METHOD TO DRAW LOTTERY (VERSIONS) AND SYSTEM FOR LOTTERY DRAWING BASED ON AUTOMATED PUBLIC TRANSPORT TOLLING AND INSPECTION SYSTEM (VERSIONS) Russian patent published in 2011 - IPC A63F3/00 G07C15/00 

FIELD: games.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to facilities for lottery drawing. Method consists in the fact that a lottery ticket used is an electronic information medium, being a travel document of public transport, and the lottery equipment is represented by the automated system of public transport tolling and inspection. Whenever a participant purchases a travel ticket, apart from the main information, electronic coded information is recorded on it to confirm the right to participate in the lottery. Using random number generator at a certain period of time at least one of automatic control stations available in the specified automated system is selected. Signal of winning is sent to randomly selected automatic control station. The event of winning is identified by the moment of interaction of automatic control station, where the signal of winning has arrived, with the first travel document that contains electronic coded information confirming the right to participate in the lottery. The participant is informed about the occurred event of winning by means of audio and/or visually perceived signal.

EFFECT: simplified method of lotteries drawing, higher reliability of wins allocation, elimination of falsifications.

8 cl, 3 dwg