AU2019246931A1 - my invention is any audience or crowds or gatherings or anything that is counted at any type of event that can be used for financial gain. for example: if you have 3500 people that attend the game officially. the crowd or audience or anybody else can try and guess the number of people attending for a financial gain or any prizes given for people to try and guess the number of attendees. - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a guessing competition and is based on the number of spectators attending a sporting match and/or sporting competition. To enter the competition, each person must purchase a ticket from the competition operator. The money collected from ticket sales is pooled, and the person who makes a guess closest to the official attendance number receives a portion of the pooled money.

Description

This Patent Relates to a Guessing Competition, but unlike other legalized Guessing

Competitions pays particular reference to the specific Event Itself in the form Crowd

Estimation and the different means of Participating.-Unlike other Guessing

Competitions where people pay a personally chosen random fee and are rewarded

through a Multiplier Configuration such as legalised betting where the Odds

determine the amount rendered by the winning participant and then are calculated to

determine the winning bets worth, This Competition relies solely on Guessing the

number in attendance at a specific Event to determine the winning bets worth. This

Patent also takes into account that there are different means of participating and

recognises Five (5) Specific methods as defined in the Assembly Calculator hereafter

and attached as Appendix 1. To better clarify the Five (5) Specific methods of

participating in this Guessing Competition, particular reference is taken to the

following paragraphs and defined hereafter as Registry Modules.

Module 1.a) b) Prepaid Ticket Registrar.

Module 2. Assembly Point/Area.

Module 3.a) b) Entry Point.

Module 4.a) Attendance Register 01.

Module 5.a) Attendance Register 02.

Module 6. Pool Enhancement 01.

Module 7. Pool Enhancement 02.

Module 8.a) b) Official Attendance Number.

Module 9. Money Pool.

Module 10. a) b) c) Prize

Module 11. Innovation Profit Point

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Appendix 1, Will therefore be described in paragraphs:

1. a) b) 2. 3. a) b) 4. a) 5. a) 6. 7. 8. a) b) 9. 10 a) b) c) 11.

1. Prepaid Ticket Registrar. A sales register or prepaid console is a place in

this instance where a person or persons may present him or herself, phone, or e

mail to pre-book tickets in advance for an upcoming event, and at that stage may

or may not choose to participate and pay an extra or added fee for that privilege as

described hereafter by 1(a), 1(b).

a) A person or persons may choose to purchase a prepaid ticket or tickets

through a cash or credit transaction in order to secure a single, or multiple

positions and may also choose not to participate in the Crowd Estimation

Guessing Competition that this innovation relates to upon registering

through this method, thus not supporting this method.

b) A person or persons may choose to purchase a prepaid ticket or tickets

through a cash or credit transaction in order to secure a single, or multiple

positions and may also choose to participate in the Crowd Estimation

Guessing Competition that this innovation relates to upon registering

through this method, thus paying an additional fee and supporting this

method.

2. Assembly Point/Area. The Assembly point/area in this case will be referred

to as an area outside the event where people gather to form a crowd in-order to

enter through an Entry Point or Registry Console/Caracole.

3. Entry Point. As is with most Games, Functions or Events a patron to a

specific Game, Functions or Event will need to pass through an Entry Point to be

recognized as a contributing patron by the governing or controlling body or

statutory regulator. The Entry Point may also be a place to register for a Crowd

Estimation Guessing Competition or simply purchase tickets without registering

for the Crowd Estimation Guessing Competition on the day or night that the

specific event is to take place.

a. A person or persons may choose to purchase a ticket or tickets through

a cash or credit transaction in order to secure a single, or multiple positions

and may also choose not to participate in the Crowd Estimation Guessing

Competition that this innovation relates to upon registering through this

method, thus not supporting this method.

b. A person or persons may choose to purchase a ticket or tickets through

a cash or credit transaction in order to secure a single, or multiple positions

and may also choose to participate in the Crowd Estimation Guessing

Competition that this innovation relates to upon registering through this

method, thus paying an additional fee and supporting this method.

4. Attendance Register 01. This register although separate to section 5 of the

(Attendance Register 02) of the Assembly Calculator will Correlate with section 5

of the Attendance Register 02 to give a correct estimation of the Crowd in

attendance at a specific Game, Function or Event as defined by the following.

a. This section represents the number of people that have passed through

an Entry Point but have chosen not to participate in the Crowd Estimation

Competition and although they have not contributed financially to the

prize or pool as defined in section 9, These patrons will have to be taken

into account as Official Patrons Attending that Game Function or Event.

5. Attendance Register 02. This register although separate to section 4 of the

(Attendance Register 01) of the Assembly Calculator will Correlate with section 4

of the Attendance Register 01 to give a correct estimation of the Crowd in

attendance at a specific Game, Function or Event as defined by the following.

a. This section represents the number of people that have passed through

an Entry Point and have chosen to participate in the Crowd Estimation

Competition and contributed financially to the prize or Money Pool as

defined in section 9, These patrons also have to be taken into account as

Official Patrons Attending that Game Function or Event.

