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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2012
William M. Wolf, Newport Beach, CA (US);
William M. Wolf, Newport Beach, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
Methods and apparatus of gaming implementable on or in connection with a computer social network prose for accepting entries, until a volume of those entries exceeds a prescribed limit; generating a winning value; identifying one or more of the entries nearest the winning value; and designating one or more of the entries nearest the winning value as winning entries. The entries can be accepted from one or more contestants and/or they can be generated on behalf of those contestants. Each of the entries can comprise one or more values from a predefined enumeration of values. That enumeration of values can, according to related aspects of invention, comprise values, each between a low numerical value and a high numerical value.