JP2003038811A - Member registering system for game facility - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a member registering system for game facility wherein the registration of a member is performed when a game player using the game facility simply connects his cellular phone, and the game player can receive services dedicated to the member by the game facility with the registration. SOLUTION: A plurality of the member registering systems 1 for game facility are arranged in the game facility. Then, a cellular phone connecting terminal 3 is equipped with a cellular phone number reading means 3f and a transmitting means 3g. In this case, with the cellular phone connecting terminal 3, a cellular phone 2 which is personally owned by the game player, and has an individual identification number (cellular phone number) is connected. The cellular phone number reading means 3f reads the cellular phone individual identification number (cellular phone number) which is stored in the memory of the cellular phone 2. The transmitting means 3g transmits the read cellular phone number to a server computer 4. The server computer 4 which receives the cellular phone number registers the number to a member data base 5 as the member number of the game player who owns the cellular phone 2 of the cellular phone number.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a membership registration system for a gaming facility, which can take in an identification number (mobile phone number) registered in a cellular phone as a membership number and receive various services in the gaming facility. .

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a gaming facility in which a pachinko machine or a pachislot machine is installed, a member is recruited from the player in order to acquire the player in the gaming facility, and various players are registered with the member. We provide various service information. Such a service is, for example, the payout information of the gaming machine showing the status of the payout for several days (the numerical value of the number of difference balls for the out ball, a line graph), a predetermined interval for a specific gaming machine (for example, every 10 minutes. ) The number of jackpots,
In addition, it is table information that displays the number of starts of a specific gaming machine, the number of special prizes and the probability for each gaming machine in the past few days, and provides information for the player to select which gaming machine to play. It is a thing. Member registration for providing service information to such a player issues a membership card by entering the player's personal information in a membership application form, and presents the membership card (inserted in a predetermined device) to release the gaming information. The device allows the player to obtain unique game information presented only to the member. In addition, recently, JP 2000-7
As disclosed in No. 9263, game information transmitted from a transmitting station provided on a wall of a game facility to a player who has previously registered as a member is provided with a receiving terminal (P
It is known that a member can obtain game information by receiving it by DA).

[0003]

However, in the member registration method of issuing a membership card as described above, the player uses the membership registration application form prepared in advance at the gaming facility, Address, phone number, age, gender,
If you did not describe your hobbies, you could not register as a member. In addition, the contents filled in the membership application form must be entered by the employee of the gaming facility as personal data of the player into the computer that manages the membership, and the player fills out the application form. Work was required, and it was necessary for the gaming facility to register the contents of the completed application form. In addition, in order to obtain game information peculiar to members using the receiving terminal dedicated to members of the gaming facility, as in the case of issuing membership cards, membership registration must be completed in advance by filling out the required items on the membership application form. In addition, the gaming facility had to register the completed application form. Further, the player may not only go out for the purpose of "going to the game facility" but also use the game facility when there is an appropriate time,
In that case, you may not have a membership card. If you do not have a membership card, you will not be able to receive services unique to your membership, and if you create a new membership card, the store visit points you have accumulated so far will be wasted.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned conventional circumstances, and a player who uses a game facility only connects a mobile phone, and membership registration is performed using the mobile number as a member number. The object is to provide a membership registration system for gaming facilities that can receive services peculiar to members.

[0005]

The present invention according to claim 1 relates to a member registration system of a game facility, a member number for identifying a member, a member database in which individual game information of the member is stored, and a member. In a member registration system including a server computer for management, when a mobile phone owned by a player is connected to a mobile phone connection terminal arranged in a plurality of amusement facilities, the mobile phone connection terminal stores a memory of the mobile phone. The individual identification number (mobile number) of the mobile phone stored in is read, the read mobile number is transmitted to the server computer, and the server computer receiving this mobile number is the player who owns the mobile phone of the mobile number. Is registered in the member database as a member number of

The invention according to claim 2 of the present application relates to the member registration system of the gaming facility according to claim 1, wherein the mobile phone connection terminal identifies the mobile phone individually when the mobile phone is connected. It is characterized in that the member database is searched by a number (mobile number) and the individual game information of the member is presented.

[0007]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram for performing member registration by a member registration system 1 of a game facility according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a mobile phone 2 and a mobile phone 2.
FIG. 3 is a block configuration diagram of a mobile phone connection terminal 3 for reading a mobile number from the mobile phone. 1 and 2, reference numeral 2 is a mobile phone owned by the player, reference numeral 3 is a mobile phone connection terminal for connecting the mobile phone 2, and reference numeral 4 is member management such as member registration. A server computer to be executed, reference numeral 5 is a member database which is connected to the server computer 4 and stores member information, and reference numeral 6 is an in-store LAN for connecting the server computer 4 and the mobile phone connection terminal 3. is there.

Further, 7 is a gaming machine including pachinko machines and pachi-slot machines arranged in a gaming facility, 8 is a hall computer for managing the gaming status of the gaming machine 7, and 9 is the hall computer 8. The game information disclosure device 10 for providing the player with the game status is a game LAN for connecting the game machine 7, the hall computer 8, and the game information disclosure device 9.

