Patent EA-003602-B1 (EA)
Title: Method for playing a lottery game and system for realizing the same
Inventor: KASPAROV GARRI KIMOVICH
IPC: A63F3/08
Filed: 1998-09-08
Abstract: 1. A method of conducting lotteries, comprising the use of memory devices (4) by users (3) having an inducator (31) and input-output device (29) and being designed for writing information to storage at certain moments in time and calculating these moments in time in a information processing means (21, 13) at a data collection center (10) or at subscriber points (12) after reading data from timer (27) stored in memory (26) of the memory device (4) and data output by timer (27) during reading thereof, characterized in that after a certain period of time one or more time parameters (41, 49, 50, 53) of the data produced by timer (27) are determined at the moment they are read by an information processing means (13, 21), and said moments of recording of a hypothetical information being computed (48, 52, 55) by computing the algebraic sum between the current time of reading of information from memory (26) and a member which is a product of determined time interval for given time span, expressed in the form of average period of data time interval from the timer (27) or a reciprocal frequency number of their interval and the difference between said read data at a data collection center (10) or at subscriber points (12) and the corresponding data of the timer (27). 2. The method of conducting lotteries as claimed in claim 1, characterised in that the mean frequency of the exchange of data output by timer (27) is determined 41, 49, 53 at the moment they are read at a data collection center (10) or at subscriber points (12) and the moments the time of writing of proposed information is calculated (52) by calculating the difference between the current time of reading information from memory (26) and a member consisting of difference ratio between the data produced by the timer (27) at the moment of reading and at the moment storing to the memory (26) and the determined data-exchange frequency. 3. A method of conducting lotteries as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that before the proposed information is written the mean frequency of the exchange of data output by timer (27) is determined and these data are read, while the moments in time at which the proposed information is written to memory are calculated (48) by calculating the sum of the above-mentioned current times of reading and a member consisting of difference ratio between the data stored in the memory (26) and produced by the timer (27) during their reading, and the determined before recording average frequency of data exchange. 4. The method of conducting lotteries as claimed in claim 1,characterised in determining (50) the average time interval between the current data produced by timer (27) during the time of their reading by means (14), and the moments of recording of the hypothetical information being computed by computing the difference between the current time of reading information from memory (26) and a member which is a product of the determined average data-exchange period and the difference thereof produced by the timer (27) at the moment of reading and at the moment storing to the memory (26). 5. The method of conducting lotteries as claimed in claim 1, characterised in determining (41), before recording of the hypothetical information, the average time interval between the current data produced by timer (27) during a determined time period of their reading by means (14) and the moments of recording of the hypothetical information being computed by computing the sum between said current time of reading and a member which is a product of the average data-exchange period and the difference between data stored in the memory (26) and produced by the timer (27) during their reading. 6. The method of conducting lotteries as claimed in claims 2 or 3, characterised in determining (53) the average data change rate by way of computing means (13, 21) of the ratio of the difference of the timer current data during their reading and the difference of their current times of reading. 7. The method of conducting lotteries as claimed in claims 4 or 5, characterised in determining (53) the average time interval between the data by way of computing means (13, 21) of the ratio of the difference of the current times and the difference of the timer current data read in the corresponding current time. 8. The method of conducting lotteries as claimed in claims 1-7, characterised by increasing (72) the computed information recording time by a value associated with an error of computing of said time. 9. The method for holding lotteries as claimed in claim 8, characterised in determining (61) one of the constituents of said error after multiplying a relative error of temporal parameters of the timer (27) data and the difference of its recording and reading data. 10. The method for holding lotteries as claimed in claim 9, characterised in determining (65) a relative error of temporal parameters of timer (27) by computing (64) their maximal difference obtained during reading of the timer data (27). 11. The method of conducting lotteries as claimed in claim 10, characterized in that external factors influence (63) memory device 4. 12. The method of conducting lotteries as claimed in claim 9, characterised in determining (70) the error by analysing comparison (69) of moments of recording (67), in memory device (4), of a reference information, which moments have been computed (68) on the basis of the timer (27) data and stored at data collection center (10) or at subscriber points (12). 13. The method of conducting lotteries as claimed in claim 1, characterised in storing, at the information recording moment, a code number of the timer; recording moments being computed (48, 52, 55) after computation of the difference between these code numbers and the corresponding timer (27) data at the moment when they are read. 14. The method of conducting lotteries as claimed in any one of claims 1-13, characterised in storing the data supplied from timer (27) at the moment of simultaneous storing (99) of all information relating to a corresponding drawing version, which version can comprise the event code, data on the hypothetical information, and a stake, for example money stake. 15. The method of conducting lotteries as claimed 14, characterised in presetting (98), by way of an action exerted on input/output device (29), the number and parameters of the variants intended for simultaneous storing in memory device (4). 16. The method of conducting lotteries as claimed in claim 15, characterised in presetting (98), by way of action exerted on input/output device (29), an algorithm for forming variants. 17. The method of conducting lotteries as claimed in one of claims 14-16, characterized in that the correctness of the format of the information is verified (95), whereby information that is not verified produces a signal that prevents it from being written to internal memory (26) of memory device (4). 18. A method of conducting lotteries as claimed in one of claims 14-16, characterized in that such a playing field is generated 93 on the indicator (31) by interacting with the input/output device (29) that corresponds to the playing field of the event in question. 19. A method of conducting lotteries as claimed in claim 18, characterized in that a playing field is generated (93) that corresponds to the playing field placed on tickets for the Bingo lottery. 20. A method of conducting lotteries as claimed in claim 18, characterized in that a playing field is generated (93) that corresponds to the playing field of roulette. 21. A method of conducting lotteries as claimed in claim 8, characterized in that a playing field is automatically generated 93 that corresponds to the code of the event being held input into the memory device (4) via the input/output device (29). 22. A method of conducting lotteries as claimed in claim 14, characterized in that true information is input (101) into memory device (4), along with conditions (102) for determining winnings, and after the true information is compared to information stored in memory (26) that is related to the event in question by the conditions used to determine winnings, the information is analyzed to determine whether it corresponds to the true information. 23. The method of conducting lotteries as claimed in claim 14, characterised in that, on the basis of the analysis results, an amount, a money amount for example, is recorded (104) in memory (26) after memory device (4) has received an encoded signal; time of transmission of said signal and also value of the amount being stored at data collection center (10, 12), and at the moment when the amount is recorded in memory (26) the timer (27) data being stored. 24. The method of conducting lotteries as claimed in claim 14, characterized in that the encoded signal is received by means of receiver (22) and decoder (23). 25. A system of conducting lotteries, comprising information sources connected, for example, with users (3) by a radio-broadcasting communication channel (2), and, at least one data collection center (10) comprising an information processing means (21) communicated via an input/output interface (8) one of information input/output device (29) of a memory device (4) having an indicator (31), a timer (27) and memory connected to a control unit (32), characterized in that comprises at least one measuring means of data temporal characteristics output by the timer (27), the measuring input device (14) is coordinated via the input/output interface (8) with timer (27) of the memory device (4) and the measuring output device (14) is connected to the information processing means (21). 26. The system of conducting lotteries as claimed in claim 25, characterized in that comprises at least one at subscriber point (12) comprising the information processing means (13) connected to the measuring output device (14), the inputs of the information processing means are firstly connected via the corresp