SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ANONYMOUS COMPETITION ENTRY

• US 20110024493A1
• Filed: 10/14/2010
• Published: 02/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/1999
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Limited
• Original Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Limited
• Inventors: Scott, Paul Quentin, Silverbrook, Kia, Lapstun, Paul, Lapstun, Jacqueline Anne
• Application Number:
  US12/905,066
• Publication Number:
  US 20110024493A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/375
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/14 specially adapted for billing systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/26 for printing, stamping, franking, typing or teleprinting apparatus ticket printing or the like apparatus G07F17/42

Abstract

A system for providing anonymous competition entry is provided. The system has a sensing device configured to sense coded data on a form and generate interaction data there from. The coded data has a plurality of tags each encoding data on an identity of the form and the location of that tag on the form. The interaction data represents the interaction of the sensing device with the tags. The system further has a computer system configured to identify a digital description associated with the form from the form identity represented by the interaction data, capture a competition entry by determining locations in the digital description associated with the locations of the interacted tags represented in the interaction data, and assign a competition alias identifier to the interaction data.

Claims

1. A system for providing anonymous competition entry, the system including:

a sensing device configured to;

sense coded data from a form as the sensing device is used to interact with the form, the coded data including a plurality of tags each encoding data on an identity of the form and the location of that tag on the form; and

generate interaction data representing the interaction of the sensing device with the tags; and

a computer system configured to;

identify a digital description associated with the form from the form identity represented by the interaction data;

capture a competition entry by determining locations in the digital description associated with the locations of the interacted tags represented in the interaction data; and

assign a competition alias identifier to the interaction data.

2. A system according to claim 1, wherein the computer system is configured to forward the interaction data and the competition alias identifier to a competition administrator.

3. A system according to claim 1, wherein the sensing device stores a sensing device identifier, the sensing device being configured to generate the interaction data to include the sensing device identifier.

4. A system according to claim 3, wherein the competition alias identifier is associated with an application identifier and the sensing device identifier.

5. A system according to claim 1, wherein the form is disposed on a product label including human-readable information relating to the competition.

6. A system according to claim 5, wherein at least some of the tags encode data on a label identifier.

7. A system according to claim 6, wherein the label identifier is a unique product item identifier.

8. A system according to claim 6, wherein the unique product item identifier is an electronic product code.