CN100411703C - Specific award treatment system and method, and deposit money management device - Google Patents

Specific award treatment system and method, and deposit money management device Download PDF

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CN100411703C
CN100411703C CNB2004100868345A CN200410086834A CN100411703C CN 100411703 C CN100411703 C CN 100411703C CN B2004100868345 A CNB2004100868345 A CN B2004100868345A CN 200410086834 A CN200410086834 A CN 200410086834A CN 100411703 C CN100411703 C CN 100411703C
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The invention is to provide a special prize processing system safely dealing a special prize to be an object of being converted into money in a game parlor. This special prize processing system is provided with a special prize exchange office 30 used when exchanging the special prize delivered to a game player in the game parlor according to the quantity of the game media obtained by the player in the game parlor 10, and a deposit management center 20 connected to the special prize exchange office via a communication means 100. The deposit management center 20 preliminarily deposits and manages cash to be required when exchanging the special prize, from the game parlor 10 and, when there is a request on the exchange of the special prize from the special prize exchange office 30, permits to pay within the range of the deposit.

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The special award treatment system, deposit golden management devices and special award processing method
Technical field
The present invention relates in that the amusement park of game machine such as pinball game etc. is set, as recreation person's special award treatment system and used golden management devices and the special award processing method of depositing of this special award treatment system are issued in the award recreation medium equal value exchange of rewarding recreation person.
Background technology
In the amusement park of the above-mentioned type amusement park, the recreation person prize clearing house in amusement park mostly is exchanged into special award with the award recreation medium (pellet shot from a slingshot steel ball, medal etc.) that it obtains in travelling.Here, " special award " is meant the occasion of wishing to exchange (with the exchange of prepaid card or coupon, various ticket or valuables) so-called recreation person, amusement park is issued recreation person's special award, and recreation person waits prize clearing house (market owner) to buy this special award and make its valuablesization by the junk man who is provided with outside amusement park.Promptly by the recreation medium quantity that obtains, recreation person obtains special award (in this case from amusement park, amusement park is issued different types of special award by incentive value, perhaps only issue same a kind of special award of recreation person and incentive value corresponding amount), surrender this prize and obtain valuables at market owner's window.
For example the prior art listed as Te Open 2003-62318 communique of discloses, this system is known as the market owner who bribes special award that above-mentioned recreation person holds at amusement park, and bribes special award, sells the three shop modes of carrying out between the prize owner of amusement park again from this market owner.
Above-mentioned three shop modes, the market owner obtains interests by selling the prize owner from the special award that recreation person buys, the prize owner sells amusement park by the special award of buying from the market owner and obtains interests, but if the amusement park bankruptcy then causes unexpected unfavorable result to these third parties.Promptly because the exhaustion of amusement park fund, amusement park can occur does not buy the prize owner and buys and the situation of the special award that has from the market owner, the prize owner can't buy special award there from the market owner thereupon, the result, appearance is because of market owner's insufficient funds, and amusement park is issued the situation that recreation person's special award can't be exchanged.
Summary of the invention
The present invention proposes according to above-mentioned situation, and its objective is provides special award treatment system, this system to relate to as issuing recreation person's special award with award recreation medium equivalence, amusement park, and recreation person can be concluded the business relievedly.And, the purpose of this invention is to provide used golden management devices and the special award processing method of depositing in this special award treatment system.
In order to achieve the above object, the following formation of the present invention.
(1) the present invention relates to a kind of special award treatment system, it is characterized by, comprising: the amusement park setting of at least one institute, be used to the amusement park terminal of sending special award; Depositing, manage from described amusement park is that the golden administrative center of depositing of needed cash was provided with when special award was exchanged for valuables in advance, the cash balance that record is deposited by this amusement park, and judgement could be carried out the golden management devices of depositing of described exchange; The exchanging device that is provided with in the special award clearing house, described special award is exchanged for valuables, described each device as following mode communicate operation, that is, described amusement park terminal carries out writing to described special award the processing of recognition data and incentive value data; Described exchanging device when described special award is exchanged into valuables, to described deposit that golden management devices is sent in the described incentive value data that write in the described special award and is used to ask judge whether to carry out described exchange could exchange the judgement request signal; Describedly deposit golden management devices and could exchange the judgement request signal according to described, described incentive value data and the described cash balance of depositing are compared, carry out the described judgement that could exchange, and send the described result that could exchange judgement to described exchanging device; Described exchanging device is the occasion of YES in the result that could exchange judgement, carries out described special award is exchanged for the processing of valuables.
