JP2012033159A - Ticket vending machine and its control method, and ticket vending machine system and its control method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a ticket vending machine system capable of selling at a discount with membership privilege points for members, identifying correctly whether a purchasing action is done by a member or a non-member.SOLUTION: In the ticket vending machine system 1, after the ticket vending machine 3 receives a payment, a reading of a membership card 5 by a card reader 33 becomes valid (ST1, ST2 and ST3). Then, the ticket vending machine 3 changes modes to a sale-for-member mode (ST7B-1), through the member authentication by a membership control server 2 (ST23). When the payment balance becomes 0 yen (ST11), the sale-for-member mode of the ticket vending machine 3 is cancelled to be returned to a normal mode (ST13). Since the ticket vending machine 3 is not left in the sale-for-member mode after the member is gone, it can be prevented that a non-member purchases a ticket at a discount price in the sale-for-member mode, as well as that a member receives membership privilege points owing to a ticket purchase by a non-member.

Description

  The present invention relates to an automatic ticket vending machine that issues a ticket such as a meal ticket when one of the ticket purchase buttons arranged on the operation surface is operated, and a ticket sales control method thereof. The present invention also relates to an automatic ticket vending machine system including an automatic ticket vending machine and a member management server thereof, and a ticket sales control method thereof.

  An automatic ticket vending machine, for example, an automatic ticket vending machine for food tickets, generally has a plurality of food ticket purchase buttons arranged vertically and horizontally on its operation surface, and items and amounts are displayed on each food ticket purchase button. A meal ticket purchaser can purchase a meal ticket by inserting banknotes or coins and operating a desired meal ticket purchase button. Such an automatic ticket vending machine is disclosed in Patent Document 1.

JP 2006-139355 A

  Here, as a product sales system, a member card is issued to a customer who has registered as a member in advance. Membership sales systems that give benefits such as discounts on purchase amounts are known. In such a sales system, when a customer gives a membership card to a store clerk at a payment counter of the store, the store clerk reads the membership card with a card reader, and for example, a transaction with a member of the POS terminal is started. Switch to state or trading state. The clerk returns the read membership card to the customer, and the customer pays for the purchased product. Thereafter, the store clerk returns the POS terminal that is in a transaction state with the customer member to a normal state, thereby ending a series of member transactions.

  Adopting a member sales system in an automatic ticket vending machine that performs unattended ticketing operations and providing members with a service different from general customers is advantageous in terms of the ability to attract customers. In this case, it is possible to connect the member management server to the automatic ticket vending machine via a communication line, and to perform member authentication and member privilege point management on the member management server side, not on the unattended automatic ticket vending machine side. It is desirable from the viewpoint of. However, such an automatic ticket vending machine system including an automatic ticket vending machine and a member management server may cause the following problems, unlike a counter transaction by a store clerk.

  In the automatic ticket vending machine, when the member inputs member information and performs member authentication, the automatic ticket vending machine switches to the member transaction state. If, after switching to the member transaction state, the member stops purchasing the ticket and leaves the automatic ticket vending machine, the automatic ticket vending machine remains in the member transaction state. In this state, if a general person who is not a member (non-member) purchases a ticket, member benefit points will be added to the member who has left based on the ticket purchase amount by that person, which is not preferable for the ticket seller. .

  In addition, when a member has earned member privilege points by purchasing a previous ticket, if this member leaves without purchasing a ticket after the member authentication at the automatic ticket vending machine, the member who is not the next member to purchase the ticket Discount sales using the member privilege points of the members who have left are performed. With this, the member privilege service does not function effectively.

  Furthermore, if it is determined that a non-member transaction performed in the member transaction state is a member transaction, the ticket purchase history of the member becomes inaccurate, which is undesirable for both the ticket seller and the member.

  In view of the above, an object of the present invention is to provide an automatic ticket vending machine, a ticket vending control method thereof, an automatic ticket vending machine system, and a ticket vending machine that can accurately identify ticket purchase operations by members and non-members with a simple configuration. The proposal is to propose a ticket sales control method.

