EP1441297A1 - Jeu de loterie distribué - Google Patents

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EP1441297A1
EP1441297A1 EP03075194A EP03075194A EP1441297A1 EP 1441297 A1 EP1441297 A1 EP 1441297A1 EP 03075194 A EP03075194 A EP 03075194A EP 03075194 A EP03075194 A EP 03075194A EP 1441297 A1 EP1441297 A1 EP 1441297A1
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Klas Moberg
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    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
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    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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  • the present invention relates, in general, to a lottery game with a gaming realisation that is distributed in time and space. More specifically, an aspect of the invention relates to such a game in the shape of a distributed bingo game.
  • a gaming session is realised with a set of lottery tickets in the shape of bingo cards.
  • On the bingo cards there are matrices with different combinations of numerals or other symbols.
  • everyone of a number of participants to the game has one or more such bingo cards.
  • a sequence of numerals (or other symbols) are randomly drawn and are communicated to the participants, whereupon the participants can compare their matrices of numerals with the drawn numerals.
  • the one who in his matrix has a row, a column or a diagonal line of numerals that all have occurred among the drawn numerals has a winning card and announces "bingo".
  • EP 1 087 312 A2 to Nokia Corporation which shows a system and a method for supplying selected advertising to gamers that access games suppliers over communications networks
  • WO 02/071351 A2 to Kamp which shows a subscriber system and method for Lotto and lottery games
  • WO 01/23055 A1 Knowles et al which shows a promotional gaming device for determining whether a player has matched a predetermined winning sequence of characters or symbols.
  • An overall object of the invention is to achieve a game that is independent of the medium for distributing lottery tickets to players, that is independent of where the player is located and that is independent of the point in time when the gaming is performed.
  • a more specific object is to achieve a game similar to bingo that can be played whenever and wherever a player so wishes.
  • the object of the invention is realised by means of a lottery game with a lottery ticket having lottery indicia, and communication link information that is made available to the public, for example by means of publishing in mass media.
  • the lottery ticket can be made available as a printed advertisement in a newspaper or journal.
  • a gaming computer associated with or comprising a lottery prize database of winning and losing lottery indicia is communicatively coupled to the communication link.
  • a player of the lottery game communicates his participation in the game by contacting the gaming computer by means of the communication link, e.g. a telephone number to a text message receiver or an Internet web site address.
  • the communication is for example advantageously performed by means of text messages (e.g. by SMS - short message services) from a cellular phone of the player.
  • the gaming computer performs a lottery game for example by randomly drawing a set of lottery indicia from the lottery prize database and communicates these drawn lottery indicia to the player, e.g. by means of a text message (SMS) back to the cellular phone of the player.
  • SMS text message
  • the player compares the drawn lottery indicia with the lottery indicia on the lottery ticket and observes whether there is a winning or a losing game.
  • a lottery ticket with lottery indicia of some kind is published or made available in a medium of some kind.
  • the lottery ticket is published together with a game identification that for example identifies the lottery ticket, a part of the lottery ticket, a series of lottery tickets or the medium in which the lottery ticket is published (medium identification).
  • a contact link or a communication link such as the telephone number of a text message receiver (SMS) or an IP-adress, that is associated with a central gaming system.
  • SMS text message receiver
  • IP-adress IP-adress
  • a lottery prize database has preferably been generated beforehand.
  • the database contains a number of winning lottery indicia and a number of losing lottery indicia.
  • a player sends a message of gaming activity to a central gaming system, preferably enclosing the game identification and possibly also sender identification or player identification.
  • the game identification is a code for identifying the medium for making the lottery ticket available
  • the game identification which in this case is a medium identification code is registered for possible payment to the medium for usage of the lottery ticket or possibly for statistical purposes.
  • the sender or player identification is registered for the purpose of debiting the player a cost for the lottery ticket or perhaps rather for the participation in the game as well as returning messages and delivering of a prize.
  • the cost for playing is preferably debited and a monetary prize is preferably paid via a telephone subscription of the sender or the like.
  • a gaming event is activated in the central gaming system and a gaming result is generated for example by drawing or retrieving lottery indicia in the lottery prize database or in accordance with other predetermined rules.
  • a gaming result is generated for example by drawing or retrieving lottery indicia in the lottery prize database or in accordance with other predetermined rules.
  • There are different manners of performing the drawing for example by means of randomised drawing or a drawing based on order or priority or order of incoming playing activity message.
