Sweepstakes campaign system and uses thereof
OwnerJonathan Kendrickinventor
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to sweepstakes campaign system wherein consumers are given a clue to find a consumer good in a retail store. The consumer locates the good and places the good within the field of view of a camera of a mobile device or takes a picture of the good with the camera on the mobile device. The mobile device or a server can extract an object from the field of view or from the image and determine if the extracted object is a good and determine whether the good is correct. If the consumer has located the correct good, the consumer will be provided with the next reward clue and either a message or a good clue. The sweepstakes campaign can conclude with one or more winners being provided the location(s) or method of obtaining a reward.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving one or more clues related to a consumer good;
- transmitting the one or more clues to one or more consumer mobile devices;
- in response to transmitting the one or more clues, receiving, from at least one of the one or more consumer mobile devices, an image and metadata associated with the image;
- determining that the image is a solution to the one or more clues;
- and
- providing another clue to the at least one of the one or more consumer devices.
A sweepstakes campaign system comprising:
- a gaming administrator device, configured to:
- receive one or more clues related to a consumer good;
- transmit the one or more clues to one or more consumer mobile devices;
- in response to transmitting the one or more clues, receive, from at least one of the one or more consumer mobile devices, an image and metadata associated with the image;
- determine that the image is a solution to the one or more clues;
- and
- provide another clue to the at least one of the one or more consumer devices;
- and
- an application installed on a consumer mobile device configured to:
- receive the one or more clues;
- capture the image of the consumer good;
- capture the metadata;
- and
- transmit the image and the metadata to the gaming administrator device.
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a computing device, metadata associated with an image captured by the computing device;
- determining, based on a symmetric key, an identifier for the image;
- generating, based on the metadata associated with the image and the identifier, a watermarked image;
- and
- sending, to a verification subsystem, the watermarked image, wherein the verification subsystem determines, based on the watermarked image, that the metadata identifies the computing device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.