Patents Assigned to IGT Global Solutions Corporation
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Patent number: 11417167Abstract: An enhanced lottery media representation object such as a ticket, for example, permits a user to access certain desirable features using a communications device. In embodiments of the present invention, an improved physical lottery ticket is provided with one or more icons, such as code elements or graphic patterns, thereupon to enable a user with a properly enabled device to detect, such as by scanning or photographing the icon, or by maintaining the icon within a field of view, one or more of the icons to reveal one or more enhanced experiences via the device.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: IGT Global Solutions CorporationInventor: James C. Barnes
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Patent number: 11380168Abstract: A system, apparatus and method are presented for facilitating remote wager communications using mobile communications devices while the devices are within range of an authorized lottery transaction device. In various embodiments, lottery transaction devices are equipped with multiple Bluetooth-enabled transceivers, a lottery server manages identifiers associated with the transceivers at each lottery transaction device, and issues an identifier of an available transceiver to a requesting mobile communications device at the time the mobile device desires to consummate a player's desired transaction. Portions of the desired transaction can be communicated to the lottery server separately from the Bluetooth network to limit the time spent by a mobile device communicating directly with the Bluetooth-enabled lottery transaction device. In various embodiments, the mobile device issues a disconnect call to the lottery transaction device directly after the desired lottery transaction has been communicated.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2019Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: IGT Global Solutions CorporationInventors: Jesse Saccoccio, Mark Truman
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Patent number: 11270557Abstract: A lottery gaming system and method providing players with various different lottery ticket purchase options, wherein higher wager levels have higher average expected payouts.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: IGT GLOBAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Bradford Heathcote, Aaron Michael Koll, Sarah Simpkins
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Patent number: 11222511Abstract: A lottery gaming system that enables a player to select any one of a plurality of different geographic areas in which they predict that a designated winning lottery ticket will be purchased.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2019Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: IGT Global Solutions CorporationInventors: Bradford Heathcote, Aaron Michael Koll, Sarah Simpkins
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Patent number: 11151838Abstract: A ticket issuer server provides a digital instant lottery ticket, such as a smart contract instant lottery ticket (SILT) on a digital ledger, such as a blockchain infrastructure that supports execution of smart contracts. The ticket issuer server obtains an encryption key from a key issuer, encrypts a prize code with the encryption key to provide an encrypted prize code, creates an object, such as a smart contract representing the SILT, wherein the smart contract includes a ticket owner address attribute, a ticket issuer address attribute, a key issuer address attribute and the encrypted prize code, and stores the object on the digital ledger.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: IGT GLOBAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Gianluca Ragnoni, Fabrizio Battini, Emanuele Martire, Thomas K. Oram
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Patent number: 11127258Abstract: A lottery gaming system and method providing a lottery game that enables a player to obtain a unique player set of symbols for a lottery ticket for a play of a lottery game. In various embodiments, the lottery gaming system and method enables the player to originally purchase the lottery ticket with a unique player set of symbols for the play of the lottery game. In various other embodiments, the lottery gaming system and method enables the player to change one or more of the symbols of player set of symbols of a lottery ticket for a play of the lottery game that the player previously purchased to obtain a replacement lottery ticket with a different player set of symbols (such as a unique player set of symbols) for that play of the lottery game.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2019Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: IGT GLOBAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Dwayne Nelson, Patrick Danielson, Cameron Filipour
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Patent number: 11010987Abstract: Embodiments of a ticket burster employ a dividing wall that is movable between different positions to facilitate dispensing tickets of different sizes, and a sensor that detects and communicates the position of the dividing wall to a controller. The controller communicates with feed motors to selectively operate feed drive rollers independently or in unison depending upon the detected position of the dividing wall.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2018Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: IGT Global Solutions CorporationInventor: Paul A. Bucci
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Patent number: 10931457Abstract: A method of generating a digital lottery ticket includes receiving a transaction record associated with a ticket issuance request from a computing device, wherein the transaction record includes transaction data including a player entry and a first public key associated with the player entry, generating a first message including digital ticket information, TKD, relating to the player entry, a source field and a destination field, generating a digital signature of the first message using a private key of an issuer server, transmitting the first message and the digital signature to a transaction certification authority (TCA) server for storage on a publicly viewable transaction ledger maintained by the TCA, receiving from the TCA server a second message including a digital ticket number and a transaction ID associated with the first message and the digital ticket number, and transmitting a third message including the transaction ID and the digital ticket number to the computing device.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2018Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: IGT Global Solutions CorporationInventors: Gianluca Ragnoni, Fabrizio Battini, Emanuele Martire
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Patent number: 10896582Abstract: A lottery gaming system and method providing a lottery ticket with a pre-draw cash-in amount based on the player symbols of the lottery ticket.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2019Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: IGT Global Solutions CorporationInventors: Bradford Heathcote, Aaron Michael Koll, Sarah Simpkins
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Patent number: 10881949Abstract: A lottery ticket pack verification system and method for simultaneously scanning a plurality of picked lottery ticket packs and for determining if the scanned lottery ticket packs are the correct lottery ticket packs based on a lottery ticket pack pick list.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2019Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: IGT Global Solutions CorporationInventors: Timothy Endicott, Madhu Prakhya
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Patent number: 10713900Abstract: A lottery gaming system and method providing players with various different lottery ticket purchase options, wherein higher wager levels have higher average expected payouts.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: IGT GLOBAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Bradford Heathcote, Aaron Michael Koll, Sarah Simpkins