In this structure, amusement park is deposited with the amount of money that carries out paying when special award is exchanged recreation person to depositing golden administrative center in advance.Utilize communication unit will deposit golden administrative center and the special award exchange connection status that places, in fact when recreation person carries out the special award exchange, the special award clearing house is exchanged processing to the golden information of depositing of the amusement park depositing golden center and confirm to provide this special award in depositing golden scope.Therefore, even amusement park is gone bankrupt suddenly,, just may use this gold of depositing because still leave and deposit cash depositing golden center, proceed bribing of exchange and special award, can reduce unfavorable result the outer third party's (recreation person or prize are bribed the owner) of amusement park.
In addition, in such structure, deposit golden information by the golden management devices management of depositing that is connected with exchanging device by communication unit what deposit that golden administrative center deposits.Promptly, in depositing golden management devices, management is from the full detail of each amusement park, when the inquiry that has from exchanging device, confirm to deposit the remaining sum of gold, send authentication information to exchanging device, manage amount paid information and balance amount information, so can correctly carry out the management of depositing gold from each amusement park.
In addition, in above-mentioned structure, when recreation person will exchange it after amusement park obtains special award, take and be positioned at the outer prize clearing house of amusement park, the exchanging device of She Zhiing (be the device of valuables of sending, for example, be called the exchanging device of ATM) is exchanged processing there.At this moment, the inquiry of depositing golden information of the amusement park of special award because exchanging device is sent is so can successfully exchange processing.In addition, deposit the inquiry of golden information, accept stage (reading the stage of the various information of paying special award) of special award, carry out depositing golden administrative center by communication unit at exchanging device.
In addition, in said structure, at amusement park, the amount of the recreation medium that obtain according to recreation person is paid special award for this recreation person, pays the recognition data of this special award of identification for this special award.In this occasion, " recognition data " is the data that specify each special award of paying for recreation person, for example, comprise intrinsic id information of this special award and value information (the incentive value information of exchange), specify the id information of the amusement park of handling this special award etc., beyond this, also can comprise the recognition data of sending the Customer Information ID that sends day, specifies the recreation person who accepts this special award, specify the area information in the zone that amusement park exists etc.In addition, also can comprise the data that are used to prevent electronic identification that special award is forged etc.
Recreation person when accepting behind such special award it is exchanged, is read in its recognition data on the set above-mentioned exchanging device of the exchange of commodities outside being positioned at amusement park in amusement park.Exchanging device reads in the recognition data of paying this special award, deposits the use request of gold by communication unit to depositing golden center.Deposit golden center, confirming the remaining sum situation of depositing gold of this amusement park, in the occasion of this remaining sum more than certain value, the processing of sending of permission exchanging device.Like this,, can carry out this affirmation operation smoothly by giving the above-mentioned recognition data of special award, simultaneously, because special award is held intrinsic recognition data, so can prevent the forgery of special award.
(2) in foregoing invention (1), be characterized as: further have the special award check device, described special award check device is according to described amusement park terminal identification request signal that send when sending described special award, that be used for the described recognition data of requirement, generate corresponding recognition data, and send the recognition data that generates to described amusement park terminal.
In such structure, because the special award check device is created on the intrinsic recognition data of special award that each amusement park is paid, therefore exchanging device is by reading this recognition data to depositing when golden administrative center inquires, can require the special award check device for this special award regular verification whether, seek to improve security.In addition, by such special award check device, can clearly manage special award and in fact exchange the incentive value of processing and/or the corresponding relation of valuables.
(3) in foregoing invention (2), be characterized as: described exchanging device is when being exchanged into valuables to described special award, the further verification request signal that is sent in the described recognition data that writes in the described special award and is used to ask described verification to handle to described special award check device, described special award check device is further according to described verification request signal, carry out from the recognition data of described exchanging device and in this device the verification of the data of record handle, the result that this verification is handled sends to described exchanging device, when the result that described exchanging device is handled in described verification is YES with the result that could exchange judgement, carry out described special award is exchanged for the processing of valuables.
(4) involved in the present inventionly deposit golden management devices, by the quantity of communication unit with the recreation medium that obtain at amusement park by recreation person, used exchanging device connected when the special award that above-mentioned amusement park is issued recreation person exchanged, have following characteristics: each amusement park has management and is carrying out the administrative unit of depositing the amount of money that the special award clearing house is used, when above-mentioned exchanging device is inquired about, the golden situation of depositing of the amusement park of the special award of sending is confirmed, the authentication unit that sends authentication information when gold surpasses fixing amount of depositing at above-mentioned management Single Component Management.
In such structure, deposit golden management devices the income situation of depositing gold of depositing from amusement park is managed, and the amount paid situation of depositing gold from the exchanging device expenditure is managed.Prop up artificial situation so manage the income of depositing gold of each amusement park, when depositing the amount of money, permit the special award exchange that this amusement park will be issued recreation person above prescribed limit.Therefore, even amusement park is gone bankrupt suddenly, deposit golden center by in depositing golden scope, exchanging processing, deposit the state that gold is in remaining sum, use this to deposit gold, bribing of exchange or special award can be proceeded, concerning the third party, (recreation person or prize are bribed the owner), unfavorable result can be reduced.
