EP0871132A1 - Procede de loterie et systeme de realisation de ce procede - Google Patents

Procede de loterie et systeme de realisation de ce procede Download PDF

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EP0871132A1
EP0871132A1 EP95944287A EP95944287A EP0871132A1 EP 0871132 A1 EP0871132 A1 EP 0871132A1 EP 95944287 A EP95944287 A EP 95944287A EP 95944287 A EP95944287 A EP 95944287A EP 0871132 A1 EP0871132 A1 EP 0871132A1
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  • the given invention relates to the organization and running of gaming processes, in particular to methods and systems for organizing lottery games and sporting totalizators.
  • the analogue of the present invention is the well known method of playing the lottery as implemented in the game of "Sportloto", and comprising the distribution of special numbered tickets bearing an information datablock, their drawing by a random law at a previously established time, and the determination and issue of a monetary prize or prize in kind (Russian Federation Patent No. 2023307, Cl. B G07C 15/00).
  • the negative qualities of the analogue include an inadequate involvement in the game, and also the absence of gaming factors which raise or develop the intellectual qualities of the participants in the game.
  • the shortcomings mentioned are due to the fact that the role of a player and his participation in the gaming process when composing the winning combinations of figures does not require the application of his intellectual abilities, general knowledge or operational thinking. The fact that when determining winnings no account is taken of such sporting criteria as speed and the operational nature of decision making also lowers the gaming entertainment and the attractiveness of the gaming process of the lottery.
  • the deficiencies of this lottery must also be said to include the impossibility for a participant to withdraw from it with minimum losses when the draw goes unfavourably.
  • lotteries the bingo lottery run in the USA and England, and having an annual turnover in the USA alone of 2 million dollars, the "National", France and others
  • sporting pools and forecasts are also based on guessing some arbitrarily selected numbers, that is to say all that is required of a person is to buy a ticket and then to follow carefully the course of a draw or to fill up a coupon received (as in the case of various sporting forecasts and totalizators), although it is clear that from the point of view of reducing some of the deficiencies mentioned above, which are connected with the lack of need to apply intellectual abilities in filling in cards, sporting forecasts are the more favourable type of lottery.
  • the number of employees of said company is 10,000, the majority of whom are involved in checking coupons. Moreover, several thousand postal workers are involved in circulating the pools, and in theory they are able to insert a coupon with the correct results into an envelope after the announcement of the score of this or that football match.
  • General precautionary measures include the following actions: spot checks of employees; four different coded stamps recorded on each coupon received; changing the stamp codes at randomly selected time intervals; personal supervision of all postal assignments and collections by a specially engaged guard drawn from a large number of former policemen; inspection and sealing of all windows and doors in every one of the numerous departments of the company where checking is performed immediately after the arrival of the results of the next football match; a stop on all telephone calls in rooms where coupons are checked after the start of the match, and mandatory monitoring of this by the security service; secret checking of the employees of the security service themselves by an independent secret monitoring service of the company, and also a complete ban on any means of radio and telecommunications in company buildings. Moreover, all the coupons are kept in sealed bags in special safeguarded rooms.
  • Identifying data on the players are confirmed by various methods with the aid of means for preliminary data processing.
  • Players can be distributed in different categories according to set rules and sequence.
  • the winner can be selected by defining the number of the random winning sequence or the winning number received from the random number generator.
  • the identifying data are received at the last moment for the purpose of determining the owner of the grand prize by using different methods of data processing with the aid of an appropriate computer.
  • the object of the present invention is to create a method for organizing various events bound up with the running of lotteries or sporting totalizators which is such that its practical implementation does not require, firstly, the application of various special tickets nor, secondly, of communication channels used as means for transmitting hypothetical data to the data collecting centre.
