Interactive telephone lottery system with a verification code

Claim 1

An interactive telephone lottery system for playing a lottery game comprising: a telephone disposed at a user's location, said telephone including a touchtone keypad operative to generate dual tone multi-frequency output signals and said telephone operative to transmit voice signals and receive an input signal; switching means operatively connected to said telephone for interfacing said input and output signals from said telephone to a telephone communication network; money access account means having an account processor for processing transactions involving a user's account, said account having a pre-established source of funds; a lottery game processor operatively connected to said switching means and to said account processor through said communication network, said access processor including a program including logic means for a) receiving a dual tone multi-frequency signal from said telephone, said signal identifying a lottery transaction and the amount of said lottery transaction, b) communicating with said money access account processor to authorize said transaction, c) upon receiving authorization from said money access account processor, debiting the amount of said transaction from said account, d) completing said lottery transaction, and 3) generating a status signal indicating the status of said lottery transaction; means for communicating said status signal to said telephone; and interactive validation means for verifying data associated with the lottery transaction entered by the user, said interactive validation means including means for checking said data entered by the user, means for generating a validation code corresponding to said data means for prompting said user to enter said validation code on said keyboard, and means for comparing the validation code entered by the user with said lottery transaction entered by the user; means for preventing completion of said lottery transaction.