JP2010086320A - Public lottery sales system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To propose a public lottery sales system remarkably improving safety. <P>SOLUTION: A public lottery sales proxy server performing sales proxy of a public lottery stores a public lottery number issued from a public lottery sales server performing sales of the public lottery associatively with a user ID and a purchase password imparted from a communication terminal together with a public lottery purchase request. The public lottery sales server requests the public lottery sales proxy server to collate the user ID of a corresponding user read from the communication terminal by a terminal communication means and the purchase password inputted by the user, and executes payment processing for paying winning money of the public lottery to the user when a collation result wherein both the user ID and the purchase password accord is obtained. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a lottery ticket sales system, and is suitable for application to a lottery ticket sales system in which a lottery ticket can be purchased using a mobile phone, for example.

  Conventionally, lottery tickets are sold at lottery counters installed in downtown areas, stations, shopping centers, etc. by banks or the like commissioned by local governments.

In recent years, a system that can purchase a lottery ticket using a personal computer or a mobile phone has been proposed and put into practical use, and it has become possible to purchase a lottery ticket without going to the lottery counter (patents). Reference 1 and Patent Document 2).
JP 2002-32515 A JP 2001-236458 A

  By the way, when a lottery ticket is purchased using a mobile phone as described above, it is highly convenient for a lottery purchaser if the winning can be received using the mobile phone. Conceivable.

  However, even in this case, it is necessary to enhance security so that the winning of the lottery ticket is not illegally received by a third party.

  The present invention has been made in consideration of the above points, and intends to propose a lottery ticket sales system capable of significantly improving safety.

  In order to solve such a problem, in the present invention, in response to a lottery sales request, a lottery sales server that issues a lottery number for a specified number of lotteries, and the lottery sales request in response to a lottery purchase request given from the outside. A lottery ticket agency server that stores the lottery number issued from the lottery ticket sales server in response to the lottery ticket sales request and stored on the user side, and stores the user ID of the corresponding user. A communication terminal that transmits the lottery purchase request to the sales agent server together with the user ID and a purchase password designated by the user in response to a user operation, and the user ID of the corresponding user is read from the communication terminal, and the lottery ticket And a terminal communication means for transmitting to the sales server, wherein the lottery ticket agency server is the lottery ticket sales server. The lottery number issued from the corresponding communication terminal is stored in association with the user ID and the purchase password given together with the lottery purchase request from the corresponding communication terminal, and the lottery sale server uses the terminal communication means to The lottery sales agent server is requested to collate the corresponding user ID read from the communication terminal with the purchase password input by the user, and the user ID and the purchase password match. When a result is obtained, a payment process for paying the user a lottery winning is executed.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to reliably prevent a third party from illegally receiving a winning, and to realize a lottery selling system in which only a legitimate user can safely receive a winning lottery. it can. In this way, it is possible to realize a lottery ticket sales system that can significantly improve safety.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

(1) Configuration of Lottery Sales System According to the Present Embodiment In FIG. 1, 1 indicates a lottery sales system according to the present embodiment as a whole. The lottery ticket sales system 1 includes a lottery ticket sales proxy server 2, a lottery ticket sales server 3, a winning confirmation terminal 4, a non-contact IC communication platform providing server 5, a settlement server 6, a storage proxy server 7, and the like.

  The lottery sales agent server 2 is a server installed by a business operator that provides a lottery sales agent service (hereinafter referred to as a lottery sales agent business operator). As shown in FIG. 2, a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 10) A memory 11 storing various control programs and a hard disk device 12 storing various application software. The hard disk device 12 stores a lottery ticket agency service application 13 for providing a user with a lottery ticket agency service, which will be described later, and the CPU 10 executes necessary processes based on the lottery ticket agency application 13. The lottery sales agency server 2 as a whole can execute a series of processes as described below.

  The lottery sales agency server 2 is connected to a mobile phone communication network 23 including a switching station 21 and a base station 22 via a network 20 including an Internet network, and thus the mobile phone communication network 23. Necessary data can be exchanged with the mobile phone 24 that has been accessed via the Internet.

  The lottery sales server 3 is installed by a business operator such as a bank (hereinafter referred to as a “lottery sales consignment business operator”) that has been entrusted with sales of a lottery ticket from a local government. The lottery ticket sales server 4 is a lottery ticket number assigned for Internet sales to several lottery ticket counters that are well-known among the lottery ticket counters in Japan (hereinafter referred to as a lottery ticket number). Is managing the scope of When the lottery ticket sales server 3 receives a lottery ticket purchase request designating the lottery ticket office from the lottery ticket agency server 2, the lottery ticket sales server 3 determines the number of lottery tickets specified from the lottery ticket numbers assigned to the lottery ticket counter. The lottery number is issued to the lottery sales agency server 2.

