JP5031265B2 - Point system - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention includes a portable terminal that stores at least a first electronic money amount that can be used in a game arcade and a second electronic money amount that can be used in a store other than the game arcade. The present invention relates to a point system that gives points to an owner of a mobile terminal in which the first electronic money amount is stored in accordance with use in a game at a venue.

In recent years, with the spread of electronic money, for the purpose of acquiring repeaters, mileage (points) is granted by using specific electronic money, and these mileage (points) are converted into specific electronic money, There is one that can be used as specific electronic money (for example, see Non-Patent Document 1).
All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd., Edy (registered trademark) service information "Convert Miles to Edy (registered trademark)", [online], [February 07, 2006], Internet <URL: http: // www. ana.co.jp/amc/reference/edy/edyexchange.html>

  However, in the conversion service of Non-Patent Document 1, although the earned points can be converted into specific electronic money and used, the use is limited to stores where the specific electronic money can be used. The point cannot be diversified, and as a result, there is a problem that the original purpose of the point system of acquiring a repeater by giving these points cannot be sufficiently achieved.

  The present invention has been made paying attention to such problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a point system that can diversify the usage destination of points.

In order to solve the above-described problem, a point system according to claim 1 of the present invention provides:
Electronic money storage means for storing at least a first electronic money amount (JG electronic money amount) usable at a game hall and a second electronic money amount (Company A electronic money amount) usable at a store other than the game hall A mobile terminal (mobile phone 5) including the mobile terminal and using the first electronic money amount of the mobile terminal for a game at a game hall (use for second lending processing) A point computer comprising a point computer for providing points (JG points).
The server computer
Point storage means (management server 14; JG member information table) for storing the number of owned points of the owner in association with owner identification information that can identify the owner of each portable terminal;
When receiving a conversion request including owner identification information of the mobile terminal owner transmitted in response to a predetermined conversion operation being performed in the mobile terminal and the number of conversion use points used for conversion, On the condition that the number of conversion use points included in the conversion request is within the range of the number of owned points stored in the point storage means in association with the owner identification information included in the conversion request. this number of conversion using points from a few punished you subtracted updated (the number of used points) management (management server 14; point subtraction process) and, the conversion request the addition instruction of the first electronic money amount corresponding to the conversion used in points and of the transmission source of the portable terminal, the first electronic money amount to the addition update causes process stored in the electronic money storing means of said portable terminal (management server 14; a charge instruction transmission process) A point conversion means for performing point conversion process comprising (management server 14),
With
The electronic money storage means distinguishes and stores a purchased first electronic money amount that is added and updated based on charge and a converted first electronic money amount that is added and updated in the point conversion process,
The portable terminal is
A first conversion for adding and updating a first electronic money amount corresponding to the converted use point number to the converted first electronic money amount stored in the electronic money storage means based on receiving the addition instruction First conversion means for performing processing;
Only the converted first electronic money amount stored in the electronic money storage means is converted from the converted first electronic money amount (JG electronic money amount; conversion remaining amount) to a predetermined converted used first electronic money amount (the number of points used) Processing for subtracting and updating the amount based on the number of JG points used for the conversion received in the reception processing or the amount received in the conversion amount reception processing) (control unit 55; charge amount subtraction processing), and the use of the conversion processing for adding updates the second electronic money amount corresponding to the first electronic money amount to the second electronic money value stored in said electronic money storage means (control unit 55; a charge request output processing) first and a 2 Second conversion means (mobile phone 5; control unit 55) for performing conversion processing;
Game use processing means for performing a game use process for using the first electronic money amount stored in the electronic money storage means for a game;
With
The game usage processing means consumes the amount used for games preferentially over the purchased first electronic money amount, and the insufficient amount when the purchased first electronic money amount is insufficient with respect to the amount used for gaming. Is converted from the converted first electronic money amount .
According to this feature, the owner can convert the points owned by the owner into the second electronic money amount that can be used at a store other than the game hall via the first electronic money amount. The point can be diversified, and as a result, the goal of the point system of acquiring repeaters can be achieved. In addition, since it is impossible to convert the purchase first electronic money amount that can be used at the amusement hall into the second electronic money amount, the use of the purchased first electronic money amount at the member store is ensured. In addition, the member store of the first electronic money can be protected.

The point system according to claim 2 of the present invention is the point system according to claim 1 ,
Said second converting means, when there is added to the conversion first electronic money amount based on said sum instruction receiving by accepting the conversion operation of the owner, without requiring the acceptance of further transformation operations before Stories second conversion process (charge amount subtraction process, the charge request output processing) it is characterized by carrying out the.
According to this feature, since the points are converted into the second electronic money amount by a single conversion operation, the trouble of the owner can be saved.

The point system according to claim 3 of the present invention is the point system according to claim 1 or 2 ,
The point conversion means (management server 14) is configured to perform the point conversion process (point subtraction process) based on reception of a first conversion operation from the owner of the portable terminal (acceptance of a “point conversion” menu selection operation). , Charge instruction transmission processing)
The second conversion means (control unit 55) performs the second conversion process (charge) based on acceptance of a second conversion operation from the owner of the portable terminal (acceptance of an “electronic money conversion” menu selection operation). (Amount subtraction processing, charge request output processing) is performed.
According to this feature, the conversion is performed while the owner is surely aware of the stage where points are converted to the first electronic money amount and the stage where the first electronic money amount is converted to the second electronic money amount. In addition, the first electronic money amount different from the first electronic money amount converted from the points by the point conversion means can be used for the conversion by the second conversion means.

The point system according to claim 4 of the present invention is the point system according to any one of claims 1 to 3 ,
The server computer
External point number acquisition means (management server 14) for acquiring an external point number different from the point owned by the owner, and a predetermined conversion use external from the external point number acquired by the external point number acquisition means Processing for subtracting and updating the number of points (number of movement points) (point movement request transmission processing) and the number of points corresponding to the number of external points used for conversion are stored in the point storage means (JG member information table). External point conversion that performs external point conversion processing, including processing for adding and updating the number of points of the owner (the number of owned points stored corresponding to the owner's JG member ID) (point addition processing) Means (management server 14).
According to this feature, the owner can convert the number of external points owned by himself / herself into the first electronic money amount through the points, which can contribute to the improvement of sales at the game hall.

  Examples of the present invention will be described below.

  FIG. 1 is a system block diagram showing the configuration of the point system of the present invention. The point system of the present embodiment includes a JG electronic money amount that is a first electronic money amount of the present invention that can be used in a game arcade, and a game. A variety of electronic money amounts such as Company A electronic money amount, which is the second electronic money amount of the present invention that can be used in stores other than the venue, are stored, and the mobile phone 5 that can be carried by the owner, A membership card with a prepaid function issued to a member player who has been registered as a member of the pachinko machine 2, which is a plurality of installed gaming machines, and is registered as a member at the game hall, or a member Lending pachinko balls in the pachinko machine 2 provided corresponding to the remaining amount stored in the prepaid card used by a normal player (visitor) who is not registered A first lending process to be used later, a deposit process for adding an amount corresponding to the used amount using cash to a prepaid card or a membership card being accepted, JG stored in the mobile phone 5 A card unit 3 for performing a second lending process to be described later for use in a game in the pachinko machine 2 provided corresponding to the electronic money amount, and connected to the card unit 3 so that data communication is possible. A management computer 110 provided in each game arcade for managing each card unit 3 being used, managing the amount used in the card unit 3 and the remaining amount remaining in the prepaid card and the membership card in the game hall A centralized management apparatus installed in a card management company connected to the management computer 110 so as to be able to perform data communication. And the management server 14, the sales comprising the amount used for issuing cards and the amount of electronic money used for games at the game hall collected and managed by the management computer 110. And information such as the remaining amount remaining on each prepaid card and membership card is centrally managed.

  Each device such as the management computer 110 and the card unit 3 installed in these game halls is connected to be capable of bidirectional data communication via a communication cable, and each of these connection devices is assigned a local IP address and is locally Each device in which an area network (LAN) is formed and connected to the local area network (LAN) is assigned a device ID that can individually identify the device. By having an IP address table associated with a local IP address, it is possible to identify a local IP address from a device ID and perform transmission / reception with the device of the device ID.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 1, the management server 14 installed in the card management company is connected to the Internet network 9 and charged with the JG electronic money amount provided by the card management company via the Internet network 9. JG application program for applying for lottery using JG points given to the owner of the mobile phone 5 by using the JG electronic money amount, converting JG points to electronic money, etc. (Hereinafter abbreviated as JG application) has a function of distributing to the mobile phone 5 having a function of connecting to the Internet network 9 and is also connected to a server computer of a financial institution (not shown). Settlement of the amount charged to the JG electronic money amount can be executed with the server computer. To have.

  In addition, the management server 14 and the mobile phone 5 of this embodiment are connected to a later-described non-contact IC card chip (hereinafter referred to as a non-contact IC chip) 100 mounted on the mobile phone 5 via the Internet 9. Are installed in a server computer 15 installed in a chip management company that manages the storage area (common area) of each other, and in each electronic money service providing company A, B that provides an electronic money service using the non-contact IC chip 100. Other than the server computers 16, 17, etc., which are different from JG points, for example, other companies that are installed in other companies that manage the number of external points of other companies that are granted according to the purchase price of goods at convenience stores, electronic stores, etc. It is connected to the point management server 18 so that data communication is possible. And it is capable of transmitting and receiving data.