(5) the present invention relates to a kind of special award processing method, be used for the special award treatment system, it is characterized by: described special award treatment system comprises: the amusement park terminal of sending special award at least one institute amusement park; Deposit, manage from described amusement park in advance when special award is exchanged for valuables needed cash described deposit golden administrative center, the cash balance that record is deposited by this amusement park, judgement could be carried out the golden management devices of depositing of described exchange; Described special award is exchanged for the exchanging device of valuables in the special award clearing house, this method comprises following step: described amusement park terminal carries out writing to described special award the step of the processing of recognition data and incentive value data; Described exchanging device is deposited golden management devices and is sent in the described incentive value data that write in the described special award and is used to ask judge whether to carry out the step that could exchanging of described exchange judged request signal to described when described special award is exchanged into valuables; Describedly deposit golden management devices and could judge request signal according to described exchange, described incentive value data and the described cash balance of depositing are compared, carry out the described judgement that could exchange, send the described step that could exchange the result of judgement to described exchanging device; And described exchanging device is the occasion of YES in the exchange result that could judge, the step of carrying out described special award is exchanged for the processing of valuables.
In such structure, amusement park is deposited with exchange amount of money to recreation person's payment during special award to depositing golden administrative center in advance, in fact, when recreation person exchanges special award, the special award clearing house is confirmed to deposit golden information to depositing golden center, in this deposits golden scope, exchanges.Therefore, even amusement park is gone bankrupt suddenly, exchange processing by depositing golden center depositing golden scope, deposit the state that gold is in remaining sum, use this to deposit gold and can proceed exchange, or bribing special award, the third party (recreation person or prize bribe owner) outer to amusement park reduces unfavorable result.
According to the special award treatment system relevant with the present invention, deposit golden management devices and special award processing method, when the special award of issuing recreation person at each amusement park is exchanged and is handled, because that deposits in this recreation place deposits the processing of sending of carrying out valuables in the golden scope, even therefore amusement park is gone bankrupt suddenly, owing to guarantee to deposit gold, can alleviate recreation person or special award and bribe owner etc. and run into unexpected unfavorable result.
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Fig. 1 is the schematic configuration schematic diagram of the whole special award treatment system integral body relevant with the present invention.
Fig. 2 represents the amusement park terminal that is connected with communication unit shown in Figure 1, the calcspar of depositing golden management devices, special award check device and ATM schematic configuration.
Fig. 3 deposits depositing that golden management devices manages gold is paid in, the payment data example schematic.
Fig. 4 is the recognition data example schematic that provides to each special award.
Fig. 5 is the recognition data example schematic that the special award check device is managed.
Fig. 6 is in special award treatment system shown in Figure 1, illustrates to issue the sequence chart of recreation person's special award to a series of programs of exchanging.
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With reference to the accompanying drawings a kind of form of implementation of the present invention is specified.
Fig. 1 is the summary structural representation of special award treatment system.
The special award treatment system 1 relevant with this form of implementation by amusement park 10, deposit the networked structure that golden administrative center 20, special award clearing house 30 and prize distribution Help Center 40 form, by by utilizing communication unit 100 to be constituted with the system that the terminal that installs at everybody is connected.At first, each inscape is described.
[amusement park]
Amusement park 10 is provided with pinball game or slot machine etc., is that the place of providing various special awards as shown in the figure, also can be used as inscape, comprises a plurality of amusement parks when recreation person wishes just to exchange by the award recreation medium that obtain in travelling.In this case, consider, issue the various relevant form of recreation person's special award from amusement park, but in the present embodiment,, describe with integrated circuit card for understanding its content easily according to the recreation amount of media.
And amusement park 10 is deposited fixing amount separating the golden administrative center 20 of depositing that sets up as another one unit with amusement park as depositing gold.Exchange when this amusement park is issued recreation person's special award as the exchange product of rewarding the recreation medium in the special award clearing house, this gold of depositing is used for sending of these valuables.And amusement park 10 is given in the prize distinctive recognition data of this prize that verification center 40 produced of sending on this special award when issuing recreation person's special award.Recognition data for example, is that every special award obtains from the prize verification center of sending in advance, perhaps also can be when issuing recreation person, and the visit prize verification center of sending obtains, and it is provided.Moreover under latter event, amusement park need be provided with by communication unit 100 and the prize terminal (amusement park terminal 11) that verification center one side is connected of sending, and not necessarily needs to be provided with this terminal in the previous case.
