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US 12,664,849 B2Granted
Lottery ticket vending machine
AssigneeBrightstar Global Solutions Corporation
InventorRobert Corvese
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Abstract
A lottery ticket vending machine configured to determine the lottery ticket state for each of a plurality of ticket drawers of the lottery ticket vending machine and, for each of the ticket drawers display an indication of the lottery ticket state for that ticket drawer of the lottery ticket vending machine.
Claims20
A lottery ticket vending machine comprising:
- a housing;
- a plurality of ticket drawers in the housing, the ticket drawers each configured to hold lottery tickets;
- a ticket burster in the housing, the ticket burster comprising a sensor and defining a ticket inlet and a ticket outlet, the ticket burster movable to positions respectively associated with each of the ticket drawers;
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- a controller supported by the housing and configured to, for each of the ticket drawers:
- receive and use signals from the sensor regarding an amount of lottery tickets in the ticket drawer when the ticket burster is aligned with the ticket drawer,
- track a quantity of lottery tickets in the ticket drawer,
- track an event associated with the lottery tickets in the ticket drawer, and
- cause a display by a lottery ticket state indicator of an indication of a lottery ticket state for the ticket drawer based on any tracked events associated with the lottery tickets in the ticket drawer and any signals from the sensor regarding the amount of lottery tickets in the ticket drawer when the ticket burster is aligned with the ticket drawer.
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A lottery ticket vending machine comprising:
- a housing;
- a display device supported by the housing;
- a plurality of ticket drawers in the housing, each ticket drawer comprising a lottery ticket holding area configured to hold lottery tickets, each ticket drawer associated with a ticket level determination assembly configured to direct a light beam into the lottery ticket holding area of the ticket drawer;
- a ticket burster in the housing, the ticket burster defining a ticket inlet and a ticket outlet, the ticket burster movable to positions respectively associated with the ticket drawers;
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- a controller supported by the housing and configured to, for each of the ticket drawers:
- receive and use signals regarding an amount of lottery tickets in the ticket drawer when the ticket burster is aligned with the ticket drawer, wherein the signals are based on whether the light beam is blocked by lottery tickets within the lottery ticket holding area of the ticket drawer,
- track a quantity of lottery tickets in the ticket drawer,
- track an event associated with the lottery tickets in the ticket drawer, and
- cause a display, by the display device, of an indication of a lottery ticket state for the ticket drawer based on any tracked events associated with the lottery tickets in the ticket drawer and any signals regarding the amount of lottery tickets in the ticket drawer.
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A lottery ticket vending machine comprising:
- a housing;
- a display device supported by the housing;
- a plurality of ticket drawers in the housing, each ticket drawer comprising a lottery ticket holding area configured to hold lottery tickets;
- a ticket burster in the housing, the ticket burster comprising a sensor and defining a ticket inlet and a ticket outlet, the ticket burster movable to positions respectively associated with the ticket drawers, the sensor configured to, for each of the ticket drawers, provide data regarding a quantity of lottery tickets in the lottery ticket holding area of the ticket drawer when the ticket burster is aligned with the ticket drawer;
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- a controller supported by the housing and configured to:
- for each of the ticket drawers, receive the data regarding the quantity of lottery tickets in the lottery ticket holding area of the ticket drawer, and
- for each of the ticket drawers, cause a display, by the display device, of one of an empty lottery ticket state indication, a low lottery ticket state indication, a full lottery ticket state indication, a discontinued lottery ticket state indication, and a jammed lottery ticket state indication determined at least partially based on the received data.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.