Mobile CAT
AssigneePaul Francis Guiziel
InventorsPaul Francis Guziel, David Jason Schorr
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Abstract
Mobile device software application that uses the camera in a web-enabled PDA, cellular phone or smart phone to capture a barcode image off a lottery ticket, convert it to its unique serial number, pass it via cellular data service through a database query to generate a result set of win/loss data that can be returned to the PDA device.
Claims11
1) A process by which a lottery ticket can be evaluated as a winning or non-winning ticket using popular consumer mobile communication devices and a proprietary mobile software application
6) The method of managing the communication between the device and the information database server to automate a send/receive or allow manual send/receive.
8) The method of alerting the user of received/compiled data with audio and graphic notification, upon receipt from an automated or manual call to the database.
9) The method of throwing errors if the software determines conflicts in communicating with the hardware, communicating with the database or an inability to produce a valid result.
10) The method by which the user can register ownership of his/her ticket by sending a response back to the ticket server database from the mobile device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.