US 11,749,069 B2
Play my bill retail lottery game
Richard Alan Gotlieb, Alamo, CA (US); and Melissa Murillo, Tracy, CA (US)
Assigned to Blackhawk Network, Inc., Pleasanton, CA (US)
Filed by Blackhawk Network, Inc., Pleasanton, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 19, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/446,134.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/686,999, filed on Jun. 19, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2019/0385400 A1, Dec. 19, 2019
Int. Cl. G07F 17/32 (2006.01); G06Q 20/20 (2012.01); G06Q 20/34 (2012.01); G06Q 50/34 (2012.01); G06K 19/06 (2006.01)
CPC G07F 17/329 (2013.01) [G06Q 20/20 (2013.01); G06Q 20/342 (2013.01); G06Q 50/34 (2013.01); G07F 17/3251 (2013.01); G06K 19/06028 (2013.01); G06K 19/06037 (2013.01); G07F 17/3255 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method for providing a lottery game, the method comprising:
processing, by a purchase transaction processor, a purchase of a lottery ticket, wherein the lottery ticket comprises a physical substrate, and wherein the lottery ticket was part of a purchase transaction comprising at least one good or service and the lottery ticket;
establishing, by the purchase transaction processor, at a time of the purchase transaction, a prize amount for the lottery game which is equal to a purchase price of the purchase transaction minus a purchase price of a lottery ticket;
establishing, by the purchase transaction processor, at a time of the purchase transaction, a winning value amount for the lottery ticket, wherein the winning value of the lottery ticket is equal to the prize amount for the lottery game;
initiating, by a purchase transaction processor, the lottery game upon the processing of the purchase of the lottery ticket;
determining, by a purchase transaction processor, whether the lottery ticket is a winning lottery ticket for the lottery game; and
communicating, by a purchase transaction processor, a result of a lottery game comprising the lottery ticket.