JP4920655B2 - Sports lottery selling method, apparatus and program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a sports lottery selling method, apparatus and program for selling sports lotteries.

In recent years, sports lotteries have been sold on the Internet to subsidize some of the proceeds to sports organizations in order to promote sports.
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  However, in the above-mentioned conventional example, it was not possible to promote the willingness to purchase sports lottery and promote regional promotion easily.

  The present invention is proposed in consideration of such circumstances, and by selling a sports lottery that a home team will win based on a predetermined rule at a predetermined discount rate, the willingness to purchase a sports lottery It is an object of the present invention to provide a sports lottery selling method, apparatus, and program that can promote the promotion of the region and can easily promote the regional promotion.

  In order to achieve the above object, the present inventor has identified a home team according to a predetermined rule, found a mechanism for determining a discount rate according to the strength of each of the home team and the battle team, and conceived the present invention. It came to.

  The sports lottery selling method according to the present invention specifies the home team from the access area of the user terminal, and determines the discount rate according to the difference between the ranking of the home team and the ranking of the opponent team, thereby purchasing the sports lottery. And promote regional promotion easily.

(1) A sports lottery sales apparatus connected to a user terminal so as to be communicable and having a control unit and a storage device sells a sports lottery, and the storage device includes a team and a region of the team in advance. Access area determination step of determining the access area of the user terminal , wherein the team and the ranking are stored in association with each other, the team and the battle team of the game are stored in association with each other, and the control unit determines an access area of the user terminal A team that is previously associated with the area that matches the access area from the storage device, a home team determination step that determines the extracted team as a home team, and a match between the home team from the storage device. extract the opposing team to be a partner, to extract the order of the home team of the order and the opposing team, the Homuchi And the discount rate determining step of determining a discount rate of the price of sports betting based on a formula that the difference is determined such as the discount rate increases large arm of the rank and rank of the opposing team, that the home team will win A sports lottery selling method that executes at least a sports lottery selling step of selling an anticipated sports lottery by subtracting an amount obtained by multiplying the standard price of the sports lotter by the discount rate from the standard price of the sports lottery.

  Here, as a method of determining the discount rate of the sports lottery “in accordance with the difference”, for example, the larger the value obtained by subtracting the ranking of the opponent team from the ranking of the home team, the larger the discount rate may be. Conceivable.

  According to the invention of (1), the expected sports lottery that the home team specified from the access area of the user terminal will win is discounted according to the difference between the home team ranking and the battle team ranking. Since it is sold, it is possible to promote the willingness to purchase sports lottery and to promote regional promotion easily.

(2) wherein, in the access area determination step, receives a communication address from the user terminal, determines the pre-associated with the region to the communication address and access areas, sports betting sales according to (1) Method.

  Here, the communication address corresponds to, for example, an IP address, a MAC address, or the like.

  According to the invention of (2), since the access area is specified from the communication address of the user terminal, the user terminal only needs to have a general communication means such as NIC (Network Interface Card), and GPS (Global Positioning System). ) Or the like is not necessary.

(3) wherein, in the access area determination step, accepting the user ID from the user terminal, determines the access area previously associated with the region to the user ID, sports betting sales according to (1) Method.

  According to the invention of (3), since the access area is specified from the user ID, the existing user information can be used.

(4) The control section, at the access area determination step, the user terminal receives the position of the user terminal, determines the access area previously associated with the region to the position, sports according to (1) Lottery sales method.

  Here, the said user terminal transmits the position (for example, latitude and longitude) acquired from position acquisition means, such as GPS, to the said sports lottery sales apparatus.

  According to the invention of (4), since the access area is specified from the position of the user terminal, the user who uses the user terminal such as a mobile phone has a predetermined discount rate for the sports lottery of the team whose home area is the destination area. Can be purchased at.

(5) In the access region determination step, the control unit receives the position of the user terminal from the user terminal, and is an area associated with the position in advance, and the user terminal has received a certain number of accesses or more. if there was, it is determined that the access area, sports lottery sales method described in (1).

  According to the invention of (5), a user terminal that has been accessed is determined to be an access area only when there has been access more than a certain number of times. Since it is difficult to determine as a user, it is possible to exclude this and determine only the user who is assumed to be rooted in the area as the access area.

