Multi-site Raffle Gaming System with Centralized Admin Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Traditional raffle gaming systems face limitations in multiplayer capabilities, multi-site interaction, and administrator management control, particularly in cost-sensitive environments like educational settings, where user-friendliness, security, and accuracy are crucial.

Innovation Solution

The development of gaming platforms and methods that enable secure, automated, and efficient multiplayer raffle gaming across multiple locations, featuring a system with administrator management, secure transaction processing, and multi-tiered administration access, allowing for user-friendly, secure, and cost-effective management of raffle transactions and winner selection.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If traditional raffle gaming systems are used, then geographical limitations are imposed, but expanding to multi-site platforms is desired

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemulti-site capabilityVSAvoidsystem architecture
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system employs a universal platform architecture that enables the same raffle gaming system to function across multiple geographical locations and device types. The centralized server communicates with various client devices (mobile phones, tablets, computers) through standardized protocols, allowing the system to serve multiple sites without requiring location-specific infrastructure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Reliability

If conventional approaches are used, then administrator management control is limited, but enhanced management control is desired

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemanagement controlVSAvoidadministration system
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The administrator management system incorporates real-time feedback mechanisms that provide administrators with immediate information about game status, participant actions, and system events. This includes notifications of suspicious activities, transaction confirmations, and game progression updates, enabling administrators to maintain reliable control and make informed decisions during gameplay.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

A centralized server acts as an intermediary between administrators and the distributed gaming system. This intermediary layer processes administrator commands, manages game logic, and coordinates communication between multiple sites, providing reliable centralized control without requiring direct complex connections between all system components.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Measurement precision

If traditional systems are used, then human error increases, but reducing error is desired

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransaction accuracyVSAvoidautomated processing
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSExtent of automation

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements automated self-service functionality where participants can independently complete registration, purchase tickets, and receive confirmation without manual intervention. The system automatically validates entries, processes transactions, generates tickets, and notifies winners, eliminating human error in these routine operations while maintaining high accuracy through automated verification protocols.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

4Ease of operation

If user-friendly systems are used, then security may be compromised, but both security and ease of use are desired

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser interfaceVSAvoidsecurity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The centralized server acts as a secure intermediary that handles all sensitive operations including authentication, transaction processing, and data validation. Users interact with a simple interface while the intermediary layer manages complex security protocols, encryption, and verification processes in the background, providing both ease of use and robust security without requiring users to understand underlying security mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS11574527B1Network game system and method
Publication Date: 2023.02.07 ADMITSPLIT LLC
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AI summary

Secure transaction processes, assemblies, systems, and methods for conducting an administered gaming raffle are shown and described. In one embodiment, a user entrant enters a particular event, a tangible ticket value is generated and delivered to the user entrant, an administrator management module transforms a plurality of the participant ticket value recognition transactions into a dynamic inventory, which is ultimately streamlined into a winner selection benefiting the user entrant and a predetermined charity or the like.