Patent ID: 8951110
Filing Date: 2015-02-10
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A computer-enabled method for implementing an Internet-based multi-player lottery game with a lottery authority's existing validation and redemption system for on-line or instant lottery tickets that maintains a validation file database with validation files for winning plays of the on-line or instant lottery ticket games, comprising: providing conventional paper or virtual electronic lottery tickets for consumers; configuring the lottery tickets with an access code that enables the consumers to access a web server via a designated Internet website and place an entry into at least one of a plurality of multi-player games with other consumers; validating the lottery ticket codes entered by the consumers with the web server; with the web server, conducting each of the multi-player games such that the respective entries of all of the consumers playing a particular single one of the multi-player games are combined in a collective effort to solve the multi-player game for such respective consumers; at a designated time in the multi-player game, the web server closing the multi-player game to new consumer entries and, upon conclusion of the multi-player game, notifying the consumers that participated in the closed multi-player game of a prize won in a winning play of the multi-player game; for a winning play of the multi-player game, the web server generating a win file for and assigning a prize amount to the lottery ticket codes associated with the lottery tickets of the consumers that participated in the winning play of the multi-player game; at defined periodic intervals, the web server transferring the win files to a computer system of the lottery authority's existing validation and redemption system wherein the win files are integrated with validation files in the validation file database for on-line or instant lottery tickets; and wherein consumers may present their respective lottery ticket and assigned access code for redemption in the multi-player game by the lottery authority's existing validation and redemption computer system for on-line or instant lottery tickets.