System, Method, and Apparatus for the Electronic Operation, Management, Sponsorship, Advertising, Promotion, Marketing, and Regulation of Games of Chance on a Network

摘要

The present invention is directed to a computer network system that allows a user to register for games of chances throughout the country and in accordance with national, state and local laws and ordinances. This system analyses the geographical location and residency information of a user in relation to the geographical access and participation areas permitted, excluded, and restricted for a game of chance as governed by jurisdictional laws, statutes, rules, and regulations. If the user is not located within a permitted area or falls within an excluded or restricted area, the user will not be allowed to access or participate in the game of chance. The ability of the system to limit participation by geographical location is based on user input, data, and variable analysis, and the comparison between the areas where games of chance are permitted, excluded, restricted, and user location and residency, filters data to determine user accessibility to a game of chance, listings, and advertising. The methods and apparatus of this system have applications on the Internet for raffles as well as other conventional games of chance.

主权项

1. A method of using an access authorization control comprising a central server system having or interconnected to
(A) an input/display device (i) operated by a first user to allow the first user to enter the first user's age and the first user's residence to the central server, and (ii) provides the input/display device's location to the central server system; (B) a government regulated, jurisdictional activity interface having a government regulated, jurisdictional activity database, the government regulated, jurisdictional activity database has at least one government regulated, jurisdictional activity thereon that is subject to a government entity's control; (C) the access authorization control is a Laws, Rules, and Regulation Engine having Access Authorization Controls for jurisdictional regulatory compliance that limits a listing of the specific government regulated, jurisdictional activity that the first user can access or view based on (a) the first user's (i) residence information, and (ii) age and (b) the input/display device's location; the central server system: (I) confirms the governmental entity's laws, rules and regulations regarding the government's age, residence and location requirements for each government regulated, jurisdictional activity on the government regulated, jurisdictional activity database and the administrator user's rules and regulations regarding the age, residence and location requirements for each government regulated, jurisdictional activity on the access database; (II) compares
(a) first user's entered age information to
(i) the governmental entity's minimum required age requirements to partake in government regulated, jurisdictional activity,(ii) the access database's minimum required age requirements as set by the administrator user, and(iii) first user's age information found on a first database, connected to the central server;(b) first user's entered residence information to
(i) the governmental entity's residence requirements to partake in the government regulated, jurisdictional activity,(ii) the access database's residence requirements as set by the administrator user, and(iii) first user's residence information on a second database, connected to the central server; and(c) input/display device's location to
(i) governmental entity's location requirements to partake in the government regulated, jurisdictional activity,(ii) the access database's location requirements as set by the administrator user, and(iii) a third database, connected to the central server, that confirms the input/display device's location is located in a jurisdiction that allows the first user to partake in the government regulated, jurisdictional activity; (III) transmits to the input/display device the list of the government regulated, jurisdictional activity when the first user's entered information satisfies the government age, residence and location requirements and the administrator user's age, residence and location requirements established by an entity that registered the government regulated, jurisdictional activity with the government entity; wherein the Laws, Rules, and Regulation Engine having the Access Authorization Controls for jurisdictional regulatory compliance: (a) allows or denies access authorization in real-time of one or more remote users simultaneously; (b) allows or denies access authorization in real-time, and verifies user device location data and residency data of one or more remote users simultaneously; (c) allows or denies access authorization in real-time, and verifies user device location data of one or more remote users simultaneously; (d) allows or denies access authorization in real-time, and verifies user residency data of one or more remote users simultaneously; and (e) enabling the internet to be regulated in real-time in relation to one or more remote users simultaneously using the internet to partake in regulated activities; wherein the input/display device is configured to obtain a captured state of the first user's actual residency, location, and age, and the captured state representing actual residency, location, and age information of one or more users simultaneously using the internet to partake in regulated activities in real-time.