(6) A sports lottery sales apparatus that is communicably connected to a user terminal and includes a control unit and a storage device. The storage device stores a team and a region of the team in association with each other, and the team And the ranking are stored in association with each other in advance, and the team and the battle team of the game are stored in association with each other in advance, and the control unit determines an access region of the user terminal from the storage device, A team previously associated with an area that matches the access area is extracted, home team determination means for determining the extracted team as a home team, and an opponent team that is an opponent of the home team is extracted from the storage device then, the home team of the order and to extract the order of the opposing team, the home team standings and of the order of the opposing team Minute and the discount rate determining means for determining the discount rate of the price of the sports betting on the basis of was determined as about the discount rate increases large expression, the sports lottery of expectation that the home team will win, the standard price of sports betting Sports lottery sales apparatus comprising: a sports lottery selling means for subtracting an amount obtained by multiplying the discount rate by the discount rate from a standard price of the sports lottery.

  According to the invention of (6), the expected sports lottery that the home team specified from the access area of the user terminal will win is discounted according to the difference between the home team ranking and the battle team ranking. Since it is sold, it is possible to promote the willingness to purchase sports lottery and to promote regional promotion easily.

(7) program. Used to perform the method according to the sports betting sales apparatus (1).

  According to the present invention, the expected sports lottery that the home team specified from the access area of the user terminal wins is sold at a discount rate determined according to the difference between the home team ranking and the battle team ranking. , Can promote the willingness to purchase sports lottery, and can easily promote regional promotion.

Hereinafter, the best mode for carrying out the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. This is merely an example, and the technical scope of the present invention is not limited to this.
[Overall configuration of sports lottery sales equipment and related elements]

  FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an overall configuration of a sports lottery sales apparatus 1 and related elements according to the present embodiment.

  The sports lottery sales apparatus 1 and the user terminal 2 according to the present embodiment are connected to a communication network N such as the Internet. It does not matter whether the connection with the communication network N is wired or wireless.

  The sports lottery sales apparatus 1 accepts a viewing request for a sports lottery sales site from the user terminal 2 and transmits the web page of the sports lottery sales site to the user terminal 2 that has requested the browsing.

  A sports lottery is a lottery that predicts the outcome of a team that will compete, and either the team that competes (home team or its team (away team)) wins, loses, and draws as numbers. For example, it may be a soccer lottery. One sports lottery may be composed of prediction items for each of a plurality of matches, and this lottery item is provided for the number of matches to be targeted in this lottery (see FIG. 7).

The user terminal 2 is an information processing apparatus used by a user who browses a web page of a sports lottery sales site received from the sports lottery sales apparatus 1, and corresponds to a general computer. The user terminal 2 may be a portable information processing device such as a mobile phone.
[Functional structure of sports lottery sales equipment]

  FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an outline of a functional configuration of the sports lottery sales apparatus 1 according to the present embodiment. The sports lottery sales apparatus 1 according to this embodiment includes an access area determination unit 11, a home team determination unit 12, a discount rate determination unit 13, and a sports lottery sales unit 14.

  When the access area determination means 11 receives a viewing request for a sports lottery sales site from the user terminal 1, the access area determination means 11 determines the access area according to a predetermined rule. Here, for each user terminal 2, the number of accesses to the access area determination means 11 is stored, and the access area is determined only when a certain number of accesses (5 times or more, 10 times or more, etc.) are met. An aspect may be sufficient.

  The home team discriminating unit 12 discriminates a team associated in advance with the access region determined by the access region determining unit 11 as a home team. Here, the home team table 151 of the team database 15 constitutes a part of the home team discriminating means 12 and stores home team information. Details of the home team table 151 will be described later.

  The discount rate determination means 13 determines the discount rate of the price of the sports lottery according to the difference between the home team rank determined by the home team determination means 12 and the battle team rank according to a predetermined rule. Here, the team ranking table 152 of the team database 15 constitutes a part of the discount rate determination means 13, and stores the ranking of each team. The game combination table 153 of the team database 15 constitutes a part of the discount rate determining means 13 and stores information on game combinations. Details of the team ranking table 152 and the game combination table 153 will be described later.

