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AssigneeWalker Digital, LLC
InventorsJay S. Walker, Thomas M. Sparico, James A. Jorasch
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A system and process for generating, distributing, and processing lottery tickets guaranteed to win a drawing-based prize. Tickets are appropriately priced, and are validated at point of sale by a central server in which the ticket information is stored. Subsequent to each lottery drawing, the winning lottery numbers are compared to the entries in a never-lose ticket database to determine if any of the entries match the winning number. Winning entries are appropriately identified and tagged as inactive, while entries that have not yet won a drawing-based prize remain active for future drawings. Ticket pricing methodology is provided for appropriately pricing never-lose tickets. A method and apparatus are further provided whereby a ticket holder may query the status of a never-lose ticket directly from the server.
A method of operating a lottery, comprising:
A lottery apparatus, comprising:
A lottery system, comprising:
A medium storing instructions adapted to be executed by a processor to perform a method for operating a lottery, said method comprising:
A computer-readable medium that stores data accessible by a program executable on a data processing system, the data being organized according to a data structure that includes:
A method comprising:
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