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Lottery management system

a management system and lottery technology, applied in the field of lottery management system, can solve the problems of unable to integrate easily with outside networks, unable to communicate with external networks and non-lottery applications, and efforts to port current software applications to alternative hardware platforms have proved costly and time-consuming, so as to achieve high reliability, shorten the time to market, and improve the effect of reusability

Inactive Publication Date: 2003-12-11
GTECH RHODE ISLAND CORP
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[0009] The system of the present invention ensures lottery service providers can provide a highly reliable, extremely secure, fast and standardized system enabling all their mission-critical business needs. In addition, through plug-and-play architecture, the system of the present invention ensures a high degree of re-usability, thereby ensuring shorter time to market and providing a cost-effective solution to support the lottery community. In one embodiment of the invention, the system of the present invention can employ the Internet for providing a new range of on-line customer services. The system of the present invention is platform-, operating system- and database-independent and allows for easy integration of third party applications.

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While such systems fulfill the requirements of high-performance lottery transaction engines, they do not allow for easy integration with outside networks.
Efforts to port current software applications to alternative hardware platforms have proven costly and time-consuming.
Thus, current lottery systems have difficulty communicating with external networks and non-lottery applications.

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[0019] As shown in FIGS. 1 through 10, there is provided a lottery management and delivery system 10, which can integrate legacy lotteries as well as new lottery systems so as to allow customization of lottery system attributes. The lottery management system of the present invention can be used to enable various lottery service providers (e.g., state lotteries), to implement their lottery network. In one embodiment, the lottery management service is an isolated provider of the necessary hardware, software, and network components to enable lottery operations, while in another embodiment, the lottery management system provides and supports such components electronically, to the extent possible over network connections. Among other things, the present platform assists in lottery system administration, network management, transaction processing for multi-state games, reporting, and integration and communication with lottery service providers and third party application developers.

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Abstract

A lottery management system provides the ability to integrate various lottery system types into a single lottery management solution so as to allow the customized deployment of various lottery system attributes. In one embodiment, lottery system attributes include game types, reporting functions, system administration, point-of-sale integration, device and network-specific interfaces and retail management. The present invention can include a lottery transaction server, a message exchange component, thin client components, thick client components and software development kits.

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[0001] The present application claims priority of U.S. patent application No. 60 / 386,740, filed Jun. 10, 2002, entitled "Lottery Management System".[0002] The present invention relates to lottery systems, and more particularly to a lottery management system and platform for distributing dynamic lottery system services and functionality across an open communications network.DESCRIPTION OF THE RELATED ART[0003] Lottery ticket sales generate large revenues for government-run programs. Typically, the state lottery organization will authorize lottery sales agents to sell lottery tickets in exchange for a commission on overall sales and winning ticket sales. Lottery sales agents include common retailers, such as gas station and convenience store operators, who are typically provided with one or more of a variety of lottery-dispensing technologies covering various types of lottery games. For example, a 24-hour convenience store may have a point-of-sale (POS) lottery terminal behind the cou...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G06F7/08A63F13/00G06F17/00G06Q20/18G06Q30/00G07D7/00G07F17/32
CPCG07F17/32G06Q30/06
Inventor JAWAHARLAL, SRIDHARORAM, THOMAS K.KULA, MIROSLAWMALLIN, TIMOTHYROGERS, ROBERTSMITH, LARRY ROGERSILVIA, MICHAELKOPPEL, RICHARD
Owner GTECH RHODE ISLAND CORP
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