  The winning confirmation terminal 4 is installed in each store (head office and each branch) of the lottery sales consignment company. The winning confirmation terminal 4 includes a non-contact IC card reader / writer conforming to a non-contact IC (Integrated Circuit) communication standard such as Felica (registered trademark), for example, and a mobile phone 24 equipped with the non-contact IC card. In the case where the user is deceived, the information recorded in the non-contact IC card of the mobile phone 24 is read out and transmitted to the lottery ticket sales server 3, while the information transmitted from the lottery ticket sales server 3 is not contacted with the mobile phone 24 It can be written on an IC card.

  The non-contact IC communication platform providing server 5 is a server installed by a provider that provides a non-contact IC communication platform providing service (hereinafter referred to as a non-contact IC communication platform provider). 23 distributes software necessary for receiving a lottery ticketing agency service as described below to the mobile phone 24 accessed via the mobile phone 23, or applies to a non-contact IC card mounted on the mobile phone 24 Make various settings necessary to receive the lottery sales agency service.

  The settlement server 6 is a server installed by a credit sales company and executes card settlement processing in response to a request from the lottery sales agency server 2. The storage agent server 7 is a storage agent server installed at the headquarters of a convenience chain, and stores settlement information transmitted from a POS (Point Of Sale) terminal 8 installed at each convenience store of the franchise chain. ·to manage.

(2) Lottery sales agency service Next, the lottery sales agency service provided by the lottery sales agency service company according to the present embodiment will be described.

  In the present lottery selling agency system 1, one of the features is that the user can purchase a lottery ticket and receive a winning prize using his / her mobile phone 24, and when the user receives the winning prize, An ID number held by the non-contact IC communication function of the mobile phone 24 (that is, set in the non-contact IC card mounted on the mobile phone 24) and a password stored by the person (hereinafter referred to as a purchase password) The other feature is that identity verification is performed by using the above method.

  In practice, in the case of this lottery sales agency system 1, as shown in FIG. 3, a user who wishes to purchase a lottery can use his / her mobile phone 24 equipped with a non-contact IC communication function such as Felica (registered trademark). The contactless IC communication platform provider's contactless IC communication platform providing server 5 is accessed to download necessary application software (hereinafter referred to as a lottery purchase application) (SP1, SP2), and the downloaded lottery purchase application is downloaded. Is installed in the mobile phone 24 (SP3). At this time, the mobile phone 24 is given a user ID for non-contact IC communication by the non-contact IC communication platform providing server 5 and is set in the non-contact IC card of the mobile phone 24.

  Thereafter, as will be described later, an encryption / decryption key necessary for performing contactless IC communication between the mobile phone 24 and the winning confirmation terminal 4 is also transferred from the contactless IC communication platform providing server 5 to the mobile phone 24. Downloaded (SP3, SP4).

  On the other hand, after that, the user activates the lottery purchase application to access the lottery sales agency server 2 and pays the password and the winning money using a predetermined user registration screen displayed on the mobile phone 24 at this time. Necessary items such as the name of the financial institution and the account number are registered (SP6, SP7). At this time, the user ID stored in the non-contact IC card in the mobile phone 24 is read out by the lottery purchase application and transmitted to the lottery ticket agency server 2. In this way, the lottery ticket agency server 2 stores the user ID, password, and payee (financial institution name and account number) of the user obtained at this time in association with each other as shown in FIG.

  The user then performs an operation to display a lottery purchase screen on the mobile phone 24. As a result, for example, a first lottery purchase screen 30 including a list of lottery sales halls that are famous as having a high winning probability among the lottery sales halls in Japan as shown in FIG. 5A is displayed on the mobile phone 24 ( SP8).

  Then, the user selects a lottery store where he / she wishes to purchase a lottery from the list, and the purchase number designation field 31A and purchase password of the second lottery purchase screen 31 as shown in FIG. In the designation field 31D, the number of lotteries to be purchased at that time and a purchase password are entered. The purchase password is a password that is required when confirming whether or not the lottery ticket purchased at that time is won, as will be described later.

  In addition, the user designates a payment method for the lottery purchase price on the second lottery purchase screen 31. For example, in the case of specifying credit payment, the type of credit card owned by the user (issuing company) is selected from the credit card types displayed on the second lottery purchase screen 31 and the card number In the card number field 31B. In addition, when the payment at the convenience store is designated, the purchase price of the lottery is paid in advance at the convenience store, and the receipt number described in the receipt delivered at that time is entered in the receipt number column 31C.