  • the central gaming system thereafter sends a return message to the player with the drawn lottery indicia enclosed.
  • the player can compare the drawn lottery indicia with the lottery indicia of the lottery ticket, and observe whether there is a winning game or a losing game.
  • the central gaming system can directly after the drawing check whether the player has a winning game.
  • the player is notified either automatically or in response to a message from the player stating an observed winning game.
  • a possible prize is delivered to the player by means of the sender or player identification.
  • a monetary prize is for example paid via the sender subscription of the player.
  • the invention is realised by means of a lottery ticket made available to a number of players and a gaming system comprising a computer, a computer program, a database and communication means for communication gaming parameters and control parameters between the gaming system and the player.
  • the player utilises a communication device such as a cellular telephone, a stationary telephone or a network connected computer and typically a public communications network for the communication of gaming parameters and control parameters.
  • the lottery ticket is a ticket that is made available to a population of different potential players. Different media are conceivable.
  • the lottery ticket is published for example as an advertisement in a newspaper or a journal.
  • a lottery ticket is made available on a server that is accessible for example through a web site on the Internet by means of a web browser.
  • a lottery ticket can be arranged such that it is downloadable to for example a cell phone by means of a text message (SMS).
  • SMS text message
  • the lottery ticket and the parameter communication preferably comprises a media identification parameter.
  • This media identification parameter is for example used for controlling the flow of payments for lottery ticket usage through the current medium.
  • the lottery ticket in accordance with the invention comprises lottery indicia and control parameters for controlling an instance of a gaming activity.
  • the control parameters comprise in different embodiments different configurations or selections of a game identification parameter, a medium identification parameter and a communication link parameter.
  • the lottery indicia have different contents and configurations in different embodiments of the invention.
  • the herein described embodiments have lottery indicia similar to those of bingo cards and are for simplicity herein also generally called bingo cards or bingo tickets.
  • Fig 1 shows an embodiment of a lottery ticket 101 published as an advertisement in a newspaper 100.
  • the shown lottery ticket 101 comprises three bingo cards or bingo panels in the shape of 5x5-matrices of numerals typically in a range between 0 and 99. This embodiment is further explained below in a newspaper embodiment.
  • the lottery ticket 101 further comprises a field of playing instructions 104 usually held in a natural language and configured to guide a player how to play the game.
  • the identification parameters comprises in different configurations a game identification parameter 108 or a game code for identifying the lottery ticket or the game round, and a medium identification parameter 109 for identifying the medium in which the lottery ticket is made available.
  • the lottery ticket may further comprise a lottery indicia set identification 110 that identifies a particular set of lottery indicia, for example one or more specific numeral matrices of a bingo card.
  • the lottery ticket as e.g. advertised or made available on a web site comprises lottery indicia in the shape of four sets of bingo cards.
  • each set of bingo cards 202 comprises three panels 204,206,208 each having a 5x5 matrix of 25 numerals within a predetermined numerical range, thus making up 75 numerals in each set.
  • This enables the performance of a game wherein the player can mark each of for example 25 returned bingo numerals on matching numerals on the three bingo cards. This makes the game lasting longer and creates a feeling of "if I only get this number, I will win", and thus makes the game more lively.
  • each lottery ticket comprises control parameters in the shape of a unique lottery ticket identification 212 and a unique lottery indicia set identification 214 for each set 202 of bingo cards.
  • a player selects a set of bingo cards to play and sends the particular lottery indicia set identification 214 to the gaming computer by means of a text message or by means of web browser parameter communication.
  • the lottery ticket identification 212 is not shown to the player but is used for control purposes by the gaming system.
  • the lottery ticket identification 212 is for example activated upon receipt of an incoming lottery ticket.
  • the lottery ticket identification 212 is preferably communicated by means of web browser parameter communication to the gaming system when the lottery ticket is activated by the player on the web interface.
  • the game is controlled by means of the control parameters communicated between the player and the gaming system, and as processed by the gaming system.
  • Another important control parameter in addition to the control parameters related to the lottery ticket is player identification usually together with predetermined rules.
  • the player identification is for example the telephone subscription used to send text messages of game control parameters to the game computer. Strictly speaking this does not identify the actual playing person, but in this text it is for the sake of explanation presumed that the identified player is the one who owns the subscription.