  Next, the mobile phone 5 used in this embodiment will be described. The mobile phone 5 used in this embodiment includes a base station 7 and a gateway server of a mobile phone company (carrier) in addition to a normal wireless communication function. 8 has an Internet connection function that can be connected to the Internet network 9 via the Internet network 9, the management server 14, the server computer 15 of the management company, and the electronic money service providers A and B via the Internet network 9. Data communication is possible with the server computers 16 and 17 and the other company's point management server 18.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the cellular phone 5 of this embodiment incorporates a non-contact IC chip 100 for providing a non-contact IC card function having a wireless communication function at a close distance, and the non-contact IC chip. The electronic money amount of each electronic money service provider A, B... Stored in 100 can be used for various transactions, for example, payment of boarding fees, payment of shopping charges, etc., and electronic money provided by a card management company The JG electronic money amount, which is the amount, is provided with a wallet function that can be used for a second lending process, which will be described later, in the card unit 3 installed in the game hall having the management computer 110 connected to the management server 14.

  The configuration of the mobile phone 5 used in this embodiment will be described in more detail based on FIG. In FIG. 2, an audio input unit 51 is a part for converting an analog audio signal from a microphone 65 into a digital signal, and includes a microphone amplifier, a filter, an A / D converter, and the like. The audio output unit 52 is a part for driving the speaker 66 or the ear receiver 67 based on the received digital audio signal, and includes a D / A converter, a filter, a speaker amplifier, and the like. The digital signal processing unit 53 is a part for performing encoding and decoding of a digital audio signal, and convolutional coding, slot interleaving, delay detection, and convolution centering on a DSP (Digital Signal Processor). It consists of various dedicated circuits such as decoding.

  The RF input / output unit 54 is a part that transmits and receives high-frequency radio waves to and from the mobile phone company base station 7 (see FIG. 1) via the telephone antenna 62, and includes an orthogonal modulator, a gain amplifier, a power amplifier, and a diver. Consists of city, mixer, IF demodulator, antenna duplexer, etc.

  The input voice input from the voice input unit 51 and converted into a digital voice signal is subjected to processing such as error correction coding, interleaving, spreading, and D / A conversion by the digital signal processing unit 53, and is generated by the processing. The transmitted baseband signal is sent to the RF input / output unit 54. Then, the quadrature modulator in the RF input / output unit 54 modulates the local oscillation signal with the transmission baseband signal to generate a transmission high-frequency signal, and further amplifies the transmission high-frequency signal, and then the antenna duplexer. Transmit from the antenna 62 to the base station 7.

  The antenna duplexer is used to share one telephone antenna 62 for the transmission high-frequency signal and the reception high-frequency signal. The transmission high-frequency signal that has been modulated by the quadrature modulator and then amplified is sent to the telephone antenna 62. A filter circuit having a function of transmitting the received high-frequency signal from the telephone antenna 62 to the IF demodulator in the RF input / output unit 54 is provided.

  The telephone antenna 62 transmits and receives high-frequency signals wirelessly to and from the base station 7. That is, the transmission high-frequency signal transmitted from the quadrature modulator via the antenna duplexer is transmitted from the telephone antenna 62 to the base station 7. On the other hand, the high-frequency signal transmitted from the base station 7 is received by the telephone antenna 62 and then sent to the IF demodulator via the antenna duplexer. Then, the IF demodulator and the gain amplifier amplify the received high-frequency signal that has been sent, and further send the received baseband signal obtained by performing demodulation processing to the digital signal processing unit 53.

  The received baseband signal is subjected to processing such as A / D conversion, despreading, deinterleaving, and error correction of the received baseband signal in the digital signal processing unit 53, and is sent to the audio output unit 52 as a received audio digital signal. By sending, the voice output signal received by the voice output unit 52 by D / A conversion is generated, amplified, and output from the speaker 66 or the ear receiver 67, thereby providing a radio call function.

  If the received signal is not voice data from a call but a data signal such as an e-mail or a web page or program data distributed from a web server on the Internet network 9, the digital signal processing unit 53 receives the received signal. A data signal (packet data) subjected to processing such as A / D conversion, despreading, deinterleaving, and error correction of the band signal is output to the control unit 55, so that a page or mail based on the received data is displayed on the display unit 56. The operation content data on these pages and the data signal (packet data) of the outgoing mail are sent to the digital signal processing unit 53 instead of the above-described digital audio signal, so that the operation content is similar to the audio data. Data downloaded from each server computer such as the management server 14 Shin mail data signals Internet connection function and electronic mail function by being transmitted from the telephone antenna 62 to the base station 7 is formed.

  The control unit 55 is a part for realizing various functions as the mobile phone 5 by executing various programs, and a central processing unit (CPU; Central Processing Unit) capable of executing these various programs. As shown in FIG. 2, the control unit 55 includes a display unit 56 for displaying various types of information, and an owner (carrying person) for inputting various types of information. A memory unit 60 for storing various programs (applications) for providing various functions executed by the operation unit 57 and the control unit 55, setting data, etc., time information, date, day of the week, etc. Real-time clock (RTC) 61 that outputs the calendar information of the device, and an external I / F (internal) for serial data communication with an external data processing device Face) unit 58, a power source unit 59 for supplying necessary operating power to each block based on a battery power source, a vibrator unit 63 for notifying incoming calls and mails by vibration, incoming calls and mails Or a light emitting diode (hereinafter referred to as LED) unit 64 used as an indicator at the time of charging is connected, and the control unit 55 can perform operation control of these units. Various control and signal processing such as processing according to the operation signal, display signal processing on the display unit 56, generation of an operation control signal for operating the LED unit 64 and the vibrator unit 63, and writing or reading of the memory unit 60 I do.

  The memory unit 60 includes a ROM (Read Only Memory), a RAM (Random Access Memory), an EEPROM (Electrically Erasable and Programmable Read Only Memory), and the like. The ROM stores (stores) a program for realizing basic functions of the mobile phone 5, initial setting values, and a terminal ID uniquely assigned to the mobile phone 5. The RAM is used as a work area by the CPU of the control unit 55 to store data in the middle of calculation, etc. as needed during execution of the CPU program, and to temporarily store data transmitted to and received from other units. used.

  The EEPROM that constitutes the memory unit 60 is a non-volatile memory for performing various processes such as confirmation of the remaining amount of electronic money of each electronic money service provider stored in the non-contact IC chip 100 and charging. JG for implementing an electronic money application program (hereinafter abbreviated as “electronic money application”), charging JG electronic money amount of card management company, converting JG points to JG electronic money amount or A company electronic money amount, etc. Applications, various application programs that provide e-mail transmission and reception, browser functions, etc., phone book data consisting of information such as phone numbers and e-mail addresses and corresponding names, names, e-mail data sent and received, schedule books Data, outgoing / incoming communication history data, notepad data, owner (game ) Stores various data such as customized configuration data by.

  The external I / F unit 58 includes a communication interface circuit, a connector, and the like, and the power source unit 59 includes a battery charging circuit, an overcurrent overvoltage protection circuit, and the like. The display unit 56 is a part that provides display information to the user, and includes an LCD driver, an LCD display device, and the like.

  The operation unit 57 has buttons used for inputting telephone numbers, alphabets, kana characters, symbols, pictograms, etc., and a rotation function and a push button function used for moving the cursor on the screen and selecting menu items. It consists of various keys, buttons, and dials operated by the user, such as an operating element such as a provided jog dial, incoming and outgoing calls, and power on / off. Needless to say, the controls used for cursor operations, menu item selection, and the like are not limited to the jog dial.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 2, the control unit 55 of the present embodiment is connected to the non-contact IC chip 100 built in the mobile phone 5, and various data stored in the non-contact IC chip 100. Or an external reader of the aforementioned card unit 3 installed in a game arcade that can communicate via the non-contact IC chip 100 with a wireless communication function at a close distance possessed by the non-contact IC chip 100 Data communication with a reader / writer such as a / writer 330, an automatic ticket gate, or a POS terminal can be performed.

  As the non-contact IC chip 100 used in the present embodiment, a commercially available mobile FeliCa IC chip (trade name, manufactured by Sony Corporation) can be suitably used, and the configuration thereof is as shown in FIG. In addition, it is mainly composed of an analog unit 102, a digital control unit 103, a memory 104 serving as an electronic money amount storage unit, and a connection interface 105, and an antenna unit 101 is connected to the analog unit 102, These antenna units 101 are disposed, for example, inside the casing of the mobile phone 5.

  The antenna unit 101 transmits / receives non-contact data by electromagnetic waves to / from an external reader / writer 330 (described later) provided in the issuing / paying machine 4 and the card unit 3. That is, the antenna unit 101 constitutes a data communication unit for performing data communication with each device such as the card unit 3 installed in a store or a game arcade for performing various transactions. The analog unit 102 processes analog signals transmitted and received from the antenna unit 101, such as detection, modulation / demodulation, and clock extraction.

  Further, the non-contact IC chip 100 changes the load between its own antennas according to the response signal to the interrogation signal from the external reader / writer 330, for example, and thereby the signal appearing in the receiving circuit on the external reader / writer 330 side. It is possible to perform communication by applying amplitude modulation to. However, these non-contact data communication methods are not limited to this, and methods other than these amplitude modulation methods may be used.

  Based on the firmware stored in the internal ROM, the digital control unit 103 performs processing for overall control of transmission / reception data processing, operation in the non-contact IC chip 100, and access to stored data in the memory 104, Various processes related to the use and charging of electronic money are performed in cooperation with the control unit 55 according to the situation. The digital control unit 103 connects an addressable memory 104 locally, and the storage area of the memory 104 provides a storage area allocated to each electronic money service provider A, B... Or a card management company. In the storage area allocated to JG electronic money, various data such as balance data (purchase balance and conversion balance in the case of JG electronic money) such as a member number or JG member ID, Setting data including usage history data, daily usage upper limit that is the upper limit of JG electronic money that can be used in one day, and monthly usage upper limit that is the upper limit of JG electronic money that can be used in one month, executed by the digital control unit 103 Program code such as access right management and authentication processing to be executed, and each application running in the control unit 55 The memory 104 is divided into a common area and a free area, and the common area is managed by a chip management organization that manages the common area. Managed by the server computer 15 (see FIG. 1) installed in the company, the application provided from each provider stored in the common area, a storage area for storing various data, and the storage area By managing the access right to various stored data by the chip management company, the security of the data in the storage area of each service provider is ensured.

