Lottery ticket and system
First Claim
1. A method for providing a completed lottery ticket comprising the steps of:
- storing a partially printed, non-completed lottery ticket, the lottery ticket having a first area and a second area, one of the first and second areas being concealed, wherein the first area has pre-printed data;
providing a terminal adapted for communication with a remotely located computer; and
,inserting the non-completed lottery ticket into the terminal and having the terminal communicate with the remotely located computer, the computer supplying to the terminal information necessary to provide a completed lottery ticket, wherein such supplied information includes supplied data, and such terminal then printing the supplied data onto the second area wherein after said one of the first and second areas being concealed is revealed, such supplied data, if matched with the pre-printed data indicates the ticket as a winning ticket.
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Abstract
A non-completed lottery ticket having a blank region adapted for having printed therein information necessary to complete the ticket. The necessary information includes "play data" used to determine the win/lose outcome of the ticket, either "instantly" or at a future date. A lottery ticket having a first number concealed with a removable material and a blank region adapted for having printed thereon a second number, the first and second numbers indicating the win/lose outcome of the ticket. A method for providing completed lottery tickets comprising the steps of: storing a partially printed, non-completed lottery ticket; providing a terminal coupled to a remotely located computer; and, inserting the non-completed lottery ticket into the terminal and having the terminal communicate with the remotely located computer, the computer supplying to the terminal ticket completion information and such terminal then printing such computer supplied ticket completion information onto the non-completed lottery ticket to provide the purchaser with the completed lottery ticket. Also disclosed is a system for dispensing completed lottery tickets from a vending machine. The vending machine stores partially printed, non-completed lottery tickets. When a lottery ticket is purchased from the vending machine, a printer in the vending machine prints ticket completion information on the stored, non-completed lottery ticket to thereby provide the purchaser with a completed lottery ticket.
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Citations
33 Claims
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1. A method for providing a completed lottery ticket comprising the steps of:
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storing a partially printed, non-completed lottery ticket, the lottery ticket having a first area and a second area, one of the first and second areas being concealed, wherein the first area has pre-printed data; providing a terminal adapted for communication with a remotely located computer; and
,inserting the non-completed lottery ticket into the terminal and having the terminal communicate with the remotely located computer, the computer supplying to the terminal information necessary to provide a completed lottery ticket, wherein such supplied information includes supplied data, and such terminal then printing the supplied data onto the second area wherein after said one of the first and second areas being concealed is revealed, such supplied data, if matched with the pre-printed data indicates the ticket as a winning ticket. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method for providing a lottery ticket comprising the steps of:
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storing a lottery ticket having printed thereon only a portion of data necessary to determine a win/lose outcome of the ticket, the lottery ticket having a first area and a second area, one of the first and second areas being concealed, wherein the first area has pre-printed data; providing a terminal adapted for communication with a remotely located computer; and
,inserting the lottery ticket into the terminal and having the terminal communicate with the remotely located computer, the computer then supplying to the terminal additional data and such terminal then printing such computer supplied additional data onto the second area of the inserted lottery ticket to provide the ticket with sufficient information to determine the win/lose outcome of the ticket wherein after said one of the first and second areas being concealed is revealed, the computer supplied additional data, if matched with the pre-printed data indicates the ticket as a winning ticket. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method for providing completed lottery tickets from a vending machine comprising the steps of:
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printing data, at the vending machine, on a purchasable lottery ticket disposed in the vending machine to provide a printed lottery ticket, the lottery ticket having a first area and a second area, one of the first and second areas being concealed, wherein the first area has pre-printed data, the printed data being printed onto the second area wherein after said one of the first and second areas being concealed is revealed, such printed data, if matched with the pre-printed data indicates the ticket as a winning ticket, and such printed data being printed in response to such vending machine receiving an indication that a lottery ticket is being purchased from the vending machine, such information completing the purchased lottery ticket and; dispensing such printed lottery ticket from the vending machine. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 19, 28)
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18. A system for providing completed lottery tickets, comprising:
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a printable medium having pre-printed thereon a portion of a lottery ticket, such pre-printed lottery ticket being a non-completed lottery ticket having a first area and a second area, one of the first and second areas being concealed, wherein the first area has pre-printed data; a printer adapted to print on the printable medium; and means for enabling the printer to print, when the non-completed lottery ticket is purchased, additional material onto the second area of the pre-printed printable medium to convert the printable medium into the completed lottery ticket, wherein such additional material includes data and wherein, after said one of the first and second areas being concealed is revealed, such additional data, if matched with the pre-printed data indicates the ticket as a winning ticket. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 24)
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23. A system for providing completed lottery tickets, comprising:
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(a) a computer; (b) a printable medium adapted to provide a lottery ticket, the printable medium having pre-printed thereon a portion of a lottery ticket, such pre-printed lottery ticket being a non-completed lottery ticket having a first area and a second area, one of the first and second areas being concealed, wherein the first area has pre-printed data; (c) a printer adapted for coupling to the computer and adapted to print data, when a lottery ticket is purchased, from the computer on the printable medium in response to signals coupled to the printer from the computer; (d) means for enabling the printer to print the data from the computer onto the second area of the printable medium to provide a completed valid lottery ticket, wherein after said one of the first and second areas being concealed is revealed, such data, if matched with the pre-printed data indicates the ticket as a winning ticket. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27)
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29. A method for providing a completed lottery ticket from a vending machine comprising the steps of:
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storing in the vending machine a partially printed, non-completed lottery ticket, the lottery ticket having a first area and a second area, one of the first and second areas being concealed, wherein the first area has pre-printed data; and
,completing the non-completed lottery ticket when a lottery ticket is purchased from the vending machine, by printing additional data onto the second area, wherein after said one of the first and second areas being concealed is revealed, such additional data, if matched with the pre-printed data indicates the ticket as a winning ticket. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33)
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Specification