  • the gaming is controlled for example with regard to the frequency of playing by a particular player dependent on the lottery ticket identification, the player identification and on predetermined rules.
  • the player is for example identified by means of a registration procedure and the player would have to be a registered user of the web site or of the particular playing function.
  • a user name, a password and possibly also a telephone number would typically be used for this purpose.
  • all players are allowed to play on the same lottery ticket or the same set of lottery indicia or bingo cards each day and each player is allowed to play once a day.
  • the gaming computer registers this fact and closes this set of bingo cards for further playing. Further playing on the remaining sets can be open to use.
  • the lottery ticket is changed for example once a day.
  • the player is preferably identified by means of the identification of the sending device that is sent in a text message.
  • the lottery ticket is e.g. changed for each edition of the paper.
  • the lottery indicia set identification is valid for a predetermined period of time, for example for a certain game round period such as 10 weeks.
  • the lottery indicia set identification for a first edition of a lottery ticket may be valid for playing in parallel with the lottery indicia set identification of a later issued second edition of a lottery ticket.
  • control parameters should be adapted to fit the way of entry or the player interface. So for example, when using a text message service on a cellular phone it is complicated to key in digits and therefore for example the identification codes should be alphabetic.
  • sending devices or sending interfaces there are different sending devices or sending interfaces.
  • Preferred such devices and interfaces are cellular phone using text message services, web based interface accessible via the Internet and general telephone using an IVR - I nteractive Voice Response system.
  • These ways of entry into the game are also debitable through the respective service systems.
  • Another way of entry into the game is via a post card or an e-mail, and would in most cases be a cost free way of participating in the game. This latter way of entry into the gaming would require some manual or automated handling or transmittal of the player message and control parameters to the gaming computer.
  • FIG. 3 An example of general gaming system in accordance with the invention is schematically shown in Figure 3 .
  • a central part of the gaming system comprises a central gaming computer 302 being provided with a data processing unit (CPU), data storage means, I/O-interfaces and control program code 304 and having access to a lottery prize database 306.
  • the central gaming computer is also connected to a communications means here in the shape of a text message receiver and transmitter 308 that is communicatively coupled to a communications network 310 here operating text message services.
  • a player 312 has a communications interface 314, such as a cellular phone terminal, for communicating game control parameters 316 to the gaming computer and for receiving return parameters such as drawn lottery indicia e.g. in the shape of a series of numerals and other game related messages.
  • the control program code comprises computer program code portions for directing the gaming computer to perform a game in response to and dependent on different gaming control parameters communicated between the player and the gaming computer and dependent on predetermined rules.
  • the computer program code portions are configured to perform the functions and stages described in different part of this description.
  • Figure 4 shows a schematic flow chart of method steps, functional stages and parameter communication comprised in the realisation of embodiments of the invention.
  • the lottery prize database possibly contains all 5 numeral combinations that are possible to generate by means of the 25 numerals in the 25-series
  • the game and the winning structure realised by the central gaming system is preferably determined upon an assumption based on the number of potential players to which the made available lottery ticket is exposed and the number of expected actual players.
  • the number of potential players is the number of newspapers or journals issued in one edition, or the number of potential players that are reached by said edition.
  • the number of actual players is à priori estimated based on statistical figures on the population of potential players or the population of people exposed to the published lottery ticket.
  • the number of winners in a game round is preferably predetermined, for example such that for an estimate of 100 000 players or playing activities during a predetermined period of time there are 500 winners or winning return items.
  • the winners among players from different ways of entry to the game can be drawn from the same or different sets of prizes.
  • the percentage or actual number of winners from each way of entry may be controlled according to predetermined rules.
  • the game when using lottery indicia in the shape of bingo cards the game may be arranged such that there is a winning game for return numerals that form two crossing diagonal lines on a bingo card.
  • the prize database may contain other kinds of lottery indicia and winning structures.
  • the return lottery indicia may be generated by means of an executable computer program dependent on predetermined or dynamically updated rules.
  • a lottery ticket is published in the shape of a newspaper advertisement.
  • the lottery ticket comprises one or more matrices of numerals or other symbols.
  • numerals are hereinafter used as symbols.
  • Figure 1 an example of such an advertisement with a lottery ticket 101 in a newspaper 100 is schematically shown.
  • the lottery ticket 101 comprises a set of three 5x5 matrices that are similar to bingo cards and each 5x5 matrix contains 25 numerals for example between 0 and 99 in a certain configuration, also called a 25-series. These 25-series have been generated in a central gaming system and a lottery prize database is generated for every set of 25-series that is published.
