Single platform system for multiple jurisdiction lotteries

A wireless communications system comprising:

• a computer system configured that includes one or more platforms 10 to provide for operating a plurality of different lottery games for different jurisdictions, wherein a plurality of multiple functions relative to lottery games are mapped to the one or more platforms 10, multiple functions for the plurality of lottery games and different jurisdictions are mapped to the one or more platforms 10 and the one or more platforms 10 are scaleable, wherein the one or more platforms 10 configured to perform fraud detection;
• the computer system including:
• at least one workflow server residing in a mobile communications network, the at least one workflow server including at least one network processor, and the at least one workflow server accessible by a plurality of lottery clients,
• at least one computer readable storage medium storing computer executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one network processor in the workflow server residing in the mobile communications network, implement components including:
• a workflow module comprising sets of workflow instructions for processing different types of lottery game packets from a plurality of different jurisdictions,
• a deep packet inspection module for inspecting a received lottery game packet and providing information about the lottery game packet to the workflow module, wherein the workflow module coordinates processing of the received lottery game packets based on information about the lottery game packet provided by the deep lottery game packet inspection module.

A system comprising:

• a communications network workflow server for establishing communication between a first network entity and a second network entity, the communications network workflow server being accessible by a plurality of lottery clients, the workflow server comprising:
• a network interface receiving information lottery game packets from a first network entity.
• at least one network processor;
• at least one computer readable storage medium storing computer executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one network processor of the communications network workflow server, implement components comprising:
• a workflow module comprising rules for processing different types of information lottery game packets,
• a deep lottery game packet inspection module for inspecting the received lottery game packets for a plurality of jurisdictions run on a single platform and providing information about the lottery game packets to the workflow module, and selectable communication function modules including one or more of:
• a content filtering module.
• a HTTP proxy module.
• a video cache module,
• a video transcoding module,
• an analytics module,
• a firewall module,
• a charging module,
• a policy enforcement module,
• a traffic steering module;
• and
• a latency lottery services module,
• wherein a plurality of multiple functions relative to lottery games are mapped to the at least one platform and the at least one platform is configured to provide fraud detection.