  • the essence of the achievement of the object set consists in that each or several participants use, at least, a storage device having a timing unit, an internal memory and a data input/output device; timing data arriving from the timing unit are stored in the internal memory at the moment when the participant issues the hypothetical data, which are also stored in the internal memory by the participant using the data input device, and for the purpose of the abovementioned comparison with actual data use is made only of that portion of the hypothetical data issued via the output device from the storage device which was input into its internal memory up to the given moment of appearance of the actual data.
  • the system comprises a source of actual data and, at least, one data collecting centre comprising means for preliminary data processing and connected to a computer intended for processing the results of data proposed by the participants, said system is characterized in that the participants have storage devices, each of which contains an internal memory and also a timer connected thereto, both of which are connected to a control unit and to one or several data input/output devices, the data collecting centre having means for outputting data from the internal memory of the storage devices.
  • the system can be fitted with one or several actual data sensors and a timer, which are connected to the central storage device connected to the means for preliminary data processing.
  • the advantage of the considered method for running a lottery and of the system for implementing it is the exclusion of the necessity to make use in one gaming event or another of cards or coupons and also of other analogous means.
  • the other advantage of the given invention is the complete independence of the participants of the gaming events from those means of communication which are used to transmit hypothetical data into the data collecting centre.
  • the numeral 1 denotes an actual data source which is a totality of actions or events, the result of the i-th event or action being determined at the moment in time T(i).
  • the moments of the beginning and end of the i-th event or action will be denoted correspondingly by T1(i) and T2(i).
  • An event may be understood as, for example, events such as running a lottery with the use of a lototron, a chess tournament, a chess match, football game, basketball game, and also a contest in a type of sport which can be transmitted via the communication channels 2, for example via television or radio communication channels.
  • the term "communication channel” is always understood as the totality of technical means and physical media intended for transmitting data (signals) from a transmitter to a receiver (user).
  • the fundamental technical means included in the composition of a communication channel are: actual data sensors, transmitters, receivers, signal amplifiers, coding and decoding devices, modulators and demodulators, commutators, filters, interfaces etc.
  • the technical means and physical media ensuring propagation of the signals from the transmitter to the receiver form a communication line in their totality.
  • the transmission medium can be compound and include segments of different types, for example, wire and optical-fibre lines between which an appropriate transformer must be arranged in this case.
  • the message (data) from the actual information source 1 is transformed into the digital or analogue signals which are then fed to the input to the communication line; upon receiving the signal at the output of the communication line, the receiver reproduces the transmitted message.
  • electric communication lines wire and radio
  • sound acoustic
  • light optical communication
  • the representation of the actual information can be transmitted to the user 3 directly from the source 1 or via representation devices included in the communication channel 2.
  • the representation devices are devices of visual and acoustic (television sets) or only acoustic (radio receivers) representation of actual data.
  • the presence of several communication channels 2 is explained by the possibility of transmitting data from the source 1 along several television and radio channels.
  • each user 3 can record the data he proposes in the storage device 4, which will be designated as a PSD (portable storage device) in order to emphasize that it is not one of the many functional elements, but is designed in the form of a finished portable construction.
  • PSD portable storage device
  • One of the fundamental conditions for the hypothetical data to be admitted to the draw is for one of the following inequalities to be satisfied: t(i) ⁇ T(i), t(i) ⁇ T1(i), t(i) ⁇ T2(i).
  • the selection of one or other of the inequalities is determined by the rules established by the organizers of the event, and is a function of the moment of appearance of the actual data.
  • the dotted lines 5 mark the connections which are used after the conclusion of any gaming event to connect the PSD 4 to the comparison devices (CD) 7, via the communication channels 5, for which computers may be used.
  • the dotted lines 8 mark the connections which are used to connect the PSD 4 to CD 7 directly that is to say without the use of any communication channels.
  • the aim of connecting the PSD 4 to CD 7 is to compare the actual data kept in the data collecting centre 9 with the hypothetical data kept in the PSD 4.
  • the data collecting centre 9 and CD 7 are connected via communication channels 10.
