Patent ID: 7035626

Claim:
A method for remote betting using cell phones comprising: providing a telephony interface configured to receive voice and location data from a cell phone associative with a phone session, determining gaming restrictions, if any, from said cell phone location data; associating applicable gaming restrictions, if any, with said phone session; receiving a first identifier through said telephony interface associative with said phone session; associating said first identifier with an age; using said age and said applicable gaming restrictions to determine allowable gaming-related actions; receiving a second identifier through said telephony interface associative with said phone session, said second identifier being a biometric identifier; associating said second identifier with said phone call; receiving gaming-relating data associative with said phone session; using said gaming-related data for at least one of placing bets or purchasing lottery tickets in accordance with said applicable gaming restrictions, if any; receiving a further biometric identifier and comparing said second identifier with said further identifier upon one of starting gaming-related data reception or upon ending gaming-related data reception; and rejecting said gaming-related data if said further biometric identifier and said second biometric identifier do not match.