KR20000058806A - A lot service system and method on the internet - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for internet lottery service is provided to supply the customer with the right to select a lottery ticket, to enable the customer to purchase the lottery ticket where internet connection is possible, to instantly confirm the lottery payment by directly checking for the winning ticket, to increase the profit of the regional lottery organizations and lottery ticket sellers by inducing the lottery purchaser's purchase desire, and to minimize the lottery sales cost. CONSTITUTION: A method for internet lottery service is composed of connection, purchase, drawing, and payment. The internet user connects(101) to the lottery service provider's(100) website and an established authentication process(111) is executed. When authentication process is completed, the user proceeds to lottery selection process(122) by inputting the received ID and password. When the user selects desired lottery item from a list of lottery items(116), the selected lottery item is displayed on the screen(123) through the lottery information process device(120). The user decides to purchase the lottery item(410) and proceeds to the purchase price payment step(135). The user selects desired payment method(133) and makes the payment(134). When payment is received, the lottery item is drawn for prizes(144) and the lottery result is confirmed after the message that notifies the completion of the drawing is displayed on the screen(145). If the user has won any prizes or money from the drawing, the user's deposit account number and other information are inputted(155). If no prize or money was drawn or an additional lottery ticket was drawn, the user is re-routed to the lottery selection process(122) and a new and same-priced lottery ticket is presented. If user desires the result to be output, it can be output for the user to keep and all processes are completed with the confirmation of results(200).

Description

Lottery service system on the Internet and its method {A LOT SERVICE SYSTEM AND METHOD ON THE INTERNET}

The present invention relates to a lottery service system that can be implemented on the Internet, and a method thereof. More specifically, a lottery ticket that a user freely selects and purchases a desired lottery by accessing a service provider's website and purchases a lottery immediately after purchase. The present invention relates to a system for lottery service on the Internet and a method thereof, which provides convenience for checking whether or not to win, and can significantly reduce administrative costs such as excessive logistics, promotion, and printing costs.

In the conventional lottery service system, a lottery ticket with a serial number is issued, and the lottery ticket is purchased and held by a general consumer at a certain sales place, and the lottery ticket sold during the lottery day is already drawn. .

Such a conventional lottery is being implemented in the domestic government to raise public funds, but the situation has not achieved much efficiency.

For example, during the lottery sale, the lottery issuer printed the entire lottery ticket with the lottery number printed and supplied it to each store.The lottery ticket was sold again and discarded. The increase in the amount of lottery tickets sold inevitably led to the loss of enormous costs of printing lottery tickets, and the adverse effect that the lottery cards issued for public funds would cause even greater losses. In addition, the lottery issuer has greatly increased its operating cost loss by advertising through many advertising media to promote lottery sales.

On the other hand, consumers who purchase a lottery ticket can choose a lottery ticket of their desired serial number from among a plurality of lotteries, and purchase the lottery ticket at the lottery seller's choice. There was an unreasonable problem of purchasing a lottery ticket. In addition, the conventional lottery is a lottery draw on a weekly or monthly basis, so in the case of a consumer who purchases a lottery ticket, the inconvenience of having to keep the lottery ticket for a certain period of time, and the loss of the lottery ticket purchased due to neglect of storage, Exhausted consumers missed the lottery lottery day, which contributed to the lowered willingness to purchase lottery tickets.

In recent years, local governments often issue lotteries based on products that meet the characteristics of each region.However, due to poor financial conditions, national promotions and sales have not been carried out smoothly. Not only do not know whether the lottery is being issued in any region, it was very difficult to buy a lottery in that region.

The present invention has been made to improve various unreasonable points in the above-described sales system and method according to the issuance of the conventional lottery. The present invention provides the consumer who purchases the lottery the option of selecting the lottery, It is possible to purchase lottery wherever possible, and to provide quality service to consumers who purchase lottery tickets by enabling them to check whether they win the lottery immediately after purchase without having to wait for a certain period of time.

In addition, the present invention improves the profitability of institutions, local governments, and lottery issuers selling lottery tickets by encouraging the purchase will of the lottery buyers, so that they do not have a problem in raising necessary funds, as well as the economic cost of lottery issuance and sale. The goal is to minimize

Figure 1 schematically shows the overall configuration of the lottery service system according to the present invention,

2 is a main configuration diagram of a main server of a lottery service provider according to the present invention;

3 is a detailed configuration diagram of the storage means of FIG. 2 and a relationship configuration with the lottery information processing means;

4 is a functional configuration diagram of a lottery service system according to the present invention;

5 is a flowchart illustrating a lottery service method according to the present invention;

6 and 7 illustrate an embodiment that is output on the screen during the lottery selection step according to the execution of the lottery service according to the present invention.

