US 9,248,369 B2 · System, method, and apparatus for the electronic operation, management, sponsorship, advertising, promotion, marketing, and regulation of games of chance on a network

Abstract

The present invention is directed to a computer network system that allows a user to register for games of chances throughout the country and in accordance with national, state and local laws and ordinances. This system analyses the geographical location and residency information of a user in relation to the geographical access and participation areas permitted, excluded, and restricted for a game of chance as governed by jurisdictional laws, statutes, rules, and regulations. If the user is not located within a permitted area or falls within an excluded or restricted area, the user will not be allowed to access or participate in the game of chance. The ability of the system to limit participation by geographical location is based on user input, data, and variable analysis, and the comparison between the areas where games of chance are permitted, excluded, restricted, and user location and residency, filters data to determine user accessibility to a game of chance, listings, and advertising. The methods and apparatus of this system have applications on the Internet for raffles as well as other conventional games of chance.

A method of using an access authorization control comprising a central server system having or interconnected to

(A) an input/display device (i) operated by a first user to allow the first user to enter the first user's age and the first user's residence to the central server, and (ii) provides the input/display device's location to the central server system;
(B) a government regulated, jurisdictional activity interface having a government regulated, jurisdictional activity database, the government regulated, jurisdictional activity database has at least one government regulated, jurisdictional activity thereon that is subject to a government entity's control;
(C) the access authorization control is a Laws, Rules, and Regulation Engine having Access Authorization Controls for jurisdictional regulatory compliance that limits a listing of the specific government regulated, jurisdictional activity that the first user can access or view based on (a) the first user's (i) residence information, and (ii) age and (b) the input/display device's location;
the central server system:
(I) confirms the governmental entity's laws, rules and regulations regarding the government's age, residence and location requirements for each government regulated, jurisdictional activity on the government regulated, jurisdictional activity database and an administrator user's rules and regulations regarding the age, residence and location requirements for each government regulated, jurisdictional activity on the access database;
(II) compares
(a) first user's entered age information to
(i) the governmental entity's minimum required age requirements to partake in government regulated, jurisdictional activity,
(ii) the access database's minimum required age requirements as set by the administrator user, and
(iii) first user's age information found on a first database, connected to the central server;
(b) first user's entered residence information to
(i) the governmental entity's residence requirements to partake in the government regulated, jurisdictional activity,
(ii) the access database's residence requirements as set by the administrator user, and
(iii) first user's residence information on a second database, connected to the central server;
and
(c) input/display device's location to
(i) governmental entity's location requirements to partake in the government regulated, jurisdictional activity,
(ii) the access database's location requirements as set by the administrator user, and
(iii) a third database, connected to the central server, that confirms the input/display device's location is located in a jurisdiction that allows the first user to partake in the government regulated, jurisdictional activity;
(III) transmits to the input/display device the list of the government regulated, jurisdictional activity when the first user's entered information satisfies the government age, residence and location requirements and the administrator user's age, residence and location requirements established by an entity that registered the government regulated, jurisdictional activity with the government entity;
wherein the Laws, Rules, and Regulation Engine having the Access Authorization Controls for jurisdictional regulatory compliance:
(a) allows or denies access authorization in real-time of one or more remote users simultaneously;
(b) allows or denies access authorization in real-time, and verifies user device location data and residency data of one or more remote users simultaneously;
(c) allows or denies access authorization in real-time, and verifies user device location data of one or more remote users simultaneously;
(d) allows or denies access authorization in real-time, and verifies user residency data of one or more remote users simultaneously;
and
(e) enabling the internet to be regulated in real-time in relation to one or more remote users simultaneously using the internet to partake in regulated activities;
wherein the input/display device is configured to obtain a captured state of the first user's actual residency, location, and age, and the captured state representing actual residency, location, and age information of one or more users simultaneously using the internet to partake in regulated activities in real-time.

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Application

14/510,412Filed 9 Oct 2014 · continuation

Priority

10 Nov 2005

Published

US 2015/0038208 A15 Feb 2015

Granted

2 Feb 2016

Term ends

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Classification8 codes

G07F 17/3241
For games, toys, sports, or amusements: security aspects of a gaming system, e.g. detecting cheating, device integrity, surveillance
A63F 3/08
Board games; Raffle games: raffle games that can be played by a fairly large number of people
G07F 17/32
Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services: for games, toys, sports, or amusements
G07F 17/3223
Hardware aspects of a gaming system, e.g. components, construction, architecture thereof: architectural aspects of a gaming system, e.g. internal…

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Application60/735,264Us provisional application · filed 10 Nov 2005

Application11/593,696Parent of this continuation · filed 7 Nov 2006

Application13/281,477Parent of this continuation · filed 26 Oct 2011

US 8,066,565 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 29 Nov 2011

Application13/743,649Parent of this continuation · filed 17 Jan 2013

US 8,382,588 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 26 Feb 2013

US 2015/0038208 A1Pre-grant publication · published 5 Feb 2015

US 8,900,056 B2Parent of this continuation

US 2007/0105612 A1Published application

US 2012/0052955 A1Published application

US 2013/0143634 A1Published application

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System, method, and apparatus for the electronic operation, management, sponsorship, advertising, promotion, marketing, and regulation of games of chance on a network

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System, method, and apparatus for the electronic operation, management, sponsorship, advertising, promotion, marketing, and regulation of games of chance on a network

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