WO2001018759A1 - Procede et appareil pour mener une transaction avec un billet de loterie - Google Patents

Procede et appareil pour mener une transaction avec un billet de loterie Download PDF

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WO2001018759A1
WO2001018759A1 PCT/US2000/021318 US0021318W WO0118759A1 WO 2001018759 A1 WO2001018759 A1 WO 2001018759A1 US 0021318 W US0021318 W US 0021318W WO 0118759 A1 WO0118759 A1 WO 0118759A1
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Jay S. Walker
Stephen C. Tulley
Daniel E. Tedesco
James A. Jorasch
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    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
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    • G07F17/3244—Payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes
    • G07F17/3255—Incentive, loyalty and/or promotion schemes, e.g. comps, gaming associated with a purchase, gaming funded by advertisements
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    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/42—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for ticket printing or like apparatus, e.g. apparatus for dispensing of printed paper tickets or payment cards
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    • G07F5/00—Coin-actuated mechanisms; Interlocks
    • G07F5/24—Coin-actuated mechanisms; Interlocks with change-giving
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  • Figure 3 is a block diagram illustrating a representative lottery server of Figure 2;
  • Figure 4 is a tabular representation of a possible implementation of the ticket database of the lottery server of Figure 3;
  • Figure 9 is a flowchart illustrating an exemplary implementation of a more detailed embodiment of the method of Figure 1;
  • Figure 10 is a flowchart illustrating an exemplary implementation of the operation of the store server of Figure 5;
  • a significant advantage provided by the method 100 of the present invention is that the lottery ticket offered to a customer during the step 106 may have a variable or fractional price determined or based on the amount of change or coins due a customer as computed during the step 104. For example, suppose a customer in a supermarket purchases items having a total price, including tax, of $8.43. If the customer pays with a ten-dollar bill, i.e., offers a tender amount often dollars, during the step 102, the amount of change due the customer as determined during the step 104 will be $1.57.
  • the lottery ticket sold or offered for sale to a customer can be any kind of lottery ticket, game ticket, lotto ticket, etc.
  • the method 100 of the present invention is particularly well suited for the sale of "instant" win style games or scratch- off game tickets where a customer can determine immediately if a purchased lottery ticket is a winning ticket and/or what the customer has won.
  • the customer usually does not need to wait until a "lotto" style posting of winning number combinations is made or announced.
  • a winning instant win style lottery ticket may entitle the customer to receive a monetary prize or a non-monetary prize, or both.
  • the customer may be able to redeem the instant win style lottery ticket in the store where the customer purchased the instant win style lottery ticket perhaps only moments after purchasing the instant win style lottery ticket.
  • the random lottery game enables the store to prevent a dilution or loss of the value of the packages of chicken. That is, if the store merely throws away the packages of chicken upon their expiration dates, the store may not recoup any costs associated with purchasing the packages of chicken and maintaining the packages of chicken in inventory. However, if the store is able to give away the packages of chicken prior to their expiration dates, the store generates good will, income from lottery ticket sales, etc., that reduces or even prevents a dilution or loss by the store of the value of the packages of chicken.
  • the lottery ticket may be offered for sale to a customer via a computer network if the customer is conducting a merchandise transaction or completing a payment remotely or in an online fashion.
  • the computer network might be the Internet, the World Wide Web, or some other public or private computer or communications network or intranet, as will be described in further detail below.
  • the lower priced lottery ticket can still be offered for sale to a customer to whom a higher amount of change is due, thereby increasing the number of customers to whom the lottery ticket is offered for sale and increasing the chances that the lottery ticket will be sold.
  • a store may set the odds or probability of winning for each lottery ticket in a group of lottery tickets available for sale to customers, the price of each lottery ticket, or the win or prize values associated with winning lottery tickets such that the store expects to make a predetermined or expected profit or loss after all of the lottery tickets are sold. More specifically, a store could sell a set of lottery tickets at seventy- five cents each, a subset of which may be winning lottery tickets.
  • the store can create a predetermined or expected profit or loss for the store after all of the lottery tickets are sold.
  • the store may still associate monetary prizes to some winning lottery tickets and non-monetary prizes to other winning lottery tickets as needed or desired.
