reader-validator 200 and the processing unit 130 of the slot machine.
- a serial link L connects this interface to reader 200.
- the ejection command 111 from the card is in the form of a button actuable by the player who sends the unit 130 an ejection command EC from the card.
- the machine In the case where the machine is double coin-operated: coin-operated by smart card and coin-operated coin-operated, it has a token input (ref. 110 in FIG. 1) which transmits the level of token entered to the unit 130 and a hopper token 112 which receives these tokens.
- a token input (ref. 110 in FIG. 1) which transmits the level of token entered to the unit 130 and a hopper token 112 which receives these tokens.
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US09/485,050 US6579182B1 (en) | 1997-07-31 | 1997-07-31 | Slot machine with in-built security system |
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AU89834/98A AU8983498A (en) | 1997-07-31 | 1998-07-28 | Slot machine with in-built security system |
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