JP2002352033A - Method and system for providing information in public gambling site - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow long-time sessions with respect to provision of horse racing information in a race track and to allow access even just before the start or closing of voting. SOLUTION: An information providing system is provided with an information providing server 10 which is provided in the race track and holds horse racing information like odds information, a wireless modem 20 conforming to Bluetooth, a twist pair LAN cable 30 which connects the information providing server 10 and the wireless modem 20, and a PDA 40 which is carried by a user and pulls out horse racing information from the information providing server 10 through the wireless modem 20 in accordance with Bluetooth.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a public interest gambling facility, such as a racetrack, which provides users who vote for voting tickets, such as winning horse voting tickets, with information on the public interest gambling held at the facility. It relates to an information provision system in a holding facility.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional example of providing information at a public interest gambling facility and providing horse race information at a racetrack will be described.

Conventionally, information on horse races held at a racetrack has been
It is provided to users by newspapers, TVs and radios, and by electronic bulletin boards installed in the facilities.

In recent years, a system using a mobile phone accessible to the Internet has been known. In this system, a user who carries a mobile phone that can access the Internet at a racetrack can dial out to a server of a provider dedicated to horse racing information, and can extract horse racing information.

[0005]

However, in a conventional system using a mobile phone that can access the Internet, the frequency band is narrow and the session is unstable, and the user needs information in consideration of the number of disconnections. There were practical problems such as sometimes not providing information immediately. In addition, since the information is provided by the user dialing up to the server of the horse racing information provider, access to the server is often impossible immediately before the start or the deadline of voting, and this is also a problem.

[0006] It is an object of the present invention to provide an information providing system in a public interest gambling facility which enables a long session for providing information at the public gambling facility and which can be accessed even immediately before the start or deadline of voting. It is in.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, a system and method according to the present invention are provided in a public gambling facility and provide an information providing server for holding information on public gambling held in the facility. A wireless modem according to a distance wireless data communication interface, a transmission line connecting the information providing server and the information providing server wireless modem, and a wireless modem carried by a user according to the short-range wireless data communication interface A portable information terminal for extracting public interest gambling information from the information providing server via the information providing server,
Information is transmitted / received to / from the portable information terminal via a wireless modem in accordance with a short-range wireless data communication interface.

[0008] According to the present invention, the user is a Bluetooth user.
In accordance with a short-range wireless data communication interface such as oth, the portable information terminal can withdraw public benefit gambling information from the information providing server via the wireless modem. It is possible to provide stable information transmission.

In addition, real-time provision of public interest gambling information is realized, and Bluetooth is being standardized on a global scale, and may be the most versatile method in the information infrastructure in the future. You can do it.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, an information providing system in a public interest gambling facility according to the present invention will be described as an example applied to a racetrack.

(First Embodiment) As shown in FIG. 1, an information providing system according to the present embodiment comprises an information providing server 10;
The wireless modem 20, the LAN cable 30, and a PDA (Personal Digit) which is a portable information terminal
al Assistans) 40.

The information providing server 10 is provided within a racetrack facility and is used to hold horse race information held at the facility, for example, odds information, release information, holding information, stats, jockey information,
Webt that holds owner information, horse information, training information, etc.
It is a data distribution type server constructed by the op technology and includes an authentication system for authenticating the accessible PDA 40.

The wireless modem 20 is a network device for establishing a session with the PDA 40 according to Bluetooth, which is a short-range wireless data communication interface.

Here, Bluetooth is a 2.4 GHz ISM that does not require a radio license in many countries.
(Industrial Scientific Me
(Digital) band as a carrier frequency.

The LAN cable 30 is connected to the information providing server 1
0 and the wireless modem 20,
For example, a twisted pair LAN cable of category 5 standard is laid to each base where the wireless modem 20 is installed in the racetrack facility.

The PDA 40 includes a CPU and a storage device according to Bluetooth, and has a standard OS (Op
The system is equipped with an operating system, and transmits and receives requested data such as horse race information from the information providing server 10 via the wireless modem 20 and stores the data. This PDA40
May be borrowed by a user or rented by a horse race organizer.

Next, the operation of the present embodiment configured as described above will be described with reference to FIG.

In FIG. 2, it is determined in step S1 whether or not it is a time to start providing information in the present system. If the time has come, the information providing server 10 and the wireless modem 20 are started in step S2. . If the start time has not been reached, a wait state is set.
As step S3 following step S2, the user P
Operates the PDA 40 to input request information.

