Patent ID: 6358151
Filing Date: 2002-03-19
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
A method for facilitating game play in an electronic lottery game network, the network utilizing at least one player terminal, at least one central processing system, and at least one pool of game play records, each game play record in a pool being associated with a predetermined result, the method including the steps of:(a) maintaining unique record identifiers at a central processing system, each record identifier being associated with a different game play record in a pool of game play records; (b) storing the pool of game play records at a player terminal, each game play record in the pool at the player terminal being addressable by the unique identifier associated with the respective game play record; (c) in response to a game play request communicated to the central processing system from the player terminal, communicating the record identifier associated with a particular game play record from the central processing system to the player terminal; (d) in response to the record identifier communicated to the player terminal, accessing the particular game play record at the player terminal; and (e) utilizing information accessed from the particular game play record at the player terminal to generate display commands and produce a graphic representation at the player terminal, the graphic representation being consistent with a predetermined result associated with the particular game play record.