  • the lottery servers 124, 126 are preferably in communication with the store servers 128, 130, 132, 134 so that records or information regarding available lottery tickets, lottery ticket identification, lottery ticket prices, the monetary or non-monetary prizes or premiums associated with each winning lottery ticket, etc. can be shared by and between the lottery servers 124, 126 and the store servers 128, 130, 132, 134 or transmitted between the lottery servers 124, 126 and the store servers 128, 130, 132, 134.
  • the lottery server 126 may include a processor or controller 150 that uses or includes one or more communications ports 152 for connecting to or communicating with the store servers 128, 130 and the computer network 122.
  • the lottery server 126 may include internal memory or memory storage, such as a random access memory (RAM) 154 or a read only memory (ROM) 155, for storing information, programs, databases, operating systems, and like elements.
  • An internal clock element 156 may also be included within the lottery server 126 to maintain an accurate time and date for the lottery server 126.
  • the lottery server 126 may also include a hardware or software based random number generator (not shown) to assist in generating numbers used in determining lottery ticket outcomes or results.
  • the customer may purchase the books from the bookstore by calling the bookstore from a remote location and placing an order for the books.
  • the customer may log into or access a bookstore's Web site or Web home page, which may be hosted on, served from, or part of a store server, such as the store server 134 or the store server 132, and order the books online from a terminal or client device, such as the client device 146. It is specifically contemplated that the method 100 will operate in accordance with each of these scenarios.
  • the store server or other device may be operated by a human or it may be fully automated to receive, process or otherwise facilitate telephone-based orders. If the customer is purchasing goods via logging into or accessing a store's Web page or Web site from a remote location, such as from the client device 146 via the computer network 122, the customer's purchase total may be computed by the Web site server on which the store's Web site is stored or found, such as the store server 134. Once a purchase total is computed for a customer for goods and/or services being purchased, ordered, or otherwise paid for by the customer during the merchandise transaction, the customer will tender an amount of money to cover the purchase.
  • An offer made to a customer during the step 106 for a lottery ticket may also allow the customer an opportunity to select several parameters associated with the lottery ticket. For example, the customer may wish to have a higher chance of the lottery ticket being a winning lottery ticket. In which case, the prize value associated with such as winning lottery ticket may be reduced. As another example, the customer may wish to increase the value of a winning lottery ticket. In such a situation, the lottery ticket may have a lower chance of being a winning lottery ticket. Other customer determined or selected parameters or options may also be possible when making an offer to a customer during the step 106. After one or more lottery tickets are offered to the customer during the step 106, a determination of whether or not the customer accepts or has accepted the offer is made or completed during the step 108.
  • the printing process may comprise applying an adhesive water soluble ink to a non-porous or porous substrate, then applying one or more coatings of lead or copper-based latex on top of the ink.
  • the printing process may punch holes in specific patterns on a card to identify and distinguish a lottery ticket and associated information.
  • multiple lottery tickets of every possible denomination or price which could be purchased by a customer may be preprinted by a store or a lottery organization and kept by the store for sale to customers. Upon receipt or determination of a customer's acceptance to purchase a lottery ticket during the step 108, a preprinted lottery ticket having the correct denomination can be provided to the customer during the step 110.
  • the same basic sequence of steps 102, 104, 106, 108, 110 can be used to offer a customer the opportunity to purchase one or more lottery tickets.
  • a lottery ticket purchased by the customer will need to be shipped or otherwise delivered to the customer.
  • a purely electronic version of a lottery ticket may be provided during the step 110 to avoid the need for sending or delivering a physical or tangible lottery ticket to the customer.
  • the electronic version of a lottery ticket may still provide the customer with an immediate ability to determine whether or not the customer has won a monetary or non-monetary prize.
  • the bonus to the customer of avoiding the return of small bills or coins is not necessarily as strong as an in-store situation where a customer may receive loose change, particularly since the customer may not be paying in cash. Therefore, in such situations, the steps 102, 104 may be eliminated if desired.
  • a lottery ticket can be offered to a customer during the step 106 for any amount, including an amount that rounds up the total price to the customer or an even amount for the particular unit of currency being used.
