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Patent Inventor Names
Geoffrey M. Gelman0
Howard W. Lutnick0
Date of Patent
August 24, 2010
0Patent Application Number
116785730
Date Filed
February 23, 2007
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Patent abstract
In various embodiments, a method may include receiving an indication of a price of an item to be purchased by a person from a merchant, receiving an indication of an amount tendered by the person, determining an amount of change due to the person based on the price and based on the amount tendered, determining the rules of a game, generating a first outcome of the game using a random number generator, determining based on the rules whether the first outcome is winning or losing, authorizing, if the first outcome is winning, that the amount tendered be returned to the person and that the person be allowed to keep the item, and authorizing, if the first outcome is losing, that the amount tendered be kept by the merchant.
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