In order to solve the above problems, the ticket sales control method of the automatic ticket vending machine of the present invention is:
A deposit acceptance process for accepting money for ticket purchase;
Member information reading process for reading member information after payment,
An authentication result receiving step of transmitting the read member information to a predetermined communication destination, and receiving from the communication destination a member authentication result indicating authentication of member or authentication refusal;
When the received member authentication result is the authentication rejection, the ticket sales mode remains in the general sales mode and the operation of the ticket purchase button is waited. When the member authentication result is the authentication, the ticket sales mode is changed to the member sales mode. And a mode setting step of waiting for the operation of the ticket purchase button by switching to
When the ticket purchase button is operated, a ticket sales process for performing a ticket sales operation in the set general sales mode or the member sales mode;
When the deposit balance becomes 0 yen, if the ticket sales mode is the member sales mode, a mode cancellation step of canceling the member sales mode;
A ticket sales history transmission step of transmitting the ticket sales history in the member sales mode to the communication destination in a form associated with the member information at a time point after the ticket sales step. .

  In the ticket sales control method of the present invention, member information is read after depositing into an automatic ticket machine. In other words, the member information cannot be entered without payment. Therefore, since the payment has already been made when the ticket sales mode is switched to the member sales mode, the member does not stop purchasing the ticket and leave as it is. At this time, if the member stops purchasing the ticket and returns the deposit amount, the deposit balance becomes 0 yen, so the member sales mode is canceled. Similarly, when the deposit balance becomes 0 yen after ticket purchase in the member sales mode, the member sales mode is canceled. Therefore, the automatic ticket vending machine after the member leaves does not remain in the member sales mode, and it is possible to prevent a non-member from purchasing a ticket in the member sales mode.

Here, a discount service for the ticket purchase price can be provided to the member using the member privilege points. In this case,
In the authentication result receiving step, when the member authentication result is authentication, a member privilege point given to the authenticated member is received,
In the ticket sales process in the member sales mode, the ticket sales operation may be performed with a discounted sales amount obtained by subtracting the amount corresponding to the member privilege point from the purchase amount of the ticket.

  Since it is possible to prevent a non-member from purchasing a ticket in the member sales mode, it is possible to prevent a member privilege point corresponding to the ticket purchase amount by a non-member from being given to a member who has not purchased a ticket. Further, it is possible to prevent the ticket purchase by a non-member from being performed at a discount price by the member privilege point.

Next, the automatic ticket vending machine of the present invention is
A deposit department that accepts money to purchase tickets,
A member information reading unit for reading input member information;
A communication unit that communicates with a predetermined communication destination;
A ticket purchase button operated to purchase a ticket;
When the ticket purchase button is operated, it has a ticket issuing control unit that performs the ticket sales operation in any one of the general sales mode and the member sales mode,
The ticket issuing control unit performs a ticket selling operation by the above ticket selling control method.

On the other hand, the present invention is a ticket sales control method of an automatic ticket vending machine system comprising an automatic ticket vending machine and a member management server that can communicate with the automatic ticket vending machine,
The automatic ticket vending machine
A deposit acceptance process for accepting money for ticket purchase;
Member information reading process for reading member information after payment,
An authentication result receiving step of transmitting the read member information to the member management server, and receiving from the member management server a member authentication result indicating authentication of member or authentication refusal;
When the received member authentication result is the authentication rejection, the ticket sales mode remains in the general sales mode and the operation of the ticket purchase button is waited. When the member authentication result is the authentication, the ticket sales mode is changed to the member sales mode. And a mode setting step of waiting for the operation of the ticket purchase button by switching to
When the ticket purchase button is operated, a ticket sales process for performing a ticket sales operation in the set general sales mode or the member sales mode;
When the deposit balance becomes 0 yen, if the ticket sales mode is the member sales mode, a mode cancellation step of canceling the member sales mode;
A ticket sales history transmission step of transmitting the ticket sales history in the member sales mode to the member management server in a form associated with the member information at a time point after the ticket sales step;
The member management server is
When the member information is received from the automatic ticket vending machine, the member authentication is performed based on the information stored and held in the member database, and the authentication step of returning the member authentication result to the automatic ticket vending machine;
When the ticket sales history is received from the automatic ticket vending machine in a form associated with the member information, a database update step of updating the ticket purchase history of the member in the member database is executed.

