Patent 7623844 was granted and assigned to GameLogic on November, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention relates to systems for and methods of authentication of a program user. More particularly, winning players of an interactive game program call a randomly selected phone number or access a randomly selected website that is displayed to them and additionally enter a randomly generated code also displayed to the viewer that a computer system then compares against its database and determines if the player is authentic.