Dynamic Sweepstakes Code Verification System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional sweepstakes systems lack control over the distribution of winning tickets, leading to issues like premature exhaustion of winners and potential unfairness, such as a single person winning multiple times.
Innovation Solution
A system where end-user devices capture codes from displays and submit them to computers for verification, using variable factors like geographic location, date, time, or user activity to determine winning codes, allowing operators to control and randomize the distribution of winners.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If winning tickets are predetermined and distributed in conventional sweepstakes, then the system is simple to operate, but the operator loses control over winner distribution and may experience premature exhaustion of winners
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic determination of winning codes based on variable factors such as geographic location, date, time of day, and user activity. Instead of predetermined static winning tickets, the system dynamically evaluates each code submission against current variable conditions, allowing the operator to control winner distribution patterns while maintaining operational simplicity through automated processing.
2Reliability
If winning codes are randomly distributed, then the distribution appears fair to participants, but all winners may be distributed to a single geographic area by chance
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by making winning code determination dependent on the specific geographic location of the participant. The system evaluates variable factors including geographic area, allowing different regions to have different winning probabilities or conditions. This ensures both perceived fairness through location-specific evaluation and actual geographic distribution control, preventing concentration of all winners in a single area.
3Ease of manufacture
If the sweepstakes uses predetermined winning combinations, then the system is easy to implement, but a single person may win multiple times which appears unfair to other participants
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms by tracking user activity, number of submissions, and participation history as variable factors in determining winning codes. The system continuously monitors participant behavior and adjusts winning code generation accordingly, preventing any single person from winning multiple times while maintaining fair distribution. This feedback-based approach preserves implementation simplicity through automated tracking and evaluation.
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AI summary
Systems and methods for determining sweepstakes winners involve a display providing a code to an end-user device and the end user-device providing the displayed code to a computer, which determines whether the displayed code is a winning code. Whether a code is a winning code can be based on a variable factor, such as a geographic location, a date, a time of day, a day of a week, a number of submissions by a particular person, valued activities performed by a particular person. The identification of a code as a winning code can be performed either before the code is provided to the display or after the code is received by the computer.