| 摘要 |
<p>A disclosed a gaming machine includes an input mechanism with a non-physical contact data interface. The non-physical contact data interface is capable of reading loyalty program data from a loyalty program instrument without contact between the loyalty program instrument and the non-physical contact data interface. The input mechanism with the non-physical contact data interface is a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag reader. The loyalty program instrument a RFID tag embedded in the substrate and/or a RFID tag printed on the substrate in combination with one or more of the following: a 1-D bar-code printed on the substrate, a 2-D bar-code printed on the substrate, a symbol printed on the substrate, alpha-numeric character printed on the substrate. The loyalty program instrument may be used to store an index to a record in a database or a portable data file.</p> |
