JP2003164644A - Computation management system and computation management method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a computation management system, and a method enabling tied-up stores to attract a game player through repayment services wherein if the game player having a specified points purchases a specified article in a store tied up with a game parlor, a management center which manages game balls/medals in the game parlor, repays a specified repayment money to the player. <P>SOLUTION: A store information database 13 stores history information including information about an article that the player purchased in the store tied up with the game parlor, and information about service that the player received from the store. A point computation part 11 computes a repayment amount for repaying the player a part of an amount included in amount information based on the history information stored in the store information database 13. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a calculation management system and a calculation management method for calculating a charge incurred by managing a game hall and a store having a tie-up relationship with the game hall.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When a player acquires a game ball (pachinko ball), a host computer conventionally installed in a pachinko game hall records the number of the game balls acquired and the recorded game. The points corresponding to the number of balls were calculated, and the clerk at the game arcade exchanged a predetermined product desired by the player within the range of the calculated points.

Further, in order to expand the range of the above-mentioned prize exchange service at the amusement hall, instead of exchanging products corresponding to a predetermined point at the amusement hall, a predetermined point at an affiliated store affiliated with the amusement hall. We also offer a service for exchanging products corresponding to.

As a result, when exchanging a product corresponding to the acquired points, the player who has acquired the specified points displays not only the products displayed in the game hall but also the specified affiliated store. It is possible to exchange a product corresponding to the acquired points in consideration of the product.

[0005]

However, even if the player can receive the prize exchange service, the player simply exchanges the acquired points for a predetermined product. The amusement arcade that provides the prize exchange service without being overlooked has been required to develop a service to further enhance customer satisfaction.

On the other hand, the affiliated stores affiliated with the amusement hall are
In order to enhance the effect of attracting customers, when a product of a predetermined amount or more is purchased, a refund service for returning a part of the purchased amount is provided. However, even if the affiliated store independently provides the above-mentioned return service, the affiliated store must constantly advertise that the return service is being provided, and it is not possible to enhance the effect of attracting new customers.

[0007] However, the return service is based on the game ball / game medal managed by the affiliated store in which the affiliated store manages the game ball / game medal of the affiliated playground in a specific management center. If it is possible to do so, the affiliated store can provide a return service based on the game balls and game medals managed by the management center, so it is possible to attract customers of the amusement hall to its own store. Become.

Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the above points, and when a player having a predetermined point purchases a predetermined product at an affiliated store affiliated with the game hall, the game hall is The management center that manages the game balls and game medals of the above, based on the purchase price etc. of the products purchased at the affiliated store, depending on the number of the game balls and game medals of the player managed in its own center, the refund or refund By providing a refund service that calculates points and returns the calculated refund or refund points to the buyer, the player will purchase more products based on the refund or refund points returned from the management center As a result, the management center of the above affiliated stores will provide a return service, and by increasing the purchase will of the players, it is possible to further improve the effect of attracting customers. The technique's using the refunds or return point, further object of the present invention to provide a prize exchange system and the prize exchange method that can be purchased cheaper goods at the tie-up store.

[0009]

The invention according to the present application has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and the number of game balls or game medals acquired by a player at a game hall, the game balls, or Information relating to products purchased by the player from a store affiliated with the playground, and points relating to services received from the store by accumulating points corresponding to the number of the game medals. It is characterized in that history information including and is accumulated, and return points for returning a part of the points to the player are calculated based on the accumulated history information.

According to the invention of the present application, the management center for managing the game hall and the store collects a part of the points earned by the player at the game hall based on the accumulated history information. Since the return points to be returned to the player are calculated, the player is not limited to simply exchanging products corresponding to point information such as the number of game balls or game medals acquired at the game hall at a predetermined store, It will be possible to receive a refund service in which part of the points are returned based on the products purchased at a store that has a tie-up relationship with the amusement hall, and as a result, at the said affiliated store, through the above-mentioned return service, Players can be attracted, and sales of further stores can be increased.

Further, in the invention according to the present application, the management center includes, from the accumulated history information, the type of product purchased by the player from the store or the type of service received from the store. It is also possible to acquire type information and calculate the return points based on the acquired type information.

According to the invention of the present application, the management center calculates the return points to be returned to the player based on the type of the product purchased by the player at the predetermined store, etc. If you purchase many products at a given store, you can receive a return service that allows you to receive many return points from the management center.As a result, at a given store, you can further increase the sales of the store through the above return service. Can be raised.

Further, in the invention according to the present application, from the accumulated history information, store information including information on the store where the player purchased the product or the store where the player received the service. Is obtained, and the return points are calculated based on the acquired store information.

According to the invention of this application, the management center calculates the return points to be returned to the player based on the accumulated store information (for example, for a store that pays a large amount of management fee, Since many refunds will be calculated)
For example, the store pays a large amount of the management fee to the management center, so that the management center can calculate a large number of return points to be returned to the player, thereby further enhancing the customer attraction effect.

The invention according to the present application may transfer the amount of money corresponding to the calculated return points to the financial institution account of the player. In this case, the management center that has calculated the refund amount does not have to directly pay the player the amount of money corresponding to the calculated return points, and thus it is possible to enhance the safety when paying a predetermined amount to the player.