  The connection interface 105 is used for the digital control unit 103 to connect to the control unit 55 by an interface protocol different from the non-contact communication interface with the external reader / writer 330 of the card unit 3 installed in the game hall. It is a functional module. That is, various data stored in the memory 104 is transferred to the control unit 55 via the digital control unit 103 and the connection interface 105, and thus to the memory 104 of each application executed by the control unit 55. Are centrally managed by the digital control unit 103.

  FIG. 3 shows a configuration example of the common area in the memory area of the memory 104. In the example shown in the figure, a system area for storing a chip ID uniquely assigned to the contactless IC chip 100, a storage area 104a of an electronic money service company A which is two electronic money service providers, A storage area 104b of an electronic money service company B is provided, and a storage area 104c for the JG electronic money amount provided by the card management company is provided.

  Also, in the area of the card management company of this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 3, the purchase remaining amount which is the amount of JG electronic money charged based on the payment of the price, and the JG charged by conversion from JG points. Usage history data including the usage history in which the conversion remaining amount, which is the amount of electronic money, is individually stored, and the JG electronic money amount consisting of the purchase remaining amount and the conversion remaining amount is used in the second lending process described later in the card unit 3 Is remembered.

  That is, the mobile phone 5 of the present embodiment transmits the purchase remaining amount, which is the first purchase electronic money amount that is added and updated based on the payment of the price, and the charge instruction transmission process described later that performs the point conversion process of the present invention. Based on the charged instruction, the conversion remaining amount that is the converted first electronic money amount that is added and updated by conversion from JG points is stored separately. It should be noted that the payment related to the purchase first electronic money amount of the present invention is not only added according to the acceptance of the banknote in the card unit 3 but also to the management server 14 via the Internet network as in this embodiment. Net charge by bank settlement by access is also included.

  Here, in order for the owner (player) who possesses the mobile phone 5 having the wallet function used in this embodiment to use the JG electronic money amount, a JG for charging the JG electronic money amount in advance is used. The application is downloaded and stored in the memory unit 60, and a JG electronic money amount storage area 104c is formed in the common area in the memory 104 of the contactless IC chip 100 of the mobile phone 5, and the JG is stored in the storage area 104c. Since it is necessary to store various data such as the remaining amount of electronic money and access right data, the flow of storing various data such as the remaining amount of JG electronic money and access right data is shown in FIGS. 9 will be described below.

  First, in order to enable the owner (player) to use the JG electronic money amount with the mobile phone 5 owned by the owner, the management of the above-mentioned card management company via the Internet network 9 as step 1 (FIG. 8). The server 14 is accessed to display the screen shown in FIG. The URL address of the management server 14 of the card management company is provided by a URL address posted in a game hall or the like, a two-dimensional bar code in which URL address data is symbolized, and the like.

  Then, the owner (player) selects and inputs “Click here to download the application”, and the screen shown in FIG. 9B is displayed. As shown in FIG. Will be downloaded. After downloading, the owner (player) activates the JG application. The downloaded data such as the downloaded application program is stored in the EEPROM of the memory unit 60.

  By the activation, the JG application is read from the memory unit 60 and executed by the control unit 55, and the control unit 55 displays a screen shown in FIG. 9C based on the JG application. On this screen, the account information on the account (for example, the account of the Internet specialized bank, etc.) for settlement of the amount charged to the JG electronic money (remaining purchase amount) from the owner (player) of the mobile phone 5, the last name, the name When the attribute information such as sex, age, birthday, etc. is received, the screen shown in FIG. 9 (d) is displayed, and the received account information and attribute information as step 3 (FIG. 8) and the mobile phone 5 are displayed. Information such as the terminal ID and the chip ID uniquely assigned to the non-contact IC chip 100 is transmitted to the management server 14.

  The cellular phone 5 receives a JG member ID issued by the card management company in step 4 (FIG. 8), and the management server 14 associates the issued JG member ID with the issued chip ID, surname, The attribute information such as name, gender, age, date of birth, etc. is stored in the JG member information table, which will be described later, and the chip management company's server computer 15 is accessed as step 5 (FIG. 8) to receive the issue. A registration request to the common area in the memory 104, such as a JG member ID, a purchase balance, a conversion balance, and the like, specifically, a remote issue request including a company ID uniquely assigned to the card management company is transmitted.

  Based on this remote issue request, in the server computer 15 of the chip management company, after the mutual authentication is performed with the non-contact IC chip 100 built in the mobile phone 5 and the encryption key, chip ID, etc. of the server computer 15, the step 6 (FIG. 8), the allocation of the area in the common area to the card management company by the server computer 15 of the management company, and the initial value of the JG member ID, purchase balance and conversion balance (in this embodiment, the initial value “0”) ) And the like, the JG electronic money amount (purchase balance and conversion balance) of the card management company can be used. Is displayed. In this remote issuing process, the company ID of the card management company to which the storage area 104c is assigned in association with each chip ID, the capacity and address information of the assigned area, etc. By storing / managing in the computer 15, it is managed which company's storage area is allocated to which non-contact IC chip 100, and the storage area has already been allocated, that is, the amount of electronic money can be used It can be determined whether or not.

  When the JG electronic money amount is newly stored, the purchase remaining amount and the conversion remaining amount of the JG electronic money amount are “0”. Therefore, after the registration, the management server 14 is accessed again and the desired amount is obtained. Is charged to the remaining purchase amount, or the remaining purchase amount is charged using cash in the card unit 3. The amount charged by accessing the management server 14 is automatically withdrawn from the registered account transmitted when the JG member ID is acquired and settled.

  Next, the card unit 3 used in the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 4 and FIG. 5. The card unit 3 is provided in a one-to-one correspondence with the pachinko machine 2 which is a gaming machine installed in the game hall. It is connected to the corresponding pachinko machine 2 directly and via a relay terminal (not shown), and various signals relating to the pachinko ball lending can be transmitted and received between the card unit 3 and the corresponding pachinko machine 2. It is possible.

  On the front surface of the card unit 3 of this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 4, various display units such as a multi-function lamp 301, a bill insertion slot 302, a coin insertion slot 303, an electronic money notification unit 331, and electronic money communication A portion 332, a coin return button 304, a protruding portion 305, a coin return port 308, and a card insertion port 309 are provided.

  A card insertion slot 309 provided on the front surface of the card unit 3 is connected to a card slot (not shown) of a built-in internal card reader / writer 327 (see FIG. 5). Prepaid cards and membership cards can be inserted into card slots.

  The prepaid card and the membership card used in this embodiment are a non-volatile memory for storing various data, and rewriting and reading out the recorded information, and non-contact with an external reader / writer device An IC card having an IC chip having a control unit for performing communication is used, and for these prepaid cards and membership cards, card IDs that can identify individual cards, specifically, JGVC is used for prepaid cards. The card ID that starts with, and the member card ID that starts with JGKC is stored in advance in the member card, the type of which can be identified from the card ID, and various data such as the remaining amount for gaming are stored in the card unit 3 Remembered.

  A protruding portion 305 is provided on the front surface of the card unit 3 so as to protrude forward. In the protrusion 305, the display unit 312, a menu switch 316 for displaying the main menu screen, and cash are inserted on the surface facing the player side to charge the inserted amount to JG electronic money. A charge switch 318 operated at the time, a replay switch 319 for performing a replay game using the number of balls specified by the member ID of the member card when a member card is received, and a replay switch 319 And a replay display unit 320 for informing that the operation is valid. On the surface of the display unit 312, display items displayed on the display unit 312 can be input with a finger. A transparent touch panel 314 is provided.

  FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the card unit 3 of this embodiment. The card unit 3 is a non-contact communication between an internal card reader / writer 327 provided continuously to the card insertion slot 309 and a mobile phone 5 provided at an internal position of the electronic money communication unit 332 and storing an electronic money amount. An external reader / writer 330 for executing the control, a display control board 329, and a control unit 328 for implementing various functions of the card unit 3 by controlling each part of the card unit 3 by a control program. The internal card reader / writer 327, the external reader / writer 330, and the display control board 329 are connected to the control unit 328, and various data can be transmitted and received.

  The control unit 328 of this embodiment includes a central processing circuit (CPU) 328a capable of executing a control program, a RAM 328b capable of storing various data used for various processes performed by the CPU, and various control programs. The RAM 328b is backed up by a battery (not shown), and the stored data is retained for a predetermined period even when the power is turned off.

  The internal card reader / writer 327 reads recorded information such as (member) card ID, member ID (member card only), game balance data, and the like recorded in the membership card and prepaid card inserted from the card insertion slot 309. In addition, at the inner end portion of the card, there is a storage unit (not shown) that stores a prepaid card (including a collected card) used for issuing, and the card stored in the storage unit is issued It is possible.

  The external reader / writer 330 also relates to the use of the JG electronic money amount with the non-contact IC chip 100 built in the mobile phone 5 having a wallet function close to the electronic money communication unit 332. Conduct contactless data communication. That is, data communication means for performing data communication with the mobile phone 5 by the external reader / writer 330 is formed.

  The display control board 329 includes the liquid crystal display 313, the transparent touch panel 314, the various switches (menu switch 316a, charge switch 318a, replay switch 319a) and the replay display section 320 described above. The electronic components such as the replay LED 320a provided in the are connected.

  Among the electronic components connected to the display control board 329, the transparent touch panel 314 and various switches (menu switch 316a, charge switch 318a, replay switch 319a) are connected to the control unit 328 via the display control board 329. The position detection information by the transparent touch panel 314 and the detection signal of each switch are input to the control unit 328. The replay LED 320a is also connected to the control unit 328 via the display control board 329, and the lighting control is performed by the control unit 328. Note that the operation detection of the transparent touch panel 314 and the menu switch 316a is performed in parallel with the normal process after Sb2 after the start process of Sb1 shown in FIG. 10 to be described later. A processing task is detected in an interrupt monitoring process (not shown) performed based on an individual processing task, whereby a main menu (not shown) is displayed on the display unit 312 and each menu provided in the main menu is displayed. Processing according to the item, for example, processing for displaying table data such as the number of big hits of the corresponding pachinko machine 2 according to the item “table data” is performed.