In addition, can followingly carry out to for example the writing of described recognition data of special award.
Promptly.Amusement park terminal 11 sends the identification request signal that is used to ask recognition data to special award check device 41 (aftermentioned) when sending special award.Special award check device 41 generates suitable recognition data according to this identification request signal, sends to amusement park terminal 11.Then, amusement park terminal 11 writes this recognition data and incentive value data in special award.
[depositing golden administrative center]
Depositing golden administrative center 20 is to separate the mechanism that sets up as another one unit with amusement park, deposit from each amusement park, required cash when special award is exchanged, this cash is managed.Specifically, for example deposit golden administrative center and have financial institution's account, deposit in to this account and to deposit gold, deposit the gold processing (the management account of each special award clearing house deposit in handle or cash is remitted) of settling accounts to what just deposited each special award clearing house simultaneously.Terminal (depositing golden management devices 21) is set depositing golden administrative center, this management account is paid in situation (deposit gold and pay in situation) and the amount of money props up artificial situation (to special award clearing house remittance situation) and manages, be connected by the terminal of communication unit 100, receive from the special award clearing house depositing the inquiry of golden situation with special award clearing house 30.
[special award clearing house]
Special award clearing house 30 is that recreation person will be in the place that the special award that amusement park obtains is exchanged, also can outside amusement park, be provided with a plurality of, have the unmanned pedestal form that the exchanging device of sending (ATM) 31 carry out valuables is set, or also can with such ATM be set together have the form of being furnished with cash work of treatment personnel the common prize clearing house that resembles.Deposit golden administrative center in this special award clearing house exchanging when handling, the amusement park of providing this special award is deposited golden status inquiry,, buy special award (valuables of sending) to recreation person to obtain authentication as condition above-mentioned.
In addition, sending of valuables for example can followingly be carried out.
Promptly, ATM31 is before exchange, be sent in the recognition data that writes in the special award and verify request signal to special award check device 41, be sent in the incentive value data and the exchange that write in the special award and could judge request signal to depositing golden management devices 21.Special award check device 41 response is verified request signals and is carried out from the recognition data of ATM31 and the verification processing of the data of record in this device 41, the result (YES or NO) that this verification is handled sends to ATM31, deposit golden management devices 21 response exchanges and could judge request signal, the cash balance that compares incentive value and deposit by corresponding amusement park, exchange could judgement, the result (YES or NO) that could judge sends to ATM31 exchange.ATM31 is the occasion of YES verifying the result who handles and exchanging the result that could judge, special award is exchanged for valuables.
[prize send verification center]
Send verification center 40 of prize separates as another one unit with amusement park and sets up, as hereinafter described, its function is to produce to issue the recognition data of recreation person's special award about amusement park and carry out query processing with the special award that recreation person is taken to special award clearing house 30.The generation of recognition data and the special award query processing of taking special award clearing house 30 to are carried out in the prize verification center 40 set terminals (special award check device 41) of sending.
[communication unit]
Communication unit, no matter be wire and wireless, special circuit or exchange line, as long as in connected amusement park terminal 11, deposit between set terminal (ATM31) of golden management devices 21, special award clearing house 30 and the special award check device 41 and can receive and send messages, can be the means that a plurality of combination of network realized by gateway for example as the internet.And the portable terminal transmission of the portable phone that this communication unit 100 also can have recreation person is from the information (customer identification data) of special award check device 41.
And, utilize communication unit 100 be connected above-mentioned deposit golden administrative center set deposit golden management devices 21 and in the special award clearing house 30 set terminals (ATM31) condition that necessitates, but the terminal that is provided with in other place etc. not necessarily are connected with these terminals by communication unit 100.But, in this form of implementation, describe carrying out interconnective situation in the terminal that all places are provided with by communication unit 100.
Fig. 2 is expression is connected the schematic configuration of each terminal with above-mentioned communication unit 100 a calcspar.
Amusement park terminal 11 in the amusement park setting can be connected with communication unit 100, can receive the various terminals (personal computer etc.) of following described recognition data, have: be equipped with arithmetic processing apparatus (central processing unit), recordable memory (random access memory), store predetermined sequencer etc. read private memory (read-only storage), the control module (control and management unit) 12 of input/output unit (input/output end port) etc., with at the writing unit 13 that on integrated circuit card 60 (special award), writes following recognition data under the control of this control and management unit 12, read out input block 15 from various information such as the output result's of the counting device 50 of counting the award recreation medium that recreation person obtains sensing element 14 and input Customer Informations.And amusement park terminal 11 is furnished with under the control of control and management unit 12, the management database 16 of record Customer Information or recognition data and and above-mentioned communication unit 100 between utilize the communication protocol of regulation to carry out the communication unit 17 of information transmit-receive.