Further, the invention according to the present application is characterized in that a management cost generated by managing the game hall is calculated based on the number of the game balls or the game medals accumulated. But also. In this case, the management center can obtain the management fee from each game center by managing the number of game balls or game medals that the player has acquired from the game center, and each game center can acquire the game fee. It is not necessary to manage the number of game balls or game medals acquired by the player one by one, and the management burden can be reduced.

The invention according to the present application is also characterized in that the calculated management fee of the amusement hall is changed according to the number of members of the amusement hall. According to the invention of the present application, the management center can change the calculated management cost of the amusement hall according to the number of members of the amusement hall. If there are many, by lowering the administrative cost per player paid by the amusement center to each management center, each amusement center will work to reduce the management cost paid to the management center as much as possible, and promote advertising activities. Trying to increase the number of members through such means.

As a result, the stores affiliated with the game hall are
As the number of members in the amusement hall increases, more players can be attracted to the own store through the above-mentioned return service, and the sales in the store can be further increased.

The invention according to the present application may be one in which a management cost incurred by managing the store is calculated based on the accumulated type information. Also,
In the invention according to the present application, the calculated management fee of the store is changed according to the number of products purchased by the player from the store or the number of services received by the player from the store. It may be.

In this case, the management center can change the management fee charged to the store based on the product purchased by the player in the store, so that the player manages the refund money returned to him / herself. In order to receive more from the center, the motivation to purchase higher products increases, and as a result, the store further increases sales by increasing the motivation of purchase through the return service that fluctuates the above refund. Can be raised.

[0021]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION [Configuration of Calculation Management System] An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram showing a calculation management system according to this embodiment. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the internal configuration of the calculation management system according to this embodiment.

As shown in FIG. 1, the calculation management system according to this embodiment calculates and manages information regarding the number of game balls or game medals that a player has acquired at a game hall.
Calculation management center 1 that manages the hall terminals 1a to 1c, the game hall, and stores that are affiliated with the game hall.
0, the store terminals 20a to 20c for notifying the calculation management center 10 of information about the products purchased by the player or the services received, and a terminal for acquiring information such as return points calculated by the calculation management center 10 30a-3
0c and the financial department 40 for transferring the amount of money corresponding to the return points calculated by the calculation management center 10.

The hall terminal 1 notifies the calculation management center 10 of information relating to the number of game balls and game medals that the player has acquired at the game hall. In the present embodiment, FIG.
As shown in, a game ball / game medal counting unit 2, a confirmation unit 3, a hole management database 4, a communication unit 5,
The display unit 6, the hall management unit 7, and the input unit 8 are included.

The confirmation unit 3 confirms whether or not the player is a person who can use the calculation management system. Specifically, the player inputs, via the input unit 8, a game member ID indicating that he is a member of the game hall.
The input unit 8 to which the game member ID of the player is input outputs the input game member ID to the confirmation unit 3.

The confirmation unit 3 to which the gaming member ID is input from the input unit 8 confirms whether or not the inputted gaming member ID is accumulated in the hall management database 4, and as a result of confirmation,
When it is determined that the entered gaming member ID is stored in the hall management database 4, it is confirmed that the player is a person who can use the calculation management system.

On the other hand, the confirmation unit 3 is the game member ID entered
If it is determined that the player is not stored in the hall management database 4, it is recognized that the player cannot use the calculation management system, and the corresponding player is prevented from using the calculation management system. The use exclusion signal of is output to the hall management unit 7.

The hall managing unit 7 to which the usage exclusion signal is input from the confirmation unit 3 is based on the input usage exclusion signal.
Processing is performed to prevent the corresponding player from using the calculation management system. This process is, for example, game information (number of game balls, etc.) of the player to which the hall terminal 1 corresponds.
Is not transmitted to the calculation management center 10.

The game ball / game medal counting unit 2 counts game balls or game medals discharged by the player using the game machine. Here, the game balls include a pachinko ball discharged from a pachinko machine, and the game medals include medals discharged from a slot machine and the like. Examples of the game machine include a pachinko machine, a rotating-type game machine (for example, a slot machine), and a game machine installed in a game center.

The game ball / game ball medal counting section 2 counts the game balls or game medals acquired by the player,
The counting result is output to the hole management unit 7 as a count signal. The hall management unit 7 to which the count signal is input from the game ball / game medal counting unit 2 outputs the input count signal to the communication unit 5. This count signal is output to the management unit 18 via the communication unit 5 and the communication unit 14, and the management unit 18 to which the count signal is input indicates the number of game balls or game medals corresponding to the input count signal. Are stored in the hall information database 12.

The hall management database 4 is for accumulating game information about a game hall, and may be, for example, a hard disk or a dedicated machine for accumulating game information. Here, the game information includes a game member ID indicating an identifier of a player who can use the calculation management system, information regarding a fee paid to the calculation management center 10, and the like. The method of calculating the fee paid to the calculation management center 10 will be described in detail later in the "fee calculation section 17".

