Method for conducting a lottery
AssigneeGriffin York & Krause
InventorsTravis York, Patrick Griffin
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Abstract
A method of conducting a lottery includes registering a player with one or more losing tickets for one or more opportunities to enter one or more additional lotteries while collecting identifying information about the registered player. Allocating points to the registered player for each of the one or more losing tickets which are registered. Targeting communications to the registered player based on the collected identifying information. Entering the registered player in at least one of the additional lotteries in exchange for at least a portion of the allocated points which correspond with a number of entry points to participate. Conducting the additional lottery and providing the participating registered players with an outcome.
Claims12
A system for managing one or more replay lotteries, the method comprising:
- logic embodied on at least one non-transitory computer readable medium configured to receive data about one or more losing lottery tickets from one or more participating lotteries for one or more point accounts;
- logic embodied on at least one non-transitory computer readable medium configured to add an assigned amount of points for each of the losing tickets into a balance for the one or more point accounts based on the received data;
- logic embodied on at least one non-transitory computer readable medium configured to conduct one or more replay lotteries based on one or more entries received from the one or more point accounts in exchange for an entry amount deducted for each of the received entries from the balance of each of the one or more point accounts from which the entries are received;
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- logic embodied on at least one non-transitory computer readable medium configured to identify one or more winners for each of the conducted replay lotteries from the received entries.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.