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Lottery game

US7520808B1 · kind B1 · utility

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12Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateJun 15, 2004
Grant dateApr 21, 2009
Priority date
Expiry dateJun 24, 2026

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG07F17/32
  • WIPO fieldControl
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An online lottery game having periodic drawings of a series of digits. Money derived from the sale of lottery tickets is allocated into a plurality of winning pools in which the winning pool consisting of all of the numbers is smaller than at least one and preferably all of the other winning pools consisting of less than all of the numbers. Money allocated to pools are carried forward to successive drawings in the event there are no winners of that particular pool.

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