Here, when performing discount service for ticket purchase price using member benefit points for members,
The automatic ticket vending machine
In the authentication result receiving step, when the member authentication result is authentication, a member privilege point given to the authenticated member is received,
In the ticket sales process in the member sales mode, the ticket sales operation is performed with a discounted sales amount obtained by subtracting the amount corresponding to the member privilege point from the purchase amount of the ticket,
The member management server is
In the authentication step, when returning the result of authenticating as the member authentication result, the member privilege points given to the authenticated member stored and held in the database are also returned,
In the database update step, the member privilege points are calculated based on the ticket sales history received from the automatic ticket vending machine, and the corresponding member privilege points in the member database are updated.

Next, the automatic ticket vending machine system of the present invention is:
An automatic ticket vending machine and a member management server capable of communicating with the automatic ticket vending machine;
The automatic ticket vending machine is an automatic ticket vending machine configured as described above,
The member management server is
A server side communication unit for communicating with the automatic ticket vending machine;
A member database storing and holding the member information and the member privilege points in association with each other;
The member information received from the automatic ticket vending machine side through the server side communication unit is compared with the stored content of the member database to perform member authentication, and the member authentication result is automatically transmitted through the server side communication unit. A member authentication department to send to the ticket machine;
And a database update unit that updates the member privilege points in the member database based on the ticket sales history received from the automatic ticket vending machine side through the server side communication unit.

  In the present invention, after the automatic ticket vending machine has received the deposit, the reading of the member information becomes effective. After the member authentication, the automatic ticket vending machine is switched to the member sales mode. Is done. Therefore, the automatic ticket vending machine after the member leaves does not remain in the member sales mode, and it is possible to prevent a non-member from purchasing a ticket in the member sales mode. As a result, the ticket purchase history by the member can be accurately known, and the member privilege can be given accurately based on this. Moreover, the situation where the provision of the privilege to the member is performed unnecessarily, and the situation where the member privilege is used by a non-member can be solved.

1 is an overall configuration diagram of an automatic ticket vending machine system to which the present invention is applied. (A) is an external appearance perspective view which shows the automatic ticket vending machine of the automatic ticket vending machine system of FIG. 1, (b) is explanatory drawing of the ticket purchase button, (c) is explanatory drawing of the amount display part. . It is a schematic block diagram which shows the control system of the automatic ticket vending machine system of FIG. It is a schematic flowchart which shows the ticket sales operation | movement by the automatic ticket vending machine system of FIG.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of an automatic ticket vending machine system to which the present invention is applied will be described with reference to the drawings.

(overall structure)
FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing the overall configuration of an automatic ticket vending machine system. The automatic ticket vending machine system 1 includes a member management server 2, a plurality of automatic ticket vending machines 3 managed by the member management server 2, and a magnetic card issued in advance to members using the automatic ticket vending machine 3. It is composed of five. The member management server 2 and each automatic ticket vending machine 3 can be connected via a communication line 6 such as the Internet. The member card 5 stores member information 5a in the form of a barcode, and member authentication is performed on the member management server 2 side. On the vending machine 3 side, discount sales of tickets based on member benefit points are performed for members (member sales mode), and tickets are sold to regular users (non-members) at regular regular sales prices. Is performed (general sales mode).

(Automatic ticket vending machine)
FIG. 2A is an external perspective view showing the automatic ticket vending machine 3. As shown in this figure, the automatic ticket vending machine 3 includes a vertically long rectangular parallelepiped casing 11, and a front door 12 that can be opened and closed around one side end is attached to the front surface thereof. The front surface of the front door 12 is an operation surface 14 in which 30 rectangular ticket purchase buttons 13 are arranged vertically and horizontally. When one of the ticket purchase buttons 13 is operated (pressed), an item ticket 15 for purchasing an item assigned to the operated ticket purchase button 13 is issued.

  In the upper portion of the ticket purchase button 13 on the operation surface 14, a money amount display section 20 of a display device including a bill insertion slot 16, a membership card 5 insertion slot 17, a coin insertion slot 18, a return lever 19, a fluorescent display tube, and the like. Is arranged. In addition, an item ticket 15 and a change receiving port 21 and a change / payout button 22 for change change are arranged at the lower part of the ticket purchase button 13 on the operation surface 14.

  FIG. 2B is an explanatory diagram showing the ticket purchase button 13. As shown in this figure, the ticket purchase button 13 has a slightly horizontally long rectangular shape, the upper half portion of which is an item label display portion 13a, and the lower half portion thereof is a button body 13b. The button body 13b slightly protrudes forward, and when this button is pressed, an item selection signal assigned to the ticket purchase button 13 is generated. The item label display unit 13a is made of a transparent plastic material, and an item label 24 is attached to the back surface of the item label display unit 13a in a detachable state.