The display unit 6 displays the processing contents processed by the hall terminal 1. The input unit 8 is for inputting a game member ID of a player. The communication unit 5 is
It is for transmitting and receiving game information to and from the calculation management center 10. The hall management unit 7 controls the entire hall terminal 1.

The calculation management center 10 calculates a fee generated by managing a game hall and a store affiliated with the game hall. In the present embodiment, the point calculation unit 11 It has a hall information database 12, a store information database 13, a communication unit 14, a point information database 15, a management cost database 16, a fee calculation unit 17, and a management unit 18.

The communication unit 14 includes a hall terminal 1 and a store terminal 2.
0, the customer terminal 30, or the financial department 40 to send and receive data. The management unit 18 manages the entire calculation management center 10.

The hall management database 12 is an information storage means for storing the number of game balls or game medals acquired by the player at the game hall, and the points or amount information corresponding to the number of game balls or game medals. There is a hard disk, for example. In the present embodiment, the hole management database 12 stores the “hole management table” shown in FIG.

In this "hall management table", as shown in the figure, in the present embodiment, for example, a gaming member ID for identifying a player who can use the calculation management system.
(A001, a002, etc.), "calculation management ID" for identifying the hall terminal 1 in the calculation management center 10, "game ball or number of game medals" that the player has acquired at the game hall, game ball,
Or "amount (amount information)" corresponding to the number of game medals,
"Points back (%)" generated by ordering (purchasing) products at a predetermined store or ordering services at a predetermined store, "return amount" and "return points" returned to gaming members, etc. Contains hall information.

Here, of the "hall management table",
The “amount (amount information)” is calculated from the number of game balls and game medals, and in the present embodiment, for example, a value obtained by doubling the number of game balls and game medals can be mentioned. For example, when a player having a gaming member ID (a001) ejects 1000 game balls from the gaming machine, this player indicates the number of ejected game balls (1000) as shown in FIG. The doubled 2000 can be acquired as the "amount".

The store information database 13 stores a history record that stores history information including information about products purchased by a player from a store affiliated with the game hall and information about services the player received from the store. The information storage means is, for example, a hard disk or a dedicated machine for storing usage information. Store information database 13
In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 4, a “use information table” is stored.

As shown in the figure, in this "utilization information table", in the present embodiment, the serial number of the history information, the gaming member ID for identifying the player who can use the calculation management system, and the gaming member ID. A store with a player who has ordered (purchased) a predetermined product, or a "used store" that indicates a store that has received a predetermined service, and a product with a gaming member ID ordered (purchased) at a predetermined store Or, it corresponds to "ordered products" (eg, hamburger set meal, breakfast set, fried set, etc.) (or "ordered service") or "ordered products" (or "ordered service") indicating the service received from a predetermined store "Amount" indicating the amount to be played, gaming member ID
A player with a product (or service) at a predetermined store
The history information (or store information) such as “date and time of use” indicating the date and time of ordering is included.

The point information database 15 may be, for example, a hard disk or a dedicated machine for storing point back information. As shown in FIG. 5, the point-back information database 15 stores a “point-back information table” in this embodiment.

In this "pointback information table", as shown in the figure, "use store" indicating the store where the player having the gaming member ID ordered a predetermined product (or service), gaming member ID "Ordered product" (or order service) indicating the product ordered (purchased) by the owning player at the specified store or the service received from the specified store, ordered product (or order service) ordered at a certain store "Number of orders" indicating the number of ",""gaming member ID" that identifies the gaming member who ordered the prescribed product (or service), refund points to return the prescribed points to the player or the amount of refund to return the prescribed amount It has "point back (%)" which shows the return rate of. Further, the “ordered product” or the “ordered service” also means type information including the type of product purchased by the player from the store or the type of service received from the store.

Here, the "point back" is a refund point or amount to be returned to the player based on the product ordered by the player at the predetermined store or the service ordered by the player at the predetermined store. It means the return rate for calculation. Specifically, in the present embodiment, the return rate is changed according to the number of orders that the player has ordered a predetermined product (or service) at a predetermined store. The return rate will be described in detail in the point calculator 11. In addition, in the present embodiment, the amount of money to be returned is the amount of money equivalent to the game ball / game medal that the player has acquired at the game hall (“in FIG. 3”).
It means the amount of money multiplied by the refund rate.

The above-mentioned "pointback information table"
Shows that the "use information table" shown in FIG. 5 is stored for each "use store". As a result, the calculation management center 10 can calculate the point back for each “used store” or for each “ordered product” (or order service) ordered at the used store.

The management cost database 16 stores a management cost table for calculating a management cost generated by managing a game arcade and stores affiliated with the game arcade, for example, a hard disk. , A dedicated machine that stores information related to management costs. In this embodiment, the management cost database 16 stores "management cost table 1", "management cost table 2", etc., as shown in FIG.

In the present embodiment, the "management cost table 1" is, for example, a "management cost unit price" indicating the basic management cost per game ball / game medal, as shown in FIG. It includes "number of members" and "discount rate" for changing the "unit cost". In addition, "Management fee table 1" is
It is a table for calculating the management cost in one hall terminal 1 (or one game hall).

