PATCHLINK

wireless, local area network for communicating information via infrared light between a central computer terminal and Pachinko machines and a central computer terminal and Pachinko machine ball and card dispensers and coin boxes, the network consisting of infrared, transceiver, ceiling units and infrared, transceiver floor units, which are placed on the central computer terminal and the machines and dispensers with which the computer will communicate and software for carrying out the communications