Sms messaging system accommodating variable entries for lotteries
OwnerRiangelo Javier de Cubainventor
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Abstract
A SMS lottery gateway server obtains one SMS message from a mobile phone via a base station over a wide area network and parses the one SMS message to identify therein a plurality of game entries including one or more associated picks. A lottery server receives the game entries and associated picks from the SMS lottery gateway server and plays lottery games based thereon. The SMS lottery gateway server can send one SMS message to the mobile phone acknowledging the identified plurality of lottery game entries. The SMS lottery gateway server can parse the SMS message in various ways such as looking for a number and an associated pick, the number indicating a quantity of the plurality of entries.
Claims17
A method of interpreting an SMS lottery message comprising the steps of:
- (a) receiving in an SMS transaction gateway server one SMS message from a mobile phone over a wide area network;
- (b) parsing in the SMS transaction gateway server the one SMS message so received in said step (a) to identify therein a plurality of lottery game entries including one or more associated picks;
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- (c) sending the plurality of game entries identified in said step (b) from the SMS transaction gateway server to a lottery server to play a lottery game based thereon.
A system for interpreting an SMS lottery message comprising:
- a base station and antenna for receiving SMS messages from a mobile phone;
- a SMS lottery gateway server operatively coupled to obtain the SMS messages from the base station over a wide area network, wherein the SMS lottery gateway server parses one SMS message to identify therein a plurality of game entries including one or more associated picks;
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- a lottery server operatively coupled to the SMS lottery gateway server to receive the game entries and associated picks and play lottery games based thereon.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.