※ Brief description of symbols for the main parts of the drawings

10, 20, 30: Personal PC 50: Internet Network

100: Lottery service provider 60: Lottery issuing agency

70: advertiser 110: storage means

120: lottery information processing means 130: the first electronic payment means

140: electronic lottery means 150: second electronic payment means

160: central monitoring means

In order to achieve the above object, the lottery service system on the Internet according to the present invention comprises a personal PC that can be connected to the Internet, and a main server of a lottery service provider connected to the Internet to provide various lottery data. In the Internet lottery service system to enable the service, the main server of the lottery service provider is a lottery list for each type of lottery provided on the Internet, the purchaser's information according to the lottery purchase, lottery data of the sold lottery, advertising content respectively Storage means stored in a database; A lottery information processing means for outputting a database stored in the storage means on a screen according to a selection menu of a lottery subscriber, and having a database configured to continuously backup and manage a selected lottery ticket and an unselected lottery ticket; Calculate the total amount of the lottery list and the price selected by the lottery buyers, and output the result on the screen.If the withdrawal is possible with the payment account selected by the lottery subscriber, proceed to the next step. First electronic payment means for displaying the inability to process the lottery purchase if the withdrawal is impossible; Electronic lottery means equipped with electronic lottery software for performing a lottery operation by processing the lottery ticket selected by the lottery purchaser when the payment is completed in the first electronic settlement means; Online payment system that allows the remittance of the winnings to the settlement account of the lottery subscriber used in the first electronic settlement means or to the settlement account of the separately entered lottery subscriber when the result of the lottery is drawn through the electronic lottery means. The second electronic payment means is provided; And a central monitoring means for securing / maintaining / managing the stored personal information and the backed up lottery data by controlling the access for the smooth processing of each means and monitoring the access of the non-authenticator.

In addition, the lottery service method on the Internet according to the present invention comprises: an information input step of accessing a server of a lottery service provider through the Internet and inputting personal information of an internet accessor required for ID application and approval; A lottery type selection step of acknowledging the necessary matters in the information input step and selecting the type of the lottery to be purchased by the user; A lottery purchasing step of selecting a lottery number which the user wants to purchase by outputting the entire lottery list not selected by other users among the entire list of the lottery as the user selects the lottery type; When the lottery purchase is completed, the lottery list selected by the user is displayed on the screen to confirm the decision according to the user's final purchase, determine the payment method of the lottery purchase cost, and pay the lottery purchase cost by the determined payment method. Purchase cost payment step; A lottery lottery step in which a lottery ticket selected by a lottery subscriber is lottery drawn in a service provider server when the amount paid in the payment step is deposited into a designated account of a service provider; After the lottery lottery stage is completed, the result of the lottery is checked, and if there is no winning prize, it moves to the initial lottery selection stage or ends, and if there is a winning prize, the lottery subscriber inputs information to receive the winning prize. Is done.

On the other hand, it will be described in detail an embodiment of the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings in the specification.

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of a lottery service system according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 schematically illustrates a main configuration of a main server of a lottery service company according to the present invention.

As shown in Fig. 1, the lottery service system according to the present invention is based on the public Internet network 50, and is provided with a number of personal PCs 10, 20 and 30 that can be connected to the Internet network 50. And a main server 100 of a lottery service provider connected to the Internet network 50 to provide various data on lottery sales and lotteries on a website.

As shown in FIG. 2, the main server 100 of the lottery service provider stores the lottery list for each lottery type, the customer information on the lottery subscriber, the lottery lottery data, etc., which are provided on the Internet website. Means 110; Lottery information processing means (120) provided with management software (121) for controlling the provision of various data related to lottery from the storage means (110) according to the menu selection of the lottery subscriber; A first electronic payment means (130) provided with deposit and withdrawal software (131) capable of performing payment for the lottery ticket and deposit withdrawal for the sale price; Electronic lottery means (140) for drawing a lottery ticket selected by the lottery ticket purchaser by arithmetic processing software (141) when the first electronic payment means (130) completes the payment; If the result of the lottery purchaser purchases the selected lottery ticket as a result of the drawing through the electronic lottery means 140, the settlement account of the lottery purchaser used in the first electronic payment means 130 or the settlement of the lottery subscriber entered separately. Second electronic payment means 150 is provided with an online payment system that can transfer the winnings to the account; It includes a central monitoring means 160 for controlling the smooth processing of each means and monitoring the access of the non-authenticator to maintain the security of the stored personal information and backed up lottery data.

