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Flexible online instant lottery gameRelated Patent Categories: Amusement Devices: Games, Including Means For Processing Electronic Data (e.g., Computer/video Game, Etc.), In A Chance Application, Lot Match Or Lot Combination (e.g., Roulette, Lottery, Etc.)Flexible online instant lottery game description/claimsThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20060160602, Flexible online instant lottery game. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
PRIORITY CLAIM TO RELATED APPLICATION [0001] This application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) to provisional application No. 60/645,488 filed Jan. 18, 2005. The entire contents of said provisional application is incorporated herein by reference thereto. [0002] A portion of the disclosure of this patent document contains material which is subject to copyright protection. The copyright owner has no objection to the facsimile reproduction by anyone of the patent document or patent disclosure as it appears in the Patent and Trademark Office patent file or records, but otherwise reserves all copyright rights whatsoever. BACKGROUND INFORMATION [0003] Future draw lottery tickets involve purchasing a chance, usually in the form of a ticket, to match a result in a drawing to be held after the chance is purchased. Lotto and keno are two examples of future draw lottery games. In an instant-win or instant lottery game, whether a ticket or chance is a winner is determined before or at the time of purchase. Thus, a winning instant win lottery ticket may typically be redeemed for a prize immediately. Common types of instant win lottery games include pre-printed tickets such as pull-tab tickets, peel-off tickets, or scratch-off tickets. Instant win lottery games may also be provided electronically, e.g., as described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,241,606 to Riendeau. [0004] Pre-printed lottery tickets used for instant lottery games may be cumbersome and expensive. Security requirements necessitate the use of secure printing and distribution of preprinted instant lottery tickets. In addition, instant lottery tickets are traditionally printed in packs or books before the tickets are distributed to lottery retailers and lottery retail machines. This requires the lottery operator to determine the number of tickets to be printed for a particular instant lottery game before the instant lottery tickets are sold. Also, printing the tickets before distribution and sale limits the speed and ease with which a lottery operator can change the instant lottery ticket games. [0005] In future draw lottery systems, customers can typically purchase tickets at a dedicated lottery terminal in a convenience store or similar establishment, where the tickets are printed to order. Each dedicated lottery terminal communicates with a central lottery server to exchange information and instructions associated with a given lottery transaction. U.S. Pat. No. 5,772,510 to Roberts allows the printing of instant lottery tickets at a lottery terminal selling future draw lottery tickets, but still requires a special ticket stock with pre-printed information. [0006] Example embodiments of the present invention allow flexible and convenient generation of instant lottery game tickets which may be printed at the point of sale. New games and new prize structures may be deployed conveniently without the need to provision special preprinted ticket stocks. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS [0007] FIG. 1 illustrates an example client-server system architecture for providing an instant lottery game, according to an example embodiment of the present invention. [0008] FIG. 2 illustrates an example lottery terminal in the example client-server system architecture for providing an instant lottery game, according to an example embodiment of the present invention. [0009] FIG. 2a illustrates an example game selection screen for the example lottery terminal, according to an example embodiment of the present invention. [0010] FIG. 2b illustrates a second example game selection screen, according to an example embodiment of the present invention. [0011] FIG. 3 illustrates several example instant lottery tickets for the lottery game BINGO, according to an example embodiment of the present invention [0012] FIG. 3R illustrates the reverse of one of the example instant lottery tickets for the lottery game BINGO, according to an example embodiment of the present invention. [0013] FIG. 4 illustrates an example lottery ticket for the lottery game CROSSWORD, according to an example embodiment of the present invention. [0014] FIG. 5 illustrates the architecture of an example host or central system for the example client-server system architecture for providing an instant lottery game, according to an example embodiment of the present invention. [0015] FIG. 6 illustrates an example prize pool for the example instant lottery game, according to an example embodiment of the present invention. [0016] FIG. 6a illustrates an example entry in the example prize pool, according to an example embodiment of the present invention. [0017] FIG. 7 illustrates an example data structure diagram for the example instant games, according to an example embodiment of the present invention. [0018] FIG. 8 illustrates an example procedure for playing and facilitating the play of an instant lottery game, according to an example embodiment of the present invention. [0019] FIG. 9 illustrates an example procedure of deploying a new lottery game, according to an example embodiment of the present invention. [0020] FIG. 10 illustrates an example auditing procedure for an instant lottery game, according to an example embodiment of the present invention. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EXAMPLE EMBODIMENTS Continue reading about Flexible online instant lottery game... 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