System for administering an interactive transaction in a lottery game
US6203011A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 30, 1999 |
| Grant date | Mar 20, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 30, 2019 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S283/903
- WIPO fieldFurniture, games
- WIPO sectorOther fields
Abstract
In a method of administering an interactive transaction in a lottery game, a plurality of play spots is printed on each lottery ticket of a plurality of lottery tickets. Each play spot has a value selected from a set of values and the values of the play spots are distributed randomly on the tickets. Thus, the distribution makes it impossible to predict the values of the play spots on a given ticket of the plurality of tickets based on knowledge of the values of play spots of other tickets of the plurality of tickets. Each of the plurality of play spots is covered with a removable medium and a unique identifier is placed on each ticket. A record of the unique identifier and of the values of the play spots for each ticket are stored in a database. If a first communication has been received from a distributor indicating that a user has properly obtained a distributed ticket, then the record of the unique identifier corresponding to the distributed ticket is flagged to indicate that the distributed ticket may be activated and if a second communication has been received from the user that identifies the distributed ticket, then interactive data is received from the user; the user is ins…
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