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System for game play in an electronic environment

  • US 10,121,326 B2
  • Filed: 03/02/2018
  • Issued: 11/06/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A system for enhanced lottery game play adapted to couple one or more geographically remote vendors to the system, the vendors providing lottery electronic access tickets (LEAT) comprising a substrate bearing at least a participation number, the vendor locations including scanning devices, the scanning devices outputting scan information, and to couple one or more geographically remote users utilizing first electronic communication devices having first display capabilities and second electronic communication devices having second display capabilities, the first display capabilities being different than the second display capabilities, over a public communications network, including:

  • a lottery processor,a first communication input adapted to couple the one or more remote retail vendor locations with the lottery processor, the input including scan information from the lottery electronic access ticket (LEAT) obtained from the vendor scanning system,a second communication input adapted to couple bi-directional communications between the one or more remote users utilizing electronic communication devices with the lottery processor,a game processor, the game processor being coupled to the lottery processor, the game processor functioning at least to provide a graphical user interface for the users of the electronic communications path associated with the second communication input, the graphical user interface including a region in which the users input the participation number from the lottery electronic access ticket (LEAT) for access to the game processor, the graphical user interface presented to a registered user including additional features beyond the features presented by a graphical user interface presented to an unregistered user anda ticket database, the ticket database storing at least information on the participation number on the lottery electronic access ticket (LEAT) associated with lottery game play,the lottery processor placing the participation number in a first inactivated state prior to the lottery electronic access ticket being vended,the lottery processor receiving via the first communication input the scan information, andthe lottery processor placing the participation number in a second activated state updating the database in response to receiving the scan information whereby the number from the lottery electronic access ticket (LEAT) is activated only upon the scanning of the ticket at the retail location.

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