For example, if the number of game balls / game medals discharged from the hall terminal 1a is 1000 and the number of players registered in the hall terminal 1a is 50, the calculation management center 10 The management fee received from the amusement hall is based on the correspondence table in the figure, basic unit price 1 yen x number of members 50 x discount rate 0.985 x number of game balls / game medals 1000
Sheet = 49250 yen.

In the present embodiment, the "management cost table 2" indicates the basic management cost corresponding to, for example, one order for one product (or one order for one service), as shown in FIG. It includes "unit cost of management", "number of orders" and "discount rate" for varying the "unit cost of management". Using these "management cost table 1" and "management cost table 2", the calculation method of the management cost charged to the game hall or store is as follows:
This will be described in detail later in "Fee calculation unit 17".

The point calculation unit 11 is a first calculation means for calculating return points for returning a part of the points to the player, based on the history information accumulated in the store information database 13. In addition, the point calculation unit 11 selects from the history information accumulated in the store information database 13,
It is also a first calculating means for acquiring type information including the type of product purchased by the player from the store or the type of service received from the store, and calculating return points based on the type information acquired.

Further, the point calculation unit 11 stores the store information including information about the store where the player purchased the product or the store where the player received the service from the history information stored in the store information database 13. Is also the first calculation means for calculating the return points based on the acquired store information. Specifically, the point calculation unit 11
For example, from the “pointback information table” shown in FIG. 5, the “order quantity” of the ordered product (type information) for each store is acquired, and the “pointback” is calculated from the acquired “order quantity”. To do. That is, as shown in FIG. 5, when the player orders the hamburger set at the A store, the point calculation unit 11 determines that the cumulative number of orders for the hamburger set at the A store is “2”. Therefore, the point back can be set to “3.0%” by the correspondence table of the “conversion table” shown in FIG. 7. The “conversion table” is stored in the point information database 15.

Similarly, as shown in FIG. 5, when the player orders the deep-fried chicken set at the B store, the point calculation unit 11 determines that the cumulative number of orders of the deep-fried chicken set so far is " 1 ", so the" conversion table "shown in FIG.
The point back can be set to "3.0%" by the correspondence table of.

The point calculation unit 11 can further change the calculated point back for each store.
For example, when the store pays the management fee paid to the calculation management center 10 more than usual, the point calculation unit 11
Increases the calculated point back (1.5 times, etc.).

From these, the point calculation unit 11 calculates a point back for each product ordered for each store (for example, A store, B store) (for example, ordered product "hamburger set" at A store). The point back can be changed according to each store.

Based on the above, the point calculation unit 11 which has calculated the point back calculates the return points and the amount of money to be returned to the customer based on the calculated point back. In the present embodiment, the refund amount is obtained by multiplying the point amount calculated by the point calculation unit 11 by the “amount” accumulated in the hall information database 12. Further, in the present embodiment, the return points are obtained by multiplying the point back calculated by the point calculation unit 11 by the “number of game balls or game medals” accumulated in the hall information database 12.

Here, the point corresponding to the number of game balls or game medals means the number of game balls or game medals in this embodiment. Point calculator 11
Accumulates the calculated refund amount and refund points in the hall information database 12 (“hall management table” in FIG. 3)
The "return amount" and "return points" in the above) are output to the management unit 18 as a return calculated signal indicating that the return amount and the return points have been calculated. The calculation management center 10 can return to the player either the refund money or the return points calculated by the point calculator 11, or both.

The management unit 18 to which the return calculation completed signal is input from the point calculation unit 11 causes the input return calculation completed signal to pass through the communication unit 14 and the communication unit 31, and the customer terminal 30.
And the financial department 40.

The fee calculation unit 17 is a second calculation means for calculating the management cost generated by managing the game hall based on the number of game balls or game medals accumulated in the hall information database 11. . In addition, the fee calculation unit 17 is also a second calculation unit that changes the calculated management fee of the game hall according to the number of members of the game hall.

Specifically, the fee calculation unit 17 refers to the “management cost table 1” and the “management cost table 2” stored in the management cost database 16 based on the command from the management unit 18, and Calculate the management fee charged to the amusement hall and each store.

For the management fee charged to the amusement hall, the fee calculation unit 17 acquires the hall information managed for each store from the hall information database 12, and based on the acquired hall information, refer to the correspondence table of FIG. And calculate.

For example, as shown in FIG. 8, the hall terminal 1
Hall information about a is 50 members, 100,000 game balls and medals, and management unit price 0.9 including discount.
08 (see FIG. 6), the fee calculation unit 17
The management fee that the calculation management center 10 receives from the game hall,
Basic unit price 1 yen x number of game balls / game medals 100,000 x
The discount rate is set to 0.908 = 90800 yen, and the calculation management center 10 charges the game center for the calculated management cost of 90800 yen.

The fee calculation unit 17 calculates a management cost generated by managing the store based on the type information (for example, "order product""orderservice") accumulated in the store information database 13. It is also a calculation means. In addition, the fee calculation unit 17 is also a third calculating unit that changes the calculated store management cost according to the number of products purchased by the player from the store or the number of services the player has received from the store. .

