Amusement devices: games – Problem eliciting response – Questions and answers
Patent
1992-01-21
1994-10-11
Harrison, Jessica J.
Amusement devices: games
Problem eliciting response
Questions and answers
273138A, 273269, 364412, A63F 922
Patent
active
053540697
ABSTRACT:
A lottery by phone system which permits a caller to place bets with a state's existing lottery computer system via a telephone call from a touch-tone telephone which is connected via the public telephone network to a voice response unit which decodes touch-tones entered by the caller. The voice response unit prompts the caller with preprogrammed digitized audio messages and has each caller identified via a unique identification number. It permits such a caller to select which game to place a bet with and to have the option of picking their own numbers or having the system randomly pick numbers for them. It allows the caller to collect their winnings using a touch tone telephone via another telephone call, and to have the automatic interaction with the caller handle data entry errors, and to have caller queries regarding previous such bets answered by an operator. The system communicates with the existing state lottery computer via emulation of the existing communications protocol used between the existing state lottery computer and on-line terminals and performs automatic high level error recovery beyond the specifications of that communications protocol.
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Guttman Uri
Nelson Avi N.
Piankian Robert A.
Scally Joseph
Ahbrew Company
Harrison Jessica J.
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