  • the lottery prize database contains a number of numeral series each having 5 numerals, so called 5-series.
  • the lottery prize database is arranged to contain a certain number of 5-series that are losers, low prize winners and high prize winners, respectively.
  • a telephone number for sending an text message SMS
  • an identification code that identifies the specific game game identification code
  • the identification code may also be a combination of a game identification code and a medium identification code.
  • the player is informed that in order to play and to receive the bingo numerals for a set of bingo cards, they have to send a text message with the code identifying the set of bingo cards to the given telephone number.
  • the text message is charged via the text message service system and thereby the game is paid through the telephone subscription.
  • the player thus sends a text message to a text message receiver which is associated with the telephone number that is indicated in the advertisement and which is communicatively coupled to a central gaming computer or a gaming system.
  • a text message receiver which is associated with the telephone number that is indicated in the advertisement and which is communicatively coupled to a central gaming computer or a gaming system.
  • the player includes the identification code and automatically within the text message system also an identification of the sending or transmitting telephone of the player takes place and is transmitted to the gaming computer.
  • the latter identification is here also called sender identification.
  • the medium identification code is used to associate the newspaper with a current playing activity and can be used as a basis for debiting or payment in relation to the newspaper for usage of the lottery ticket.
  • the central gaming computer of the gaming system receives the text message, records the possible game identification code, the possible medium identification code and the sender identification, and possibly debits the player a cost for the game via the telephone bill of the player.
  • the central gaming computer of the gaming system draws from or by means of the lottery prize database a number of numerals. For example 5 pieces of 5-series can be drawn, for example randomly.
  • the gaming computer sends by means of a return text message the drawn numeral series (5-series) to the player, and possibly also a check code for afterwards result checking.
  • the player can compare the received numeral series to the numeral matrices on the lottery ticket in the newspaper advertisement and observe the possible occurrence of a winning row, line or diagonal in the matrices.
  • the gaming computer knows directly after the drawing whether the drawn numeral series is a winning series or not, and the player can be notified in different ways.
  • the prize can be communicated directly after the numeral series in the same return text message, or as a consequence of the fact that the player sends a check code or another winning message, for example the text "Bingo" to the central gaming computer.
  • the gaming computer checks whether the sender identification of the winning player matches the identification of the sender or the winning message.
  • a monetary prize can be paid to the telephone subscription account of the player or in some other way.
  • the game is a losing game.
  • the gaming system knows this when sending out the return message but the player has to check the numerals with the bingo cards.
  • a game identification code can be indicated in the advertisement to be enclosed in the players text message to the gaming computer for the purpose of associating the current game to a specific gaming round.
  • the published numeral matrices can be used an indefinite number of times and independent of the point in time after publication, since the entire gaming or lottery event occurs in the central gaming computer. Possibly, new prize databases can be generated and coupled to the to the same published lottery ticket advertisement after a first gaming round has been consumed.
  • One embodiment of the invention is realised as an on-line game that is accessible via a web site on the Internet.
  • the master of the web site is responsible for checking that the players are valid, for example properly identified. This is usually managed by a registration and login procedure involving a user name and a password.
  • the user interface is typically a web page with a lottery ticket window or field having the layout and contents as described above.
  • a correctly verified player activates a game his browser is redirected to the gaming system.
  • the player selects the set of lottery indicia, for example the set of bingo card numeral matrices, he wants to play and clicks on a command field for communicating to the gaming computer a control parameter in the shape of a lottery indicia set identification.
  • the gaming computer Upon receipt of the lottery indicia set identification the gaming computer generates according to a predetermined scheme a gaming result, for example randomly selects whether the players activated game is a winner or a loser.
  • An appropriate set of 25 return numerals are retrieved or generated by means of the prize database and are communicated back to the player by sending and displaying the numerals on the web browser of the player. For example if the return numerals of the current game form two diagonal lines crossing each other in one of the panels of the set of bingo cards, the player wins a prize.
  • IVR-system IVR - Interactive Voice Response
  • the player makes a phone call to a talking menu connected to the gaming computer in order to receive their return numerals.
  • the control parameters have to be adapted to fit this technical way of entry into the game as well as any other coexisting player interface such as text messaging.
  • this embodiment is realised as described above.

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