  The item label 24 is printed with the item (product name) assigned to the ticket purchase button 13 and the price, and these are visible through the item label display part 13a. A backlight panel (not shown) having a configuration in which light emitting diodes are arranged is attached to the back side of the item label display unit 13a of each ticket purchase button 13 so as to face the item label display unit 13a. The item label 24 of each ticket purchase button 13 is easy to see.

  In the central part of the button main body 13b of the ticket purchase button 13, a horizontally long oval display portion is formed. Here, whether or not the item ticket 15 assigned to the ticket purchase button 13 can be sold is determined. And a sold-out lamp display section 13d for displaying a “sold out” character for indicating that the item ticket 15 is sold out. A sellable lamp and a sold-out display lamp are arranged on the back side of the display units 13c and 13d, respectively.

  FIG. 2C is an explanatory diagram showing the money amount display unit 20. As shown in this figure, in the money amount display section 20, an money amount display / error number display section 20a composed of a 7-segment display for displaying the input money amount and an error state, and an operation in progress indicating that it is operating A display unit 20b and a sales stop display unit 20c indicating that the sales are being stopped are arranged. In addition, it is a point at the time of the 100 yen coin out display part 20d and the 10 yen coin out display part 20e representing the change out, the banknote acceptance prohibition display part 20f representing that the bill cannot be used, and the member sales mode (member sales mode). Are arranged with a point display section 20g for displaying. On the back of the money amount display unit 20, lamps for lighting the display units 20b to 20g are arranged.

(Control system)
FIG. 3 is a schematic configuration diagram showing a control system of the automatic ticket vending machine system 1. First, the control system of the automatic ticket vending machine 3 is mainly configured by a ticket issuing control unit 30 including a CPU, a ROM, and a RAM. The ticketing control unit 30 executes various control operations necessary for ticketing by executing a control program stored in the ROM.

  For example, the ticket issuing control unit 30 controls the lighting of each lamp of the ticket purchase button 13, the amount display unit 20, the lighting of the backlight panel of each ticket purchase button 13, and the like. In addition, the coin discriminator 31 and the bill discriminator 32 built in the automatic ticket vending machine are driven and controlled to perform money deposit processing, payment processing, change payout processing, and the like. Further, after the deposit is made, the membership information 5a of the membership card 5 inserted from the card insertion slot 17 is read by the card reader 33 built in the automatic ticket vending machine.

  The ticket issuing control unit 30 transmits the read member information 5a to the member management server 2 via the communication unit 34, and sets the ticket sales mode based on the member authentication result returned from the member management server 2. For example, when the normal ticket sales mode is set to the general sales mode and the user is authenticated as a member, the general sales mode is switched to the member sales mode.

  In addition, when the ticket purchase button 13 is operated, the ticket issuing control unit 30 drives and controls the ticket issuing mechanism unit 35 built in the automatic ticket vending machine so as to perform the ticket issuing operation in the general sales mode or the member sales mode. For example, the ticket issuing mechanism unit 35 prints the item and the sales price by the printer 38 on the recording paper 37a fed from the roll paper 37 held by the roll paper holder 36, and cuts the recording paper 37a by the auto cutter 39. Create and issue a regular item ticket 15.

  Here, a storage unit 40 is connected to the ticket issuing control unit 30, and the storage unit 40 is composed of a non-volatile memory, such as a storage area for ticket machine setting contents, a storage area for operation history, a storage area for error history, and the like. A storage area is provided. In the storage area of the ticket vending machine setting contents, a correspondence table 40a in which the number A of each ticket purchase button 13 is associated with the item B and the price C is held.

  On the other hand, the control unit 60 on the member management server 2 side includes a server-side communication unit 61 that communicates with each automatic ticket vending machine 3, a member database 62 that stores and holds member information, and each automatic ticket vending machine. A ticket machine database 63 that stores and holds information stored in the storage unit 40 of the machine 3 is provided. The card information received from each automatic ticket vending machine 3 via the server side communication unit 61 is checked against the member information stored in the member database 62 to perform member authentication, and the authentication result of the member authentication is displayed. A member authentication unit 64 that sends a reply to the automatic ticket vending machine 3 via the server side communication unit 61 is provided. Furthermore, a member information update unit 65 is provided for updating the ticket purchase history including the member privilege points of the member in the member database 62 based on the ticket sales history for the member received from the automatic ticket vending machine 3 side.