  Thereafter, the user clicks the “next” button 31E on the second lottery purchase screen 31 to display the purchase floor, the number of purchases on the third purchase screen 32 as shown in FIG. Then, it is confirmed whether or not the payment method and the purchase password have been correctly entered. If the payment method and purchase password have been correctly entered, the “Yes” button 32A is clicked. Thus, at this time, the lottery ticket purchase request designating the lottery counter, the number of purchases, the payment method of the purchase price, and the purchase password is transmitted from the mobile phone 24 to the lottery ticket agency server 2 (SP9).

  The lottery ticket sales agency server 2 that has received this lottery purchase request, when credit is selected as the payment method for the lottery purchase price specified in the lottery ticket purchase request, the credit sales specified in the lottery ticket purchase request. The user's credit number is transmitted to the company settlement server 6 to request settlement (SP10). Further, when the payment at the convenience store is selected as the payment method of the lottery purchase price designated in the lottery ticket purchase request, the lottery sale agency server 2 includes the convenience store chain designated in the lottery purchase request. A receipt number designated in the lottery purchase request is transmitted to the storage agent server 7 to request confirmation of whether or not the storage agent is being performed (SP11).

  The lottery sales agent server 2 receives an approval notification for approving credit payment from the settlement server 6 (SP12) or a confirmation notification that the payment has been made from the storage agent server 7 (SP13). ), A lottery ticket sales request including the lottery ticket sales floor and the number of purchases designated by the user and the user ID of the user is transmitted to the lottery ticket sales server 3 (SP14).

  Upon receiving this lottery sale request, the lottery sale server 3 selects a lottery number for the designated number of lottery numbers from the range of lottery numbers assigned to the designated lottery sales floor, and uses the selected lottery number as a lottery sales agent. The server 2 is notified (SP15). The lottery sales server 3 stores the lottery number issued at this time in association with the user ID.

  Thus, the lottery sales agent server 2 that has received the lottery number stores the lottery number in association with the corresponding user ID, password, membership number, winning payment destination, purchase password, purchase ID described later, and the like ( 4), a unique purchase ID is issued for the lottery purchase at that time, and this purchase ID is transmitted to the mobile phone 24 together with a purchase completion notification (SP16). Further, the cellular phone 24 that has received the purchase completion notification stores the purchase ID received at this time in the non-contact IC card.

  If a lottery ticket is purchased by credit or a convenience store as described above, the lottery ticket purchaser will be paid to the lottery sales consignment company from the corresponding credit sales company or the headquarters of the convenience chain at a later date. It will be.

  On the other hand, a user who has purchased a lottery ticket as described above, after announcing the winning number of the purchased lottery ticket, wishes to confirm whether the purchased lottery ticket has been won or to pay the winning lottery ticket. Go to the place where the winning confirmation terminal 4 such as the head office or branch of the sales consignment company is installed. For example, after presenting the identification card to the staff, the mobile phone 24 that purchased the lottery ticket is tricked into the winning confirmation terminal 4; The purchase password is input to the winning confirmation terminal 4.

  At this time, as shown in FIG. 6, the winning confirmation terminal 4 reads out the user ID and the purchase ID from the mobile phone 24 (SP20), and checks the user ID and the purchase ID and the purchase password input by the user. Is transmitted to the lottery ticket sales agency server 2 via the lottery ticket sales server 3 (SP21, SP22).

  The lottery sales agent server 2 that has received the verification request determines whether the user ID and the purchase password are valid with the purchase ID included in the verification request as a keyword (registered user ID and purchase password (FIG. 4)) (SP23) and the collation result is notified to the lottery sales server 3 (SP24, SP25).

  Thus, the lottery ticket sales server 3 sends an error notification to the mobile phone 24 via the winning confirmation terminal 4 when the collation result that the user ID and the purchase password match those registered is not obtained. Transmit (SP25). Thus, at this time, the mobile phone 24 displays an error display indicating that the winning determination cannot be made.

  On the other hand, when the collation result that the user ID and the purchase password coincide with those registered is obtained, the lottery sale server 3 issues it to the user in step SP15 of FIG. By comparing the lottery number and the winning number, it is determined whether there is a winning lottery ticket purchased by the user (SP26).

  Then, the lottery sales server 3 thereafter transmits the determination result at this time to the mobile phone 24 via the winning confirmation terminal 4 (SP27). Thus, at this time, the determination result of the determination as to whether or not it is appropriate is displayed on the mobile phone 24.