  • the comparison device 7 is included in the terminals 11, each of which is a subscriber's (user's) point intended for processing and outputting the results of data comparison arriving in it from the PSD 4 and data collecting centre 9.
  • the composition of each terminal 11 includes a CD 7, for which a microcomputer can be used, and output devices 12, for which it is possible to use printers, cash dispensers, adaptors for a communication line etc.
  • the data collecting centre 9 comprises a precision timer 13 whose output can be connected to an exact time signal former and a central storage device (CSD) 14 at whose input a signal arrives from one or several actual data sensors 15.
  • the output of the exact time signal former (not shown in the drawing) can be connected to a code specifier (not shown in the drawing) (for example, to a numerical code specifier) and to the transformer of the code into the signal fed to the input of the communication channels 2.
  • the requisite data kept in the CSD 14 can be sent with the aid of preliminary data processing means 16 to the input of the calculator 17, for which a computer can be used.
  • one of the terminals 11 can be arranged inside the data collecting centre 9. All the elements included in the system described are known or standard ones.
  • a transmitting television camera can be used for the actual data sensor 15, a video recorder for CSD 14, and a human operator for the preliminary data processing means 16.
  • the standard design of the other elements is given in the text.
  • the actual data sensor 15 can be a component part of one or several communication channels 2.
  • FIG. 2 represents a functional diagram of the portable storage device.
  • the functional diagram of the PSD 4 is constructed on the basis of the functional diagram of a standard microcomputer.
  • the number of portable storage devices 4 must be not less than the number of users participating in the lottery or sporting totalizator.
  • a secondary element included in the PSD can be a decoding element 18.
  • the decoding element 18 comprises a receiver 19 of the signal connected to the decoder 20, which is connected to the internal memory 23 via a controller 21 and an inner tyre 22.
  • the internal memory 23, for its part, is connected via the inner tyre 22 to one or several independent timing units 25 inside which corresponding controllers are contained.
  • the internal memory 23 is connected to one or several data input devices 27 via a controller 26, and to one or several data output devices 29 via a controller 28.
  • the internal memory is connected to a mains adaptor, containing, in particular, a transceiver 24 and connecting block to the communication line 30, and to a LCD display 32 via a controller 31. All the elements included in the PSD 4 are fed from the internal source 33. All the elements interact with the internal memory 23 by means of a processor 34. All the elements presented here can be constructed using known diagrams, or it is possible to use as these elements standard units (monocrystalline microcomputers, LSI watch circuits etc.), applicable in communication systems and in computer technology. Moreover, the PSD can comprise additional units linked, in particular, to a change in external influences (external radiation, mechanical acceleration). Type PIC microcontrollers, which have a low power consumption, can be used in the simplest variant of the PSD.
  • All the PIC have built-in ROM (0.5-4 K) and Smm (32-256 bytes). Moreover, the PIC are fitted with timers (from 1 to 3 pieces), a built-in resetting system, a watchdog timer and an internal clock-pulse generator which can be started from the quartz resonator.
  • timers from 1 to 3 pieces
  • a built-in resetting system from 1 to 3 pieces
  • watchdog timer a watchdog timer
  • an internal clock-pulse generator which can be started from the quartz resonator.
  • additional independent microcomputers intended for fulfilling additional auxiliary functions: inputting data into the PSD from the user's voice, receiving and processing data arriving from the data collecting centre 9, issuing variants of hypothetical data etc.
  • Other variants of the PSD can be specialized, for example, intended only for participation in chess totalizators.
  • Figure 3 represents one of the variants of the external appearance of the PSD, on the front panel of which there are arranged a panel 35 of the liquid-crystal display 32, an alphanumeric or only numerical keyboard 36 of non-fixed pushbutton switches, and a keyboard 37 of functional keys each of which, when pressed, inputs an appropriate command.
  • the event code and action code are input respectively by pressing on the keys 38 and 39.
  • Short-lived pressing on the key 40 cancels an input command or deletes data recorded in the memory block 23 of the portable storage device 4.