3, the storage means 110 is a lottery information database 112 for storing and managing the entire information according to the type of lottery, and the lottery selected by the lottery subscriber for each type of lottery A plurality of lottery databases 116 comprising a selective lottery database 113 for storing information and an unselected lottery database 115 for storing information on lotteries that have not yet been selected, and the lottery that was sold to the lottery subscribers and won the result of the lottery. The winning lottery database 117 stores and manages information about the customer, the customer management database 118 stores and manages the personal information of the lottery subscribers according to the lottery purchase, and the advertisement contents are stored so that various advertisements can be posted on the Internet. It consists of an advertising database (114).

In addition, the lottery information processing means 120 serves to manage and control the storage means 110, when a plurality of users 10, 20, 30 requests a variety of information about the lottery The information required by the user is extracted from the database of the storage means 110 and displayed on the screen, and the lottery list selected by the lottery subscriber is moved to the selective lottery database 113 of the corresponding lottery, and then by other lottery subscribers. Management software 121 for controlling not to be selected is provided.

In addition, the first and second electronic payment means (130, 150) calculates the total amount of the lottery list and the price selected by the lottery buyers and outputs the result on the screen, the deposit in the payment account selected by the lottery buyers After checking whether the withdrawal is possible, withdraw the amount corresponding to the lottery purchase cost if it is possible to withdraw the deposit, and if the withdrawal approval is not made from the lottery buyer's settlement account, it displays the inability to withdraw the deposit and inputs a new payment method from the lottery buyer. When the winnings are confirmed after the lottery lottery, electronic commerce deposit and withdrawal and electronic payment software 131 (152) and security software (151) are provided for depositing the winnings into the designated account of the lottery buyer.

In addition, the electronic lottery means 140 is provided with arithmetic processing software 141 for executing the lottery lottery, and calculating the lottery if there is a prize according to the result of the lottery, the lottery information is based on the result The winning lottery ticket D / B 117 of the storage means 110 is stored.

That is, when an internet user accesses a website of a lottery service provider using an internet network 50 to receive a lottery service, the first visitor enters his or her own information. By automatically storing and registering with / B 118, the user who visits again can use the lottery service only after a predetermined authentication procedure. In addition, the lottery information D / B (112), by providing the information on the probability of winning or the winning amount for each type of lottery to the customer so that the customer can select the type of the desired lottery, D / B (116) of each lottery The lottery list selected by the lottery purchaser at is moved from the unselected lottery D / B 115 to the selected lottery D / B 113 so that other customers who use the lottery list can make the lottery selection only at the unselected lottery D / B 115. Manages the selected / unselected lottery D / B 113 and 115 of the lottery.

In addition, in order to advertise various advertisements to the user who visits the lottery site, or to request a lottery sale advertisement, the advertisement contents previously registered at the request of the advertiser 70 and the lottery issuing agency 60 are the advertisement D / B 114. The advertisement is displayed on the website where the lottery service is performed.

Meanwhile, the method of using the lottery service on the Internet according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5.

4 is a functional relationship between a plurality of Internet users 10, 20, 30, a service provider 100, a lottery issuing agency 60, and an advertiser 70 using a lottery service through an internet network 50. It is a schematic diagram showing the easy to see.

The lottery issuing agency 60 may be a government agency or a local government, and the lottery service provider 100 may directly develop a lottery product to provide a lottery service, but in the present invention, a separate lottery issuing agency ( An embodiment in which the lottery service provider 100 requested by 60) establishes a database related to the lottery lottery to perform the lottery service on the website of the lottery service provider 100 will be described.

That is, the lottery service provider 100 performing the lottery service on the Internet website may request the lottery amount, the winnings, the execution period, the advertisement, etc., which is information on the issuance of the lottery from the lottery issuing agency 60, and the lottery service may be performed. Lottery D / B will be built and provided on the Internet website. The Internet user visits the lottery service website where the lottery service is provided and proceeds to purchase and draw the lottery in order according to the provided menu.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure in which an ordinary Internet user accesses a website of a lottery service provider provided on the Internet and purchases a lottery ticket and draws a lottery ticket. This is limited to one embodiment in which one of the various types of lottery tickets is selected and proceeds, and other types of lotteries are performed in the same manner.

