Drawing for winners over the internet
OwnerAnthony Petraccainventor
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Abstract
In summation this Automatic Electronic Entry allows entry for the award drawing using electronic receipts. Users with receipts from electronic ATMs, debit card, EZ Pass and Internet merchants and other fee and receipt collectors would have the option to be automatically entered into the drawings through means other than registering and entering into the games manually via the web site. All receipts will be entered into all daily, weekly, monthly and year end games. Receipts will continued to have the information such as date and time. Individuals will have the option at the time of purchase or ATM transaction to participate in the drawing.
Claims8
A method of conducting a drawing sweepstake over the Internet in which:
- (a) a plurality of players obtain a receipt, each of the receipts displaying at least a time and a date;
- (b) the players each log onto the Internet and communicate with a server drawing web site;
- (c) the drawing web site displays a web page having a place indicating that it is to be filled in with a time and a date, the player fills in the place with the time and date from the receipt;
- (d) the drawing web site displays said page also having a place to be filled in with a zip code from the receipt, when there is no zip code on the receipt, a zip code is automatically randomly assigned by the web site and said place is automatically filled in, and
- (e) the drawing web site randomly selects a time, a date and a portion or all of a zip code and awards a prize to a player whose time, date and zip code most closely matches the selected time, date and zip code.
A method of conducting a drawing sweepstake over the Internet in which:
- (a) a plurality of players obtain a receipt, each of the receipts displaying at least a date;
- (b) the players each log onto the Internet and communicate with a server drawing web site;
- (c) the drawing web site displays a web page having a place indicating that it is to be filled in with a date, the player fills in the place with the date from the receipt;
- (d) the drawing web site displays said page also having a place to be filled in by the time on the receipt, when there is not time on the receipt, the log on time is automatically used;
- (e) the drawing web site displays said page also having a place to be filled in with a zip code from the receipt, when there is no zip code on the receipt, a zip code is automatically randomly assigned by the web site, and
- (f) the drawing web site randomly selects a date, time and portion or all of a zip code and awards a prize to a player whose date and time and zip code most closely matches the selected date and time and zip code.
A method of conducting a drawing sweepstake over the Internet using data from electronic receipts from a provider merchant or fee collector in which:
- (a) a plurality of players obtain an electron receipt from a provider, each said receipts displaying at least a time and a date;
- (b) the provider logs onto the Internet and communicates with a server drawing web site;
- (c) the drawing web site displays a web page having a place where it is filled in with a time and a date by the provider;
- (d) the drawing web site displays said page also having a place to be filled in with a zip code from the electronic receipt, when there is no zip code on the electronic receipt, the zip code of the merchant or fee collector may fill in its own zip code;
- when no zip code is filled in, a zip code is automatically randomly assigned by the web site and said place is automatically filled in, and
- (e) the drawing web site randomly selects a time, a date and a portion or all of a zip code and awards a prize to a player whose time, date and zip code most closely matches the selected time, date and zip code.
A method of conducting a drawing sweepstake over the Internet using data from electronic receipts from a provider merchant or fee collector in which:
- (a) a plurality of players obtain a receipt, each of the receipts displaying at least a date;
- (b) the provider logs onto the Internet and communicate with a server drawing web site;
- (c) the drawing web site displays a web page having a place indicating that it is to be filled in with a date, the provider fills in the place with the date from the receipt;
- (d) the drawing web site displays said page also having a place to be filled in by the time on the receipt, when there is no time on the receipt, the log on time is automatically used;
- (e) the drawing web site displays said page also having a place to be filled in with a zip code from the electronic receipt, when there is no zip code on the receipt, a zip code is automatically randomly assigned by the web site, and
- (f) the drawing web site randomly selects a date, time and portion or all of a zip code and awards a prize to a player whose date and time and zip code most closely matches the selected date and time and zip code.
A method of conducting a drawing sweepstake over a network using data from electronic receipts from a provider including:
- (a) logging on to a network and communicating with a server drawing web site;
- (b) the drawing web site displaying a web page having a place which the provider fills in with a time and a date from the receipt displaying at least a time and a date;
- (c) the drawing web site displaying said page also having a place to be filled in with a zip code from the receipt, when there is no zip code on the receipt, a zip code is automatically randomly assigned by the web site and said place is automatically filled in, and
- (d) the drawing web site randomly selects a time, a date and a portion or all of a zip code and awards a prize for the receipt whose time, date and zip code most closely matches the selected time, date and zip code.
A method of conducting a drawing sweepstake over a network using data from electronic receipts from a provider including:
- (a) logging onto a network and communicating with a server drawing web site;
- (b) the drawing web site displaying a web page having a place which the provider fills in with a date from the receipt displaying at least a date;
- (c) the drawing web site displays a web page having a place to be filled in by the time on the receipt by the provider when there is no time on the receipt the log on time is automatically used;
- (d) the drawing web site displaying said page also having a place which a zip code is filled in from the receipt, when there is no zip code on the receipt, a zip code is automatically randomly assigned by the web site and said place is automatically filled in, and
- (e) the drawing web site randomly selects a time, a date and a portion or all of a zip code and awards a prize for the receipt whose time, date and zip code most closely matches the selected time, date and zip code.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.