As mentioned above, collect at amusement park under the situation of Customer Information, also can distribute identification card 70 to its client.On this identification card, except writing the identifying information of specifying this client, for example also can write stored information or client's attribute information (sex, age, carried terminal numbering etc.) of recreation medium.This Customer Information of management in above-mentioned management database 16.And the exchange of special award also can be pointed out identification card 70, carries out recreation medium quantity at sensing element 14 and reads.
Above-mentionedly deposit golden management devices 21, for example be to separate the device of setting up as another one unit that is provided with in the golden administrative center of depositing with amusement park, also be connected with above-mentioned communication unit 100, have from each amusement park and pay the golden management function of depositing of fund to the account of stipulating financial institution, and under the situation that recreation person exchanges special award, when the special award clearing house is inquired about, have and confirm the terminal (personal computer etc.) of depositing golden remaining sum situation, carrying out the authentication processing function.
Utilize the golden management devices 21 of depositing that this personal computer constitutes, have: be equipped with arithmetic processing apparatus (central processing unit), rewritable memory (random access memory), store predetermined sequencer etc. read private memory (read-only storage), the control module (control and management unit) 22 of input/output unit (input/output end port) etc., record under the control of this control and management unit 22, management is at the golden management database 23 of depositing of paying an artificial situation of depositing gold of each amusement park, when the relevant situation of golden remaining sum is deposited in special award clearing house inquiry, the data of golden management database 23 are deposited in extraction, authentication depositing in the golden scope of regulation permit the authentication unit 24 of exchanging and and above-mentioned communication unit 100 between, utilize the communication protocol of regulation to carry out the communication unit 25 of information transmit-receive.
Specifically, as shown in Figure 3, for example depositing golden management database 23, with prescribed form storage with manage the depositing golden income day, deposit the amount of money, exchange day of each amusement park (authentication day), exchange volume, deposit data such as golden remaining sum.In this case, above-mentioned authentication unit 24 is specified the amusement park of providing special award when special award clearing house 24 is inquired about from identifying information, extracts the golden remaining sum of depositing of present moment, by this remaining sum, to special award clearing house transmission of authentication information.Can suitably be provided with carry out or do not authenticate deposit golden remaining sum the time, for example if be arranged on reach to a certain degree deposit golden remaining sum the time, do not send authentication information, then under the situation of amusement park bankruptcy suddenly, because can guarantee the gold of depositing to a certain degree, do very desirable like this.At least, preferably do not carry out credit settlement (even deposit yet authenticate when the negative value situation appears in golden remaining sum), and carry out debit's clearing.And, deposit golden management devices and reach under the situation of specified degree use at the gold of depositing of certain amusement park, the information of depositing gold is deposited in the terminal transmission of this amusement park such as urgency.
The terminal (ATM31) that is provided with in above-mentioned special award clearing house has: be equipped with arithmetic processing apparatus (central processing unit), recordable memory (random access memory), store predetermined sequencer etc. read private memory (read-only storage), the control module (control and management unit) 32 of input/output unit (input/output end port) etc., at the recognition data sensing element 33 that under the control of this control and management unit 32 recognition data that is write down on integrated circuit card that recreation person holds 60 is read in, with by above-mentioned communication unit 100 recognition data of reading is sent to the above-mentioned golden management devices 21 of depositing, special award check device 41 carries out the communication unit 34 of data query transmitting-receiving etc.
And, ATM31 is equipped with under 32 controls of control and management unit, from depositing golden management devices 21 and special award check device 41 both sides when receiving authentication information, carry out the unit of sending 35 etc. of sending of valuables based on the incentive value information that this integrated circuit card 60 write down.
Above-mentioned special award check device 41 has: be equipped with arithmetic processing apparatus (central processing unit), recordable memory (random access memory), store predetermined sequencer etc. read private memory (read-only storage), the control module (control and management unit) 42 of input/output unit (input/output end port) etc., under the control of this control and management unit 42, generation specifies in the recognition data generation unit 43 of recognition data that each amusement park is issued every special award of recreation person, to become the management database 44 of prescribed form record in the data that this recognition data generation unit produces, carrying out under the request for information of query processing from ATM one side, read out in management database 44 canned datas, carry out query processing authentication unit 45 and and above-mentioned communication unit 100 between, utilize communication unit 46 that regulation communication protocol receives and sends messages etc.
Recognition data in that above-mentioned recognition data generation unit 43 is produced for example, contains information shown in Figure 4.Specifically, the area code, winnings information that contain the amusement park identifying information of specifying amusement park, this amusement park business are (here, winnings information is meant the incentive value that correspondence is exchanged and the article of paying, for example, be set to 1 yuan with 1), send day (also can be assigned to the time-division), the intrinsic identifying information of this prize on every special award, stipulated, and under the client's who clearly is dealt into this prize information state, comprise this client's information.
