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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2002
Nizar Allibhoy, Northridge, CA (US);
Nicholas Cross Wodtke, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., Culver City, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for awarding prizes in a contest consisting of multiple sub-contests in which prizes are awarded to contestants based on the contestants' relative skill, even where some of the sub-contests may be known to some of the contestants in advance of the contest. Points are awarded to contestants for correct responses to the sub-contests. Contestants are ranked by the number of points they were awarded. The number of points awarded in the various sub-contests, or the weighting, causes the ranking to approximately correlate to the contestants' performance on a particular sub-set of the sub-contests. Sub-grouping of contestants and multi-tiered prizing structures are also employed.