  Further, the control unit 60 of the member management server 2 includes a ticket vending machine information rewriting unit 66, and the vending machine information rewriting unit 66 receives a rewriting request from the administrator communication terminal 4 having an access right to each automatic ticket vending machine 3. Accordingly, the item B and the price C assigned to each ticket purchase button 13 (button number A) in the automatic ticket vending machine 3 stored and held in the ticket vending machine database 63 are rewritten.

  That is, when an operator having the management authority of the automatic ticket vending machine 3 accesses the management server 2 from the administrator communication terminal 4 and is authenticated to have the access right, the administrator communication terminal 4 The screen is switched to the item button edit screen 4a. On the item button edit screen 4a, the allocation contents of each ticket purchase button 13, item B, and price C can be changed.

  Further, the member management server 2 includes a ticket vending machine update unit 67. When the ticket vending machine database 63 is rewritten, the member management server 2 communicates with the automatic ticket vending machine 3 to be rewritten via the server side communication unit 61. The information in the storage unit 40 of the automatic ticket vending machine 3 is updated to the changed content.

(Ticketing action)
4 is a schematic flowchart showing the ticket sales operation of the automatic ticket vending machine system 1, FIG. 4 (a) shows the operation on the automatic ticket vending machine side, and FIG. 4 (b) shows the operation on the member management server side. . First, as shown in FIG. 4 (a), the automatic ticket vending machine 3 is in a payment waiting state (step ST1), and when the ticket purchase applicant wishes to deposit, a deposit acceptance process is performed (step ST2: deposit acceptance process). The input amount is displayed on the amount display unit 20. Further, referring to the price C of the correspondence table 40a of the storage unit 40, only the operation of the ticket purchase button 13 to which the price C equal to or less than the deposit amount is assigned is validated, and the backlight of the ticket purchase button 13 that is valid By turning on, the operable ticket purchase button 13, in other words, the type of the item ticket 15 that can be purchased is notified.

  After depositing, the automatic ticket vending machine 3 switches to a state in which the member card 5 can be read by the card reader 33, and in the case of a member, displays a message or the like on the money amount display unit 20 to insert the member card. (Step ST3). In other words, the membership card 5 cannot be inserted from the card insertion slot 17 until the payment is made, or even if the membership card 5 can be inserted into the card insertion slot 17, the reading operation by the card reader 33 can be performed. Does not start.

  If the membership card 5 is not inserted, it is determined that the user is not a member, and the ticket sales mode remains in the general sales mode (step ST3 → ST4A → ST7A). On the other hand, when the member card 5 is inserted, the member information 5a is read by the card reader 33 (step ST4B: member information reading step). The automatic ticket vending machine 3 transmits the read member information 5a to the member management server 2, and waits for a reply of a member authentication result indicating whether or not the member management server 2 has been authenticated as a member (step ST5).

  As shown in FIG. 4B, when the member management server 2 receives the member information 5a from the automatic ticket vending machine 3 (steps ST21 and ST22), the member is based on the member information stored and held in the member database 62. Authentication is performed (step ST23: authentication step), and the member authentication result is returned to the automatic ticket vending machine 3 (step ST24). Here, when it is authenticated as a member, the member privilege points granted to the member stored and held in the member database 62 are also returned together with the member authentication result.

  As shown in FIG. 4A, when the automatic ticket vending machine 3 receives a member authentication result from the member management server 2 side (step ST6: authentication result receiving step), the received member authentication result is not a member. If the authentication is rejected, the operation of the ticket purchase button is awaited while the ticket sales mode remains in the general sales mode (step ST6 → ST7A: mode setting step). On the other hand, if the member authentication result indicates that the member is authenticated, the ticket sales mode is switched from the general sales mode to the member sales mode, and the operation of the ticket purchase button is waited (step ST7B-1: Mode setting step). In this case, the member privilege points received together with the member authentication result are temporarily stored and held in a predetermined area in the RAM and displayed on the money amount display unit 20 (step ST7B-2).

