| 摘要 |
A sweepstakes is operated remotely through a communications media. The sweepstakes utilizes a main server to coordinate the clients and select a winner. The sweepstakes also utilizes a collection server at each of its clients to collect data from the users of the clients' servers. The collection servers mimic the client servers to which they are connected to give the perception that the user has not left the client's server. Each sweepstakes drawing includes two parts. The first part is a selection of the client (64). For the second part, a user that inputs data into the system by accessing the collection server through the selected client is selected (66). In this manner, each client has an equal opportunity to have one of its users win a sweepstakes drawing, regardless of the number of users per client site. Once the winner is selected, all participants are invited to return for the next sweepstakes drawing (72).
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