Method for conducting a lottery
AssigneeGriffin York & Krause
InventorsTravis York, Patrick Griffin
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Abstract
A method for conducting a lottery that offers players who lose the opportunity to use their losing lottery tickets to enter one or more additional lotteries, a replay program.
Claims25
1-15. (canceled)
A method for managing one or more replay lotteries, the method comprising:
- receiving data about one or more losing lottery tickets from one or more participating lotteries for one or more accounts;
- adding an assigned amount for each of the losing tickets into a balance for the accounts based on the received data;
- conducting one or more replay lotteries based on one or more entries received from the accounts in exchange for an entry amount deducted for each of the received entries from the balance of each of the accounts from which the entries are received;
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- identifying one or more winners for each of the conducted replay lotteries from the received entries.
A system that manages one or more replay lotteries comprising a lottery host system that receives data about one or more losing lottery tickets from one or more participating lotteries for one or more accounts, the lottery host system adds an assigned amount for each of the losing tickets into a balance for the accounts based on the received data, the lottery host system conducts one or more replay lotteries based on one or more entries received from the accounts in exchange for an entry amount deducted for each of the received entries from the balance of each of the accounts from which the entries are received, and the lottery host system identifies one or more winners for each of the conducted replay lotteries from the entries.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.