The mobile phone 2 is owned by an individual player who uses a game facility, and the mobile phone 2 charges the mobile phone 2 and transmits / receives data to / from other devices. 2a, a microprocessor 2b for controlling the mobile phone 2, and a memory 2c in which the mobile number of the mobile phone 2 is stored. Further, in the present embodiment, the mobile phone number of the mobile phone 2 is the membership number of the game facility, and the mobile phone 2 corresponds to a conventional membership card when performing member identification.

The mobile phone connection terminal 3 connects the mobile phone 2 and reads out the mobile number stored in the mobile phone 2. That is, as shown in FIG. 2, the mobile phone connection terminal 3 is provided with a connection terminal 2a for connecting to the connector 2a of the mobile phone 2, and internally has a ROM 3d in which a predetermined program or the like is stored. The mobile phone number reading unit 3f having a microprocessor 3c accesses the memory 2c in which the identification number (mobile phone number) of the mobile phone 2 is stored to read the mobile phone number, and the RAM or the like of the microprocessor 3c. The mobile number read in the cache memory 3e is temporarily stored, and the temporarily stored mobile number is set to a predetermined transmission data as a member number by the I / O 3b and is transmitted to the server computer 4. ing.

The mobile phone connection terminal 3 is connected, for example, in association with each of the gaming machines 7, and is carried by the mobile phone connection terminal 3 of the gaming machine 7 in which members play, as in the conventional membership card. When the telephone 2 is connected, the player playing the game on the gaming machine 7 is recognized as a member, and game information peculiar to the member is displayed on a calling lamp (not shown) of the gaming machine 7 or the like. is there. Furthermore, when the mobile phone owned by the member is connected to the mobile phone connection terminal 3 arranged in the game facility, the mobile number is transmitted to the server computer and, for example, only the first time on the day, the store visit points are added.

The server computer 4 is an in-store LAN 6
In the present embodiment, it is a computer for member management managed by the gaming facility. For example, the identification number (mobile phone number) of the mobile phone 2 transmitted from the mobile phone connection terminal 3 is It writes in the member database 5 as a member number of each player. Also,
If the identification number (telephone number) of the mobile phone 2 belongs to a player (member) who is already registered, the mobile number transmitted from the mobile phone connection terminal 3 to which the mobile phone 2 is connected. When the message is received, the visit date of the member data of the corresponding mobile number is rewritten and the visit points are added. Further, the server computer 4 is also a game information disclosing computer for providing the member with game information such as the number of jackpots and the number of starts of each gaming machine 7 managed by the hall computer 8.

The member database 5 is connected to the server computer 4, for example, and is constructed in a storage means such as a hard disk in this embodiment. This member database 5 stores the identification number (mobile number) of the mobile phone 2 possessed by the member as the member number of each member, the number of times the member has visited the store (point value associated with the store), and the last visit date. In addition, individual game information of the member concerned such as the amount of coins / sold medals balance, the amount of coins stored, the number of visits to the store, the equipment used, and exchange prizes is stored.

The hall computer 8 is a game LAN 1
0, and in the present embodiment, the gaming machine 7
And processing game machine information sent from a call lamp (not shown) connected to the game machine 7 to manage sales on the day or the month, to manage sales for each game machine, and the number of jackpots, It manages gaming machines such as payout, out, difference, probability change, number of starts, and slump graph.

The information disclosure terminal 9 is connected to the hall computer 8 through the gaming LAN 10, and the slump graph and the like managed by the hall computer 8, the gaming status of the gaming machine, the gaming image of the gaming machine. It is for displaying information. In addition, this information disclosure terminal 9
For example, when a mobile phone owned by a member is connected to the mobile phone connection terminal 3 which is installed at a predetermined place in a game facility and is connected in association with the information disclosure terminal 9,
It is configured to display gaming machine information that is presented only to members, event guides for gaming facilities, member savings information and prizes that can be exchanged by saving, and the number of store visit points.

Next, how the member registration system 1 having the above-described configuration performs member registration will be described with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS. 3 to 4. The player who visited the game facility,
The connection terminal 3a of the mobile phone connection terminal 3 provided in the game facility is connected to the connector 2a of the mobile phone 2 owned by the user (step S1). The mobile phone connection terminal 3 determines whether or not the mobile phone 2 is connected (step S
2) If the mobile phone 2 is not connected, the process returns to step S1 and waits until the mobile phone 2 is connected. When the mobile phone 2 is connected, the mobile phone number reading unit 3f accesses the memory 2c storing the mobile phone number of the mobile phone 2 (step S3) and reads the mobile phone number (step S4). Here, it is determined whether or not the mobile number has been read (step S5), and if it cannot be read, the process ends. When the mobile phone number is read, the mobile phone number is set to the predetermined transmission data (step S6), and the server computer 4 is operated via the I / O 3b.
To (step S7).

