Game ticket with a related web site
OwnerNancy Bettcher, Michael John Brickwoodinventors
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Abstract
Lottery ticket games are enhanced by providing a web site related to the lottery game and by causing a purchaser or potential purchaser of a lottery ticket to take an image of a bar code related to the lottery game using a camera module of a personal communication device such as a cell phone for communication with the web site. Thus the bar code is analyzed to determine the web site and further data from the web site is communicated to the cell phone. The data may relate to the winning or losing status of the particular ticket, may include data for additional games or may be of a promotional nature. The data can also be provided on other material and may act as an incentive to the retailer rather than the purchaser.
Claims20
A method for playing a game comprising;
- providing a series of tickets for a game to be purchased and played by individual purchasers of the tickets;
- establishing a site related to the game;
- providing on each of the tickets an associated bar code which contains data identifying the game and the site related thereto;
- receiving from a purchaser or potential purchaser of a ticket an image of a bar code related to the game taken by a camera module of a personal communication device;
- analyzing the image of the bar code to determine the site associated with the game;
- and enabling communication between the personal communication device and the site in order to communicate further data from the site to be transmitted to the personal communication device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.