In step S4, the PDA 40 transmits the Blu
The wireless modem 20 is detected within the communicable range in accordance with the etoh. If it can be detected, the process proceeds to step S5,
If the PDA 40 cannot be detected, a warning is given to the PDA 40 in step S6 that the wireless modem 20 does not exist in the communicable range, and the user P carrying the PDA 40 is prompted to move to the communicable range.

In step S5, the information providing server 10
When the PDA 40 is authenticated by the authentication system, the user logs in and searches for information corresponding to the data request of the PDA 40.

In step S7, the information providing server 10
Means odds information, release information, event information, stats,
Since the information other than the jockey information, the owner information, the horse information, the training information, etc. is not stored by itself, another server not shown (for example, the server included in the business system in FIG. 3) is inquired about the information being searched. Then, as a step S8, the search result is returned to the PDA 40 via the wireless modem 20. In this case, if personal information or the like is included in the information to be replied, SSL (Secure S.
(ockets layer) A treatment such as scrambling is applied.

In step S9, the PDA 40
The format of the received detection result is adjusted in accordance with the Bluetooth, displayed, etc., and provided to the user P. Then, as step S10, the PDA 40 logs out of the information providing server 10 and disconnects the session with the wireless modem 20.

Next, at step S11, it is determined whether or not it is the end time of the information provision. When it is determined that the end time is reached, at step S12, the information provision server 1 is determined.
0 and the wireless modem 20 are closed. If it is determined in step S11 that it is not the end time of the information provision, the process returns to step S3 and waits for the input of the request information of the PDA 40 from the user P.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, the user P
Can extract horse race holding information from the information providing server 10 to the PDA 40 via the wireless modem 20 according to Bluetooth, and can provide stable information transmission at any time instead of unstable transmission characteristics as in the related art. It becomes possible. Further, the immediate provision of the horse race holding information to the user P is realized.

Further, Bluetooth is being standardized on a global scale and can be the most versatile method in the future information infrastructure, so that it can be applied at low cost to information provision of racetracks.

(Second Embodiment) Next, an information providing system at a racetrack according to a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

This embodiment has a configuration in which the information providing system of FIG. 1 is connected to a normal racetrack business system.

The racetrack business system includes a transmission cable 50.
A database server 51, which is a network terminal,
The in-house information database 52, the business server 53, the business clients 54A and 54B, the business modem 55, and the business terminal 56 are connected.
0 and the LAN cable 30 are connected.

According to this configuration, the network terminal constituting the racetrack business system is connected to the information providing server 10, and the PDA 40 is connected via the wireless modem 20, so that the information providing server 10 holds the information. The information that has not been entered can be retrieved from the network terminals constituting the racetrack business system (step S7 in FIG. 2). In addition, it is possible to collect and transmit information such that information held in the information providing server 10 and information from the PDA 40 can be transmitted to a network terminal of the racetrack business system.

In the above embodiment, a horse race track has been exemplified, but the present invention can be applied to various public interest gambling facilities such as a bicycle race track, a boat race track, and an auto wrestling track.

[0031]

As described above, according to the present invention, a user can send public betting information to the portable information terminal from the information providing server via the wireless modem in accordance with a short-range wireless data communication interface such as Bluetooth. It is possible to provide stable information transmission at any time instead of unstable transmission characteristics as in the past, and real-time provision of public gambling information is realized, and Bluetooth is standardized on a global scale. It is possible to provide an information providing system and method in a public benefit gambling facility that can be applied to a public benefit gambling facility at low cost because it is becoming the most versatile method in the future information infrastructure.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing an information providing system in a racetrack according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation in the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram showing an information providing system in a racetrack according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Information provision server 20 Wireless modem 30 LAN cable 40 PDA 50 Transmission cable 51 Database server 52 In-house information database 53 Business server 54A, 54B Business client 55 Business modem 56 Business terminal

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. An information providing server provided at a public benefit gambling facility and holding information on a public benefit gambling held at the facility, a wireless modem according to a short-range wireless data communication interface, the information providing server, and the information providing server A transmission path for connecting to a wireless modem, and a portable information terminal carried by a user and for extracting public betting information from the information providing server via the wireless modem according to the short-range wireless data communication interface. An information providing system in a public interest gambling facility. 2. The information providing system according to claim 1, wherein the short-range wireless data communication interface is Bluetooth. 3. The transmission line is connected to a business system of the public interest gambling facility, and information is transmitted to a network terminal constituting the business system according to the short-range wireless data communication interface. 1. An information providing system in the public benefit gambling facility according to 1. 4. A wireless modem according to a short-range wireless data communication interface between an information providing server holding public interest betting information held at a public interest betting holding facility and a portable information terminal carried by a user. A method for providing information in a public benefit gambling facility, wherein the information is transmitted and received via the Internet.