FR2836265A1 - Method of attribution of numbers based on time and date to players in a game of chance, uses system date and time data as basis for allocating numbers to game players - Google Patents

Abstract

The numbers allocated to players are determined from the actual date and time information that is provided for validation of the ticket. A computer program takes the system clock value at the start of the transaction and uses all or part of the date and time data to generate the game numbers.

Description

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The present invention relates to a method of assigning numbers, or / and others (letters, for example), linked and based on time stamping, to players participating in a game of chance consisting in designating one or more winning numbers and / or losers.

For questions of easier understanding, it will be designated in the single term number (s) all that can be grouped as value, symbol, drawing, letters, etc. used characterizing the rule or rules of any game.

Currently, some games of chance, such as lotteries, lotto, for example, use one or more methods of assigning numbers (if that is the rule) to players.

The method of designating the winners and / or losers is specific to the rules of the game.

Players can either choose their numbers, or use a random number selection mode, or choose a ticket with an already assigned number pre-printed, visible or hidden.

The present invention consists in using the time factor, and in particular its value, as the allocation of one or more number (s), or of one or more code (s) which may correspond with the time value, to the player (s) ( s) of the instant played.

The present invention uses the time stamp system as a method of assigning numbers to the Players.

The timestamping principle is used in particular for confidential certification and especially for the authenticity of sending and receiving mail via the Internet, like a registered cover with acknowledgment of receipt for example. This certification method is legally admissible.

The present invention can be a server computer system coupled and / or in connection with a parking meter and / or a clock, internal or not, which measures time. This clock defines the time which passes by a succession of figures, according to the desired precision: year, month, day, hour, minute, second, etc.

 This succession of digits of the moment can be considered as one or more numbers.

 These figures can be translated, converted or defined by letters, symbols, abbreviations, drawings, etc. depending on whether it can be more practical commercially, and / or not, for the game, or / and according to the rule (s) of the game for which this allocation method is used.

Each instant is therefore defined by a succession, or series, of figures. This gives a unique value, if you use a reset mode which will be higher the more you enter the values of day, month, year, etc.

This constituted number can be more or less important, and / or more or less volatile, changing, incorporating the more precise flow factor (tenth, hundredth, thousandth, etc. of a second). This in order to be able to decide between and / or combine two or more allocations linked to two or more simultaneous connections.

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 Thus, the quantity of the numbers which can be allocated for a given moment of time can be increased in relation to the accuracy of the clock of the parking meter. One can, for example, use an atomic clock to obtain a rigor and a precision of result.

 The definition of the instant is according to the rule specific to the game. The attribution can be totally linked to chance by designating as attribution instant that of the connection, for example, and / or that chosen by the player, when is connected to the server, by typing on his keyboard a key designated as a top at the time he has chosen, for example.

An exemplary embodiment can be described as follows:
The present invention may consist of a server computer system, connected or incorporating a time stamping system with an atomic clock, which is connected to the telephone network, wired or not, or the combination of both.

 At each instant, the clock gives the IT department the appropriate value, defined and declined according to one or more of the units chosen (year, month, day, hour, minute, second, etc.) of this instant. It is also possible that the time stamping system does not provide the information only following the request of the computer system, and / or the player.

 When a player connects, by sending an SMS type message for example, or by a call to this server, he is assigned a number corresponding to an instant defined by the rule or rules of the game, such as by example, the first moment of the connection. If, for example, at the time of connection, it is 18H 24mn 15 sec 98/100 s on the clock of the parking meter, the 'player will be assigned the number 18241598. This number can be converted (by letters, symbols, etc., or the combination of these different parameters) for commercial reasons, for example.

 According to the rules of the game, the computer system can interrogate its database of the numbers of the defined results, random or not, beforehand, for example, and inform the player if his assigned number is considered to be winners and / or losers, either by voice message, by SMS, or by any other means. The player can play and have his result instantly in real time.

 The information of the result, as much for the IT department as for the player, can be subsequent to the instant. The definition of winning and / or losing numbers may be the result of a subsequent draw. This aspect depends only on the rule or rules of the game in which the present invention is used.

 The present invention consists in that, when the player contacts the server (computer system coupled to a time clock), at a precise moment (either during the connection or a beep chosen by the player), the latter assigns it this succession of digits of time, like a player number.

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The player calls and / or sends a message or / and a request, either by classic telephone call, or / and by SMS (text), or / and by any other means to a server in order to express his will to be assigned a number. At a defined time, the corresponding number is assigned to it.

 The present invention consists of a time stamping system which is a mode of allocation of figures linked to any measurement of time for a player to any type of game accepting and / or being able to use this mode of allocation.

 The number can be more important by adding one or more other parameters of different time measures (for example: division of second, day, week, month, year, 'etc.), or different depending on whether one can convert the numbers by symbols, letters, values which can correspond according to a conversion data table.

 The advantages are: that no number can be double (if we only assign one connection per unit the smallest instant) and questionable, that we can couple this to a surcharge system by d 'call, that the system is permanent since the time is infinite, i depending on whether we use the units, the reference time of the start, etc.

 The advantage is the combination of chance (time to connect never identical), of the motivation of the impulsive desire to spend (commercial), and of the choice of the moment that we decide to play as being the sublimation of the moment of luck (time / chance).

 The present invention is completely independent of the method of designating the winning number (s) and the delivery of this information. It is according to the rules of the game, the player can know if he has won or lost, either in real time (if the winning numbers were already elected), or in offset (numbers designated as winners by subsequent draw).

 The connection to the server can go through a telephone operator who will overtax the communication in order to have a monetary stake, fixed or not.

 The present invention is particularly intended for games using mobile telephony servers (Texting, S.M.S, Wap, etc.) and / or any telephone network, Internet, and in particular games linked to winnings, money or / and gifts.

Claims (1)

CLAIMS: the computer system for generating and allocating numbers based on digital time values characterized in that a clock, and / or a time stamp system provides the digital time values, used in whole or in part, which are converted by the computer system into a series of numbers or numbers 20 System according to claim 1 characterized in that the digital time values 1 are used assembled, in whole or in part, by a succession of one or more types, whatever nd whatever the order. nte 30 System according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized in that the i on o numerical values are converted into one or more succession of figures and / or of the accumulation na of figures, letters, symbols, abbreviations, drawings, of a mother homogeneous or in a heterogeneous way 40 System according to one or more of the preceding claims characterized in that it is used one or more times each of the numerical values of time 50 System according to one or more of the preceding claims characterized in that the issue of the number can be automatic or / and voluntary