公开(公告)号：US5987101A

公开(公告)日：1999-11-16

申请号：US274143

申请日：1999-03-22

申请人： Ram N. S. Rathore ,  Gregg Alan Toney ,  Roy Philip Weber

发明人： Ram N. S. Rathore ,  Gregg Alan Toney ,  Roy Philip Weber

IPC分类号： G07C15/00 ,  G07F17/32 ,  H04M3/42 ,  H04M3/487 ,  H04M11/00

CPC分类号： G07F17/3244 ,  G07C15/006 ,  G07F17/32 ,  G07F17/3255 ,  H04M3/42 ,  H04M3/42068 ,  H04M3/4878

摘要： A method and apparatus determine a caller's eligibility to enter a lottery, determine whether the caller has won the lottery and advise the caller of the winning status in response to a caller's request for communication services. The odds of winning a lottery for the caller can be adjusted based on the caller's participation history, such as a past number of calls made or total call time logged by the caller. Thus, frequent users of a communication service can be rewarded with increased odds of winning a lottery each time a request for communication services is made and communication services are provided.

摘要翻译： 一种方法和装置确定呼叫者进入彩票的资格，确定呼叫者是否赢得了彩票，并响应于呼叫者对通信服务的请求，向呼叫者通知获胜状态。 可以根据呼叫者的参与历史来调整赢得呼叫者彩票的几率，例如呼叫者记录的过去呼叫数或总呼叫时间。 因此，当通信服务的请求和通信服务被提供时，通信服务的频繁用户可以被奖励获得彩票的几率增加。