Systems and Methods for Operating a Sweepstakes
AssigneeThe Meyers Printing Companies, Inc.
InventorDavid Dillon
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Abstract
Systems and methods for determining sweepstakes winners involve a display providing a code to an end-user device and the end user-device providing the displayed code to a computer, which determines whether the displayed code is a winning code. Whether a code is a winning code can be based on a variable factor, such as a geographic location, a date, a time of day, a day of a week, a number of submissions by a particular person, valued activities performed by a particular person. The identification of a code as a winning code can be performed either before the code is provided to the display or after the code is received by the computer.
Claims20
A method of determining a sweepstakes winner, the method comprising:
- receiving, by the computer, a sweepstakes entry comprising a code;
- and
- determining, by the computer based on a variable factor, whether the code of the received sweepstakes entry is a winning code,
- wherein the variable factor includes at least one of a geographic location, a date, a time of day, a day of a week, a number of submissions by a particular person, valued activities performed by a particular person.
A system for determining a sweepstakes winner, the system comprising:
- an end-user device;
- a display configured to output a code associated with a sweepstakes entry, wherein the end-user device is configured to receive the outputted code;
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- a computer configured to receive the outputted code from the end-user device and to determine, based on a variable factor, whether the received, outputted code is a winning code,
- wherein the variable factor includes at least one of a geographic location, a date, a time of day, a day of a week, a number of submissions by a particular person, valued activities performed by particular person.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.