  • the lottery ticket has a prize value associated with it often dollars if the price of the lottery ticket is one dollar, or some proportional amount often dollars if the lottery ticket had a different price. If the winning lottery ticket had a price of sixty-nine cents, or sixty-nine percent of one dollar, the prize value associated with the winning ticket is six dollars and ninety cents, or sixty-nine percent often dollars. Alternatively, if the winning lottery ticket had a price of one dollar and seventy- four cents, or one hundred and seventy- four percent of one dollar, the prize value associated with the winning ticket is seventeen dollars and forty cents, or one hundred and seventy- four percent often dollars. Of course, non-monetary prizes can also be associated with lottery tickets.
  • each lottery ticket can be viewed or thought of as a single pull or play on a slot machine or other gaming device or machine by a customer, the results of which may entitle the customer to win one or more monetary or non monetary prizes.
  • the offer to the customer made during the step 106 may include the ability for the customer to set or select certain parameters or options associated with the pull or play. Customization of parameters or options that may be available or possible for a customer when a lottery ticket or slot machine "pull" or play is offered to a client during the step 106 is described in pending U.S. Application Serial No. 09/052,291, entitled "A Gaming Device and Method and Operation Thereof and filed March 31, 1998, the complete disclosure of which is herein incorporated by reference.
  • the embodiment 250 of the method 100 illustrated in Figure 9 includes the steps 102, 104, 106, 108, 110 previously described above.
  • the method 250 includes a step 252 during which a ticket database, such as the ticket database 162 illustrated in Figure 4, is created or generated by a store, a lottery organization, or other entity, a step 254 during which some or all of the ticket database information created during the step 252 is distributed, if necessary, to one or more store servers, lottery servers, etc., a step 256 during which a transaction or purchase total is created for a customer purchasing, ordering, or otherwise paying for goods or services, a step 258 during which the offer database created during the step 252 is updated after the purchase of a lottery ticket by a customer, and a step 260 during which some or all of the information from the updated ticket database is distributed, if necessary, to one or more store servers, lottery servers, etc.
  • the method 250 allows for a database of lottery tickets to be generated prior to any of the lottery tickets being offered for sale to customers.
  • a ticket database can preferably be created or otherwise generated that contains a description of each of the lottery tickets that will be available for sale.
  • the ticket database 162 illustrated in Figure 4 includes an identification of each lottery ticket to be offered for sale and whether each lottery ticket is associated with a winning outcome or a losing outcome, i.e., whether each lottery ticket is a winning lottery ticket or a losing lottery ticket.
  • a base win value or amount might be established for winning tickets for one of the price levels of the available or authorized lottery tickets.
  • Each winning lottery ticket at the other lottery ticket price levels may then be proportionally related or prorated. For example, a wining lottery ticket having a price of seventy-six cents may have a win value or premium of fifty dollars.
  • the store or lottery organization might establish an average price to customers of a group of lottery tickets sold as well as a minimum price or maximum price for each lottery ticket in the group of lottery tickets, or both, such that the average price to customers is obtained or exceeded when all of the lottery tickets in the group of lottery tickets have been sold, thereby helping to establish a minimum or desired profit level for the store or lottery organization.
  • a ticket database created during the step 252 may be created at an individual store level or at a multi-store or multi-outlet level. That is, a single store, lottery organization, or other entity may create a ticket database during the step 252 for use in conducting lottery ticket sales only at the store.
  • the information provided to the second store may comprise or be included in an offer database maintained by the second store.
  • Each store is, as a result, selling lottery tickets that are not available from or at the other four stores and each store is, in effect, implementing its own independent lottery separate from the other four stores, albeit the overall lottery ticket availability is generated or determined by the lottery ticket organization which generated the original ticket database during the step 252.
  • each lottery ticket in the ticket database may be available for sale by each of the five stores and the ticket database may be provided to all five stores or maintained centrally in a lottery server. Obviously, once a specific lottery ticket is sold by one store, it should no longer be available for sale by or at another store.
  • the merchandise transaction or purchase total is preferably communicated to the customer who then provides a tender amount to cover or pay for the purchases during step 102.
  • a customer purchases books in a bookstore having a total price of $15.42
  • the customer may provide a twenty-dollar bill to cover the purchases, which is received during the step 102, typically by a person at a cash register or other point-of- sale device.
  • the amount due to the customer as determined during the step 104 is then $4.58, or $20.00 minus $15.42.
  • the steps 102, 104, 106, 108, 110 preferably operate as previously described above. During the step 106, however, some additional actions may be undertaken.