The sports lottery sales unit 14 transmits a web page for selling the expected sports lottery that the home team determined by the home team determination unit 12 wins at the discount rate determined by the discount rate determination unit 13 to the user terminal.
[Team database configuration]

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an outline of the configuration of the team database 15. The team database 15 includes a home team table 151, a team ranking table 152, and a game combination table 153. Hereinafter, the configuration of each table will be described.
[Home team table configuration]

The home team table 151 stores a team ID (team name) and a region indicating the home of the team in association with each other in advance. One team ID and a plurality of regions may be stored in association with each other.
[Structure of team ranking table]

The team rank table 152 stores a team ID and a rank in association with each other in advance. The ranking is the ranking in the current tournament, but it may be the ranking in the past convention.
[Composition of game combination table]

The game combination table 153 stores a team ID and a team ID of a battle team in association with each other in advance.
[Hardware configuration diagram of sports lottery sales equipment]

  FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a hardware configuration of the sports lottery sales apparatus 1 according to the present embodiment.

  The sports lottery sales apparatus 1 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 310 (a plurality of CPUs such as a CPU 320 may be added in a multiprocessor configuration), a bus line 200, a communication I / F (I / F). An interface) 330, a main memory 340, a BIOS (Basic Input Output System) 350, an I / O controller 360, a hard disk 370, an optical disk drive 380, and a semiconductor memory 390. The hard disk 370, the optical disk drive 380, and the semiconductor memory 390 are collectively referred to as a storage device 410.

  The control unit 300 is a part that controls the sports lottery sales apparatus 1 in an integrated manner. By appropriately reading and executing various programs stored in the hard disk 370 (described later), the control unit 300 cooperates with the hardware described above. Various functions according to the invention are realized.

  The communication I / F 330 is a network adapter when the sports lottery sales apparatus 1 transmits / receives information to / from the user terminal 2 or the like (FIG. 1) via the communication network N (FIG. 1). The communication I / F 330 may include a modem, a cable modem, and an Ethernet (registered trademark) adapter.

  The BIOS 350 records a boot program executed by the CPU 310 when the sports lottery sales apparatus 1 is started, a program that the sports lottery sales apparatus 1 depends on hardware, and the like.

  A storage device 410 such as a hard disk 370, an optical disk drive 380, and a semiconductor memory 390 can be connected to the I / O controller 360.

  The hard disk 370 stores various programs for causing the hardware to function as the sports lottery sales apparatus 1 and programs for executing the functions of the present invention. The sports lottery sales apparatus 1 can also use a hard disk (not shown) separately provided as an external storage device.

  As the optical disk drive 380, for example, a DVD-ROM drive, a CD-ROM drive, a DVD-RAM drive, or a CD-RAM drive can be used. In this case, the optical disk 400 corresponding to each drive is used. A program or data can be read from the optical disk 400 by the optical disk drive 380 and provided to the main memory 340 or the hard disk 370 via the I / O controller 360.

  The computer referred to in the present invention refers to an information processing device provided with a storage device, a control unit, etc., and the sports lottery sales device 1 is constituted by an information processing device provided with a storage device 410, a control unit 300, etc. This information processing apparatus is included in the concept of the computer of the present invention.

In the sports lottery sales apparatus 1, the control unit 300 mainly corresponds to the home team determination unit 12 and the discount rate determination unit 13, and the communication I / F 330 mainly corresponds to the access area determination unit 11 and the sports lottery sales unit 14.
[Hardware configuration of user terminal]

The user terminal 2 also has a hardware configuration similar to that of the sports lottery sales apparatus 1 described above.
[Flowchart According to Embodiment of the Present Invention]

  5 and 6 show flowcharts of sports lottery sales processing according to the embodiment of the present invention.

  S1: The user terminal 2 transmits a viewing request for a sports lottery sales site to the sports lottery sales apparatus 1.

  S2: Upon receiving a sports lottery sales site browsing request from the user terminal 2, the access area determination unit 11 is associated in advance with the IP address “XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX” of the user terminal 2 included in the browsing request. The region “Omiya” is obtained from an external so-called WHOIS database. Then, the access area determination unit 11 determines the acquired area “Omiya” as the access area.

  Here, the access area determination unit 11 may receive a user ID from the user terminal 2 and obtain an area (address) associated with the user ID in advance from a predetermined user information database.