Specifically, as shown in FIG. 8, the history information about the store A is the number of orders 70 for a certain product.
(For example, if the number of rice ball orders is 70) and the discount is 0.983 (see FIG. 6) according to the number of orders, the fee calculation unit 17 determines that the management fee received by the calculation management center 10 from the A store is as described above. Therefore, the basic unit price is 10 yen x the number of orders 70 x the discount according to the number of orders 0.983 = 668.1, and the calculation management center 10 sets the calculated management cost 668.1 yen as A.
Charge the store. At this time, the fee calculation unit 17 changes the calculated management cost according to the type of product (for example, 1.5
It can also be doubled.

The fee calculation unit 17, which has calculated the management fee charged to the amusement hall or the management fee charged to the store, accumulates the calculated management fees in the management expense database 16 and manages the management fees at the game hall or the store. A management-calculated signal indicating that the cost has been calculated is output to the management unit 18. The management unit 18 to which the management-calculated signal is input from the fee calculation unit 17 causes the input management-calculated signal to pass through the communication unit 14 and the communication unit 5 or the communication unit 21, and the hall terminal 1 or the store terminal. The management fee that the calculation management center 10 receives from the A store, which is notified to 20, is calculated for each product from the above, and the fee calculation unit 17 calculates the management cost for each product and calculates the calculated product. The management cost for each (or service) is accumulated to calculate the total management cost.

The store terminal 20 sends and receives data to and from the calculation management center 10. In the present embodiment, the communication section 21, the operation section 22, the reading section 23,
It has a display unit 24 and a store management unit 25. The communication unit 21 sends and receives data to and from the calculation management center 10. The operation unit 22 is for inputting information about products or customers.

For example, a salesclerk of a store is a customer
If you have purchased, enter information such as the customer who purchased the product and the purchased product. In addition, these information are read by the reading unit 2.
It may be input through the No. 3.

The display section 24 displays the contents processed by the shop terminal 20. Specifically, the communication unit 2
The store management unit 25 to which the management-calculated signal is input from 1
Based on the input management-calculated signal, the display unit 24 displays the management cost corresponding to the management-calculated signal.

The customer terminal 30 refers to the amount of money to be returned or the return points calculated by the calculation management center 10. In this embodiment, the communication unit 31 and the display unit 32 are used.
And a customer management unit 33. The communication unit 31 transmits / receives data to / from the calculation management center 10. The display unit 32 displays the contents processed inside the customer terminal 30.

Specifically, the customer management unit 33 to which the management calculation completed signal is input from the communication unit 31 displays the management expense corresponding to the management calculation completed signal on the display unit based on the input management calculation completed signal. 32 to display. Further, the customer management unit 33, to which the return calculation completed signal is input from the communication unit 31, causes the display unit 32 to display the return amount corresponding to the return calculation completed signal based on the input return calculation completed signal.

The financial unit 40 is a transfer means for transferring the amount of money (return amount) corresponding to the return points calculated by the point calculation unit 11 to the corresponding financial institution account of the player.
Specifically, the finance unit 40 to which the return calculation completed signal is input from the communication unit 14 transfers the return amount corresponding to the return calculation completed signal to a predetermined financial institution account based on the input return calculation completed signal. .

(Calculation Management Method Using Calculation Management System) The calculation management method by the calculation management system having the above configuration can be implemented by the following procedure. Figure 9
FIG. 6 is a flow chart showing a procedure of a calculation management method according to the present embodiment.

As shown in the figure, first, the input section 8 performs the step of reading the game member ID of the player (S10).
1). Specifically, the player inputs the gaming member ID indicating that he is a member of the gaming hall 1 through the input unit 8. The input unit 8 to which the game member ID of the player is input outputs the input game member ID to the confirmation unit 3.

Next, the confirmation unit 3 carries out a step of confirming whether the gaming member ID read by the input unit 8 is proper (S102). Specifically, the input unit 8
The confirmation unit 3 to which the gaming member ID is input confirms whether or not the input gaming member ID is stored in the hall management database 4, and as a result of the confirmation, the input gaming member ID
When it is determined that the information is stored in the hall management database 4, it is confirmed that the player is a person who can use the calculation management system.

On the other hand, the confirmation section 3 determines the entered game member ID.
If it is determined that the player is not stored in the hall management database 4, it is recognized that the player cannot use the calculation management system, and the corresponding player is prevented from using the calculation management system. The use exclusion signal of is output to the hall management unit 7.

Then, the hall management unit 7 to which the usage exclusion signal is input from the confirmation unit 3 performs processing for preventing the corresponding player from using the calculation management system based on the input usage exclusion signal. To do. In this processing, for example, the hall terminal 1 does not transmit the game information (the number of game balls or the like) of the corresponding player to the calculation management center 10.