  If the lottery sales server 3 determines that there is a lottery number that has been won by such determination, the lottery sales server 3 accesses the lottery sales agency server 2 to acquire the payee of the winning money registered in advance by the user, The winning money is transferred to the account designated by the user of the financial institution designated by the user (SP28). In this case, if the winning is a small amount of 10,000 yen or less, for example, the mobile phone 24 may be paid back as electronic money.

  The contactless IC communication between the winning confirmation terminal 4 and the mobile phone 24 as described above is performed by the encryption / decryption downloaded from the contactless IC communication platform providing server 5 by the mobile phone 24 in step SP4 and step SP5 in FIG. The encryption key and the same encryption / decryption key given in advance from the contactless IC communication platform providing server 5 to the winning confirmation terminal 4 are encrypted.

  As described above, in the lottery ticket sales system 1 according to the present embodiment, the user ID stored in the mobile phone 24 and the purchase password stored by the user are checked when the lottery winnings are paid. Therefore, even if the purchase password is known to a third party, the winning money cannot be received unless the legitimate user's mobile phone 24 is used. Further, for example, even if a legitimate user loses the mobile phone 24 and the person who picks up the mobile phone 24 tries to obtain the winning money, the winning password cannot be received because the purchase password is not known.

  In this way, in the lottery ticket sales system 1, a lottery ticket sales system that can surely prevent a third party from receiving a winning prize illegally and that only a legitimate user can safely receive the winning prize of the lottery ticket. Can be realized.

(4) Other Embodiments In the above-described embodiment, the case where the lottery ticket sales system 1 is configured as shown in FIG. 1 has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the lottery ticket sales system 1 Various other configurations can be widely applied as the configuration.

  Further, in the above-described embodiment, the case where the mobile phone 24 is applied as a communication terminal for the user to purchase a lottery has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this, for example, a card having a non-contact IC communication function, PDA (Personal Digital Assistants) or the like can be applied.

  Further, in the above-described embodiment, the mobile phone 24 having a non-contact IC communication function is used, and the user IC stored in the mobile phone 24 is received by the winning confirmation terminal 4 by non-contact IC communication. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the mobile phone 24 is not equipped with a non-contact IC communication function, and the winning confirmation terminal 4 can contact the user ID from the mobile phone 24 by the contact method. Etc. may be read out.

  Furthermore, in the above-described embodiment, the case where the user ID stored in the contactless IC card in the mobile phone 24 is used as identification information unique to the mobile phone 24 has been described, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, information such as a serial number of the mobile phone 24 or an ID number stored in a SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) card attached to the mobile phone 24 can be applied.

  The present invention can be widely applied to lottery selling systems having various configurations.

It is a block diagram which shows the whole structure of the lottery ticket sales system by this Embodiment. It is a block diagram which shows schematic structure of a lottery sale agency server. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of the purchase procedure of the lottery in this lottery sales system. It is a figure with which it uses for description of the information management method in a lottery sales agency server. It is a basic diagram which shows schematic structure of the 1st-3rd lottery ticket purchase screen. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of the lottery success / failure confirmation procedure in this lottery ticket sales system.

Explanation of symbols

  1 ... Lottery sales system, 2 ... Lottery sales agency server, 3 ... Lottery sales server, 4 ... Winning confirmation terminal, 23 ... Mobile phone communication network, 24 ... Mobile phone, 30-31 ... Lottery purchase screen.

Claims (2)

In response to a lottery sales request, a lottery sales server that issues lottery numbers for a specified number of sheets,
A lottery ticket sales agency server that transmits the lottery ticket sales request to the lottery ticket sales server according to a lottery ticket purchase request given from the outside, and stores the lottery number issued from the lottery ticket sales server according to the lottery ticket sales request; ,
A communication terminal that is provided on the user side, stores the user ID of the corresponding user, and transmits the lottery purchase request together with the user ID and the purchase password specified by the user to the sales agent server in accordance with a user operation;
Terminal communication means for reading out the user ID of the corresponding user from the communication terminal and transmitting it to the lottery sales server,
The lottery sales agency server is
Storing the lottery number issued from the lottery selling server in association with the user ID and the purchase password given together with the lottery purchase request from the corresponding communication terminal;
The lottery ticket sales server
The lottery sales agent server is requested to collate the user ID of the corresponding user read from the communication terminal by the terminal communication means with the purchase password input by the user, and either of the user ID or the purchase password A lottery ticket sales system for executing a payment process for paying the user a lottery winning when a match result is obtained. The communication terminal is a mobile phone equipped with a non-contact IC communication function,
The lottery ticket sales system according to claim 1, wherein the terminal communication unit reads the user ID of the corresponding user from the mobile phone by non-contact IC communication.

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