Systems and methods for integrated game play at payment-enabled terminals

• US 10,115,268 B2
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Issued: 10/30/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: e2Interactive Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Linq3 Technologies, LLC
• Inventors: Cage, Daniel, Tashjian, David, Leach, Roy
• Primary Examiner(s): Ahmed, Masud
• Application Number:
  US13/842,709
• Publication Number:
  US 20140274314A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,055 Days
• Field of Search: 463 17- 31, 235380
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3255 Incentive, loyalty and/or promotion schemes, e.g. comps, gaming associated with a purchase, gaming funded by advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/329 Regular and instant lottery, e.g. electronic scratch cards

Abstract

A game play system and methods for facilitating game play purchases through a payment-enabled terminal store a plurality of records of game play number sets associated with respective payment card numbers. The association of game play number sets with respective payment card numbers allows for substantially “ticketless” lottery wagers, draws, scratch tickets, branded games, and second change games, access to game play purchases beyond the traditional manned lottery authority terminals, automatic redemption by associating a winning game play with a payment card number, and purchase of game plays using payment cards (e.g., debit or credit cards) instead of cash.

Claims

1. A processing system configured to:

receive, from a transaction terminal, identification information associated with a user, wherein the receipt of the identification information is caused by an identification transaction performed at the transaction terminal;

determine a game play set associated with the identification information;

determine gaming rules associated with a jurisdiction for the transaction terminal, wherein the gaming rules are provisioned in response to receiving a game play request at the transaction terminal, wherein a first portion of the gaming rules is provisioned at the transaction terminal, and wherein a second portion of the gaming rules is provisioned by a remote processing system not at the transaction terminal, and where the gaming rules are provisioned substantially simultaneously to receiving the game play request;

determine, based on the gaming rules, whether the user associated with the identification information is eligible to participate in a game associated with the jurisdiction; and

in response to determining the user associated with the identification information is eligible to participate in the game associated with the jurisdiction, enable participation of the game play set associated with the identification information in the game associated with the jurisdiction, wherein presentment of game-related content associated with the game at the transaction terminal is controlled by control data associated with the identification information, and wherein the presentment of the game-related content associated with the game at the transaction terminal is further based on an attribute of the transaction terminal,

wherein the attribute of the transaction terminal further comprises a location of the transaction terminal, and

wherein first game-related content for a particular game presented at a first transaction terminal associated with a first location is different from second game-related content for the particular game presented at a second transaction terminal at a second location.

2. The processing system of claim 1, wherein participation of the game play set associated with the identification information in the game associated with the jurisdiction comprises ticketless participation in the game.

3. The processing system of claim 1, wherein the identification transaction comprises a payment transaction.

4. The processing system of claim 1, wherein the identification information comprises payment information.

5. The processing system of claim 1, wherein the identification transaction comprises a transaction other than a transaction for purchase of the game play set.

6. The processing system of claim 5, further configured to:

determine whether a winning game play set exists in the game;

determine whether the winning game play set matches a game play set participating in the game;

in response to determining the winning game play set matches the game play set associated with the identification information, determine an account associated with the identification information; and

initiate payment to the account.

7. The processing system of claim 1, further configured to:

determine whether a winning game play set exists in the game;

determine whether the winning game play set matches a game play set participating in the game;

in response to determining the winning game play set matches the game play set associated with the identification information, determine an account associated with the identification information; and

initiate payment to the account, wherein the account is identified when the identification transaction is performed at the transaction terminal.

8. The processing system of claim 1, wherein the game play set is stored in a database.

9. The processing system of claim 1, wherein the game play set is generated by a gaming operator.

10. The processing system of claim 1, wherein the game is presented on the transaction terminal.

11. The processing system of claim 10, wherein content associated with the game presented on a user interface of the transaction terminal is at least partially directed or controlled by the processing system.

12. The processing system of claim 1, wherein the identification transaction comprises a contact transaction.

13. The processing system of claim 1, wherein the identification transaction comprises a contactless transaction.

14. The processing system of claim 1, wherein the transaction terminal is associated with a gas or fuel pump.

15. The processing system of claim 1, wherein the transaction terminal comprises a point of sale terminal.

16. The processing system of claim 1, wherein the transaction terminal comprises a grocery store terminal.

17. The processing system of claim 1, wherein the transaction terminal comprises a self-service kiosk.

18. The processing system of claim 1, wherein the transaction terminal comprises a mobile device.

19. The processing system of claim 1, wherein the game play set comprises a lottery game play set.

20. The processing system of claim 1, wherein the processing system is further configured to initiate or facilitate purchase of the game play set.

21. The processing system of claim 1, wherein the attribute of the transaction terminal further comprises a display capability of the transaction terminal.

22. The processing system of claim 1, wherein the attribute of the transaction terminal further comprises a capability of connecting to a mobile network.

23. The processing system of claim 1, wherein logic for the presentment of the game-related content is updated based on the attribute of the transaction terminal.

24. The processing system of claim 1, wherein the presentment of the game-related content is further based on a connection between the processing system and the transaction terminal.

25. The processing system of claim 1, wherein logic for the presentment of the game-related content is updated based on a connection between the processing system and the transaction terminal.

26. The processing system of claim 1, wherein the determination of whether the user associated with the identification information is eligible to participate in the game associated with the jurisdiction is performed at at least one of the processing system or the transaction terminal.

27. The processing system of claim 26, wherein the performance of the determination of whether the user associated with the identification information is eligible to participate in the game associated with the jurisdiction at the at least one of the processing system or the transaction terminal is further based on at least one of the attribute of the transaction terminal or a connection between the processing system and the transaction terminal.

28. The processing system of claim 1, wherein determining whether the user associated with the identification information is eligible to participate in the game associated with the jurisdiction comprises provisioning the gaming rules.