  • the keys 41 and 42 are intended for inputting data having a double-alternative character when the hypothetical result, specified by the user, of some event or action is linked only to two possibilities of their outcome "yes" or "no".
  • Pressing on the key 43 records data in the internal memory 23 which have been composed by the user using the switch relating to the keyboard 36.
  • the keys 44 and 45 are connected to pushbutton switches, one of which is used to correct the timing unit 25, while the other is used to switch off the power source 33 from the electronic circuit servicing the part of the internal memory in which data entered by the user are kept.
  • pushbutton switches one of which is used to correct the timing unit 25, while the other is used to switch off the power source 33 from the electronic circuit servicing the part of the internal memory in which data entered by the user are kept.
  • Figure 4 represents a block diagram of the algorithm for running a lottery or a sporting totalizator.
  • Numeral 47 designates the action "pressure on key 44 at the moment of transmitting the signal s(t)”
  • numeral 48 designates the condition "will the readings of the timing unit 25 be corrected?”
  • numeral 49 designates the action "setting of the event code”
  • numeral 50 designates the action "setting of the action code”
  • numeral 51 designates the action "inputting and storing of the hypothetical data”
  • numeral 52 designates the action "automatic storage of the data arriving from the timing unit 25”
  • numeral 53 denotes the condition "will the set codes be changed?”
  • numeral 54 designates the condition "will these be a continuation?". If, while lotteries are running, it is required to set only the event code or only the action code, the presented block diagram of the algorithm is simplified by excluding action 49 or action 50 from it.
  • the system for running lotteries and sporting totalizators is operated in accordance with the block diagram of the algorithm represented in Figure 4, and is based on the totality of the following two fundamental ideas.
  • the first of these ideas is bound up with the fact that the hypothetical result of one or other event (result of running the lottery, the next move in the chess game, result of the football match), which was marked earlier on a special card or communicated by phone (telegraph, computer net, etc.) can be recorded in the memory of the individual storage device.
  • the second idea consists in that, with the aim of checking that only hypothetical data have been recorded, it is sufficient automatically to store in the memory of the storage device the time of recording said data.
  • the result of this is not only to exclude any dependence of the user on the communication means at the time of running one or the other event, but, as will be shown below, also to bring the observation process, for example after one or other sporting contest, to a qualitatively new level requiring some intellectual effort from the fans.
  • the given algorithm is realized in practice with the aid of special software which is kept, firstly, in the permanent storage device, located in the internal memory 23 of the PSD 4 and, secondly, in the permanent storage devices of the computers 7, 17, which are included in the system under consideration.
  • the hypothetical data are recorded in the memory of the PSD before it starts.
  • the term event can be understood as running a lottery, chess match or game, a heavyweight boxing match, a tennis match, basketball game, game of roulette etc.
  • some actions could be cited which are going to exist in these events: dropping the winning number out of the lototron, moves in the chess game, efforts of the boxer to prolong the bout after he has missed a knockout blow, drawing of the next ball (tennis, basketball, football, water polo etc.) penalty ball throw.
  • the requisite data on all events and actions which participate in the lottery or totalizator are stored in the memory of the computer 17, after which they arrive in the memory of the CD 7.
  • a preliminary selection of the requisite data is carried out with the aid of the preliminary data processing means 16, the functions of which, as was mentioned above, can be fulfilled by a human operator selecting data participating in the draw from the CSD 14, which is constructed, for example, in the form of a video recorder at whose input data arrives, firstly, about the event from the source 1 with the aid of one or several actual data sensors 15 or via one of the communication channels 2 and, secondly, from the timer 13.
  • the exchange of data between the computer 17 and terminals 11 is effected via the communication channels 10 which, in particular, contain specialized adaptors: universal synchronous-asynchronous transceivers (USART).
  • USBART universal synchronous-asynchronous transceivers
  • the winnings may be handed over to the user in cash or transferred without cash to his account or card through one of the data output devices 12.
