MobileKittens
AssigneePaul Francis Guziel
InventorPaul F. Guziel
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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 append or change a game database and initiate a unique computer game sessions on the mobile device that the consumer can play with variable outcomes to determine the future value of the printed ticket.
Claims13
1) A process by which a lottery ticket can be generated by an existing lottery terminal with a future value determined by variable actions of the player.
7) The method of managing the communication between the device and the lottery information database server to log the actions of the player.
10) The method of managing the prize pool to generate possible game outcomes that do not exceed a payout threshold set by the lottery.
11) 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.
12) The method of generating a duplicate ticket barcode in the mobile device that can be used as an alternate or backup vehicle to validate/claim the prize at the lottery retailer.
13) The method of using the mobile device to validate and claim electronically in future implementations
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.