  Further, the display control board 329 specifies a display driving circuit that performs display driving of the liquid crystal display 313 and a position that is pressed based on an output signal from the transparent touch panel 314 and outputs the specified input position information. Output position detection circuit, VRAM used for display processing of the display drive circuit and image composition processing, and an I / O port to which various switches are connected and signals from the switches are input, and output from the control unit 328 Control is performed to display various screens and the like based on the displayed data on the liquid crystal display 313 constituting the display unit 312.

  The control unit 328 is connected to a bill recognition unit 321 and a coin recognition unit 322 in addition to electronic components such as switches and indicators connected via the display control board 329.

  The bill recognition unit 321 takes in a bill inserted into the bill insertion slot 302 and identifies its authenticity and bill type. Moreover, the coin identification unit 322 identifies the authenticity of the coins inserted from the coin insertion slot 303 and the coin type.

  In addition, the control unit 328 displays the remaining balance for gaming of the member card or prepaid card that is being received (specifically, the remaining balance for gaming in a reception information table (not shown) in the RAM 328b) provided on the connected pachinko machine 2. To display the remaining amount indicator (not shown), the lending button switch that detects the operation of a lending button (not shown) that is operated when lending (lending) pachinko balls, when returning a member card or prepaid card being accepted, A return button switch that detects an operation of a return button (not shown) that is operated when issuing a prepaid card that stores the game balance displayed on the balance display is connected.

  The control unit 328 receives detection signals from various switches, position detection information of the transparent touch panel 314, currency identification information by the banknote identification unit 321 and the coin identification unit 322, and the like, and the multifunction lamp 301 connected to the control unit 328. Each LED such as a multi-function LED 301a provided in the inside and a notification LED 331a provided in the electronic money notification unit 331, control of the internal card reader / writer 327, external reader / writer 330, display control board 329, display of the remaining amount indicator Control operation, etc., and card acceptance processing (FIG. 10, Sb9) for determining whether the membership card or prepaid card inserted into the card insertion slot 309 can be used or not in cooperation with the management computer 110 , Game balance stored in prepaid card or RAM 328b Data is stored in the RAM 328b or the first member lending process (Sb10 in FIG. 10, Sb10) for lending using the game remaining specified from the data, the return of the member card or the prepaid card being accepted by the operation of the return button Returns / issuance processing (Sb12 in FIG. 10, Sb12) for issuing a prepaid card storing game remaining amount data that can specify the remaining amount for gaming, and deposit by inserting money into the member card, prepaid card or RAM 328b that is being accepted. Payment processing (FIG. 10, Sb11), replay processing using the number of stored balls (FIG. 10, Sb13), cash charging processing (FIG. 10, Sb13 +, FIG. 11) for charging JG electronic money with cash, The second lending process for lending the ball using the amount of JG electronic money stored in the mobile phone 5 upon receipt of the mobile phone 5 (Fig. 10, Sb14, Figure 12) executes the various processes and the like.

  Further, the control unit 328 is connected to a prize ball number control board (not shown) of the corresponding pachinko machine 2, and a first lending process, a second lending process, and a replay process are performed with the prize ball number control board. It is possible to send and receive various signals accompanying this, and it is connected to the management computer 110 via the communication unit 334 and the HUB so as to be able to perform data communication, so that various data can be sent and received.

  Next, the management computer 110 and the management server 14 used in this embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. 6. First, as shown in FIG. 6, the management computer 110 of this embodiment sends and receives data within the computer. A CPU 112 that performs various processes performed by the management computer 110 on the basis of a processing program, a RAM 113 that is used as a temporary storage area during processing, and a real-time output of current time information and calendar information. A clock (RTC) 114, a storage device 115 composed of a magnetic disk or a magneto-optical disk, an input device 116 composed of a keyboard and a mouse, a display device 117 for displaying and outputting various information, a printer device 118 for printing and outputting various information, and a game Each card unit 3 and card tube installed in the hall Communication unit 119 performs data communication with the management server 14 installed in the company is connected with a normal computer.

  As shown in FIG. 6, in the storage device 115, in addition to a processing program in which each processing content executed by the management computer 110 is described, a storage ball owned by the member is associated with the member ID of the game hall. A member information table in which member information including the number is stored, or a card for managing the remaining amount for gaming remaining on the card in association with the (member) card ID of the member card and prepaid card used in the game hall Various data such as a management table is stored, and the management computer 110 uses the membership card received by the card unit 3 and the (member) card ID of the prepaid card, and the remaining balance for gaming remaining on the member card and the prepaid card. Can be specified.

  Then, the management server 14 used in the present embodiment will be described. As shown in FIG. 6, the management server 14 has each game executed by the management server 14 on a data bus 141 for transmitting and receiving data inside the computer. Management of JG points granted by using and charging JG electronic money amount, and JG electronic money amount, as well as JG electronic money amount, usage amount, payment amount, and membership amount and prepaid card used at the venue A CPU 142 that performs various processes such as a process for processing, a RAM 143 that is used as a temporary storage area during processing, an input device 144 such as a keyboard and a mouse, a storage device 145 composed of a magnetic disk or a magneto-optical disk, a display device 146, Digital service unit (D) that performs data communication with the management computer 110 installed in the amusement hall U) 148, data with the server computer 15 of the chip management company via the Internet 9, the server computers 16, 17... Installed at each electronic money service provider A, B. It is a normal computer excellent in processing capability to which a communication interface 149 for performing communication is connected.

  Further, in addition to the processing program in which the processing contents executed by the management server 14 are described, the storage device 145 is used in the game hall ID and each game hall as shown in FIG. 7A. A card management database (DB) in which the remaining amount for gaming is stored and managed in association with the (member) card ID of the existing membership card or prepaid card, and as shown in FIG. A JG member information table in which information related to the user (JG member) is stored in association with each JG member ID assigned in the use registration of money amount, a game hall information table shown in FIG. Usage history of electronic money amount (JG electronic money amount usage history), charging history to JG electronic money amount (charge history), conversion from JG electronic money amount to A company electronic money amount Various data such as gravel (electronic money conversion history) are stored.

  In the JG member information table of the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 7B, the JG member ID is associated with each JG member ID assigned to each user in the use registration of the JG electronic money amount by the JG application. The chip ID of the non-contact IC chip 100 mounted on the mobile phone 5 possessed by the member (owner) and the mobile phone 5 on which the user, that is, the non-contact IC chip 100 of the corresponding chip ID is mounted The member information is stored that includes the number of JG points owned by the user and the name, name, gender, age, date of birth, etc. received from the owner (JG member) at the time of use registration.

  That is, the JG member information table in the management server 14 of the present embodiment stores the number of JG points that is the number of owned points for each owner of each mobile phone 5, and the JG member information table of the management server 14 Point storage means in the present invention is formed.

  In addition, as shown in FIG. 7C, the game hall information table of the present embodiment is associated with the game hall ID, which is game hall identification information for individually identifying each game hall. The pool name for settlement of expenses associated with the use of the number of JG points granted according to the name and location of the game hall, the location, and the amount of JG electronic money used at the game hall, and used at the game hall The used conversion remaining amount, a deduction amount obtained by subtracting the used conversion remaining amount from the pool amount, and connection information (line number) for performing communication with the management computer 110 are stored.

  Hereinafter, in the point system of this embodiment, JG points are given by using the JG electronic money amount stored in the mobile phone 5 having the wallet function for the second lending process of the card unit 3 of this embodiment. The flow of charging the JG electronic money amount using cash in the card unit 3 will be described below.

  First, even if the mobile phone 5 has been downloaded and stored, the JG application is activated, the management server 14 is accessed, and the usage registration is performed, the JG electronic money amount can be used. Since the initial value of both the purchase remaining amount and the conversion remaining amount, which is the amount, is “0”, it is necessary to charge the JG electronic money amount.

  In this embodiment, there are two methods for this charging. A method of starting the JG application and directly accessing the management server 14 from the mobile phone 5 to perform charging without relying on cash (in this case, There are two methods of charging with cash in the card unit 3 in the card unit 3 in which the charge amount is automatically settled from the registered account registered at the time of use registration without cash). The charging method will be described below.

  In the card unit 3 used in this embodiment, the process shown in FIG. 10 is performed, and the control unit 328 is activated by turning on the power to the card unit 3, thereby executing the activation process of Sb1. Thus, confirmation of the connection status of each unit, transmission of a connection confirmation request to the management computer 110, and each setting data based on setting information returned from the management computer 110 in response to transmission of the connection confirmation request include initial values and the like. Implement settings.

  Then, after the activation process is performed, the control unit 328 cyclically performs the processes of Sb2 to Sb8, thereby accepting the card, which is the card insertion into the card insertion slot 309, and the operation of the lending button by the player (member or visitor) , Detecting the acceptance of cash by inserting cash from the bill insertion slot 302 or the coin insertion slot 303, the operation of the return button by the player, the operation of the replay switch 319, the operation of the charge switch 318, and the reception of the mobile phone 5. It will be in a standby state.

  When it is desired to charge the JG electronic money amount, the charge switch 318 provided on the protruding portion 305 of the card unit 3 is pressed regardless of whether or not the game is being played.

  The operation (charge operation) of the charge switch 318 is detected in Sb6 + in the standby state of Sb2 to Sb8 shown in FIG. 10 and proceeds to the step of Sb13 +, and the process shown in FIG. 11 is performed.