And, in management database 44, above-mentioned recognition data and information is for example processed with form shown in Figure 5, each amusement park is carried out record management successively.This data, as the back is spoken of, need read under the situation of authentication integrated circuit card that recreation person holds (special award) 60 at ATM31, the authentication day data that write down when being included in the prize that is confirmed to be suitable granting, the content that utilization was write down in this authentication day can be grasped the situation of special award actual redemption.And, about need be, judging that this data are not under recognition data generation unit 43 data conditions of being sent from the data of ATM31 authentication, sending to ATM has false information (can not authenticate).
And, special award check device 41, require to produce recognition data from amusement park by communicator 100, and simultaneously sending recreation persons by identification card 70 for information about under the situation of (Customer Information), also can be at recognition data generation unit 43, generation is added on the above-mentioned recognition data, the distinctive customer identification data corresponding with this recognition data.By communication unit 100, transmit this customer identification data to all communication terminals of this recreation person (communication terminal that portable phone or amusement park are lent).
Sequence chart below with reference to Fig. 6 receives that at amusement park the integrated circuit card 60 as special award describes up to a series of programs of exchanging to recreation person in the above-mentioned special award treatment system.
Handling recreation person when amusement park 10 is travelled the award recreation medium that obtain, at first the recreation medium that obtain 50 pairs of recreation medium counting devices are counted (S1).Then, recreation person submits at the print result (also can be the result who is recorded on the customer card 70) at the amusement park sales counter, when hope is exchanged, requires to be exchanged into special award (S2) there.
The sales counter staff requires and the relevant recognition data (S3) of paid-in award recreation medium counting by amusement park terminal 11 visit special award check devices 41.At special award check device 41, confirm be visit really from the regulation amusement park after, accept this requirement, produce its distinctive recognition data (with reference to Fig. 4) at recognition data generation unit 43, answer the amusement park terminal 11 (S4, S5) that claims.And special award check device 41 also can confirm to deposit the golden remaining sum of depositing of golden management devices 21, if remaining sum surpasses specified quantity, also can produce recognition data.And special award check device 41 when amusement park is accepted customer card 70, also can be answered recognition data, and transmits the customer identification data corresponding with this recognition data to the communication terminal that this recreation person had.
The recognition data here is the special award inherent data that provides according to the recreation medium number that recreation person obtains, and receives this recognition data in amusement park terminal 11, writes to the integrated circuit card 60 as special award, gives recreation person (S6, S7 and S8) with it.And carry out this processing, simultaneously in special award check device 41, the recognition data (customer identification data) that produces in management database 44 records, administrative institute is (S9)
The recreation person who receives special award (integrated circuit card 60) should be with this prize redemption, to the ATM31 that is provided with outside the field.At ATM31, read the recognition data of record on the integrated circuit card 60 at recognition data sensing element 33, to the requirement of special award check device 41 these sense informations of proposition authentication, simultaneously to the golden situation (S10, S11) of depositing of depositing golden management devices 21 these amusement parks of inquiry.
The special award check device 41 of authentication requesting is being arranged, in authentication unit 45, taking out the recognition data and information (customer identification data) that is write down at management database 44, carrying out its query processing (S12).Handle if do proper inquiry in authentication unit 45, special award check device 41 will permit exchanging the ATM31 (S13) that notice proposes authentication requesting.On the other hand, in the golden management devices 21 of depositing of search request is arranged, carry out this affirmation of depositing golden remaining sum and handle (S14) from the recognition data of reading.In authentication unit 24, surpass fixing amount if confirm to deposit gold, then notice has the ATM31 of inquiry to permit exchanging (S15).
So ATM31 exchanges processing (S16) receiving from special award check device 41 and depositing both meanings of golden management devices 21 when being the notice of permitting exchanging to the recreation person who holds special award.And, (for example can not suitably carry out at special award check device 41 under the situation of query processing, the situation of holding the integrated circuit card 60 that does not write down recognition data), or when depositing golden management devices and confirming to deposit gold and surpass fixing amount, send wrong notice to the ATM31 that proposes search request, the inaccurate exchange.And, at special award check device 41, as mentioned above,, read this customer identification data at ATM31 sending under the situation of customer identification data to client's terminal, carry out authentication processing simultaneously, further improve security.
After this, carry out at special award check device 41 under the situation of proper inquiry processing, control and management unit 42 writes about the authentication information (S17) at management database 44 recognition data and information that writes down, simultaneously in depositing golden management devices 21 send permit notice after, control and management unit 22 is updated in deposits the golden information (S18) of depositing that golden management database 23 is write down, and finishes a series of exchange and handles.
