Interactive internet lottery

• US 20070218971A1
• Filed: 10/30/2006
• Published: 09/20/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Les Developpements Aurifossor, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Les Developpements Aurifossor, Inc.
• Inventors: Berube, Normand
• Granted Patent: US 9,058,713 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/17
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/329 Regular and instant lottery, e.g. electronic scratch cards

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for generating a ticket to participate in a lottery draw. The ticket combination of elements is generated using an outcome of a computer-controlled interactive game, preferably a video game, played by at least one player. The elements of the ticket combination are selected among a list of predetermined elements, the predetermined elements corresponding to possible outcomes for the interactive game. The ticket combination may depend on the success of the player in the computer-controlled interactive game. Some of the participants may purchase a ticket bearing a ticket combination without using an outcome of the computer-controlled interactive game. Subsequently, the elements of a winning combination are randomly drawn among the list.

Claims

1. A method for providing a ticket having a ticket combination to participate in a lottery draw, said method comprising:

defining a list of predetermined elements, said ticket combination to be a subset of the elements of said list;

providing a computer-controlled interactive game to be played by at least a primary player, said game having an outcome;

selecting elements of said ticket combination at least partly using said outcome of said computer-controlled interactive game; and

providing said ticket having said ticket combination for participating in said lottery draw.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said outcome is a function of at least one action of said primary player in said game.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the computer-controlled interactive game involves at least two parties that are competing to determine a winner among said parties, said outcome of said computer-controlled interactive game comprising said winner.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein said primary player is to compete for a first one of said parties.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein a secondary player is to compete for a second one of said parties, said first and said second ones of said parties to compete one against the other.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said outcome is a function of a performance of said primary player in said game.

7. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein said outcome is a function of a performance of said primary and of said secondary player in said game.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said elements of said list are parties to be competing in said computer-controlled interactive game.

9. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein at least some of said parties compete in said computer-controlled interactive game to determine at least one loser among said parties and wherein said selecting comprises excluding said loser from said ticket combination.

10. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein said selecting comprises said primary player choosing a party to be included in said ticket combination from said list, said game involving at least two parties remaining, said primary player to compete for one of said at least two parties to determine a loser, said loser to be excluded from said ticket combination.

11. A system for providing a ticket having a ticket combination to participate in a lottery draw, said ticket combination being a subset of elements selected among a list of predetermined elements, said system comprising:

a gaming module for at least a primary player to play a computer-controlled interactive game having an outcome;

a ticket combination generator for determining the elements of said list to be included in said ticket combination at least partly using said outcome; and

a ticket provider for providing a ticket having said ticket combination for use in said lottery draw.

12. The system as claimed in claim 11, wherein said outcome is a function of at least one action of said primary player in said game.

13. The system as claimed in claim 11, further comprising a computer network for remotely connecting at least two of said ticket provider, said ticket combination generator and said gaming module.

14. The system as claimed In claim 11, wherein the computer-controlled interactive game involves at least two parties that are competing to determine a winner among said parties, said outcome of said computer-controlled interactive game determining said winner.

15. The system as claimed in claim 14, wherein said primary player is to compete for a first one of said parties.

16. The system as claimed in claim 15, wherein a secondary player is to compete for a second one of said parties, said first one and said second one of said parties to compete one against each other, and wherein said system further comprises a network for at least one of said primary and said secondary players to remotely connect to said gaming module.

17. The system as claimed in claim 11, wherein said outcome depends at least in part on a performance of said primary player in said game.

18. The system as claimed in claim 17, wherein said outcome depends at least in part on a performance of said primary and said secondary players in said game.

19. The system as claimed in claim 11, wherein said elements of said list are parties to be competing in said computer-controlled interactive game.

20. The system as claimed in claim 19, wherein at least part of said parties are to compete in said computer-controlled interactive game to determine at least one loser among said parties, said outcome of said computer-controlled interactive game determining said loser, and wherein said loser is to be excluded from said ticket combination.

21. The system as claimed in claim 11, wherein said ticket combination generator comprises a user input for said primary player to select an element of said list to be included in said ticket combination.