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Lottery sales systems and methodology for supporting cross-platform reporting

  • US 8,290,816 B2
  • Filed: 12/12/2008
  • Issued: 10/16/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of cross-platform lottery activity reporting between a lottery sales terminal and a retailer point-of-sale (POS) system, the method comprising:

  • accessing sales reporting data from the lottery sales terminal that indicates total sales of respective lottery products of interest and, for each lottery product of interest, generating and printing a machine-readable indicator corresponding to the total sales of the lottery product of interest;

    entering the lottery activity data into the POS system by scanning the printed generated machine-readable indicator with a scanner that is interfaced with the retailer POS system; and

    with the POS system, correlating the machine readable indicators with the respective lottery products of interests and updating lottery product records in the retailer POS system with the sales data contained in the machine readable indicators, wherein the effect of integration between the lottery sales terminals and the POS system is accomplished through the reading of the machine readable indicators.

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