After that, the game ball / game ball medal counting unit 2 counts the game balls or game medals acquired by the player, and outputs the counted result to the hole management unit 7 as a count signal. The hall management unit 7 to which the count signal is input from the game ball / game medal counting unit 2 is
The input count signal is output to the communication unit 5. The count signal is output to the management unit 18 via the communication unit 5 and the communication unit 14, and the management unit 18 to which the count signal is input.
Stores the number of game balls or game medals corresponding to the input count signal in the hole information database 12.

Next, the point calculation unit 11 performs a step of calculating return points to be returned to the player (S10).
3). Specifically, the point calculation unit 11 includes the management unit 18
From the “pointback information table” shown in FIG. 5, for example, the “order number” of the ordered product (type information) for each store is acquired by the command from the To calculate.

That is, as shown in FIG. 5, when the player orders the hamburger set at the A store, the point calculation unit 11 determines the cumulative number of orders of the hamburger set at the A store to date. Since it is “two”, the point back is set to “according to the conversion table” shown in FIG.
It can be 3.0% ".

Similarly, as shown in FIG. 5, when the player orders the fried chicken set at the B store, the point calculation unit 11 determines that the cumulative number of orders of the fried chicken set to date is " 1 ", so the" conversion table "shown in FIG.
The point back can be set to "3.0%" by the correspondence table of.

The point calculation unit 11 can further change the calculated point back for each store.
For example, when the store pays the management fee paid to the calculation management center 10 more than usual, the point calculation unit 11
Increases the calculated point back (1.5 times, etc.).

From these, the point calculation unit 11 calculates the point back for each product ordered for each store (for example, A store, B store) (for example, ordered product "hamburger set" at A store). The point back can be changed according to each store.

After that, the point calculation unit 11 which calculated the point back, based on the calculated point back,
Calculate the refund amount to convert to a customer. This refund amount is
In the present embodiment, the point back calculated by the point calculation unit 11 is multiplied by the “amount” accumulated in the hall information database 12. Point calculator 1
1 is that the calculated return amount and return points are accumulated in the hall information database 12 (where “return amount” and “return point” in the “hall management table” of FIG. 3) and the return amount and return points are calculated. Is output to the management unit 18 as a return-computed signal.

Then, the management unit 18 to which the return calculation completed signal is input from the point calculation unit 11 causes the input return calculation completed signal to pass through the communication unit 14 and the communication unit 31, and the customer terminal 30 and the financial unit 40. To notify.

Next, the financial department 40 makes the point calculation part 11
Amount equivalent to the refund points calculated in (return amount)
Is transferred to the financial institution account of the corresponding player (S104). Specifically, the finance unit 40 to which the return calculation completed signal is input from the communication unit 14 transfers the return amount corresponding to the return calculation completed signal to a predetermined account based on the input return calculation completed signal. The customer management unit 33, to which the return calculation completed signal is input from the communication unit 31, causes the display unit 32 to display the return amount corresponding to the return calculation completed signal based on the input return calculation completed signal.

Then, the fee calculation unit 17 performs a step of calculating the management fee of the game hall and the store (S105). Specifically, the fee calculation unit 17 is instructed by the management unit 18 based on the command from the management unit 18 to store “management cost table 1” in the management cost database 16.
The management fee charged to each game hall and each store is calculated with reference to the “management fee table 2”.

For the management fee charged to the amusement hall, the fee calculation section 17 obtains the hall information managed for each store from the hall information database 12, and based on the obtained hall information, refer to the correspondence table of FIG. And calculate.

For example, as shown in FIG. 8, the hall terminal 1
Hall information about a is 50 members, 100,000 game balls and medals, and management unit price 0.9 including discount.
08 (see FIG. 6), the fee calculation unit 17
The management fee that the calculation management center 10 receives from the game hall,
Basic unit price 1 yen x number of game balls / game medals 100,000 x
The discount rate is set to 0.908 = 90800 yen, and the calculation management center 10 charges the game center for the calculated management cost of 90800 yen.

The calculation management center 10 may make a request to the game arcade by using the financial department 40 to have the manager of the game arcade transfer the money to a predetermined financial institution account. .

Further, as shown in FIG. 8, the history information about the store A is the number of orders 70 for a certain product (for example, the number of rice ball orders is 70), and a discount 0.983 according to the number of orders (FIG. 6)), the fee calculation unit 1
7, the management fee received from the store A by the calculation management center 10 is the basic unit price 10 yen × the number of orders 70 × a discount 0.983 = 668.1 according to the number of orders, and the calculation management center 10 calculates The invoiced management fee of 668.1 yen is charged to the A store. At this time, the fee calculation unit 17 can vary (for example, 1.5 times) the calculated management cost according to the type of product.

The fee calculation unit 17 which has calculated the management fee charged to this game hall or the management fee charged to the store accumulates the calculated management fees in the management expense database 16 and also at each of the game hall or the store. A management-calculated signal indicating that the management cost has been calculated is output to the management unit 18. Management unit 18 to which the management calculated signal is input from the fee calculation unit 17
Notifies the hall management terminal 1 or the shop terminal 20 of the input management-calculated signal via the communication unit 14, the communication unit 5, and the communication unit 21.

