Patent ID: 8348742
Filing Date: 2013-01-08
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A method for facilitating governmental lottery play over television, comprising: receiving a lottery ticket purchase request from a player terminal including a television over a communication network of a television service provider and transmitting the received lottery ticket purchase request to an agent server, configured to process lottery ticket purchase requests transmitted from a plurality of player terminals, in communication with the television service provider over the Internet; retrieving player information pertaining to a player from a subscriber database of the television service provider; verifying that the player satisfies predetermined criteria required by a lottery administration entity based on the retrieved player information using a verification unit of the agent server; and processing the purchase of a lottery ticket based on the received lottery ticket purchase request when it is verified that the player satisfies the predetermined criteria, wherein the processing of the purchase of the lottery ticket includes receiving a serial number, at the agent server, from a separate lottery administrator server maintained by the lottery administration entity and configured to generate serial numbers associated with purchased lottery tickets.