In a previous patent disclosure, Provisional Patent Application # 60/402,812 Dated Aug. 12, 2002, Cell-A-Lot™ a method of ticketing retaining anonymity, authenticity and security is described. Method and Apparatus for customer loyalty program for airline ticketing, ticketing for games, Disney, car rentals and general retailing is described in Patent Pending 60/510,400 Oct. 14, 2003. Additional details of sales integration are disclosed and covered by this patent. Advertising, sales enhancement and customer loyalty of products are enhanced through the use of lottery gift program. This process helps regulated lottery to fund various worthy cause program undertaken by various state and central government agencies.
Product sale enhancement using lottery gift program when used with certain products can act as sub-franchise process. This could include Compact Disc music or movie rental sales, enhancement where lottery tickets sale can be included as a secondary product to enhance sales. A second example would be movie, Disney or game tickets combined with lottery tickets. A third example is to include lottery ticket sales in independent mail centers retail locations.
Lottery ticket sales through Internet and cell phones, phones and PDA has been explained in reference 1. A pool method where people agree to rules and guidelines of lottery ticket purchase using Internet, cell phones or phones or any remote device, where order fulfillment is performed using independent mail centers, supermarkets or other retailers can be another extension of sub franchise.
Reference 1 provides details of Cell-A-Lot™ where a method of ticketing retaining anonymity, authenticity and security is described. Method and Apparatus for customer loyalty program for airline ticketing, ticketing for games, Disney, car rentals and general retailing is described in provisional patent application 60/510,400 Oct. 14, 2003. The disclosed method uses
a) Product sales directly on wireless devices instead of Internet, providing anytime anywhere capability.
These claims are described in detail below.
Cell-A-Lot technology described in reference 1 will provide anytime anywhere multimode transaction process possible. Customer can make purchases via phone, remote devices or Internet using single integrated system. Cell-A-Lot has a backend system, which is fully integrated with a) financial transaction, b) wireless, c) VOIP, d) web services database engines. The computer system can process or respond to a combination of text, alphanumeric and audiovisual inputs. Text/data input will get processed through secure internet or Secure Socket Layer depending on the situation. Voice information will get processed through Voice Over Internet Protocol and any time anywhere data access occurs through Wireless Access Protocol (WAP). Cell-A-Lot architecture is shown in
A combination of both method and apparatus cover the intellectual property.