Patent ID: 11861988
Assignee: IGT GLOBAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 8:
9. A method of operating a digital lottery ticket system, said method comprising:
responsive to receiving, via a first electronic communications network, a player ticket validation request from a lottery system access terminal, the player ticket validation request comprising data associated with data obtained from an image of a digital lottery ticket displayed by a player mobile electronic access device, determining if the digital lottery ticket is valid and redeemable;
responsive to determining that the digital lottery ticket is valid and redeemable, creating and sending, via a second electronic communication network, a ticket validation SMS with data representing a one-time code to the player mobile electronic access device;
responsive to receiving, via the first electronic communication network, a player ticket redemption request from the lottery system access terminal, the player ticket redemption request comprising data representing a digital lottery ticket identification, the one-time code, and a player code, determining based on the data representing the digital lottery ticket identification, the one-time code, and the player code, whether to approve or deny the player ticket redemption request; and
responsive to determining to approve the player ticket redemption request, creating and sending, via the first electronic communication network, a ticket redemption approval to the lottery system access terminal to approve payment of an award for the digital lottery ticket and to cause the lottery system access terminal to display an indication of an approval of the payment of the award for the digital lottery ticket.