  • the reading of the appropriate data from the memory of the PSD to the memory of the CD 7 can be performed via one of the communication channels 5.
  • Connecting the PSD to the communication channel 8 is also expedient in the case when there is a prize draw intended to attract viewers to the event being run.
  • the communication channels 8, 10 serve to connect the interface devices included in the PSD to the terminals 11 or to other interface devices included in said terminals. It may be noted that the basic type of said channels which are used in teleprocessing systems is the separate (dedicated) telephone channel.
  • the numerical (alphanumeric, letter) codes of all the events are set up, as a rule, once and not changed subsequently.
  • An example which can be given is the possible numerical codes which can correspond to certain events (basketball - 01, football - 02, boxing - 03, chess match - 04, chess game - 05, "sport-loto” lottery 06, "policy” game - 07), and also certain actions included in said events (free throw in basketball - 01.1, throw of the ball from the three-point zone in basketball - 01.2, an eleven-metre penalty kick in football - 02.1, selection of the hypothetical move in a chess game - 05.1, guessing the result of a chess game in a chess match - 04.2).
  • the current time value which has been established by the timing unit 25, is also recorded in the internal memory 23; in this case, the term current time is understood as only one point (date and current time or the start of time reading after recording in the memory of the PSD of the corresponding data) which point lies on the time axis.
  • the timing unit 25 when the hypothetical data are first input the timing unit 25 is switched on and operates, in this case, as a timer.
  • a typical microcomputer comprises the following, connected by the common internal bus 22: the processor 34, the internal memory 23, the controllers 21, 24, 26, 28, 31 and the bus adaptor, which contains at least the transceiver 24 and the interface block with the communication line 30.
  • a continuation of the internal bus is the external bus, to which it is possible in our case to connect input devices (interfaces of the communication line) of one of the communication channels 6 or a controller included in the microcomputer 7.
  • the PSD contains a decoding element 18 as one of the input devices.
  • the following may be used, for example, as output devices 29: contactless (optical, ultrasonic, acoustic, electromagnetic) radiators, a magnetic storage device on microcassette.
  • the controllers are intended for interfacing corresponding devices 25, 20, 32, 29, 27 with the internal bus 22 of the microcomputer.
  • the adaptor of the buses fulfils the function of electric and, possibly, logical interfacing.
  • the user can refuse the correction of the timing unit 25, since after the acquisition of the PSD by the user, or after his last correction, the readings of the timing unit may not be very significantly lead the readings of the timer 13.
  • the hypothetical data (action 51) it is sufficient to record them not later than the time value T(i)-g, where g is the maximum error accumulated in the PSD after its last correction.
  • the timing unit 25 must be set in such a way that the relative error of the time reading is only positive under any condition.
  • the timing unit 25 must be ahead of the actual time fixed by the timer 13.
  • the timing unit 25 must be ahead of the actual time fixed by the timer 13.
  • the process of correcting the PSD for relatively slow types of sport can be carried once a month.
  • a correction itself is carried out directly using a contact or contactless method by transmitting to the timing unit 25 a special correcting signal intended to bring the readings of the timing unit 25 into unique correspondence with the readings of the timer 13 or with the current value of exact or world time.
  • the correcting signal arrives via one of the input devices 27, which is constructed in the simplest case in the form of a connector.
  • an input signal arrives at the input to the decoding element 18 and is used to derive a correcting signal by amplification, preliminary processing and decoding.
  • Amplification and preliminary processing are performed in the receiver 19, and decoding in the decoder 20.
  • the type of receiver 19 and decoder 20 is selected as a function of the type of input signal (radio signal, optical and acoustic ones) and its type of modulation.
  • the first variant is related to the PSD correction carried out in the place specially set aside therefor. In the case of the use of this variant, it is expedient or even necessary to transmit together with the correcting signal a certain non-repeating code which, after storage in the PSD, will serve to ensure the truth of the correcting signal.