6. Pool Enhancement 01. This section may be better understood by using the

following Hypothetical Equation as a guide in defining different Scenario's

encompassed within this section (6) of this patent application, taking into account

that a person participating in this Guessing Competition will pay an added fee,

In this instance ("Hypothetical Equation") $5 will be the allocated fee for all

Participants. It will also be assumed that 470 people are entered into this Guessing

Competition through any of the five different means herein stated as1.b) 3.b)

5.a) 6. or 7 and 655 Attendance are not, although 204 of the 470 entrants are in

Attendance, 655 +204= 859. (44 + 102 + 58 = 204 entrants Attending).

This means that only 470 of the 1125 people directly involved are registered

through at least one of the five different means of participating.

(1) Pre-paid Ticket Register 44 A $5 = $ 220.00+

(2) Assembly Point/Area= 859 Patrons Gathered Outside To Attend. (3) Entry Point/s 102 A $5 = $ 510.00+

(4) Attendance Register 01= Patrons Attending that did not participate in Crowd

Estimation Competition = 655 (5) Attendance Register 02, 58 A $5 = $ 290.00+

(6) Pool Enhancement 01 200 @ $5 = $1000.00+

(7) Pool Enhancement 02 66(@$5 $ 330.00+

(8) Official Attendance Number = 859 (9) Money Pool= $2350.00 less taxes @ 33% = $1574.50

(10) Prize. The prize is to be divided between the winner/s = $ 314.90

(11) Innovation Profit Point = $1259.60

Although it has been taken into account that there are five different ways of

Participating in this Guessing Competition, It shall only recognise registration

Facilities Affiliated to this Innovation and therefore be apart of the Innovation

Profit Point as Affiliated Members.

Particular reference will be paid to section six (6) within the above Hypothetical

Guide, This means that a person sitting at Home or a Club that may want to

participate in the Crowd Estimation of Attendance at a specific Game Function or

Event may enter his or her Crowd Estimation via the Internet or an Approved

Register to Compete, therefore sharing an equal opportunity at winning the

assigned Reward determined by the number of participants calculated by the fee

charged to the participate and that Reward shall be a percentage of the Money

Pool generated as defined in section 9 of the Assembly Calculator.

7. Pool Enhancement 02. A person sitting at Home, or another Event that may

want to participate in the Crowd Estimation of Attendance at a specified Game

Function or Event may enter his or her Crowd Estimation via a Mobile Phone

SMS to Register or Compete, therefore sharing an equal opportunity at winning

the assigned Reward determined by the number of participants calculated by the

fee charged to the participate and that Reward shall be a percentage of the Money

Pool generated as defined in section 9 of the Assembly Calculator.

8. Official Attendance Number. The Official Attendance Number at a Specific

Game Function or Event relates to Registered Attending Patrons that have passed

through an Entry Point as defined in paragraphs 3. a) b) before the Official Start

of that Specific Game Function or Event.

Taking into account that there are Five (5) different methods of participating

in this Crowd Estimation Guessing Competition, There can only be one

method of Entering a Game, Function or Event using the Method that this

Patent relates to.

a) A Patron Attending a Game, Function or Event Must Enter through an

Approved Entry Point and Register his or her Attendance.

b) A Patron Attending a Game, Function or Event that enters through an

Approved Entry Point or Register that wants to participate in this Guessing

Competition must do so before the Official Start Time, or Register through

other means such as described in paragraphs, 1.b) 3.b) 5.a) 6. or 7.

9. Money Pool. To better understand the Money Pool, it should first be clearly

understood that participants wishing to subscribe in order to contest within this

competition should be registered by using one of the five methods of

participating as set out in paragraphs, 1.b) 3.b) 5.a) 6. or 7.

All moneys generated by the sale of tickets supporting this method as defined

in paragraphs, 1.b) 3.b) 5.a) 6. or 7. have been pooled at this stage and as is

with the five Registry Modules will cease to except further financial gain once

the Game, Function or Events has Officially Started.

The money Pool is also a place where the Gross of the Pool is dissected and

distributed between the Taxation Office, the Share Holder/s of this patented

Concept and the Winning Participant/s as directed by the individual States

Gaming Regulator.

10. Prize. This section of the Assembly Calculator relates to the winning

participant or participants. To better describe the winning participant or

participants, the following should be considered.

a. The person/s that have passed through a registry point, or contributed

through a registry point to the money pool as defined in section Nine (9)

with the correct guess, or the closest guess to the official number in

attendance will be declared the winner/s of that specific attendance

guessing competition.

b. While there may be more than one (1) winner in this competition, it

should be understood that multiple winners registered through any of the

previously stated means of participating will share in the prise and that

prise will be apart of the money pool in accordance with the individual

States Gaming Regulator.

c. The winner or winners should be credited an equal share of the prise.