First, the Internet user finds and connects to the website of the lottery service provider 100 connected to the Internet, accesses the website of the lottery service provider 100, and then executes the lottery according to a menu provided by the lottery service provider 100. Purchasing and payment of expenses, lottery lottery, confirmation of winnings, etc. can be carried out.

[First certification step]

When the Internet user accesses the website of the lottery service provider 100 (101), a predetermined authentication procedure 111 is performed, and this procedure is performed by applying and approving a personal password for using the lottery service. The terms and conditions such as the approval of the terms and conditions of use, and instructions for using them are included.These procedures allow the service user to use the lottery service when the necessary personal information is entered and approved, and the personal information entered during authentication is stored. It is automatically registered in the customer management D / B (118) of the means 110 to facilitate the user's convenience so that when the same person later visits the lottery site. In addition, the lottery service can limit the scope of the user so that only adults can use, the restriction of the user is to determine whether the adult by age and resident registration number by grasping the personal information in the central monitoring means 160 when entering personal information Figure out.

[Lottery selection step]

The authentication procedure 111 is completed and enters the lottery selection step 122 by inputting the ID and password received from the lottery service provider 100. When entering the lottery selection step 122, various types of lottery tickets 116 are provided according to the lottery issuing agency 60 or the lottery operators, for example, housing lottery tickets, tourism lotteries, sports lotteries, filial piety tickets, travel lotteries, etc. These various types of lottery may be provided by the lottery issuer to the lottery service provider, or may be a product developed by the lottery service provider.

When the user selects a lottery ticket of interest among various types of lottery tickets 116, the lottery ticket selected from the lottery list stored in the storage means 110 is output on the screen through the lottery information processing means 120 (123). . The lottery list 123 outputted on this screen includes an unselected lottery list and a selected lottery list which are not selected by other consumers among the issued lottery lists of each lottery in the storage means 110, to the lottery information D / B 112. The lottery selection box 310 provided on one side of the lottery list which displays the serial number to be purchased among the unselected lottery lists displayed on the screen, which is always listed up in the corresponding database and output on the screen. Click on the mouse to create a bookmark on the selected lottery ticket can be purchased selectively (see Figure 6).

When the user selects the lottery to be purchased in the lottery selection step 122, the selected lottery list 400 for the entire selected lottery is output again on the screen and the total amount of the lottery purchase cost for the selected lottery quantity is added. At the same time, the operation is processed and output, and when the lottery purchaser finally decides to purchase the lottery, the confirmation button 410 may be clicked (see FIG. 7).

[Payment stage]

When the lottery purchaser presses the confirmation button 410 in the above step, the lottery purchaser moves to the cost payment step 135 for the lottery purchase cost.

The cost payment step 135 includes a step 133 of selecting a payment method of the type that the lottery subscriber wants to pay for, and a cost payment step 134 for making a payment according to the selected payment method. The payment means may be any one withdrawable immediately from the account of the lottery buyer, such as electronic money, credit card, direct debit, etc., and enter the credit information of the lottery subscriber to pay the costs after the payment method selection (133) And the step of confirming can be used a method or software used in a typical electronic commerce system.

[Lottery Lottery Stage]

When the cost payment step 135 of the lottery subscriber for the lottery purchase cost is successful, a lottery step 144 is performed in which a lottery ticket is drawn according to the serial number. When the message of the lottery is completed is output on the screen, the user can check whether or not the lottery has been purchased through the lottery result check step (145).

For each type of lottery, the winnings and the number of winnings are decided by the original lottery issuing agency.The lottery service provider randomly extracts and selects from the serial numbers of all the lottery tickets when building the lottery D / B. The prize money is distributed to each lottery by building a D / B to match the serial number of the selected lottery.

[Information input step]

When the lottery buyer wins the lottery ticket in the lottery lottery step 144, the prize money is configured to be directly deposited into the account of the lottery buyer.

That is, when there is a winning prize, when the lottery step 144 is completed, an information input step 155 such as a deposit account number of the lottery subscriber for paying the total amount of the winning prize is passed. If there is no winning prize or wins the lottery additional purchase service, the lottery selection step 122 is performed again. In the lottery selection step 122, the user may select other types of lottery tickets of the same amount.

When the information input step 155 is completed, the result can be outputted and stored according to whether or not to output the winning result. If the output is not necessary, the lottery subscriber is moved to the first main screen by selecting the lottery subscriber. Selection and lottery, the result of the winning result is completed in the end step 200 is completed.