  Thereafter, when one of the ticket purchase buttons 13 is operated by the ticket purchaser (step ST8), the automatic ticket vending machine 3 performs a ticket sales operation in the set general sales mode or member sales mode (steps ST9A, ST9B). : Ticket sales process). Sales in the general sales mode (step ST9A), that is, ticket sales to non-members, are performed at a price C (general price) pre-assigned to the operated ticket purchase button 13, and the price C is subtracted from the deposit amount. The Thereafter, the ticket sales history (item, sales price, automatic ticket vending machine number, sales date, etc.) in the general sales mode is transmitted to the member management server 2 (step ST10A).

  On the other hand, in sales in the member sales mode (step ST9B), that is, ticket sales to the members, ticket sales are performed with a discount amount obtained by subtracting the amount corresponding to the member privilege points from the price C of the item ticket 15. Thereafter, the ticket sales history (item, discount sales amount, automatic ticket vending machine number, sales date, etc.) in the member sales mode is transmitted to the member management server 2 in association with the member information (step ST10B: ticket sales history). Transmission process).

  Next, the operation ends when the deposit balance becomes 0 yen (step ST11). For example, the operation ends when the deposit balance becomes 0 yen by ticket sales. Alternatively, the operation ends when the change / payment button 22 is operated and the deposit balance is settled to 0 yen. Here, when the ticket sales mode is the member sales mode, when the deposit balance becomes 0 yen, the latest member privilege points are displayed for a predetermined time (step ST12), and then the member sales mode is canceled. The operation is ended after returning to the general sales mode (step ST13: mode release step). Note that the step of transmitting the ticket sales history to the member management server 2 (ST10A, ST10B) can also be performed after the deposit balance becomes 0 yen.

  As shown in FIG. 4B, when the member management server 2 receives the ticket sales history in association with the member information from the automatic ticket vending machine 3 (step ST25), the member's ticket in the member database 62 is received. The purchase history is updated (step ST26: database update process). In this update, the member privilege points are calculated based on the ticket sales history (discounted sales amount) received from the automatic ticket vending machine 3, and the corresponding member privilege points in the member database 62 are updated to the calculated new member privilege points. .

  As described above, the automatic ticket vending machine 3 reads the member information after depositing. In other words, the member information cannot be entered without payment. Accordingly, when the ticket sales mode is switched to the member sales mode, it is always after the deposit has been made, and at this point, the member does not leave the ticket without stopping the ticket purchase and performing the refund process. At this time, if the member stops purchasing the ticket and returns the deposit amount, the deposit balance becomes 0 yen and the member sales mode is canceled. Similarly, when the deposit balance becomes 0 yen after ticket purchase in the member sales mode, the member sales mode is canceled. Therefore, the automatic ticket vending machine 3 after the member leaves does not remain in the member sales mode, and a ticket is not purchased by the non-member in the member sales mode.

  In this example, discounts by member privilege points and addition of new member privilege points are performed in accordance with the ticket sales amount. Instead, the ticket sales price is left as it is, the member management server 2 adds the member privilege points according to the ticket purchase amount by the member, and various privileges are given to the members according to the added member privilege points. It is also possible to give. Even in this case, in the system 1 of this example, since the ticket sales history for each member is accurately stored and held, a service that accurately reflects the ticket sales status can be provided to each member.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Automatic ticket machine system 2 Member management server 3 Automatic ticket machine 4 Administrator communication terminal 5 Member card 5a Member information 11 Case 12 Front door 13 Ticket purchase button 14 Operation surface 15 Item ticket 16 Bill insertion slot 17 Card insertion slot 18 Coin Input port 19 Return lever 20 Amount display unit 21 Receipt port 22 Change / Checkout button 24 Item label 30 Ticket issuing control unit 31 Coin discriminator 32 Banknote discriminator 33 Card reader 34 Communication unit 35 Ticketing mechanism unit 36 Roll paper holder 37 Roll paper 37a Recording paper 38 Printer 39 Auto cutter 40 Storage unit 40a Corresponding table 60 Control unit 61 Server side communication unit 62 Member database 63 Ticket vending machine database 64 Member authentication unit 65 Member information updating unit 66 Ticket vending machine information rewriting unit 67 Ticket vending machine updating unit A button Number B Item C Price

Claims (6)