The store management unit 25 to which the management-calculated signal is input from the communication unit 21 causes the display unit 24 to display the management cost corresponding to the management-calculated signal based on the input management-calculated signal. After that, the store manager pays the management fee to the calculation management center 10 based on the management fee displayed on the display unit 24.

Further, the hall terminal 1 to which the management-calculated signal is input from the communication unit 5 causes the display unit 6 to display the management cost corresponding to the management-calculated signal, based on the input management-calculated signal. After that, the manager of the game hall pays the management fee to the calculation management center 10 based on the management fee displayed on the display unit 6. The management fee paid by the managers of the game arcade and the store may be transferred to the financial institution account of the calculation management center 10 through the financial department 40.

The management fee received from the store A by the calculation management center 10 is calculated for each product as described above, and the fee calculation unit 17 calculates the management fee for each product and calculates the calculated product. The management cost for each (or service) is accumulated to calculate the total management cost. Then, the calculation management center 10 sets the total management cost calculated by the fee calculation unit 17 to A
Charge the store.

[Operation and Effect of Calculation Management System and Calculation Management Method] According to the calculation management system and calculation management method of this embodiment, the point calculation unit 1
Based on the history information accumulated in the store information database 13, 1 returns a part of the amount of money corresponding to the points earned by the player at the game hall to the player, or a part of the points. Return points to be returned to the player are returned to the player, so the player simply exchanges the items equivalent to points such as the number of game balls or game medals acquired at the game hall at a predetermined store. Instead, you will also be able to receive a refund service in which part of the point or the amount of money equivalent to the point is returned based on the product purchased at a store that has a tie-up with the amusement hall, and you will be able to use the returned point or amount Moreover, the product can be purchased cheaply.

Furthermore, as a result, at the affiliated store, the player can purchase the product by using the return points or the refund money from the above, so that the player of the game arcade having the tie-up relationship can enjoy the return service. Can attract customers to its own store, and increase sales at further stores.

Further, since the point calculation unit 11 calculates the amount of money to be returned to the player or the return points based on the type of merchandise purchased by the player at a predetermined store, for example, the player , If you purchase many products at a predetermined store, you can get a refund service that you can receive a large amount of refund amount or points from the management center, which increases the willingness to purchase products at the store, resulting in Therefore, at a predetermined store, the sales of the store can be further increased through the above-mentioned return service.

Further, the point calculation unit 11 calculates the amount of refund or points to be returned to the player based on the accumulated store information (for example, in a store that pays a large amount of management fee, a large amount of refund to the player). Is calculated), the store
For example, by paying a large amount of management fees to the calculation management center 10, the calculation management center 10 can calculate a large amount of money or points to be returned to the player, thereby further increasing the customer attraction rate at the store.

Further, the financial department 40 uses the point calculation part 11
The refund amount calculated in step 1 is transferred to the player's financial institution account, and the calculation management center 10 does not have to directly pay the player the refund amount calculated by the point calculator 11 through the finance part 40. It is possible to enhance the safety when paying a predetermined amount to a person.

Further, the fee calculation unit 17 can acquire the management cost from each game hall by managing the number of game balls or game medals that the player has acquired from the game hall, and at the same time each game hall. Is not required to manage the number of game balls or game medals acquired by the player one by one, and the management burden can be reduced.

In addition, since the fee calculation unit 17 can change the calculated management cost of the amusement hall according to the number of members of the amusement hall, for example, the calculation management center 10 can calculate the number of members in the amusement hall. If there are many, by lowering the management cost per player, each game hall will have more members through advertising activities etc. to increase the number of members and reduce the management cost paid to the management center. Try to increase the number of members.

As a result, the stores affiliated with the game hall are
As the number of members in the amusement hall increases, more players can be attracted to the own store, and sales in the store can be increased.

Finally, the fee calculation unit 17 can change the management fee charged to the store based on the product etc. purchased by the player at the store, so that the player can return the refund money to himself. In order to receive a lot of
Increased willingness to purchase higher priced products,
As a result, at the store, sales can be further increased by increasing the player's willingness to purchase through the return service in which the return money is changed.

[0100]

