Lottery Gaming System Unique Symbol Assignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current lottery gaming systems allow multiple players to select the same numbers, leading to shared awards, which can reduce player exclusivity and revenue potential.
Innovation Solution
A lottery gaming system that selects a unique set of symbols for each player's ticket, preventing other tickets from having the same symbols, and allows players to change their symbols before a draw, ensuring only one winning ticket per unique set, thereby guaranteeing sole ownership of awards.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If multiple players are allowed to select the same numbers for lottery tickets, then the system is simpler and more accessible, but the award must be shared among multiple winners, reducing player exclusivity and revenue potential
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the lottery ticket market into two distinct types: standard tickets that allow shared awards and premium unique tickets that guarantee sole ownership. This segmentation resolves the contradiction by allowing both multiple players to purchase tickets (maintaining accessibility) while providing an option for exclusive awards through the unique ticket segment.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter of symbol uniqueness from a fixed state to a selectable option. Players can choose whether their ticket symbols should be unique to them alone or shared with others. This parameter change allows the system to accommodate both accessibility needs and exclusivity desires within the same framework.
2Reliability
If unique player sets of symbols are assigned to each ticket, then award exclusivity and revenue potential increase, but the system complexity increases due to preventing duplicate symbol sets
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-generating and storing a comprehensive database of all possible unique symbol set combinations before the lottery draw. This preliminary preparation allows the system to quickly verify uniqueness during ticket issuance without complex real-time calculations, thereby reducing operational complexity while maintaining award exclusivity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses copying by creating and storing duplicate records of all possible symbol combinations in a database. This allows the system to efficiently check for uniqueness by comparing against pre-copied reference data rather than performing complex real-time analysis, reducing system complexity while ensuring award exclusivity.
3Adaptability or versatility
If players are given the ability to change symbols on their tickets before the draw, then player engagement and flexibility increase, but the risk of symbol set duplication and award sharing increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback by continuously monitoring and tracking symbol set assignments in real-time as players make changes. When a player requests to change symbols, the system checks the current database state to ensure the new combination remains unique. This feedback mechanism maintains the unique symbol set guarantee while allowing flexible modifications.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies dynamics by making the symbol set assignment flexible and changeable rather than fixed. Players can dynamically modify their symbol sets before the draw, and the system dynamically updates the database to maintain uniqueness. This dynamic approach preserves both adaptability and reliability.
4Reliability
If the system prevents any other ticket from having the same unique player set of symbols, then sole ownership of awards is guaranteed, but the difficulty of detecting and measuring uniqueness increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates copied reference records of all possible symbol combinations and stores them in a database. This copying approach transforms the complex task of detecting uniqueness into a simpler comparison operation against pre-stored reference data, thereby guaranteeing sole award ownership while reducing verification complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary generation and storage of all possible unique symbol sets before the lottery draw. This preliminary action converts the difficult real-time uniqueness detection problem into a simpler lookup and comparison task against pre-prepared data, maintaining sole ownership guarantees while reducing measurement difficulty.
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AI summary
A lottery gaming system and method providing a lottery game that enables a player to obtain a unique player set of symbols for a lottery ticket for a play of a lottery game. In various embodiments, the lottery gaming system and method enables the player to originally purchase the lottery ticket with a unique player set of symbols for the play of the lottery game. In various other embodiments, the lottery gaming system and method enables the player to change one or more of the symbols of player set of symbols of a lottery ticket for a play of the lottery game that the player previously purchased to obtain a replacement lottery ticket with a different player set of symbols (such as a unique player set of symbols) for that play of the lottery game.