29. The processing system of claim 28, wherein the processing system is further configured to receive a request to play the game associated with the jurisdiction, wherein the provisioning of the gaming rules is performed after receiving the request to play the game.

30. The processing system of claim 28, wherein the gaming rules are additionally provisioned by a payment system different from the processing system.

31. The processing system of claim 30, wherein the processing system is further configured to receive a request to purchase the game associated with the jurisdiction, wherein the provisioning of the gaming rules by the payment system is performed after receiving the request to purchase the game.

32. The processing system of claim 1, wherein the identification information is received via a communications exchange server.

33. A method comprising:

receiving, from a transaction terminal, identification information associated with a user, wherein the receipt of the identification information is caused by an identification transaction performed at the transaction terminal;

determining a game play set associated with the identification information;

determining gaming rules associated with a jurisdiction for the transaction terminal, wherein the gaming rules are provisioned in response to receiving a game play request at the transaction terminal, wherein a first portion of the gaming rules is provisioned at the transaction terminal, and wherein a second portion of the gaming rules is provisioned by a remote processing system not at the transaction terminal, and where the gaming rules are provisioned substantially simultaneously to receiving the game play request;

determining, based on the gaming rules, whether the user associated with the identification information is eligible to participate in a game associated with the jurisdiction; and

in response to determining the user associated with the identification information is eligible to participate in the game associated with the jurisdiction, enabling participation of the game play set associated with the identification information in the game associated with the jurisdiction, wherein presentment of game-related content associated with the game at the transaction terminal is controlled by control data associated with the identification information, and wherein the presentment of the game-related content associated with the game at the transaction terminal is further based on an attribute of the transaction terminal,

wherein the attribute of the transaction terminal further comprises a location of the transaction terminal, and

wherein first game-related content for a particular game presented at a first transaction terminal associated with a first location is different from second game-related content for the particular game presented at a second transaction terminal at a second location.

34. The method of claim 33, wherein participation of the game play set associated with the identification information in the game associated with the jurisdiction comprises ticketless participation in the game.

35. The method of claim 33, wherein the identification transaction comprises a payment transaction.

36. The method of claim 33, wherein the identification information comprises payment information.

37. The method of claim 33, wherein the identification transaction comprises a transaction other than a transaction for purchase of the game play set.

38. The method of claim 33, further comprising:

determining whether a winning game play set exists in the game;

determining whether the winning game play set matches a game play set participating in the game;

in response to determining the winning game play set matches the game play set associated with the identification information, determining an account associated with the identification information; and

initiating payment to the account.

39. The method of claim 38, wherein the account is identified when the identification transaction is performed at the transaction terminal.

40. The method of claim 33, wherein the game play set is stored in a database.

41. The method of claim 33, wherein the game play set is generated by a gaming operator.

42. The method of claim 33, wherein the game is presented on the transaction terminal.

43. The method of claim 42, further comprising directing or controlling content associated with the game presented on a user interface of the transaction terminal.

44. The method of claim 33, wherein the identification transaction comprises a contact transaction.

45. The method of claim 33, wherein the identification transaction comprises a contactless transaction.

46. The method of claim 33, wherein the transaction terminal is associated with a gas or fuel pump.

47. The method of claim 33, wherein the transaction terminal comprises a point of sale terminal.

48. The method of claim 33, wherein the transaction terminal comprises a grocery store terminal.

49. The method of claim 33, wherein the transaction terminal comprises a self-service kiosk.

50. The method of claim 33, wherein the transaction terminal comprises a tablet.

51. The method of claim 33, wherein the transaction terminal comprises a mobile device.

52. The method of claim 33, wherein the game play set comprises a lottery game play set.

53. A method comprising:

executing, at a transaction terminal, an identification transaction performed by a user;

receiving, at the transaction terminal, identification information associated with the user;

transmitting, to a processing system, the identification information associated with the user, wherein the processing system;

determines a game play set associated with the identification information;

determines gaming rules associated with a jurisdiction for the transaction terminal, wherein the gaming rules are provisioned in response to receiving a game play request at the transaction terminal, wherein a first portion of the gaming rules is provisioned at the transaction terminal, and wherein a second portion of the gaming rules is provisioned by the processing system, wherein the processing system is not at the transaction terminal, and where the gaming rules are provisioned substantially simultaneously to receiving the game play request;

determines, based on the gaming rules, whether the user associated with the identification information is eligible to participate in a game associated with the jurisdiction; and

enabling, at the transaction terminal, participation of the game play set associated with the identification information in the game associated with the jurisdiction,

wherein presentment of game-related content associated with the game at the transaction terminal is controlled by control data associated with the identification information, and wherein the presentment of the game-related content associated with the game at the transaction terminal is further based on an attribute of the transaction terminal,

wherein the attribute of the transaction terminal further comprises a location of the transaction terminal, and

wherein first game-related content for a particular game presented at a first transaction terminal associated with a first location is different from second game-related content for the particular game presented at a second transaction terminal at a second location.

54. The method of claim 53, wherein participation of the game play set associated with the identification information in the game associated with the jurisdiction comprises ticketless participation in the game.

55. The method of claim 53, wherein the identification transaction comprises a payment transaction.

56. The method of claim 53, wherein the identification transaction comprises a transaction other than a transaction for purchase of the game play set.

57. The method of claim 53, wherein the processing system is further configured to:

determine whether a winning game play set exists in the game;

determine whether the winning game play set matches a game play set participating in the game;

in response to determining the winning game play set matches the game play set associated with the identification information, determine an account associated with the identification information; and

initiate payment to the account.

58. The method of claim 53, wherein the game play set is stored in a database or is generated by a gaming operator.

59. The method of claim 53, wherein the identification transaction comprises a contact or contactless transaction.