  Specifically, the control unit 328 displays a message prompting the insertion of cash on the display unit 312 based on the acceptance of the charging operation, and shifts to a cash insertion standby state.

  Upon receiving this message display, the owner of the mobile phone 5 inserts the amount to be charged into the JG electronic money amount from the bill insertion slot 302 or the coin insertion slot 303.

  By inserting the cash, the bill identifying unit 321 and the coin identifying unit 322 identify the authenticity and denomination of the inserted money (cash), and output money identification information including the identification result to the control unit 328.

  By outputting the money identification information, the control unit 328 performs a cash accepting process for specifying the amount of money inserted from the input money identification information. In addition, if the specified input amount is an amount of coins, specifically, an amount of less than 1000 yen due to the insertion of 500 yen coins or 100 yen coins, it is possible that additional coins will be additionally inserted. Until a predetermined time, for example, 5 seconds elapses after the input of the identification information, it enters a state of waiting for further input of the currency identification information. When a plurality of currency identification information is input, the identification amount specified from each currency identification information The total amount is specified as the input amount.

  Then, a confirmation screen including the specified input amount and the “execution” input operation unit is displayed on the display unit 312 to accept the operation of the “execution” input operation unit. At this time, in order to further increase the amount of money, an input operation unit for “continue cash insertion” may be provided on the confirmation screen, and a cash acceptance process for accepting the insertion of money may be performed.

  The control unit 328 displays a proximity guidance message for prompting the proximity of the mobile phone 5 on the display unit 312 based on the reception of the operation of the “execution” input operation unit, and performs a transaction from the external reader / writer 330. An inquiry signal string (charge) including a signal string corresponding to predetermined data indicating the type “charge” is transmitted.

  The inquiry signal sequence (charge) transmitted in this way is received by the non-contact IC chip 100 of the mobile phone 5 brought close to the electronic money communication unit 332 by the owner in response to the proximity guidance message. The non-contact IC chip 100 (digital control unit 103) that has received (charge) returns a specific transaction request including the chip ID stored in the system area of the memory 104 to the external reader / writer 330.

  In response to these replies, the card unit 3 (control unit 328) temporarily stores the chip ID included in the received specific transaction request, displays a processing message on the display unit 312, and blinks the notification LED 331a. Control information to the control computer, while managing the charge information including the chip ID, the device ID of the card unit 3, and the charge amount that is the input amount specified in the cash acceptance process 110 is transmitted.

  In response to the reception of the charge information, the management computer 110 receives the chip ID, the charge amount, the device ID, and the game hall ID of the game hall where the management computer 110 is installed. Is transmitted to the management server 14.

  In response to receiving this charge information, the management server 14 determines whether or not the chip ID included in the received charge information is stored in the JG member information table, and the non-contact IC chip 100 to be charged is An authentication process is performed to determine whether or not the contact-registered non-contact IC chip 100 can use the JG electronic money amount by having the memory 104 in which the storage area 104c of the card management company is formed. If the chip ID is stored, a charge request including the device ID, the chip ID, and the charge amount included in the received charge information is returned to the management computer 110. If the chip ID is not stored, a charge impossible notification including the device ID and chip ID included in the received charge information is returned, and the returned charge impossible notification is included in the charge impossible notification. By transmitting (relaying) the card unit 3 with the ID, the cash charge process is stopped.

  In response to receiving the charge request from the management server 14, the management computer 110 transmits (relays) the chip ID and the charge amount included in the received charge request to the card unit of the device ID included in the received charge request. To do.

  Upon receiving this charge request, the card unit 3 (control unit 328) has the received charge request chip ID and charge amount the same as the temporarily stored chip ID and the input amount specified in the cash acceptance process. If they are the same, the received charge request further including the remaining amount update access right data for the JG electronic money amount is sent to the non-contact IC chip 100 via the external reader / writer 330. Send.

  In response to receiving the charge request including the remaining amount update access right data, the non-contact IC chip 100 (digital control unit 103) adds the charge amount included in the received charge request to the remaining purchase amount stored in the storage area 104c. At the same time as the addition update, a charge completion notification that the addition update including the chip ID and the added charge amount is completed is returned to the external reader / writer 330 (card unit 3).

  In response to receiving the charge completion notification, the card unit 3 (control unit 328) manages the charge completion notification obtained by adding the device ID of the card unit 3 to the chip ID and the charge amount included in the received charge completion notification. While transmitting to the computer 110, the display unit 312 displays that charging has been completed, and the flashing lighting control of the notification LED 331a is terminated to notify the owner that charging has been completed.

  In response to receiving the charge completion notification, the management computer 110 adds the received charge completion notification to the management information related to electronic money sales such as JG electronic money sales at the game hall and JG electronic money sales for each card unit 3. After executing the management data update process for updating by adding the charge amount included in the charge, the charge including the game ID of the game hall in place of the chip ID and the device ID of the charge amount included in the received charge completion notification A completion notification is transmitted to the management server 14.

  In response to the reception of the charge completion notification, the management server 14 registers the charge amount, use date and time, and game hall ID as a charge history in association with the chip ID included in the received charge completion notification. A settlement amount update process is performed in which a settlement amount obtained by subtracting a predetermined fee from the amount is added to the settlement amount of the charge amount with the game hall and updated.

  In this way, the card unit 3 uses the cash to charge the JG electronic money amount of the mobile phone 5 and includes the charge amount charged to the non-contact IC chip 100 of each mobile phone 5. The charge history is managed by the management server 14.

  The JG electronic money amount charged in this way can be used in the second lending process performed in the card unit 3 by bringing the mobile phone 5 close to the electronic money communication unit 332 without operating the charge switch 318. .

  The flow of the second lending process will be described below with reference to FIGS. 10 and 12. When the owner brings the mobile phone 5 close to the electronic money communication unit 332 (external reader / writer 330) of the card unit 3. The non-contact IC chip 100 of the mobile phone 5 receives an inquiry signal string (ball lending) including a signal string corresponding to predetermined data indicating “ball lending” which is the transaction type transmitted in Sb7.

  The reception of the inquiry signal sequence (ball lending) transmitted in this way is detected in the inquiry signal sequence reception detection step in the electronic money use processing (not shown), which is implemented in the digital control unit 103 of the non-contact IC chip 100. The process proceeds to the type determination step, where it is determined whether or not the type of the received inquiry signal sequence is an inquiry signal sequence (ball rental) (the type of the inquiry signal sequence is not charged), and is stored in the storage area 104c. Specific transaction that detects whether or not specific transaction information has been received within a predetermined time after transmitting a specific transaction request including the remaining amount that is the total of the remaining purchase balance and conversion balance to the card unit 3 (specific transaction request transmission step) The process proceeds to the information reception waiting step.

  In response to the reception of the specific transaction request, the card unit 3 (control unit 328) causes the remaining amount included in the received specific transaction request to be equivalent to 100 to 100 yen, which is the minimum unit amount used in the second lending process. It is determined whether or not the second tax-included unit amount, which is the total amount including the tax amount of 5 yen, is 105 yen or more. If the remaining amount is not 105 yen or more, a remaining amount error is returned and the second lending process is performed. On the other hand, when the remaining amount is 105 yen or more, a used amount specifying process for specifying the used amount is performed. When the remaining amount error is returned, an error message indicating that the remaining amount is insufficient on the mobile phone 5 is displayed on the display unit 56, so that the JG electronic money amount is insufficient. To be notified.

  In this usage amount specifying process, first, the remaining amount included in the received specific transaction request is 1000 yen set as the second usage amount of the second lending process and a consumption tax amount corresponding to the second usage amount. It is determined whether or not the second tax-included usage amount is 1050 yen or more, which is the total amount with a certain 50 yen (tax rate 5%), and the remaining amount is 1050 yen or more that is the second tax-included usage amount. In some cases, the second tax-included usage amount of 1050 yen is specified as the usage amount. On the other hand, when the remaining amount is not more than the second tax-included usage amount of 1050 yen, the second tax-included unit amount If the remaining amount is 700 yen, for example, if the remaining amount is 700 yen, 630 yen that corresponds to 6 times the maximum amount that is the integral multiple of 105 yen that is the second tax-included unit amount Is specified as the amount used.

  Then, after replying (transmitting) the specific transaction information including the usage amount specified in this way to the non-contact IC chip 100 (the mobile phone 5), the system enters a state of waiting for reception of the subtraction completion notification from the non-contact IC chip 100. Transition.

  The reception of the specific transaction information transmitted in this way is detected and subtracted and updated at the reception waiting step of the specific transaction information (not shown) of the electronic money use processing (not shown) performed by the non-contact IC chip 100 (mobile phone 5). By proceeding to the step, the used amount included in the received specific transaction information is subtracted and updated from the conversion remaining amount and the purchase remaining amount stored in the storage area 104c. In the subtraction update, the subtraction from the conversion remaining amount is prioritized and the insufficient amount that cannot be subtracted from the conversion remaining amount is subtracted from the purchase remaining amount. Note that the present invention is not limited to giving priority to subtraction from the remaining conversion amount. These subtractions are prioritized from the remaining purchase amount, and an insufficient amount that cannot be subtracted from the remaining purchase amount is calculated from the remaining conversion amount. You may make it subtract.

  Then, the card unit 3 (external reader / writer 330) receives a subtraction completion notification indicating that the subtraction of the usage amount has been completed, including the subtraction breakdown consisting of the subtraction amount from the conversion residual amount and the subtraction amount from the purchase residual amount, and the chip ID. ).

  In response to the reception of the subtraction completion notification transmitted from the non-contact IC chip 100, the control unit 328 removes the consumption tax amount from the amount of pachinko balls corresponding to the used amount transmitted as the specific transaction information, that is, the used amount. An instruction to pay out the number of balls divided by 4 yen is output to the corresponding pachinko machine 2 to perform a ball lending process for paying out the number of pachinko balls, and given to the card unit 3 After the second lending completion notification including the received device ID, the subtraction breakdown included in the received subtraction completion notification and the chip ID is transmitted to the management computer 110, the second lending process is terminated, and the standby of Sb2 to Sb8 Return to state.