According to above-mentioned special award treatment system, can obtain following effect.
About the valuables of when special award exchanges, sending,,, also can be used on and deposit the remaining gold of depositing of golden administrative center 20 and carry out debt and handle even therefore for example under the situation of amusement park bankruptcy because amusement park pays and deposit gold to depositing golden administrative center in advance.Be recreation person after obtaining special award, or after the prize owner bought special award from the special award clearing house,, can utilize to be deposited with the gold of depositing of depositing golden center and to carry out debt and handle even under the situation of amusement park bankruptcy, can reduce being injured of the third party.
And, in the treatment system of above-mentioned form of implementation, issue at amusement park 10 on recreation person's the special award, be given in amusement park and separate the prize of setting up as the another one unit intrinsic recognition data of this special award that verification center 40 produced (specifying identifying information, amount information, amusement park information of this special award etc.) of sending, recreation person is in that ATM31 is actual when exchanging, because carried out this recognition data inquiry in prize distribution Help Center 40, can grasp flowing of the relevant cash of special award clearly.Promptly issue the exchange situation of recreation person's special award from management database 44 each amusement park of record of the special award check device 41 at the verification center of sending at prize, the special award paid at each amusement park can be clearly grasped and, the illegal problem on the tax system can be suppressed the amount of money of these prizes are actual when exchanging counterpart expenditure.
And, utilize above-mentioned query processing, for example can prevent that the third party from forging special award and crime such as illegally exchanging, and because recognition data comprises redemption information, amusement park can resemble issues the different special award of recreation person or a large amount of special award existing, alleviate amusement park and recreation person burden, and can seek to improve security.Moreover, because carry out sending of valuables, so can avoid redemption amount to make mistakes at prize clearing house ATM31.
Moreover, by ATM31 is set, can no longer need the configuration personnel in existing prize clearing house, can prevent that like this artificial origin from causing mistake or crime, can seek to improve security.And, adopt and to carry out the query processing of given recognition data on the special award, the terminal transmission customer identification data that has to recreation person also, the structure of carrying out dual query processing when exchanging can further improve security.Even supposition recreation person runs into criminal offences such as special award is seized in other words, the short of portable terminal that seized just can't be exchanged special award, so can improve security.
Above, embodiments of the present invention are described, but the present invention is not limited to above-mentioned form of implementation, for example also can make following enforcement.
In above-mentioned special award treatment system, the prize verification center 40 of sending is set, but the present invention in that not being set, this prize sending and can implement under the situation at verification center.Promptly issue recreation person's special award about each amusement park, by providing the information that can specify each amusement park, the information of holding special award by reading in the special award clearing house also can be confirmed the golden situation of depositing of this amusement park.And by issuing the different special award of each amusement park, amusement park can be determined in the special award clearing house, also can inquire about the golden information of depositing of this amusement park to depositing golden administrative center thus.
In that being set, sends in the structure at verification center 40 by prize, about the recognition data that in this structure, is produced, in above-mentioned form of implementation, with special award as integrated circuit card, describe recognition data is carried out the form that contact-type writes/read, but special award can be the medium that can exchange, also can for example be that the embedding information recording elements such as IC label that write down recognition data in advance carry out contactless structure of reading.In this case, can be in advance produce recognition data at the prize verification center of sending, can be in each special award the IC label of the recognition data of this generation of embedding record.Promptly also can be before recreation person be paid special award, finish the login process of every special award in advance at the prize verification center of sending.Therefore, in this structure,, do not need to be connected at amusement park and receive the amusement park terminal of recognition data in real time with special award device 41 by communication unit 100.And, can suitably change the structure of the read-out device of ATM31 according to special award recognition data presentation mode.
The gold of depositing at certain amusement park is lower than under the situation of fixing amount, above-mentionedly deposit golden administrative center 20 and also can send to special award inquiry unit 41 and deposit gold Sorry, your ticket has not enough value for information about, make to stop to send recognition data to this amusement park from depositing golden management devices 21.Like this, will exchange the low special award of possibility and issue the anti-possible trouble that terminates in of recreation person by stopping to send recognition data.
Also can be amusement park 10 before special award is issued recreation person, amusement park terminal 11 confirms to deposit golden remaining sum to depositing golden management devices 21, if this remaining sum surpasses the regulation amount, special award is issued recreation person.
And the staff also as now, will exchange as window service in place and carry out.In this case, accept special award there from recreation person, utilize the ATM31 that is provided with at there to carry out exchange at window.And, inquire about from the special award clearing house to depositing golden center, except the ATM31 of the operation of sending of carrying out valuables as described above carried out, the special-purpose terminal the also available computer that resembles staff's operation of carrying out window service merely carried out.
