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AssigneeGroupon, Inc.
InventorsGregory J. Conklin, Alison Allgor, David Crawford, Naresh Dhiman, Jeffery Alan Holden, Shafiq Shariff
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Techniques are described for facilitating the awarding of prizes in chance-based contests in various ways, such as chance-based contests which are part of promotional advertising, etc. In at least some embodiments, the techniques include facilitating the awarding of prizes at the time a contestant enter or plays the contests, while awarding a selected number of prizes, which may be determined before the contest starts. In at least some embodiments, the techniques include employing an award counter to control awarding of prizes in a chance-based contest. For example, an award counter may be incremented at random or pseudo-random times. In at least some embodiments, the contest is associated with a location-based virtual group of users that has one or more associated geographical areas.
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A computer-implemented method, comprising:
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