  • the correction is carried out in an arbitrary place using acoustic, telephone or radio signals of exact time, in the case of subsequent reading with the aim of excluding deliberate attempts to reduce the readings read by the timing unit 25, it is desirable to check the truth of such a correction.
  • One of the possible methods of such checking consists in separately determining and comparing the relative errors of the timing unit 25 relating to two time periods. The first period falls within its two last corrections, and the second between the last correction and the moment of the abovementioned reading. If the signal of exact time is true, and not a preliminary recording, for example on a tape recorder, the values of the relative errors will be equal, to the given accuracy.
  • timing units 25 To increase the trustworthiness of such checking, it is necessary to have several identical independent timing units 25, the value of the time reading of each of which is recorded and kept in the corresponding memory area of the PSD. In this case, a conclusion on the trustworthiness or falsity of the exact time signal used is reached on the basis of the criterion of achieving a given number of such timing units 25 which passed the abovementioned checking.
  • the other variants of correction can comprise the following operations: joint transmission of the correcting signal and code, which is repeated twice (once prior to the start of the event, and a second time prior to its conclusion), joint transmission of the correcting signal and code. Note also the method of storing the time t(i) which in no way requires correction of the readings of the timing unit 25.
  • the essence of this method consists in the fact that the time coordinate which is fixed by the PSD at the moment of recording the hypothetical data is "attached" at the moment they are read.
  • one or several timing units 25 start to function as timers, each of which separates two events. One of these events is the moment of storing the data (after pressing on the key 43, 41 or 42), while the other is the moment they are read (after pressing, for example, on the corresponding key located on the PSD or CD 7).
  • the exact time at the moment of reading the hypothetical data from the memory of the PSD and the values of the timing unit 25 at the moment at which said data was stored is designated as t0
  • the exact time of inputting the hypothetical data relating to the i-th event or action will be determined by the difference t0-t1(i), where t1(i) is the time period accumulated by the timing unit and relating to the i-th event or action.
  • the possibility of influencing the unit 25 by various factors which destabilize its functioning in order to reduce the magnitude of t1(i) must be considered as a deficiency of said method.
  • PSD special sensors which fix in its memory various deviations from given parameters characterizing the external conditions of use, which may be taken to include ambient temperature, acceleration, the PSD under test, and external radiation fluxes of various natures.
  • a complete refusal of a correction can also occur in the case of the use of one or several units 25 used as a timing device (date and current time of day) or as a time accumulator.
  • the user if the user has a confirmation of the stake payment which was effected prior to the start of running the selected event (the confirmation of payment must also include data on the code of the event or action), and it is necessary to correct the time (“YES” in condition 48), before it is started the key 43 is pressed and held (action 47) up to the moment the correcting signal is terminated.
  • the user employs the key 39 to set one or several action codes which, firstly, can be in the given event and, secondly, are paid for or for guessing which the prize has been announced. Initialization of said codes, for example in the form of their blinking, can be performed ("YES" in condition 53) at any moment by pressing on the corresponding key of the PSD.
  • the composed codes can be corrected or deleted by pressing the key 40.
  • All the hypothetical data input by the user into the memory of the PSD relates only to the initialized code.
  • Keys 41, 42 are used in the event that after the conclusion of one or another action the result is of a double-alternative nature or, in the extreme case, a triple-alternative nature.
  • the data is quickly recorded in the memory of the PSD. This is explained by the fact that the user has only seconds for taking decisions on the possible results of certain actions of a double-alternative nature.
  • the payment of winnings is performed after the expiry of a certain time period in the course of which it is necessary to transmit data from the internal memory of the PSD along the communication channel 6 to the data collecting centre 9 or to the terminal 11. It is most expedient to use the following technology for quick checking of the results of the totalizator.
  • the entire game is recorded on a video recorder which, in the given case, fulfils the function of the CSD 14. At the same time, a numerical representation of the current time initiated by the timer 13 is recorded on said video recorder.