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Patent number: 10475291Abstract: A lottery host, ticket generator, retailer terminal(s) and specially adapted draw-based lottery game tickets provide embodiments of a wagering event integrity control system, method and apparatus as disclosed. In various embodiments, purchased but unactivated tickets for a lottery drawing are activated based upon key codes associated with unsold tickets received by the lottery host at the end of a game. The lottery host and ticket generator can store different sets of information about the draw-based lottery game tickets, which can be pre-printed with game indicia and activated when desired by the player.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2017Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: IGT Global Solutions CorporationInventors: Corey Edwards, Bradford Heathcote, Aaron Michael Koll, Sarah W. Simpkins
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Patent number: 10467862Abstract: A printed game card, sheet or ticket set can incorporate multiple individual tickets separated by perforation, scoring or folds, for example. In various embodiments, the game card or sheet is printed with at least one playable game on each individual ticket, wherein the games can be instant win games with game indicia and one or more layers of varnish or rubber-based material that is removable to reveal the indicia. Each ticket on the game card, sheet or ticket set can include individual validation and/or activation indicia. The indicia can be human-readable and/or computer readable. Further, the entire game card, sheet or ticket set can include game or sheet activation indicia, such that when the entire sheet is sold, the entirety of individual game tickets can be activated simultaneously. When the individual game ticket validation codes are read, embodiments of the present invention can operate to individually assess whether the ticket is a winner, as well as whether the ticket has previously been redeemed.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2018Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: IGT Global Solutions CorporationInventor: Walter Gaddy
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Patent number: 10453298Abstract: A system, apparatus and method are presented wherein games operated by users may be added, modified, and/or deleted in a manner that eliminates the need to substantially reconfigure all or mostly all of the related subsystems. In various embodiments, game containers, game container setups, and a game catalog server combine such that desired changes to game types are generated in bundles of game data setup packages and distributed for execution by respective game containers. The game data setup packages contain parameters that can be updated or modified via the game catalog server in order to effectuate desired game additions, modifications or deletions.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2016Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: IGT GLOBAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventor: Adam Hajduk
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Patent number: 10438452Abstract: A lottery vending machine customization system, method and device includes at least one local client lottery vending machine and a central server, wherein the vending machine has or is in communication with a payment collection apparatus, a ticket internal entry apparatus and a display. The central server is coupled to the local client lottery vending machine over a network, and can be adapted to issue one or more ticket alignment schemes for display on the vending machine display. The central server can also receive status parameter data from the vending machine or the ticket internal entry apparatus, and can issue one or more revised alignment schemes to the vending machine for display.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2016Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: IGT Global Solutions CorporationInventors: Jeffrey Daniel Ferron, Devin Patrick Kidman, Ira Lough, James Mycroft, Medina Marie Topalian
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Patent number: 10360768Abstract: A system, apparatus and method are presented for facilitating remote wager communications using mobile communications devices while the devices are within range of an authorized lottery transaction device. In various embodiments, lottery transaction devices are equipped with multiple Bluetooth-enabled transceivers, a lottery server manages identifiers associated with the transceivers at each lottery transaction device, and issues an identifier of an available transceiver to a requesting mobile communications device at the time the mobile device desires to consummate a player's desired transaction. Portions of the desired transaction can be communicated to the lottery server separately from the Bluetooth network to limit the time spent by a mobile device communicating directly with the Bluetooth-enabled lottery transaction device. In various embodiments, the mobile device issues a disconnect call to the lottery transaction device directly after the desired lottery transaction has been communicated.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2017Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: IGT Global Solutions CorporationInventors: Jesse Saccoccio, Mark Truman
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Patent number: 10339764Abstract: The present invention combines aspects of social media with traditional lottery games. In one aspect, the present invention provides a lottery game for drawing-based and instant-based games, where the numbers or icons that are traditionally used are replaced by player profiles.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2016Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: IGT Global Solutions CorporationInventors: Ronald Babineau, Amy Morin, Todd Nash, Kenneth Perry, Nicolas Seccatore, Christopher Simonelli, John Taylor, Jess Wright
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Patent number: 10315102Abstract: Methods and apparatus for playing an instant win gaming ticket. An instant win gaming ticket has multiple instant win games which can be played by the player. The amount won per game is dependent on the results of at least one previous game on the same ticket. The player plays the games on a single ticket and the amount the player wins for each game depends on whether previously played games on the same ticket were won or lost.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2014Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: IGT GLOBAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventor: Philip Warren Green
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Patent number: 10282936Abstract: An enhanced lottery media representation object such as a ticket, for example, permits a user to access certain desirable features using a communications device. In embodiments of the present invention, an improved physical lottery ticket is provided with one or more icons, such as code elements or graphic patterns, thereupon to enable a user with a properly enabled device to detect, such as by scanning or photographing the icon, or by maintaining the icon within a field of view, one or more of the icons to reveal one or more enhanced experiences via the device.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2013Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: IGT Global Solutions CorporationInventor: James C. Barnes
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Patent number: 10275980Abstract: A lottery host, retailer terminal(s) and specially adapted tickets and ticket packs provide embodiments of a wagering event integrity control system, method and apparatus as disclosed. In various embodiments, purchased but unactivated tickets for a lottery drawing are activated based upon a code and/or signal received by the lottery host, wherein the received code and/or signal is associated with different tickets in the ticket pack.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2017Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: IGT Global Solutions CorporationInventors: Bradford Heathcote, Aaron Michael Koll, Sarah W. Simpkins