As described above, according to the calculation management system and the calculation management method of the present invention, when a player having a predetermined point purchases a predetermined product at an affiliated store affiliated with the game hall. The management center that manages game balls and game medals at the amusement center determines the number of game balls and game medals of the player managed at its own center from the purchase price of products purchased at affiliated stores. The player is returned from the management center by calculating the return points (or return amount) to be returned to the player and providing the return service to return the calculated return points (or return amount) to the player. Based on the refund points (or the amount of refund), there is a growing willingness to purchase products, and the management center of the above affiliated stores will provide a refund service to increase the player's willingness to purchase. It is possible to improve further attract customers effect by, the player is using the return point (or return amount of money), it is possible to buy further cheap goods in the tie-up store.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall conceptual diagram of a calculation management system according to this embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a calculation management system according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the contents of a “hole management table” stored in a hole information database according to this embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the contents of a “use information table” stored in a store information database according to this embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the contents of a “pointback information table” stored in a point information database according to this embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the contents of a “management cost table 1” and a “management cost table 2” stored in a management cost database according to this embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing the contents of a “conversion table” stored in a point information database according to this embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing calculation elements for a management fee to be calculated by the fee calculation unit in the present embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing a procedure of a calculation management method according to this embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Hall terminal, 2 ... Game ball / game medal counting section,
3 ... Confirmation unit, 4 ... Hall management database, 5 ... Communication unit, 6 ... Display unit, 7 ... Hall management unit, 8 ... Input unit, 10
... Calculation management center, 11 ... Point calculation unit, 12 ... Hall information database, 13 ... Store information database,
14 ... Communication unit, 15 ... Point information database, 16
... management fee database, 17 ... fee calculation section, 18 ... management section, 20 ... store terminal, 21 ... communication section, 22 ... operation section,
23 ... reading unit, 24 ... display unit, 25 ... store management unit,
30 ... Customer terminal, 31 ... Communication unit, 32 ... Display unit, 33 ...
Customer management department, 40 ... Finance department, 50 ... Communication network

   ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continued front page    (72) Inventor Kazuo Okada             25, Ariake 3-1, Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo             Frontier building (72) Inventor Jun Fujimoto             25, Ariake 3-1, Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo             Frontier building (72) Inventor Masayuki Nonaka             25, Ariake 3-1, Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo             Frontier building F-term (reference) 2C088 BB01 BB07 BB32 BC80 CA31                       CA35 EA49

Claims (16)

[Claims] 1. Information accumulating means for accumulating the number of game balls or game medals that a player has acquired at a game hall, and points corresponding to the number of the game balls or the game medals, and the player having the game. History information storage means for storing history information including a history of products purchased from a store that is affiliated with the venue and a history of services received by the player from the store, and the history information storage means. A calculation management system comprising: first calculation means for calculating a return point for returning a part of the points to the player based on the accumulated history information. 2. The calculation management system according to claim 1, wherein the history information includes a history of products purchased from the store and a history of services received from the store. The calculation means acquires, from the history information stored in the history information storage means, type information including the type of product purchased by the player from the store or the type of service received from the store. A calculation management system, wherein the return point is calculated based on the acquired type information. 3. The calculation management system according to claim 1, wherein the history information includes a history of products purchased from the store and a history of services received from the store, The calculating means obtains store information including information about the store from which the player purchased the product or the store from which the player received the service from the history information accumulated in the history information accumulating means. A calculation management system, wherein the return point is calculated based on the acquired store information. 4. The calculation management system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein an amount of money corresponding to the return points calculated by the first calculating means is stored in a financial institution account of the player. A management system having a transfer means for transfer. 5. The calculation management system according to claim 1, wherein a management cost required for managing the game hall is calculated based on the number of the game balls or the game medals accumulated in the information accumulating means. A calculation management system having a second calculating means for calculating. 6. The calculation management system according to claim 5, wherein the second calculation means changes the calculated management cost required for managing the game hall according to the number of members of the game hall. A calculation management system characterized by the above. 7. The calculation management system according to claim 2, wherein a management cost required to manage the store is calculated based on the type information stored in the history information storage unit. A calculation management system comprising: 8. The calculation management system according to claim 7, wherein the third calculation means calculates the management cost required to manage the store for a product purchased by the player from the store. A calculation management system, which is varied according to the number of services received by the player from the store. 9. A step of accumulating the number of game balls or game medals that the player has acquired in the game hall and points corresponding to the number of the game balls or the game medals, the player being the game hall. A step of accumulating history information including a history of products purchased from a store affiliated with the store and a history of services received from the store, and one of the accumulated points based on the accumulated history information. And a step of calculating return points for returning a part to the player. 10. The calculation management method according to claim 9, wherein the history information includes a history of products purchased from the store and a history of services received from the store, which are accumulated. From the history information that is present, the player obtains type information including the type of product purchased from the store or the type of service received from the store, and based on the obtained type information, the return point A calculation management method comprising the step of calculating. 11. The calculation management method according to claim 9, wherein the history information includes a history of products purchased from the store and a history of services received from the store, which are accumulated. From the history information that is present, the player acquires a store history including a history of the store where the player purchased the product, or the store where the player received a service, and based on the obtained store information, A calculation management method comprising a step of calculating return points. 12. The calculation management method according to claim 9, further comprising a step of transferring an amount of money corresponding to the calculated return points to a financial institution account of the player. A characteristic calculation management method. 13. The calculation management method according to claim 9, further comprising a step of calculating a management cost required for management of the game arcade, based on the number of accumulated game balls or game medals. A calculation management method characterized by the above. 14. The calculation management method according to claim 13, further comprising the step of varying the calculated management cost required for managing the game hall according to the number of members of the game hall. Calculation management system to do. 15. The calculation management method according to claim 10, further comprising a step of calculating a management cost required to manage the store based on the accumulated type information. Method. 16. The calculation management method according to claim 15, wherein the calculated management cost required for managing the store is calculated based on the number of products purchased by the player from the store, or by the player. A calculation management method comprising a step of varying the number of services received from the store.