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US 10769894
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Patent Overview — US 10769894 B2
Title: Methods for selling pre-printed online lottery tickets
Assignee/current assignee (per source listing): Blackhawk Network Inc. (original assignee also Blackhawk Network Inc.)
Inventor: Gino Giunti
Application number: US 15/833,566
Filing date: 2017-12-06
Priority date (as listed, an assumption per source): 2015-01-18
Publication date: 2020-09-08 (grant)
Earlier publication: US 20180096558 A1 (2018-04-05)
Status shown: Expired – Fee Related; adjusted expiration 2035-11-01
Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/US10769894/en
Purpose. The disclosure addresses draw-based ("online") lotteries, where a player wagers on a later event, as distinguished from instant-win scratch-off tickets. Conventionally, draw tickets are printed at purchase on special lottery-approved paper by a lottery terminal/printer, typically at a single terminal. The excerpt states this model is inconvenient in multi-lane stores (grocery, discount, big-box), because customers must make a second stop at the lottery counter, and notes receipt paper is low quality and can deteriorate in sunlight or water.
Plain-language scope. The described methods let pre-printed online lottery tickets be placed in a customer's shopping cart and paid for during normal checkout, without specialized lottery hardware (lottery terminals, ticket printers, or customized point-of-purchase devices). Tickets can therefore be purchased at any checkout lane, and multiple lanes can be supported cost-effectively. Figures 1–9 depict a pre-printed ticket and purchase receipt, POS/lottery and transaction-processor architectures, and processes for providing draw-lottery tickets, including via a transaction processor.
What the excerpt does not establish. It does not set out the claims, the exact priority chain or family relationships beyond listed later filings, or the security agreements and releases that appear in the source's reassignment entries. It contains no validity, patentability, prior-art, or litigation analysis; PTAB and court items are referenced only as listings and are not addressed here. Terminology such as "online lottery" is used in the source's sense of draw-based play.
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