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US 9,754,454 B2Granted
Method and system for lottery application
AssigneeMla Group, LLC
InventorsSalvatore C. Onorato, Vincent S. Onorato
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Abstract
Systems and methods of the invention relate to integrating into an existing hard copy lottery ticket system for adaptation to sell soft copies of lottery tickets. A master virtual device can provide data communications related to a sale of a soft copy of a lottery ticket to a master terminal such that the master terminal processes the sale to a lottery authority as if the sale is for a hard copy of the lottery ticket. The master virtual device can include a virtual lottery application that is configured to receive data related to a request to purchase a soft copy of a lottery ticket, format and communicate such data to the master terminal, and communicate confirmation of the soft copy of the lottery ticket.
Claims19
A system, comprising:
- a lottery authority device that is configured to communicate a confirmation that includes a set of lottery numbers for a draw game in response to a request;
- a master terminal that is in electric communication with the lottery authority device via a first data connection and is physically located at a site of a merchant;
- a master virtual device that is in electronic communication with the master terminal;
- the master virtual device is further configured to perform the following:
- receive a first set of requests for a hard copy of one or more lottery tickets from an input device of the master terminal;
- receive a second set of requests for a soft copy of one or more lottery tickets from the master virtual device;
- communicate the first set of requests or the second set of requests to the lottery authority device;
- receive a confirmation from the lottery authority device that includes a set of lottery numbers for a draw game that satisfies the first set of requests or the second set of requests;
- output the hard copy of the one or more lottery tickets based on a receipt of payment and the confirmation;
- communicate the confirmation, which includes the set of lottery numbers for the draw game that satisfies the second set of requests, to the master virtual device;
- and
- store a first data portion representative of a number of physical sales for the draw game via the master terminal physically located at the site of the merchant;
- the master virtual device is further configured to communicate via a second data connection to a mobile device, wherein the second data connection is the Internet;
- the master virtual device is further configured to perform the following:
- receive the second set of requests for the soft copy of one or more lottery tickets from a mobile device via the second data connection;
- communicate the second set of requests to the master terminal;
- receive the confirmation, which includes the set of lottery numbers for the draw game that satisfies the second set of requests;
- communicate the soft copy of the one or more lottery tickets based on a receipt of the confirmation from the master terminal, and a payment from the mobile device;
- store a second data portion representative of a number of online sales for the draw game via the virtual master device in electronic communication with the master terminal which is physically located at the site of the merchant;
- track a number of the first set of requests communicated to the lottery authority;
- track a number of the second set of requests communicated to the lottery authority;
- and
- adjust, by increasing or decreasing, the number of the second set of requests based on a comparison of a total of the first set of requests and the second set of requests to a pre-defined threshold.
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A method of distributing a lottery ticket for entry to participate in a lottery game, comprising:
- establishing a data connection between a lottery authority and a master terminal located at a physical location of a merchant that sells one or more lottery tickets for a lottery game;
- employing a user interface with the master terminal or a slave terminal, electronically coupled thereto, to sell a hard copy of the one or more lottery tickets from the lottery authority;
- receiving, from a mobile device, a submitted payment and a user selected number for the lottery game to sell a soft copy of the one or more lottery tickets from the lottery authority;
- communicating a data package to the master terminal, the data package includes data representative of the submitted payment and the user selected number for the lottery game;
- formatting the data package to replicate a format used for data communicated between the slave terminal and the master terminal;
- receiving a confirmation from the master terminal for the user selected number for the lottery game;
- communicating the soft copy of the one or more lottery tickets from the lottery authority based on the confirmation from the master terminal;
- tracking a number of the hard copy of the one or more lottery tickets communicated to the lottery authority;
- tracking a number of the soft copy of the one or more lottery tickets communicated to the lottery authority;
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- adjusting, by increasing or decreasing, the number of the soft copy of the one or more lottery tickets communicated to the lottery authority based on a comparison of a total of the number of the hard copy of the one or more lottery tickets and the number of the soft copy of the one or more lottery tickets to a pre-defined threshold.
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A lottery gaming system, comprising:
- a master terminal that is in electronic communication with a lottery authority device which distributes a lottery ticket for a lottery game;
- the master terminal includes a memory, a processor that executes instructions stored on the memory, a display, and an input device;
- a printer that is in electronic communication with the master terminal;
- an output device that is in electronic communication with the master terminal;
- the master terminal is further configured to perform the following:
- receive a first set of requests for a hard copy of one or more lottery tickets from the input device of the master terminal;
- receive a second set of requests for a soft copy of one or more lottery tickets from a mobile device;
- communicate the first set of requests and the second set of requests to the lottery authority device;
- receive a confirmation from the lottery authority device that includes a set of lottery numbers for a draw game that satisfies the first set of requests and the second set of requests;
- output the hard copy of the one or more lottery tickets for the first set of requests based on a receipt of payment and the confirmation;
- communicate the soft copy of the one or more lottery tickets for the second set of requests based on a receipt of payment and the confirmation
- store a first data portion representative of a number of physical sales for the draw game;
- store a second data portion representative of a number of online sales for the draw game;
- track a number of the first set of requests;
- track a number of the second set of requests;
- and
- adjust, by increasing or decreasing, the number of the second set of requests based on a comparison of a total of the number of the first set of requests and the number of the second set of requests to a pre-defined threshold.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.