Registers – Records
Reexamination Certificate
2006-06-06
2009-11-03
Hess, Daniel A (Department: 2876)
Registers
Records
C238S061000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07611065
ABSTRACT:
Security can be provided for lottery tickets having data printed thereon in a bar code or other machine readable media by covering only a portion of the bar code with a scratch-off material. Removing the scratch-off material, or in some cases only a portion of the scratch-off material, can permit machine validation of the lottery tickets. For bar codes having a specified level of redundancy, it is desirable to cover at least enough of the bar code to prevent the machine reading of ticket validation data encoded in the bar code. Also, a lottery ticket can include a bar code printed on the ticket having both inventory and validation data along with a bar code printed on the front of the ticket including the validation data. All or part of the bar code printed on the front of the ticket can be covered by a scratch-off material. Also, the validation and redemption process can be expedited by having a player ticket checker read a ticket identifier printed on the lottery ticket so that this information can be checked and automatically entered in an agent terminal.
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Behm William F.
Finnerty Fred
Dority & Manning P.A.
Hess Daniel A
Scientific Games International Inc.
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