  • the method 250 offers the lottery ticket for sale to the customer during the step 106 as previously described above and continues to the step 108 and 110 as previously described above. If a lottery ticket at the desired price to be offered a customer is not available, the step 106 and the remainder of the steps in the method 250 may be aborted or eliminated. Alternatively, availability of a lottery ticket at a different price may be determined in the same manner as described immediately above. Similarly, if the customer does not accept the offer made during the step 106, the steps 110, 258, 260 and the remainder of the method 250 may be aborted or eliminated.
  • the point-of-sale terminal 135 may offer one or more of such available lottery tickets for sale to customers as part of the step 106 previously described above.
  • the store server 128 preferably receives information from the point-of-sale terminal 135 as to whether a customer has agreed to or indicated a desire to purchase a lottery ticket.
  • the store server 128 may optionally update the offer database or otherwise cause the offer database to be updated to indicate that the lottery ticket(s) purchased by or provided to the customer are now unavailable or have a "sold" status. If the offer database or a ticket database is kept on a lottery server or some device other than the store server 128, the store server 128 may send the necessary information to the appropriate device to allow or cause the offer database or the ticket database to be updated.
  • the store server 128 may update the transaction database or cause the transaction database to be updated during the step 312 to record the final total or price to the customer, the lottery ticket identifier(s) associated with the lottery ticket(s) purchased by the customer, etc.
  • the store server 128 may update an inventory database or cause the inventory database to be updated during the step 312 to record changes in the store's inventory as a result of or in accordance with the customer's transaction.
  • step 356 information regarding the merchandise transaction is communicated or provided to the store server 128.
  • the step 356 from the point of view of the point-of-sale terminal 135 is complementary to the step 302 previously discussed above from the point of view of the store server 128.
  • the information provided by the point-of-sale terminal 135 to the store server 128 may include a partial or complete description or total of the goods or services being purchased or otherwise paid for by the customer as part of the merchandise transaction.
  • the information may also include the tender amount provided by the customer as part of the merchandise transaction and received by the point-of-sale terminal during the step 356.
  • the method 350 proceeds to the step 364 during which the point-of-sale terminal 135 provides an indication to the store server 128 of the customer's acceptance or desire to purchase one or more lottery tickets.
  • the step 364 from the point of view of the point-of-sale terminal 135 is complementary to the step 314 previously discussed above from the point of view of the store server 128.
  • Each of the methods described above can be performed on a single computer, computer system, microprocessor, etc.
  • two or more of the steps in each of the methods described above could be performed on two or more different computers, computer systems, microprocessors, etc., some or all of which may be locally or remotely configured.
  • the methods can be implemented in any sort or implementation of computer software, program, sets of instructions, code, ASIC, or specially designed chips, logic gates, or other hardware structured to directly effect or implement such software, programs, sets of instructions, or code.
  • the computer software, program, sets of instructions, code can be storable, writeable, or savable on any computer usable media or other program storage device or media such as a floppy or other magnetic or optical disk, magnetic or optical tape, CD-ROM, hard disk drive, ZipTM disk, flash or optical memory card, microprocessor, solid state memory device, RAM or ROM chip(s), PROM or EPROM device, etc.

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Selon l'invention, un procédé permettant à un client d'acheter un billet de loterie consiste à recevoir un montant offert par le client dans le cadre d'une transaction aux termes de laquelle le client paie pour des biens ou des services ayant un prix calculé et à déterminer la quantité de monnaie due au client, ladite quantité étant en règle générale égale au montant offert par le client moins le prix calculé pour les biens et services qu'il achète. Le procédé consiste également à (i) donner au client la possibilité d'obtenir un billet de loterie ou d'un autre jeu dont le prix est de préférence basé, au moins en partie, sur la quantité de monnaie due au client, à (ii) déterminer si le client accepte ou non l'offre qui lui est faite en matière de billet de loterie, et à (iii) remettre un billet de loterie au client qui en accepte l'offre. Le procédé peut être mis en oeuvre sur une base 'magasin par magasin' ou s'appliquer à des magasins multiples; il comprend la possibilité d'adapter le prix des billets de loterie proposés aux clients, la probabilité de chances de gagner pour un billet de loterie donné et/ou la quantité ou la valeur du prix monétaire ou non monétaire associé à chaque billet de loterie gagnant.
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