11. Innovation Profit Point. This section of the Patent relates to the financial

gain that this patent relies on.

This section also takes into consideration that all deductions have been deducted

leaving only a net Profit. (Refer to Section 9, "Money Pool").

Points of Claim

1) A systematic way for the sale and registration of an entry in a crowd number guessing competition via remote electronic terminals linked to a main or central terminal that stores and calculates data collected to determine a common conclusion of the official crowd size before the official start of a game, race or match where a single or multiple winners may be determined based on the closest guess to the official crowd size and an aggregate money pool is dissected using the individual state and or federal governing protocols to comply with the relevant criteria requested by that or each individual state or federal governing body.

2) Through remote terminals and at a fee participants shall have access to purchase and register an estimation (guess) of attendance where people congregate to form a crowd. Reference is given to the systematic way of registration described in claim 1) stated herein. Using this system a person may access a terminal to purchase a ticket and choose to pay an added fee to have that ticket endorsed with a personal crowd estimation through that terminal or operator prior to participating. This system includes a database where participants that are in attendance and registered through endorsement upon entry as well as those that are registered but not in attendance, and the official number of attendance are collected and the aggregate correlated to reach a common conclusion of:

a) Registered participants in attendance. b) Registered participants not in attendance. c) Registered attendance plus non-registered attendance attending game, race or match to form Official attendance number.

3) Using this system and based on the aggregate money pool being dissected as stated in paragraph 1) of Points of Claim, All participants that are registered whether being in attendance or electronically registered and not in attendance will be calculated by the amount paid upon registering and the number of people registered to determine the money pools net value: a) All monies that have been transferred through electronic registration facilities or terminals to participate in this crowd estimation or guessing competition have been combined or pooled to form the total gross money pool. b) The net value of the money pool shall be determined by the tax and relevant deductions deducted in accordance with state and federal governing bodies. c) The money pool shall determine by its net worth and each individual states gaming regulator the value of the prize presented to the registered person or persons with the correct or closest to the correct guess of the number of people in attendance at a specified game, race or match. d) In the event of multiple winners, that prize shall be equally shared. e) That prize and winning estimation shall also be advertised.

4) The official number in attendance shall be disclosed during or soon after the related game, race or match as defined in paragraph 1) and the registered winning number shall also be advertised via an electric monitor or electronic transmition, although:

a) It shall be up to the individual to claim his or her prize if in attendance by presenting the winning ticket back to a terminal or endorsed official for collection. b) Participants with winning tickets relating to this specific innovation shall present proof of registration for validation to a terminal or place of purchase in order to collect the allotted prize. c) If no prize has been collected after a period not less than 21 days from the date of a specific game, race or match that prize may be donated to a charity or non-profit organization and the ticket holder/s winning ticket may then become invalid.

Sincerely, Mr. Jack Boyd.

C/o Po Box 68 Marian Qld 4753 AUSTRALIA

Home phone: 0749 544050 Mobile: 0439743526

Ticket Register for Pr-Paid Assembly Point/Area ASSEMBLY CALCULATOR Tickets, APPENDIX Including or Excluding Mass or Crowd Gathered (2) Crowd Estimation Fee, outside to Attend Function 24/06107 (1) Pre-paidTicket Entry Point. Registrar Ti t (3) or Registration Facility Attendance Register 01. Attendance Register 02. Number of people that DID NOT Pay an extra Number of people that DID Pay an extra Fee Charged for (4) Fee Charged for Guessing the number of Guessing the number of People in Attendance at this People in Attendance at this Game, Function or Game, Function or Event. Event. (6) Money Transfered Via the Internet Number of People in Attendance at a padicular Game, Money Transaction Via the phone to participate In Crowd Estimation () Function or Event, At the Start of the Game, Funtion or to Participate in Crowd Estimation Guessing Competition Evet. 'OfficialAttendanceNumber Guessing Competition Pool Enhancement 01. Pool Enhancement 02. Mr. Jack Boyd- (9) Pool of Money Generated by a Fee Charged at Ether the icTicket Box, Pre-paid Tickets or a Computer or Phone Credit C/o Po Box 68 Marian i- Money Pool. Queensland Australia 4753 Home phone: 0749 544050 (10) 20% of the Gross Pool to be Credited to the Person or Persons with the Correct Guess, Or Clostest to the Correct Guess of the Crowd in Attendance through any of the 80% of the Net Pool to be Credited Previously stated Means of Participating Back to the Owner of this Innovation Patent Application number: 2006202488 Prize InnovationProfitPoint Provisional Patent Application number: 2005903057 Customer ID: 1910127022 CRM: 50179869 Date of Official Provisional Patent Receipt 14 June 2005. 13 Oct 2019 I rNXrX 7 TllV T f 2019246931 NC 7rNC %r N