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Systems and methods for operating a sweepstakes

  • US 9,881,441 B2
  • Filed: 03/14/2013
  • Issued: 01/30/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of determining a sweepstakes winner, the method comprising:

  • providing a code producing element;

    receiving, by a computer from an end-user device, a request for a code and an identification of the end-user device;

    generating, by the computer based on a variable factor and the identification of the end-user device, a code for the end-user device;

    transmitting, from the computer to the code producing element, the code for the end-user device;

    receiving, by the computer from the end-user device, the code for the end-user device; and

    determining, by the computer, whether the code received from the end-user device is a winning code by comparing the received code with a stored code,wherein the variable factor includes at least one of a geographic location from which the code is received, a date, a time of day, a day of a week, and a number of submissions by a particular person,wherein the code producing element is a display that produces the code, wherein the code is a bar code or quick response (QR) code and the end-user device includes an imaging device that captures the code produced by the display,wherein the code for the end-user device is selected as the winning codebased on the variable factor and the identification of the end-user device, andafter receiving the request for the code and before the code is produced on the display.

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