A deposit acceptance process for accepting money for ticket purchase;
Member information reading process for reading member information after payment,
An authentication result receiving step of transmitting the read member information to a predetermined communication destination, and receiving from the communication destination a member authentication result indicating authentication of member or authentication refusal;
When the received member authentication result is authentication rejection, the ticket sales mode remains in the general sales mode and the operation of the ticket purchase button is waited. When the member authentication result is authentication, the ticket sales mode is changed to the member sales mode. A mode setting step of switching and waiting for the operation of the ticket purchase button;
When the ticket purchase button is operated, a ticket sales process for performing a ticket sales operation in the set general sales mode or the member sales mode;
When the deposit balance becomes 0 yen, if the ticket sales mode is the member sales mode, a mode cancellation step of canceling the member sales mode;
A ticket sales history transmission step of transmitting the ticket sales history in the member sales mode to the communication destination in a form associated with the member information at a time point after the ticket sales step. Ticket vending control method for automatic ticket vending machines. In claim 1,
In the authentication result receiving step, when the member authentication result is to authenticate that the member is a member, a member privilege point given to the authenticated member is received,
In the ticket sales process in the member sales mode, the ticket sales control method for an automatic ticket vending machine performs the ticket sales operation with a discounted sales amount obtained by subtracting the amount corresponding to the member privilege point from the purchase amount of the ticket. . A deposit department that accepts money to purchase tickets,
A member information reading unit for reading input member information;
A communication unit that communicates with a predetermined communication destination;
A ticket purchase button operated to purchase a ticket;
When the ticket purchase button is operated, it has a ticket issuing control unit that performs the ticket sales operation in any one of the general sales mode and the member sales mode,
The automatic ticket vending machine, wherein the ticket issuing control unit performs a ticket selling operation by the ticket selling control method according to claim 1 or 2. A ticket vending control method for an automatic vending machine system comprising an automatic vending machine and a member management server capable of communicating with the automatic vending machine,
The automatic ticket vending machine
A deposit acceptance process for accepting money for ticket purchase;
Member information reading process for reading member information after payment,
An authentication result receiving step of transmitting the read member information to the member management server, and receiving from the member management server a member authentication result indicating authentication of member or authentication refusal;
When the received member authentication result is authentication rejection, the ticket sales mode remains in the general sales mode and the operation of the ticket purchase button is waited. When the member authentication result is authentication, the ticket sales mode is changed to the member sales mode. A mode setting step of switching and waiting for the operation of the ticket purchase button;
When the ticket purchase button is operated, a ticket sales process for performing a ticket sales operation in the set general sales mode or the member sales mode;
When the deposit balance becomes 0 yen, if the ticket sales mode is the member sales mode, a mode cancellation step of canceling the member sales mode;
A ticket sales history transmission step of transmitting the ticket sales history in the member sales mode to the member management server in a form associated with the member information at a time point after the ticket sales step;
The member management server is
Upon receiving the member information from the automatic ticket vending machine, the member authenticates based on information stored and held in a member database, and an authentication step of returning the authentication result to the automatic ticket vending machine;
When the ticket sales history is received from the automatic ticket vending machine in a form associated with the member information, a database update process is performed for updating the ticket purchase history of the member in the member database. System ticket sales control method. In claim 4,
The automatic ticket vending machine
In the authentication result receiving step, when the member authentication result is authentication, a member privilege point given to the authenticated member is received,
In the ticket sales process in the member sales mode, the ticket sales operation is performed with a discounted sales amount obtained by subtracting the amount corresponding to the member privilege point from the purchase amount of the ticket,
The member management server is
In the authentication step, when the authentication is returned as the member authentication result, the member privilege points given to the authenticated member stored and held in the database are also returned,
In the database update step, the member privilege points are calculated based on the ticket sales history received from the automatic ticket vending machine, and the corresponding member privilege points in the member database are updated. Ticket sales control method. An automatic ticket vending machine and a member management server capable of communicating with the automatic ticket vending machine;
The automatic ticket vending machine is an automatic ticket vending machine according to claim 3,
The member management server is
A server side communication unit for communicating with the automatic ticket vending machine;
A member database storing and holding the member information and the member privilege points in association with each other;
The member information received from the automatic ticket vending machine side through the server side communication unit is verified against the stored content of the member database, and the authentication result of the member authentication is transmitted through the server side communication unit. A member authentication unit that transmits to the automatic ticket vending machine,
An automatic ticket vending machine comprising: a database updating unit that updates the member privilege points in the member database based on the ticket sales history received from the automatic ticket vending machine side through the server side communication unit; Machine system.

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