Internet Lottery Age Verification via Segmented Backend
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Solution Overview
Problem
The challenge lies in developing an Internet-based lottery system that authenticates the age and location of players while ensuring compliance with legal requirements, as existing deterministic games lack dynamic player input and fail to integrate seamlessly with existing lottery infrastructure, posing legal and auditing hurdles.
Innovation Solution
A server-based method for verifying player age and location using game authorization codes, personal identification numbers, and location verification codes, which are linked to the player's device, ensuring compliance with jurisdictional requirements and allowing for dynamic gameplay experiences.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If deterministic lottery games are implemented on the Internet, then legal compliance and infrastructure integration are achieved, but game dynamicism and player engagement deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the lottery system into two distinct parts: a deterministic backend (for legal compliance and auditing) and a dynamic frontend (for player engagement). The game interface allows dynamic player input and multiple play styles, while the backend maintains predetermined outcomes for regulatory compliance. This segmentation resolves the contradiction by allowing each part to fulfill its specific function without compromising the other.
2Adaptability or versatility
If new Internet lottery infrastructure is developed, then dynamic gameplay and player experience are enhanced, but system complexity and implementation cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the game interface universal by designing it to accommodate multiple play styles and dynamic player inputs while maintaining compatibility with existing deterministic lottery systems. The same interface can support both traditional deterministic games and new dynamic game modes, allowing lotteries to enhance player experience without completely replacing their existing infrastructure.
3Reliability
If age and location verification is implemented, then legal requirements are met, but system complexity and verification time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs age and location verification as a preliminary action before the player begins playing the game. The system collects and validates player information upfront, obtaining necessary permissions for location tracking and age verification before game initiation. This preliminary action ensures legal compliance is established before gameplay, reducing the need for continuous verification during play and simplifying the overall system architecture.
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AI summary
A method for verifying the age or location of a player of an Internet-based lottery game entails providing lottery tickets for purchase by players at an authorized retail location, the lottery tickets having a game authorization code that is entered by the initiate play of the Internet-based lottery game on an internet enabled device. The age of the player is verified at the retail location and a separate verification password is entered via a terminal that is in communication with to the lottery system central computer, with the password linked to the game authorization code. Upon initiating play of the game via a web site, the player enters the verification password separately from the game authorization code. An Internet game server communicates with the lottery system central computer to ensure that the entered verification password corresponds to the linked verification password prior to permitting play of the Internet-based lottery game.