On the other hand, when the server computer 4 receives the transmission data transmitted from the mobile phone connection terminal 3 (step S8), it determines whether or not the data was normally received (step S9). If it cannot be received, the process returns to step S8, waits until the transmission data is transmitted, and if the transmission data is normally received, the mobile number set in the transmission data is used as the member number (step S10). ,
Read the member database 5 (step S11). It is determined whether or not the member data of the member number (mobile number) exists in the member database 5 (step S12). If it does not exist, the member number is regarded as a new member and the mobile number is set as the member number ( In step S13), the member database 5 is newly written (step S14), and the process ends.

When the member data of the mobile number is present in the member database 5, the visit date set in the member data is compared with today's date (step S15). As a result of the comparison, if the visit date is not equal to today's date, the member having the mobile number considers it as the first visit to the store today and adds 1 to the point (step S16). If the visit date and today's date are the same, it means that the member of the mobile number has already visited the store today, so points are not added, and the individual game information of the member is set in the member data ( In step S17), the corresponding member data is rewritten (step S18), and the process ends. Then, when the mobile phone 2 owned by the member is connected to the mobile phone connection terminal 3 connected in association with the information disclosure terminal 9, the hall computer 8 based on the game information transmitted from the game machine 7. The number of jackpots processed in
From the information disclosure terminal 9, only the member presents game information such as out-balls, number of difference balls, probability change, number of starts, slump graph, or individual game information of the member such as the number of points of the member. In this way, by using the mobile phone number of the mobile phone 2 possessed by the player as the membership number of the gaming facility, the member only has to connect the mobile phone 2, and the membership management conventionally performed by the membership card. And services to members will become easier.

In the above embodiment, the description was made assuming that the mobile phone is connected to the connection terminal provided in the mobile phone connection terminal to read the mobile number, but the mounting position for mounting the mobile phone is determined, When placed there, for example, by infrared communication IrDA (Infrared Data association),
The mobile number may be read, and the transmission / reception method is not particularly limited as long as the mobile number can be read from the mobile phone connection terminal. Further, in the above-described embodiment, a device different from the gaming machine or the information disclosure terminal has been described, but it may be provided integrally with the gaming machine or the information disclosure terminal, and if the mobile phone number can be read from the mobile phone, other devices can be used. It may be provided integrally with the device, and its location is not particularly limited. In the above embodiment, the mobile phone number is read from the mobile phone owned by the player and used as the membership number. However, a mobile communication device having a mobile phone number that can identify the player is a PDA, a pocket board, or the like. The device is not particularly limited as long as it has a mobile number. Further, in the above embodiment,
Although the individual game information of the member has been described as being displayed on the call lamp, for example, a program for displaying the individual game information of the member is presented on the Internet or the like, and the program is downloaded by the mobile phone to carry the individual game information of the member. It may be displayed directly on the telephone.

[0020]

As described above, according to the member registration system of the present invention, the mobile phone number of the mobile phone owned by the player is read out and registered in the member database as the member number, so that the player can apply for membership. It is not necessary to write personal information such as name and address on the form, and membership registration can be performed only by connecting the mobile phone to the mobile phone connection terminal. Further, by simply connecting the mobile phone instead of the membership card, the individual game information of the member and the service of the gaming facility peculiar to the member can be received. Also, these days, when I go out, I have a mobile phone, so I don't forget my membership card even if I suddenly visit a game facility, and if I have a mobile phone, I get a member-specific service. There is an advantage that you can.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram showing a member registration system of a game facility according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing configurations of a mobile connection terminal and a mobile phone of a member registration system for a game facility according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart (reading out a mobile number) showing membership registration in the membership registration system for the gaming facility according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart (member database registration) showing member registration of a member registration system for a gaming facility according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1. Membership registration system 2 ... Mobile phone 2a ... Connector 2b ... Microprocessor 2c ... Memory (mobile number) 3 ... Mobile connection terminal 3a ... Connection terminal 3b ... I / O 3c ... Microprocessor 3d ... ROM 3e ... RAM 3f ... Mobile number reading means 3g ... Transmission means 4 ... Server computer 5 ... Member database 6 ... In-store LAN 7 ... Game machine 8 ... Hall computer 9 ... Information disclosure terminal 10 ... LAN for games

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A member registration system comprising a member number for identifying a member, a member database in which individual game information of the member is stored, and a server computer for managing members, wherein a mobile phone owned by each player is When connecting to a plurality of mobile phone connection terminals arranged in the game facility, the mobile phone connection terminal reads the identification number (mobile number) of each mobile phone stored in the memory of the mobile phone, and reads the read mobile number. To the server computer, and the server computer receiving this mobile number is registered in the member database as the membership number of the player who owns the mobile phone of the mobile number. Registration system. 2. When the mobile phone is connected, the mobile phone connection terminal searches the member database by an identification number (mobile number) of the mobile phone and presents individual game information of the member. The member registration system for a game facility according to claim 1, wherein