Anyone who uses the Internet according to the above-described procedures can use it, and the result of winning the lottery can be found immediately, which can cause interest in purchasing the lottery, thereby increasing the lottery sales volume. Government agencies, local governments, etc. that issue these services can help to create the necessary public funds.

The internet lottery service system and method thereof according to the present invention have a purpose to prevent the conventional discontinuation of the public to purchase a lottery, and to wait for a long time after purchasing the lottery rather than to increase the general consumption or waste wall. In particular, the purpose of the government, local governments, and businesses for issuing public lottery tickets is to reduce the excessive management and promotion costs required to build the advertising and sales network for the issued lottery tickets.

In addition, the Internet lottery service system and the method according to the present invention is to ensure that the monitoring software 161 to control the central monitoring means 160 to prevent the minors from proceeding in accordance with the lottery purchase in the initial authentication procedure Only purchase lottery tickets and sell lottery tickets.

As described above, the internet lottery service system and method thereof according to the present invention are provided on the Internet that is provided with various information and can be easily used by anyone, and the lottery proceeds immediately after purchase of the lottery. By making payments possible, it greatly improves the convenience of lottery buyers from lottery purchase to lottery lottery, and lottery issuers can greatly reduce advertising costs and sales costs for lottery to be sold after lottery issuance. It provides a useful effect that can greatly reduce the sales advertising and management costs of the company, and also provides the convenience for users to easily purchase various kinds of lotteries issued elsewhere.

Claims (7)

Internet lottery consisting of a large number of personal PCs that can be connected to the Internet network based on the public Internet network and a main server of lottery service providers connected to the Internet network to provide various services related to lottery sales and lottery on the website. In the service system, The main server of the lottery service provider comprises: a storage means for storing a lottery list for each type of lottery provided on the Internet, information on lottery subscribers, lottery data sold, etc. in a database; Lottery information processing means provided with management software for controlling the provision and output of various data related to the lottery from the storage means according to the selection of the lottery subscriber; A first electronic payment means equipped with deposit and withdrawal software for performing the payment of the lottery ticket and the deposit withdrawal of the payout; Electronic lottery means for drawing a lottery ticket selected by the lottery purchaser by arithmetic processing software when the first electronic payment means completes the payment; Online electronic payment software and security for remitting the winnings to the payment account of the lottery buyer used in the electronic payment means or to the payment account of a separate lottery buyer when the result of the lottery is drawn through the electronic lottery means. Second electronic payment means having software; And a central monitoring means for monitoring the smooth processing of each of the means and access of the non-authenticator and maintaining the security of personal information and the backed up lottery data. The method of claim 1, The storage means is a lottery service system on the Internet, characterized in that the advertising means for posting the advertisement on the Internet website in real time at the request of the lottery issuing agency or advertiser. An information input step of accessing a server of a lottery service provider through the Internet and inputting a unique ID and necessary information; A lottery type selection step of acknowledging the necessary matters in the information input step and selecting the type of the lottery to be purchased by the user; A lottery purchasing step of selecting a lottery number which the user wants to purchase by outputting the entire lottery list not selected by other users among the entire list of the lottery as the user selects the lottery type; A lottery purchase cost payment step of confirming a final purchase intention after the lottery purchase step is completed and selecting a payment means for paying the lottery purchase cost and paying the cost; A lottery lottery step in which a lottery ticket selected by a lottery subscriber is drawn in a server of a service provider when an amount paid in the payment step is deposited into a designated account of a service provider; After the lottery lottery step is finished and checks the result, if there is no prize money, the process is terminated. If there is a prize money, the information input step comprises inputting information of the lottery buyer to receive the prize money. Lottery service method on the Internet. The method of claim 3, After the lottery lottery step, if the lottery subscriber wins or does not win the additional lottery selection service, the lottery service selection process is performed by moving back to the first lottery selection step so that the lottery subscriber can select the lottery. Way. The method of claim 3, The method of paying the lottery purchaser pays the lottery purchase cost is made by any one of electronic money, credit card, and direct debit. The method of claim 3, The method for lottery service on the Internet, characterized in that the personal information input during the information input step to determine whether the adult is to proceed to the next step only if the identified personal information is determined to be an adult. The method of claim 4, wherein The lottery service method on the Internet, characterized in that the different lottery of the same amount corresponding to the selected lottery is selectable when the first lottery selection step.