Dynamic awarding of prizes in chance-based contests

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9142081
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13436461

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Techniques are described for facilitating the awarding of prizes in chance-based contests in various ways, such as chance-based contests which are part of promotional advertising, etc. In at least some embodiments, the techniques include facilitating the awarding of prizes at the time a contestant enter or plays the contests, while awarding a selected number of prizes, which may be determined before the contest starts. In at least some embodiments, the techniques include employing an award counter to control awarding of prizes in a chance-based contest. For example, an award counter may be incremented at random or pseudo-random times. In at least some embodiments, the contest is associated with a location-based virtual group of users that has one or more associated geographical areas.

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  • GROUPON, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Allgor, Alison Seattle, US 5 6
Conklin, Gregory J Pleasanton, US 30 434
Crawford, David New York, US 19 299
Dhiman, Naresh Snoqualmie, US 7 9
Holden, Jeffrey Alan Chicago, US 21 368
Shariff, Shafiq Chicago, US 71 414

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