  In response to the reception of the second lending completion notification, the management computer 110 uses the used electronic money that has been used such as the used JG electronic money amount at the game hall or the used JG electronic money amount for each card unit 3. After the management data update process is executed to update the management information related to the amount by adding the usage amount specified from the subtraction breakdown included in the received second lending completion notification, it is included in the received second lending completion notification The usage history information including the subtraction breakdown, the chip ID, and the game hall ID of the game hall is transmitted to the management server 14. In this embodiment, the usage history information is transmitted to the management server 14 every time the second lending completion notification is received. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the usage history on that day. Information may be stored and stored, and the usage history information stored and stored may be transmitted to the management server 14 in a closing process after the end of business.

  In response to the reception of the usage history information, the management server 14 associates the chip ID included in the received usage history information with the conversion amount used, the purchase amount used, the usage date and time, and the game hall. A usage history storage process for registering an ID as a usage history is performed, and a point giving process is performed based on the usage history.

  In the point awarding process of this embodiment, first, the chip ID included in the usage history newly registered in the usage history storage processing, the game hall ID, and the date specified from the usage date and time match. Determine whether the history already exists, specify the usage amount from the conversion amount used in the newly registered usage history and the purchase amount used, and give it according to the usage amount The number of JG points to be calculated is calculated. Specifically, in this embodiment, 1P is given for the use of 105 yen, which is the second tax-included unit amount, and the value obtained by dividing the use amount by 105 is calculated as the number of JG points to be given. The In this embodiment, 1P (points) is given for the use of 105 yen, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, 10 points for the use of 1050 yen. Alternatively, 1 point may be given. In addition, as the number of points to be given, for example, an upper limit may be set to the number of given points so that the upper limit of the number of points given per day is 100P.

  Then, in the determination based on the usage history, if there is no matching usage history, it is determined that the JG electronic money amount has been used for the first time on that day, and the calculated JG points are used. The number of JG points to be newly granted by adding 10P as the number of visit points is specified, and if there is a matching usage history, it is determined that the visit points have already been given on that day, and the above calculation is performed. The number of JG points is specified as the number of JG points to be newly granted.

  Then, the newly added JG point number specified in this way is stored in the JG member information table in correspondence with the chip ID included in the usage history newly registered in the usage history storage processing. In addition to updating, the pool amount update process is performed.

  In this pool price update process, when the JG point number added to the number of owned points in the point grant process is used (lottery or conversion to electronic money), it is used to settle the price generated by the use Pool amount to be paid, specifically, the pool amount of the game hall that is the usage destination of the JG electronic money amount that is the opportunity to be granted the JG points in advance (see FIG. 7C) In addition, an amount corresponding to the number of JG points given, specifically, an amount with 1 point being 10 yen is added and updated.

  That is, in the point system of the present embodiment, the JG electronic money amount of the mobile phone 5 in which the JG electronic money amount that is the first electronic money amount and the A company electronic money amount that is the second electronic money amount is stored. JG points are given to the owner of the mobile phone 5 in accordance with the use of the game in the game hall, that is, the second rental process.

  And the usage amount specified from the conversion amount and the purchase amount included in the usage history newly registered in the usage history storage process, that is, the usage amount of the JG electronic money amount, A payment amount update process is performed in which the payment amount is updated by adding an amount obtained by subtracting the fee from the amount used.

  Next, the flow of converting the JG points owned by the mobile phone 5 into the JG electronic money amount or the A company electronic money amount will be described below with reference to FIGS. 13 to 15. When the user performs a predetermined activation operation on the mobile phone 5 to activate the JG application, the control unit 55 includes the JG member ID stored in the storage area 104c of the memory 104 based on the activated JG application. A my page request is transmitted to the management server 14.

  In response to the reception of this My Page request, the management server 14 associates the JG member ID included in the received My Page request with the chip ID, possession point, and name (first name, name) stored in the JG member information table. ), Member information such as gender, occupation, etc. is extracted, temporarily stored in association with the JG member ID, and from the JG member ID shown in FIG. Generate and return (deliver) the My Page of the identified owner.

  As shown in FIG. 13A, in the lower area of the My Page of this embodiment, “1, lottery application”, “2, point conversion 1”, “3, point conversion 2”, “4” Various menus such as “Move Point” are selectable. Although not shown in FIG. 13A, these selectable menus are also provided with a “charge” menu item. By selecting the “charge” menu, JG Electronics The money can be charged.

  When “1, lottery application” is selected from the menu on this My Page, a lottery acceptance process is performed as shown in FIG. 14, and it is possible to apply using the points owned in the lottery for prizes. It can be done.

  If the owner wants to convert JG points into JG electronic money amount, he / she only has to select “2, Point Conversion 1” from the menu on My Page. As shown in FIG. 14, the use point number receiving process is performed. Specifically, in this usage point number acceptance processing, as shown in FIG. 13B, designation for accepting designation of the number of JG points used for display of the number of owned JG points and conversion into the amount of JG electronic money. The use point receiving page including the receiving unit is displayed on the display unit 56, whereby the JG point number used for conversion to the JG electronic money amount is received.

  In this use point acceptance page, the owner makes a unit amount (1000 yen in this embodiment) that is not more than the number of possession points and that can be converted into the JG electronic money amount, which is selected by the designated acceptance unit. If the possessed points are 115 points, for example, as shown in FIG. 13 (b), only 100 points corresponding to the unit amount can be designated in the designated accepting unit. Accept the designation of the number of JG points used for If the possession point is, for example, 350 points, the designation receiving unit can designate “100”, “200”, and “300”.

  As described above, after the number of JG points to be used for conversion is specified, when the owner performs an input operation on the “execute” input operation unit provided below the use point receiving page, the control unit 55 performs the operation. Accordingly, as shown in FIG. 14, a point conversion 1 request including the number of used points, which is the number of JG points accepted on the used point acceptance page, and the JG member ID is transmitted to the management server 14.

  In response to reception of this point conversion 1 request, the management server 14 stores the number of JG points temporarily stored in association with the JG member ID included in the received point conversion 1 request, that is, in the JG member information table. The number of owned points stored in association with the JG member ID included in the received point conversion 1 request is equal to or greater than the number of used points included in the received point conversion 1 request, that is, the number of owned points of the used point number Check if subtraction from is possible.

  If the number of JG points temporarily stored (owned points) is equal to or greater than the number of used points, JG electronic money amount corresponding to the number of used points, for example, 1000 yen if the number of used points is 100 points. , Specified as the charge amount.

  The identified charge amount and the chip ID temporarily stored in association with the JG member ID included in the received point conversion 1 request, that is, the chip of the non-contact IC chip 100 mounted on the mobile phone 5 A charge instruction transmission process is performed in which a charge instruction including an ID is returned to the mobile phone 5 (control unit 55).

  In response to the reception of the charge instruction, the control unit 55 sets the application data of the JG application on condition that the chip ID included in the received charge instruction matches the chip ID stored in the system area of the memory 104. The remote issuance request including the company ID of the card management company described therein is transmitted to the server computer 15 of the chip management company, and data between the server computer 15 and the non-contact IC chip 100 (digital control unit 103). Relay processing that enables communication is started.

  After mutual authentication is performed between the server computer 15 and the non-contact IC chip 100 built in the mobile phone 5 based on the remote issue request by using an encryption key, a chip ID, etc., the server computer 15 In the non-contact IC chip 100 specified by the ID, it is determined that the storage area of the card management company is already stored in the common area, so that it is determined that it is a charge rather than an area allocation, and updated. The permission is transmitted to the non-contact IC chip 100.

  In response to the reception of the update permission, the non-contact IC chip 100 (digital control unit 103) acquires the charge amount from the control unit 55, that is, the charge amount included in the charge instruction received from the management server 14, and acquires the charge amount. After the charge amount is added and updated to the conversion remaining amount stored in the storage area 104c of the memory 104, the update completion notification including the chip ID is returned to the server computer 15, so that the update completion notification is sent from the server computer 15 to the company. By being transferred to the management server 14 of the card management company specified by the ID, the management server 14 stores and temporarily stores it in the JG member information table corresponding to the chip ID included in the received update completion notification. Point conversion including JG member ID corresponding to the chip ID A point subtraction process for subtracting and updating the number of used points included in the request is performed, and in the same manner as the charge history including the above-mentioned game hall ID, it indicates that the conversion is from a point instead of the game hall ID. A charge history registration process is performed for registering “points”, charge amounts, and usage dates and times as charge histories in association with chip IDs.

  That is, the management server 14 according to the present embodiment uses the JG electronic money amount (first electronic money amount) corresponding to the used point number included in the received point conversion 1 request as the converted used point number in the present invention. Charge instruction transmission processing for transmitting a charge instruction in order to add and update the conversion remaining amount that is the amount of JG electronic money stored in the mobile phone 5 (mobile terminal) of a number of owners, and the charge instruction transmission processing The point conversion means of the present invention is formed by the management server 14 that performs the above.

In addition, the management server 14 according to the present embodiment responds to the point conversion 1 request that becomes the predetermined conversion use point number from the owned point number stored in the JG member information table as the point storage means in the present invention in the point subtraction process. The number of used points included is subtracted and updated, and the point conversion means of the present invention is formed by the management server 14 that performs the point subtraction process.

  It should be noted that the control unit 55 of the mobile phone 5 transmits the above-described update completion notification, and as shown in FIG. 13C, the addition of the JG electronic money amount converted from JG points is completed, A completion page (screen) including the new JG electronic money amount after the addition (the total amount of the added conversion remaining amount and the purchase remaining amount) is displayed on the display unit 56, and the selection of “return” in the page (screen) When the input unit is selected or a predetermined time has elapsed, the display state of the My Page shown in FIG.

