Abstract: The lottery administration entity typically maintains a retail network of terminals that can be used to purchase tickets as well as validate tickets. Each transaction at the retail locations, whether it is purchasing tickets or validating tickets, may be stored in a database or other data store. The data store may be used to search for ticket information, such as when or where a particular ticket was purchased. The stored data may processed in order to generate a risk profile of retailers.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 1, 2014
Date of Patent:
July 20, 2021
Assignee:
Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation
Inventors:
Ugo Cicchello, Richard Guzzo, Barbara Dool
Abstract: A system and method for identifying potentially banned transactions in a real time or near real time fashion is provided. The identification of banned transactions may help a lottery corporation to ensure that retailers are enforcing the rules.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 1, 2014
Date of Patent:
May 5, 2020
Assignee:
Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation
Inventors:
Chris Cameron, Christopher Parrott, Ugo Cicchello
Abstract: A system and method are described for generating hybrid lottery tickets. The hybrid lottery tickets comprise both an instant win portion and a draw portion. The instant win portion provides the opportunity to win a prize at the time of purchase while the draw portion provides the opportunity to win a prize based on a subsequently occurring draw. The instant win portion is generated based on the draw portion, allowing the hybrid lottery ticket to be generated at the time of purchase.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 11, 2012
Date of Patent:
April 16, 2019
Assignee:
ONTARIO LOTTERY AND GAMING CORPORATION
Inventors:
Adam Bruce Caughill, Steven Joseph Dolan, Ji Huang
Abstract: Interactions with the lottery system may be stored to a central database or data store. The transactions stored in the lottery system may represent interactions with the lottery system, such as purchasing of tickets and validating tickets. The lottery system may link a current transaction with a previous transaction, allowing a transaction profile of a ticket to be generated. The transaction profile information may be used for various purposes including supporting an investigation.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 1, 2014
Date of Patent:
January 16, 2018
Assignee:
Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation
Inventors:
Raymond Nanni, Harold Tausch, Leslie Norbo, Ugo Cicchello, Richard Guzzo
Abstract: A system and method of providing and validating a bar-code on a lottery ticket to allow secure verification of tickets is described. Lottery ticket information comprising unique identifying information uniquely identifying the lottery ticket and validation information for use in determining a prize value associated with the lottery ticket is generated. First redundancy information is generated using the validation information and a portion of the unique identifying information. The first redundancy information used for checking the integrity of subsequently received validation information. The validation information is encrypted and second redundancy information is generated using the unique identifying information and the encrypted validation information. A first bar-code is constructed using the unique identifying information, the encrypted validation information and the second redundancy information.
Abstract: A system and method are described for generating hybrid lottery tickets. The hybrid lottery tickets comprise both an instant win portion and a draw portion. The instant win portion provides the opportunity to win a prize at the time of purchase while the draw portion provides the opportunity to win a prize based on a subsequently occurring draw. The instant win portion is generated based on the draw portion, allowing the hybrid lottery ticket to be generated at the time of purchase.
Type:
Application
Filed:
June 11, 2012
Publication date:
January 31, 2013
Applicant:
ONTARIO LOTTERY AND GAMING CORPORATION
Inventors:
Adam Bruce CAUGHILL, Steven Joseph DOLAN, Ji HUANG
Abstract: A system and method of providing and validating a bar-code on a lottery ticket to allow secure verification of tickets is described. Lottery ticket information comprising unique identifying information uniquely identifying the lottery ticket and validation information for use in determining a prize value associated with the lottery ticket is generated. First redundancy information is generated using the validation information and a portion of the unique identifying information. The first redundancy information used for checking the integrity of subsequently received validation information. The validation information is encrypted and second redundancy information is generated using the unique identifying information and the encrypted validation information. A first bar-code is constructed using the unique identifying information, the encrypted validation information and the second redundancy information.