  • the entire video data on the game arise at the input to the video recorder from the actual data sensors 15 or from other means included in the composition of the communication channel 2 (televison set, tuner).
  • the hypothetical chess move (action 51) is input by pressing on the appropriate keys of the keyboard 36 and, if the numerical representation of the chess move indicated on the panel 36 has been composed without errors, it is recorded in the memory of the PSD by pressing on key 43. Of course, the data on the time of recording said move will also be stored automatically in said memory. After termination of one or another event it is desirable to use key 45 to switch off (action 54) all the elements servicing the internal memory 23 and the timing unit 25.
  • the advantage of the invention considered is that during the running of a lottery its participants are excluded from any dependence on the means of communication. Moreover, the use of the given system will bring the process of observation, for example of one or another sporting contest, to a qualitatively new level connected principally to the fact that the fan playing the totalizator becomes not simply a passive observer of the sporting competition, but in a certain sense, a co-participant in it, because he gains the possibility of guessing the action of the sportsmen on the basis of his understanding of one or another type of sport (moves in a chess game, the result of a free throw in basketball, the result of an 11-metre penalty strike in football, the result of a knockout blow in boxing up to the moment when the referee counts up to 10 etc.) directly during the sporting competition itself, as well as the judgments which the judges award them (assessments of the judges in figure skating, gymnastics, boxing etc.).
  • One further advantage of the given invention is its unlimited possibilities and means with the aid of which many hundreds of millions of people can additionally be attracted to television screens, radio receivers and computers connected to telecommunication networks, and also to stadia and sports grounds.
  • the given invention has a whole range of advantages connected with the very large economies on paper and ink, and also on means necessary for preparing various coupons, cards and other similar forms used to run lotteries and totalizators.
  • the environment is not polluted and there is a substantial reduction in expenditure on means connected, firstly, with processing said forms and, secondly, with ensuring the security measures considered on page 2 [pages 3 and 4 in the translation].
  • the following may be mentioned among the other advantages: the possibility for the user to exit from any event ahead of time, the possibility of organizing the totalizator between two and more users (given that at least one of them has a personal computer fulfilling the function of the CD 7), minimum expenditure on means for processing the hypothetical data, and the complete exclusion of falsification of the data recorded in the memory of the PSD.
  • the low expenditure on means required for processing the hypothetical data is the result of its small volume, since in the case where the hypothetical and actual data do not correspond the user does not present his PSD in the data processing centre.
  • the complete exclusion of the possibility of falsifying the hypothetical data is bound up with the fact that they are recorded not on paper but in the memory of the PSD which, firstly, is not demountable and, secondly, is equipped with sensors for various external influences, which can be used to change the hypothetical data. Moreover, it may be mentioned that even in the case of the absence of such sensors in the event of any external influence used with the aim of changing the hypothetical data, the programme controlling, in particular, the output of the hypothetical data from the PSD is also destroyed.
  • the indirect advantages of the invention may be said to include the expected increase in the volume of sales of computer technology, and also of software for the running of chess totalizators.
  • the invention presented opens up a new era in the relationships between the mass media and people, transforming the latter from passive observers of one or another event into active participants in it.
  • the invention can be applied to events connected with running every kind of lottery and sporting totalizator.
  • the invention can be used to popularize chess, since virtually any person who has a PSD can participate in a chess totalizator or tournament.
  • the invention can be used by advertising agencies and companies to attract people to look at a repeated advertisement, since while it is being shown it is possible every time to ask the simplest questions, such as those related to a manufactured product, which require operational answers.
  • the invention can be used for organizing the mass production of PSDs in that sector of industry which manufactures integrated electronic circuits produced using KNOP technology, for example series KV1013 LSI microprocessors manufactured in Russia, or series PIC 160XX microcontrollers from MicroChip.
  • KNOP technology for example series KV1013 LSI microprocessors manufactured in Russia, or series PIC 160XX microcontrollers from MicroChip.

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