  In addition, the access area determination unit 11 receives the position (for example, latitude and longitude) of the user terminal 2 obtained from the user terminal 2 by GPS or the like, and sets an area (address) associated with the position in advance to a predetermined map. It may be obtained from a database.

  S3: The home team discriminating unit 12 extracts from the home team table 151 a record in which the value of the “region” field is the same as the access region “Omiya” determined by the access region determining unit 11. Then, the home team determination unit 12 determines the team corresponding to the value “Omiya FC” in the “team ID” field of the extracted record as the home team.

  S4: The discount rate determination unit 13 extracts from the match combination table 153 a record in which the value of the “team ID” field is the same as the home team “Omiya FC” determined by the home team determination unit 12. Then, the discount rate determining unit 13 determines that the team corresponding to the value “Iwata FC” in the “Team ID of the opponent team” field of the extracted record is the opponent team.

  S5: The discount rate determination means 13 extracts from the team ranking table 152 a record in which the value of the “team ID” field is the same as the team ID “Omiya FC” of the home team. Then, the discount rate determining means 13 determines the value “7” (rank) in the “rank” field of the extracted record as the rank of the home team “Omiya FC”. Further, the discount rate determination means 13 extracts from the team ranking table 152 a record in which the value of the “team ID” field is the same as the team ID “Iwata FC” of the battle team. Then, the discount rate determination unit 13 determines the value “1” (rank) in the “rank” field of the extracted record as the rank of the battle team “Iwata FC”.

S6: The discount rate determination means 13 calculates a discount rate based on the following relational expression.
[When (Home team rank ≥ Battle team rank)]

Discount rate = (Home team rank-opposition team rank) × c1 / (n−1). Here, c1 is a constant, and n is the number of teams participating in the tournament. In the present embodiment, n = 18 and c1 = 0.9. In this case, for example, the discount rate of the lowest-ranked (18th) home team and the first-ranked team is 0.9. According to this, when a home team plays a match with a superior opponent team, the discount rate is increased, and the willingness to purchase sports lotteries can be promoted.
[In the case of (Home Team Rank ≤ Opponent Team Rank)]

  Discount rate = c2. Here, c2 is a constant. In the present embodiment, c2 = 0.95. According to this, even when the home team plays a match with a lower-ranking opponent team, a certain discount rate is given, so that an incentive to expect the home team to win can be given.

  The discount rate determining means 13 substitutes the ranking “7” (rank) of the home team “Omiya FC” and the ranking “1” (rank) of the opponent team (away team) “Iwata FC” in the above relational expression, A discount rate = 0.32. Further, the discount rate determination means 13 determines an amount obtained by multiplying the standard price of the sports lottery by (1-discount rate) as the sales price.

  S7: The sports lottery sales means 14 extracts all the records of the match combination table 153, and corresponds to the team corresponding to the value of the “team ID” field of each record and the value of the “team ID of the battle team” field. A game prediction input form for inputting a game prediction with the team is generated. Here, the sports lottery sales means 14 displays the flag “1” that the home team “Omiya FC” expects to win in the game prediction input form in all matches including the home team “Omiya FC”. The sports lottery sales unit 14 displays the sales price determined by the discount rate determination unit 13 on the game prediction input form. FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a game prediction input form.

  S8: The sports lottery sales means 14 transmits the generated game prediction input form to the user terminal 2.

  S9: The user terminal 2 displays the game prediction input form received from the sports lottery sales means 14 on the display device.

  S10: The user terminal 2 accepts the prediction of another game not including the home team from the keyboard or the like in the game prediction input form. And the user terminal 2 transmits the value of the game prediction input form including the prediction that the home team “Omiya FC” displayed in advance will win and the prediction of another game to the sports lottery sales apparatus.

  S11: The sports lottery sales means 14 receives the value of the game prediction input form from the user terminal 2. Then, the sports lottery sales apparatus 1 performs sports lottery issuance and settlement processing in the same manner as the conventional example, and transmits the result to the user terminal 2.

  S12: The user terminal 2 displays the results of the sports lottery issuance and settlement processing received from the sports lottery sales means 14 on the display device.

  As explained above, because the sports lottery that the home team specified from the access area of the user terminal will win is sold at a discount rate determined according to the difference between the home team ranking and the battle team ranking , Can promote the willingness to purchase sports lottery, and can easily promote regional promotion.