Deposit golden management devices 21 about above-mentioned, can be from each amusement park to managing with the relevant data that utilizes the payout status that special award is exchanged in the golden situation of depositing of specifying financial institution's account to pay, and when inquiring about from the special award clearing house that outside amusement park, is provided with, as long as can carry out query processing, then, be not limited to specific forms about its structure.

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1. a special award treatment system is characterized in that, comprising: the amusement park setting of at least one institute, be used to the amusement park terminal of sending special award; Depositing, manage from described amusement park is that the golden administrative center of depositing of needed cash was provided with when special award was exchanged for valuables in advance, the cash balance that record is deposited by this amusement park, and judgement could be carried out the golden management devices of depositing of described exchange; Be provided with in the special award clearing house, described special award is exchanged for the exchanging device of valuables,
Described each device as following mode communicate operation, that is,
Described amusement park terminal carries out writing to described special award the processing of recognition data and incentive value data,
Described exchanging device is when being exchanged into valuables to described special award, to described deposit that golden management devices is sent in the described incentive value data that write in the described special award and is used to ask judge whether to carry out described exchange could exchange the judgement request signal
Describedly deposit golden management devices and could exchange the judgement request signal according to described, described incentive value data and the described cash balance of depositing are compared, carry out the described judgement that could exchange, and send the described result that could exchange judgement to described exchanging device
Described exchanging device is the occasion of YES in the result that could exchange judgement, carries out described special award is exchanged for the processing of valuables.
2. special award treatment system according to claim 1, it is characterized in that, further has the special award check device, described special award check device is according to described amusement park terminal identification request signal that send when sending described special award, that be used for the described recognition data of requirement, generate corresponding recognition data, and send the recognition data that generates to described amusement park terminal.
3. special award treatment system according to claim 2 is characterized in that,
Described exchanging device when described special award is exchanged into valuables, the further verification request signal that is sent in the described recognition data that writes in the described special award and is used to ask described verification to handle to described special award check device,
Described special award check device is further according to described verification request signal, carry out from the recognition data of described exchanging device and in this device the verification of the data of record handle, the result of this verifications processing is sent to described exchanging device,
When the result that described exchanging device is handled in described verification is YES with the result that could exchange judgement, carry out described special award is exchanged for the processing of valuables.
4. deposit golden management devices for one kind, it is connected with exchanging device by communication unit, described exchanging device be used to exchange described amusement park according to recreation person in the recreation medium quantity that amusement park obtains, issue recreation person's special award, it is characterized in that,
Possesses the administrative unit of managing the amount of money that is used to exchange special award and deposits at each amusement park; And when above-mentioned exchanging device is inquired about, confirm to have provided above-mentioned special award amusement park deposit golden situation, deposit the authentication unit that sends authentication information when gold surpasses fixing amount what above-mentioned administrative unit was managed.
5. a special award processing method is used for the special award treatment system, it is characterized in that,
Described special award treatment system comprises: the amusement park terminal of sending special award at least one institute amusement park; Deposit, manage from described amusement park in advance when special award is exchanged for valuables needed cash described deposit golden administrative center, the cash balance that record is deposited by this amusement park, judgement could be carried out the golden management devices of depositing of described exchange; Described special award is exchanged for the exchanging device of valuables in the special award clearing house,
This method comprises following step:
Described amusement park terminal carries out writing to described special award the step of the processing of recognition data and incentive value data,
Described exchanging device is when being exchanged into valuables to described special award, deposit golden management devices and be sent in the described incentive value data that write in the described special award and be used to ask judge whether to carry out the step that could exchanging of described exchange judged request signal to described
Describedly deposit golden management devices and could judge request signal according to described exchange, described incentive value data and the described cash balance of depositing are compared, carry out the described judgement that could exchange, send the described step that could exchange the result of judgement to described exchanging device
And described exchanging device is the occasion of YES in the exchange result that could judge, the step of carrying out described special award is exchanged for the processing of valuables.
6. special award processing method according to claim 5 is characterized in that,
Has the special award check device that connects by communication unit, has the identification request signal that is used for the described recognition data of requirement that when sending described special award, sends according to described amusement park terminal, generate corresponding recognition data, and the step that sends to described amusement park terminal.
7. special award processing method according to claim 6 is characterized in that,
Have: described exchanging device is when being exchanged into valuables to described special award, the described recognition data that writes in described special award and the step that sends to described special award check device of the verification request signal that is used to ask described verification to handle;
Described special award check device is according to described verification request signal, carry out from the recognition data of described exchanging device and in this device the verification of the data of record handle, the result of this verifications processing is sent to the step of described exchanging device, and
Described exchanging device all is the occasion of YES in described verification result who handles and the result that could exchange judgement, the step of carrying out described special award is exchanged for the processing of valuables.
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