Limited lottery insurance

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8429001
APP PUB NO 20110302041A1
SERIAL NO

12792254

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A system and method for conducting a lottery for at least one item are provided. The method includes, for each of a plurality of buyers, receiving a buyer's declared valuation for each of at least one item being offered in a lottery by a seller, the item having an assigned non-deterministic probability of being allocated to the buyer, providing insured prices for outcomes of the lottery which are a function of the buyer's declared valuation of the at least one item, randomly drawing an allocation of each of the at least one item to a respective one of the buyers, based on its assigned non-deterministic probability, and allocating the insured prices to the buyers based on respective outcomes of the random drawing.

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XEROX CORPORATION201 MERRITT 7 P O BOX 4505 NORWALK CT 06851-1056

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bouchard, Guillaume M Crolles, FR 19 256
Dance, Christopher R Grenoble, FR 48 2369
Zoeter, Onno Grenoble, FR 14 285

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