  If the owner wants to convert JG points into A company's electronic money amount, it is only necessary to select “3, Point Conversion 2” from the menu on My Page, and this “3, Point Conversion 2” is selected. In this case, the process proceeds to the process shown in FIG. 14 to FIG. 15, and the used point number receiving process is performed. Specifically, in the use point number receiving process, as shown in FIG. 13D, the display of the number of JG points owned and the designation of the number of JG points used for conversion into the A company electronic money amount are accepted. By displaying the usage point reception page including the designated reception unit on the display unit 56, the JG points used for conversion into the A company electronic money amount are received.

  In this use point acceptance page, the owner is a unit amount (in this example, JG electronic money, which is equal to or less than the number of possession points that can be converted into the A company electronic money amount, which is selected by the designated acceptance unit. The item of the number of JG points according to 1000 yen as in the conversion to the amount, for example, if the possession point is 115 points as shown in FIG. 13 (d), 100 points corresponding to the unit amount below 115P The designation accepting unit accepts designation of the number of JG points used for conversion.

  As described above, after the number of JG points to be used for conversion is specified, when the owner performs an input operation on the “execute” input operation unit provided below the use point receiving page, the control unit 55 performs the operation. Accordingly, as illustrated in FIG. 15, a point conversion 2 request including the number of used points, which is the number of JG points received on the used point receiving page, and the JG member ID is transmitted to the management server 14.

  In response to the reception of the point conversion 2 request, the management server 14 stores the number of JG points temporarily stored in association with the JG member ID included in the received point conversion 2 request, that is, in the JG member information table. The number of owned points stored in association with the JG member ID included in the received point conversion 2 request is equal to or greater than the number of used points included in the received point conversion 2 request, that is, the number of owned points of the used point number Check if subtraction from is possible.

  If the number of JG points temporarily stored is equal to or greater than the number of used points, the JG electronic money amount corresponding to the number of used points, for example, if the number of used points is 100 points, 1000 yen as the charge amount Identify.

  The identified charge amount and the chip ID temporarily stored in association with the JG member ID included in the received point conversion 2 request, that is, the chip of the non-contact IC chip 100 mounted on the mobile phone 5 A charge instruction including the ID is returned to the mobile phone 5 (control unit 55).

  In response to the reception of the charge instruction, the control unit 55 sets the application data of the JG application on condition that the chip ID included in the received charge instruction matches the chip ID stored in the system area of the memory 104. The remote issuance request including the company ID of the card management company described therein is transmitted to the server computer 15 of the chip management company, and data between the server computer 15 and the non-contact IC chip 100 (digital control unit 103). Relay processing that enables communication is started.

  After mutual authentication is performed between the server computer 15 and the non-contact IC chip 100 built in the mobile phone 5 based on the remote issue request by using an encryption key, a chip ID, etc., the server computer 15 In the non-contact IC chip 100 specified by the ID, it is determined that the storage area of the card management company is already stored in the common area, so that it is determined that it is a charge rather than an area allocation, and updated. The permission is transmitted to the non-contact IC chip 100.

  In response to the reception of the update permission, the non-contact IC chip 100 (digital control unit 103) acquires the charge amount from the control unit 55, that is, the charge amount included in the charge instruction received from the management server 14, and acquires the charge amount. After the charge amount is added and updated to the conversion remaining amount stored in the storage area 104c of the memory 104, the update completion notification including the chip ID is returned to the server computer 15, so that the update completion notification is sent from the server computer 15 to the company. By being transferred to the management server 14 of the card management company specified by the ID, the management server 14 stores and temporarily stores it in the JG member information table corresponding to the chip ID included in the received update completion notification. Point change including the JG member ID corresponding to the chip ID. (2) A point subtraction process for subtracting and updating the number of used points included in the request is performed, and as described above, the charge amount, use date and time, and “point” are registered as a charge history in association with the chip ID. Execute the charge history registration process.

  Then, after the charge history registration process, the chip ID included in the received update completion notification and the A company electronic money amount corresponding to the charge amount included in the charge instruction transmitted to the mobile phone 5 in the above (this book In the embodiment, since the JG electronic money amount and the A company electronic money amount are equivalent, the electronic money conversion instruction transmission processing for transmitting the electronic money conversion instruction including the charge amount which is the same amount as the charge amount included in the charge instruction) To implement.

  The JG application being executed in the control unit 55 in response to the reception of the electronic money conversion instruction activates the A company electronic money application through the control unit 55, and the received electronic company A app receives the received electronic money application. After performing a charge request output process for outputting a charge request including a chip ID and a charge amount included in the money conversion instruction, the process shifts to a charge completion input waiting state.

  In response to the output of the charge request, the company A electronic money application (control unit 55) transmits charge information including the chip ID and the charge amount included in the charge request to the server computer 16 of the company A.

  In response to the reception of the charge information, the company A's server computer 16 confirms whether or not the chip ID included in the received charge information is a chip ID for which use registration of the electronic money of the company A is made. An authentication process is executed, and on the condition that the use registration of the chip ID is made, a charge instruction including the chip ID and the charge amount included in the received charge information is returned.

  In response to the reception of the charge instruction, the company A electronic money application (control unit 55) provides that the chip ID included in the received charge instruction matches the chip ID stored in the system area of the memory 104. In addition, the remote issuing request including the company ID of the company A described in the application data of the company A electronic money application is transmitted to the server computer 15 of the chip management company. 15 and a relay process that enables data communication between the non-contact IC chip 100 (digital control unit 103).

  After mutual authentication is performed between the server computer 15 and the non-contact IC chip 100 built in the mobile phone 5 based on the remote issue request by using an encryption key, a chip ID, etc., the server computer 15 The non-contact IC chip 100 identified from the ID is determined to be a charge rather than an area allocation by confirming that the storage area 104a of the electronic money service company A is already stored in the common area. Then, the update permission is transmitted to the non-contact IC chip 100.

  In response to the renewal permission, the contactless IC chip 100 (digital control unit 103) sends the charge amount from the A company electronic money application (control unit 55), that is, the charge amount included in the charge instruction, to the A company electronic money amount, That is, after adding and updating the remaining amount in the storage area 104a of the company A, an update completion notification including the chip ID is returned to the server computer 15 and charging completion is output to the JG application, and the process is terminated.

When the update completion notification is returned, the update completion notification is transferred from the server computer 15 to the server computer 16 of the company A, so that the server computer 16 of the company A receives the received update completion notification. A charge history registration process for registering a chip ID, a charge amount, use date and time, and “money conversion” indicating conversion from JG electronic money as a charge history is performed.

  Further, the JG application (control unit 55) performs charge amount subtraction processing for subtracting and updating the charge amount included in the charge request output to the company A electronic money app from the conversion remaining amount in response to the output of the charge completion. Then, the electronic money conversion completion notification including the charge amount and the chip ID is transmitted to the management server 14.

  In response to the reception of the electronic money conversion completion notification, the management server 14 determines that the electronic money conversion into the A company electronic money has been completed, and charges the management server 14 in association with the chip ID included in the electronic money conversion completion notification. The amount of money, use date and time, and “money conversion” indicating conversion to A company electronic money are registered as a conversion history.

  That is, the control unit 55 of the mobile phone 5 of the present embodiment gives the mobile phone 5 the A company electronic money amount (second electronic money amount) corresponding to the charge amount that is the conversion use first electronic money amount of the present invention. In addition to outputting a charge request in the charge request output process in order to add and update the remaining amount stored in the storage area 104a that becomes the stored A company electronic money amount (second electronic money amount), the charge amount In the subtraction process, the above-described point usage accepting process, which becomes the converted first electronic money amount used in the present invention from the JG electronic money amount (converted remaining amount) which is the first electronic money amount stored in the mobile phone 5 The charge amount, which is the amount added and updated to the conversion remaining amount, is subtracted and updated based on the number of JG points used for the conversion received in step S3, and the control unit 55 (JG By pre), the electronic money conversion unit are formed in the present invention.

  Further, the control unit 55 serving as the electronic money conversion means of the present invention uses the remaining conversion amount based on the number of JG points used for the conversion received in the above-mentioned used point number receiving process as the converted first electronic money amount used in the present invention. By using the amount updated in addition to, only the conversion remaining amount that becomes the converted first electronic money amount is converted into the A company electronic money amount (second electronic money amount).

  In the first embodiment, JG points are converted into JG electronic money amount (converted balance) based on acceptance of one menu selection operation of “3, point conversion 2” which is a conversion operation from the owner. While performing the conversion, the converted remaining amount is converted into the A company electronic money amount without requiring any further conversion operation.

  The control unit 55 (JG application) of the mobile phone 5 adds the electronic money amount converted from JG points after transmitting the electronic money conversion completion notification as shown in FIG. 13 (e). The completion page (screen) including the fact that the process has been completed is displayed on the display unit 56, and the “return” selection input unit on the page (screen) is selected or operated again or after a predetermined time has elapsed. Then, the display state of the My Page shown in FIG.

  In addition, when the selection operation part of the “remaining amount confirmation” in the completion page (screen) is selected, the JG application is terminated, while the A company electronic money application is activated, and the A company electronic money application Company A can check the remaining amount of electronic money.

  As described above, in the first embodiment, JG points are converted into JG electronic money, which is the first electronic money of the present invention, by selecting the menu of “2, point conversion 1” in My Page. JG points are converted to the JG electronic money amount which is the first electronic money amount of the present invention by selecting the menu of “3, point conversion 2”, and further operations are accepted thereafter. Instead, the converted JG electronic money amount is converted into the A company electronic money amount which is the second electronic money amount.

  Next, the flow of converting the number of external points of another company managed by the other company's point management server 18 into JG points will be described with reference to FIGS. 16 and 17. First, the number of external points owned by the owner is determined as JG points. When the user wants to convert to “4, move point” in the My Page shown in FIG. 16A (same as FIG. 13A), this “4, move point” is selected. The process proceeds from the process shown in FIG. 14 to the process shown in FIG.

