Patent ID: 9349252
Filing Date: 2016-05-24
CPC Classification: A63F,G07F

Claim Text:
1. A method for a player having a mobile computer device configured to communicate through a communications network with a game provider that offers a random draw game and maintains a database of game tickets selected for play in the random draw game, to select in advance of the play of the random draw game by the game provider a game ticket having tokens for play during play of the random draw game in which the game provider selects tokens randomly as winning tokens so that the player in possession of a game ticket having tokens that match at least some of the winning tokens wins a prize, comprising the steps of: (a) displaying on a screen of the mobile computer device during communication through the network with the game provider an icon of the random draw game for which a game ticket for play is to be selected; (b) presenting on the display of the mobile computer device a plurality of available game tokens in a first representation to indicate available for selection for play in the random draw game; (c) selecting by the player using the mobile computer device a pre-determined number of game tokens for the game ticket for play of the random draw game from the plurality of available game tokens displayed on the screen of the mobile computer device, which selected game tokens are for associating with the game ticket for the player; (d) the mobile computer device communicating a representation of the game tokens selected by the player for play of the game ticket during the play of random draw game to the game provider and an identifier of the mobile computer device; (e) the game provider using a random draw game controller updates a database of game tickets authorized for play during the random draw game with the game tokens selected by the player and with the identifier of the mobile computer device to authorize the game ticket for the player; and (f) the game provider communicating a verification to the player of the authorization of the game ticket selected by the player, whereby the player presents the verification for redemption of a winning game ticket.