Wire/wireless internet lottery system using random-number generator

• US 20030232641A1
• Filed: 06/14/2002
• Published: 12/18/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hae Nam Yu, Jae Hoon Yang, Yeong Gil Moon
• Original Assignee: Hae Nam Yu, Jae Hoon Yang, Yeong Gil Moon
• Inventors: Yu, Hae Nam, Moon, Yeong Gil, Yang, Jae Hoon
• Application Number:
  US10/170,637
• Publication Number:
  US 20030232641A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/17
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 15/008 electronic dies
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/34 depending on the stopping of moving members in a mechanical slot machine, e.g. "fruit" machines

Abstract

Disclosed is a wire/wireless Internet lottery game using a random-number generator, which is capable of allowing a user to optionally select a desired lottery number on an Internet lottery site, and displaying the scene of determining a winning number using the random-number generator in real time, thereby providing reliability and realism for the winning number determination process.

Claims

1. A wire/wireless Internet lottery system comprising:

at least one random-number generator for rotating a transparent case containing a die, sensing the number of points on an upper surface of the die after the rotation of the case, and outputting the sensed point number as one digit of a winning number;

a relay camera for picking up an image of the upper surface of the die after the rotation of the die in order to allow a user to directly identify the number of points shown on the die based on the picked-up image;

a plurality of terminals each for displaying a window for allowing the user to select a desired lottery number, transmitting the selected lottery number to an associated one of game servers, and displaying an image signal representing a procedure of determining the winning number using the random-number generator, along with the winning number;

a master server for outputting a drive control signal at a predetermined point of time at which the determination of the winning number is to begin, transmitting, to the game servers, the winning number determined by the random-number generator, and the image signal acquired by the relay camera; and

the game servers each selectively connected to the terminals via the Internet, each of the game servers managing the progress of a lottery game in association with the connected terminals, and managing personal histories of users associated with the connected terminals, and a database.

2. The wire/wireless Internet lottery system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a common server for performing a user log-in test in association with each of the terminals, and linking the terminal to a selected one of the game servers; and

a database server for receiving lottery numbers selected by respective users, and the winning number via the game servers, recording the received lottery numbers and winning number, settling a premium based on the result of the lottery game, and updating the database, while performing collection of or search for desired information using the database.

3. The wire/wireless Internet lottery system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one random-number generator comprises a plurality of random-number generators corresponding to respective digits of each lottery number, the random-number generators being sequentially driven to determine associated digits of the winning number, respectively.

4. The wire/wireless Internet lottery system according to claim 1, wherein the random-number generator comprises:

the transparent case made of a transparent material, the case having a polygonal structure while having a plurality of protrusions at an inner surface thereof in order to allow the die received therein to be rotated in random directions;

a rotating device for rotating the case; and

a sensing unit for recognizing the number of points formed on an upper surface of the die seated on a bottom surface of the case in a state in which the rotation of the case is stopped, based on the combination of magnets attached to a lower surface of the die.

5. The wire/wireless Internet lottery system according to claim 4, wherein the sensing unit comprises:

a vertical moving member configured to be vertically movable through a through hole centrally formed at a bracket, to which the rotating device is mounted, the vertical moving member having a magnetic field sensor at an upper surface thereof to sense a combination of magnets attached to a lower surface of the die; and

a solenoid fixedly mounted to the bracket, and adapted to vertically move the vertical moving member.