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Telephonic-interface game control system    
United States Patent5553120   
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Inventor(s)Katz; Ronald A. (570 S. Mapleton Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90024)
AbstractA control system CS interfaces a multiplicity of individual terminals T1-Tn through a telephone network facility CO to accommodate game formats. At the terminals T1-Tn, callers are prompted by voice-generated instructions to provide digital data that is identified for positive association with a caller and stored, as for processing. Calls are conditionally accepted based on a test of preliminary identification data (ANI or DNIS). Computer generated designations are assigned to callers and stored. Questions for game use are stored in banks, classified by order of difficulty for selection according to various formats. Specific game formats accommodate various time criteria and caller selection of degree of risk. Caller data is stored in cells along with statistical and identification data; also, key contest data is held accessible in a cache memory for reporting. Caller data may be processed individually or in interrelated formats as with reference to random or source data as to establish progressive subsets. A break-off control circuit may terminate the computer interface aborting to a manual terminal for direct communication with an operator. Real-time operation processing is an alternative to subsequently processing stored data.



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Telephonic-interface game control system
Inventor     Katz; Ronald A. (570 S. Mapleton Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90024)
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Publication Date     September 3, 1996
Application Number     08/073,585
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Filing Date     June 7, 1993
US Classification     379/88.09 379/91.01 379/196 379/207.14 379/207.15 379/245 463/29 463/41
Int'l Classification     H04M 001/66 H04M 003/50 H04M 011/08
Examiner     Brown; Thomas W.
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Attorney/Law Firm     Darby & Darby P.C.
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Parent Case     BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION RELATED CASES This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/534,907 filed on Jun. 8, 1990, and entitled "TELEPHONIC-INTERFACE GAME CONTROL SYSTEM", now U.S. Pat. No. 5,218,631, which is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 335,923 filed Apr. 10, 1989, and entitled "Telephonic-Interface Statistical Analysis System", which was a continuation of application Ser. No. 194,258 filed May 16, 1988, and entitled "Telephonic-Interface Statistical Analysis System", now U.S. Pat. No. 4,845,739, which was a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 018,244 filed Feb. 24, 1987, and entitled "Statistical Analysis System For Use With Public Communication Facility", now U.S. Pat. No. 4,792,968, which was a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 753,299 filed Jul. 10, 1985, and entitled "Statistical Analysis System For Use With Public Communication Facility" now abandoned.
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USPTO Field of Search     379/88 379/67 379/97 379/189 379/196 379/197 379/198 379/199 379/142 379/201 379/246 379/245 379/127 379/91 379/266 364/410 364/411
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