  In an embodiment in which an area (address) previously associated with a user ID is acquired from a predetermined user information database, an existing user information database can be used. For this reason, the business operator who operates the portal site can provide an unprecedented new sports lottery sales service using the information of the users who are members.

  Furthermore, in an embodiment in which an area (address) associated in advance with the position of the user terminal 2 is acquired from a predetermined map database, a user using a user terminal such as a GPS-compatible mobile phone uses the destination area as the home. Team sports lotteries can be purchased at a predetermined discount rate.

  As mentioned above, although embodiment of this invention was described, this invention is not restricted to embodiment mentioned above.

  The effects described in the embodiments of the present invention only list the most preferable effects resulting from the present invention, and the effects of the present invention are not limited to those described in the embodiments of the present invention. .

It is a figure which shows the whole structure of the sports lottery sales apparatus which concerns on this embodiment, and a related element. It is a figure which shows the outline | summary of the function structure of the sports lottery sales apparatus which concerns on this embodiment. It is a figure which shows the outline | summary of a structure of a team database. It is a figure which shows the hardware constitutions of the sports lottery sales apparatus which concerns on this embodiment. The flowchart of the sports lottery sales process which concerns on embodiment of this invention is shown. Fig. 6 shows a continuation of the flowchart of Fig. 5. It is a figure which shows an example of a game prediction input form.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Sports lottery sales apparatus 2 User terminal 11 Access area judgment means 12 Home team discrimination means 13 Discount rate determination means 14 Sports lottery sales means 15 Team database 151 Home team table 152 Team ranking table 153 Game combination table

Claims (7)

A sports lottery device connected to a user terminal so as to be communicable and having a control unit and a storage device is a method for selling a sports lottery,
In the storage device,
The team and the region of this team are stored in advance,
The team and ranking are stored in advance in association with each other,
The team and the opposing team of the game are stored in advance in association with each other,
The controller is
An access region determining step of determining an access region of the user terminal;
From the storage device, a team previously associated with an area that matches the access area is extracted, and a home team determination step of determining the extracted team as a home team;
From the storage device, the opponent team that is the opponent of the home team is extracted, the rank of the home team and the rank of the opponent team are extracted, and the difference between the rank of the home team and the rank of the opponent team is large. A discount rate determination step for determining a discount rate of the price of the sports lottery based on an expression that is set so that the discount rate becomes larger ;
Sports lottery sales step for selling the sports lottery that the home team is expected to win by subtracting the standard price of the sports lottery by the discount rate from the standard price of the sports lottery,
To at least run a sports lottery sales methods. Wherein, in said access area determination step, said accepting communication address from the user terminal, determines that the access area previously associated with the region to the communication address, sports betting sales method according to claim 1. Wherein, in said access area determination step, said accepts a user ID from the user terminal, determines that the access area previously associated with the region to the user ID, sports betting sales method according to claim 1. Wherein, in said access area determination step, the user terminal receives the position of the user terminal, determines the pre-associated with the region to the position and access areas, sports betting sales method according to claim 1 . The control unit receives the position of the user terminal from the user terminal in the access region determination step, and is an area associated with the position in advance, and the user terminal has accessed a certain number of times or more. in, it is determined that the access area, sports lottery sales method according to claim 1. A sports lottery sales apparatus that is communicably connected to a user terminal and includes a control unit and a storage device ,
In the storage device,
The team and the region of this team are stored in advance,
The team and ranking are stored in advance in association with each other,
The team and the opposing team of the game are stored in advance in association with each other,
The controller is
Access area determining means for determining an access area of the user terminal;
From the storage device, a team previously associated with an area that matches the access area is extracted, home team determination means for determining the extracted team as a home team,
From the storage device, the opponent team that is the opponent of the home team is extracted, the rank of the home team and the rank of the opponent team are extracted, and the difference between the rank of the home team and the rank of the opponent team is large. A discount rate determination means for determining a discount rate of the price of the sports lottery based on an expression that is set so that the discount rate becomes larger ,
Sports lottery sales means for selling the sports lottery that the home team expects to win by subtracting the standard price of the sports lottery by the discount rate from the standard price of the sports lottery,
The equipped, sports lottery sales system. Program of order to execute the method according to the sports betting vending apparatus in claim 1.

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