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Automated sweepstakes-type game

  • US 4,669,730 A
  • Filed: 11/05/1984
  • Issued: 06/02/1987
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/05/1984
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. Apparatus for participation of a user in a sweepstakes-type game, said apparatus comprising:

  • (a) an automated teller machine for communicating with the user wherein said automated teller machine is of the type used by a financial services-type institution;

    (b) user identification means for providing user access to said automated teller machine;

    (c) means generating user indicia specific to the user;

    said user indicia being passively generated without input from said user once said user has obtained access to said automated teller machine;

    (d) means generating game indicia; and

    (e) processor means communicating with said automated teller machine, receiving said user indicia and receiving said game indicia;

    said processor means being adapted to compare said user indicia to said game indicia and determine whether a selected winning correlation exists between same, said processor means completing the comparison of said user game indicia generally contemporaneously with the user effecting an unrelated transaction by means of said automated teller machine, whereby there is no appreciable extra time required to complete said game in addition to said unrelated transaction.

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