  Specifically, in this move source information accepting process, as shown in FIG. 16B, a move source designation accepting unit for accepting designation of a move source external point, and a member in another company that manages the move source external point A source information receiving page having a member number input unit for inputting a number and a password input unit for inputting a password is displayed on the display unit 56 to specify the external point of the source, accept the member number, and the password. . In addition, in the movement origin designation | designated reception part, the name of the external point of the other company in the affiliated relationship in which the movement of the point was enabled is displayed by a pop-up.

  The owner selects the point name of the move source that he / she wants to use for moving points on the move source information accepting page, and gives the external point to the member number input part and password input part. After entering the member number and password of the other company that received the request, select and input the “select” selection input section.

  In response to the selection input of “decision”, the JG application (control unit 55) moves information including the information received on the movement source information reception page, that is, the movement source point name, member number, password, and JG member ID. The acceptance information is transmitted to the management server 14.

  In response to the reception of the movement acceptance information, the management server 14 temporarily stores the movement source point name, the member number, the password, and the JG member ID included in the received movement acceptance information in association with each other. From the point name, the access address of the other company's point management server that manages the source external point (the access address of the other company's point management server 18 of the partner company that can move the point, although not shown in the management server 14) Is stored in advance in association with the external point name), and the point including the membership number and password included in the received movement acceptance information with respect to the access address of the specified other company's point management server 18 A point acquisition request transmission process for transmitting an acquisition request is performed.

  In response to the reception of the point acquisition request, the other company's point management server 18 performs the member authentication process based on the member number and password included in the received point acquisition request. Specifically, the registration of the member number included in the received point acquisition request exists in the member number managed as a member, and the point acquisition received for the password registered corresponding to the member number Determine whether the passwords included in the request match.

  If the authentication result in the authentication process is “OK”, the number of external points managed in association with the member number, that is, the number of owned external points owned by the owner is specified. The point information including the specified number of owned external points and the member number is returned to the management server 14.

  That is, the management server 14 according to the present embodiment transmits a point acquisition request in the point acquisition request transmission process, so that the number of external points different from the JG points owned by the owner is used as point information for the other company's point management server 18. The management server 14 that acquires (receives) and executes the point acquisition request transmission processing forms the external point number acquisition means in the present invention.

  In response to the reception of the point information, the management server 14 further stores the number of owned external points included in the point information in association with the member number included in the received point information, and then stores the number of owned external points. The movement point reception page shown in FIG. 16C including the display is returned to the mobile phone 5 that is the transmission source of the movement reception information.

  In response to the reception of the movement point reception page, the JG application (control unit 55) displays the received movement point reception page on the display unit 56, and receives the designation of the number of movement points used for point movement. Perform acceptance processing.

  As shown in FIG. 16 (c), the movement point reception page of this embodiment has a movement point number designation reception unit for accepting designation of the number of movement points used for point movement at the center thereof. In the moving point number designation receiving unit, an “all” menu that uses all the external point numbers displayed on the moving point receiving page, or a predetermined number within the range of the displayed external point numbers ( Specifically, a numerical value in units of 50 points, 50, 100, 150, 200...) Can be selected by pop-up display. After selecting the desired number of movement points to be used for movement, for example, “all”, the selection input section of “decision” at the bottom of the page is selected and input.

  In response to the selection input of “decision”, the JG application (control unit 55) includes the number of movement source points, which is information received on the movement point reception page, and further receives reception information including the JG member ID. Send to.

  In response to the reception of the acceptance information, the management server 14 further temporarily stores the number of movement points included in the received acceptance information in association with the JG member ID included in the received acceptance information, and then stores the JG member ID. To confirm that the number of external points temporarily stored in association with the number of moving points included in the received acceptance information, and on the condition that it is equal to or more than the number of moving points, Point movement request transmission processing for transmitting a point movement request including the membership number and password temporarily stored in association with the JG member ID to the other company's point management server 18 is performed.

  In response to the reception of this point movement request, the other company's point management server 18 obtains a password managed corresponding to the membership number included in the received point movement request and a password included in the received point movement request. On the condition that they match, it is confirmed that the number of external points managed corresponding to the member number is equal to or greater than the number of movement points included in the received point movement request, and the number of external points is the movement point. If it is confirmed that the number of moving points can be subtracted from the number of external points, the subtraction completion notification including the member number is managed after the number of moving points is subtracted from the number of external points and updated. A reply is sent to the server 14.

  In response to the reception of the subtraction completion notification, the management server 14 specifies the JG member ID and the number of movement points that are temporarily stored in association with the member number included in the received subtraction completion notification, and the JG member information. A point addition process is performed to add and update the specified number of movement points to the number of owned points corresponding to the specified JG member ID in the table.

  In other words, the management server 14 of this embodiment transmits a point movement request for subtracting and updating the number of movement points that is the predetermined number of conversion-use external points in the present invention from the number of external points acquired from the other company's point management server 18. And the number of JG points corresponding to the number of movement points is stored in correspondence with the JG member ID of the owner in the JG member information table serving as a point storage means in the present invention. The point addition process for adding and updating the number of owned points is performed, and the external point conversion means in the present invention is formed by the management server 14 that performs the point movement request transmission process and the point addition process.

  Then, the pool amount update process is performed. Specifically, when the number of movement points added to the number of owned points is used (lottery or conversion to electronic money), it is assigned to the other company of the transfer source used to settle the price generated by the use. In addition, an amount corresponding to the number of moved points, specifically an amount with 1 point being 10 yen, is added to the pool amount and updated. Note that these pool amounts are charged to the other company of the transfer source and settled every predetermined period.

  Then, after these pool amount update processing, the management server 14 transmits the completed page shown in 16 (e) including the display of the new number of owned points after the update to the mobile phone 5, so that the transmitted completed page is displayed. Is displayed on the display unit 56, and the selection input unit of “RETURN” in the page (screen) is selected, or when a predetermined time has elapsed, the above-mentioned is again shown in FIG. By shifting to the display state of My Page, selecting “2, Point Conversion 1” or “3, Point Conversion 2” on the My Page enables the above-mentioned processing to be performed. JG points added to JG points from external points of other companies by point movement can be converted into JG electronic money amount or A company electronic money amount.

  As described above, according to the first embodiment, JG points are converted into the A-company electronic money amount, which is the second electronic money amount, by one conversion operation, so that the trouble of the owner can be saved. it can.

  Next, Example 2 will be described with reference to FIGS. In addition, this Example 2 respond | corresponds to Claim 4 of this invention, and when the point conversion 2 in the my page of the said Example 1 is selected, the feature is by the said one operation acceptance. JG points were automatically converted and added to the A company's electronic money amount via the JG electronic money amount. In the second embodiment, conversion from JG points to JG electronic money amount The conversion from the JG electronic money amount to the A company electronic money amount is performed by an individual operation, and other system configurations are the same as the system of the first embodiment. Therefore, the description of the same part is omitted, and the characteristic part of the second embodiment which is a change from the first embodiment will be described below.

  In the second embodiment, when the owner of the mobile phone 5 converts JG points owned by the mobile phone 5 into the JG electronic money amount or the A company electronic money amount, the owner first carries the mobile phone as in the first embodiment. By performing a predetermined activation operation on the telephone 5 to activate the JG application, the control unit 55 based on the activated JG application causes the My Page including the JG member ID stored in the storage area 104 c of the memory 104. The request is transmitted to the management server 14.

  In response to the reception of this My Page request, the management server 14 associates the JG member ID included in the received My Page request with the chip ID, possession point, and name (first name, name) stored in the JG member information table. ), Member information such as gender, occupation, etc. is extracted, temporarily stored in association with the JG member ID, and from the JG member ID shown in FIG. Generate and return (deliver) the My Page of the identified owner.

  As shown in FIG. 18A, in the lower area of the My Page of the second embodiment, “1, lottery application”, “2, point conversion”, “3, electronic money conversion”, “4” Various menus such as “Move Point” are selectable.

  If the owner wants to convert JG points to JG electronic money amount, he / she can select “2, point conversion” from the menu on My Page. The processing after the used point number receiving processing shown in FIG. 19 is performed. As shown in FIG. 19, the processing after the use point number acceptance processing is the same as the processing when “2, point conversion 1” is selected in My Page of the first embodiment, and FIG. 13B and FIG. The same page as 13 (c) is displayed as shown in FIG. 18 (b) and FIG. 18 (c), and the number of JG points used for conversion is designated on the use point reception page of FIG. 18 (b). As a result, the charge amount corresponding to the number of JG points used for the conversion is added and updated to the conversion remaining amount forming the JG electronic money amount. That is, the amount of money newly converted from the number of JG points is added to the previously converted unused amount that has been converted before, so that the converted remaining amount after the addition can be used for conversion to the A-company electronic money amount described later. Become.

  When the owner wants to convert the JG electronic money amount (converted balance) that has been added and updated by the point conversion into the A company electronic money amount, select “3, electronic money conversion” from the menu on My Page. If “3, electronic money conversion” is selected, the process proceeds from the process shown in FIG. 19 to the process shown in FIG.

  Specifically, in this conversion amount acceptance process, as shown in FIG. 18 (d), JG Electronics used for display of the conversion remaining amount stored in the storage area 104c of the memory 104 and conversion into the A company electronic money amount. A conversion amount acceptance page including a conversion amount designation acceptance unit that accepts designation of a money amount is displayed on the display unit 56, whereby acceptance of the JG electronic money amount used for conversion into the A company electronic money amount is performed. .

  In this conversion amount acceptance page of the second embodiment, the owner is a unit amount (this book) that is equal to or less than the conversion remaining amount that is selected in the conversion amount designation acceptance unit and can be converted into the A company electronic money amount. In the second embodiment, an item of JG electronic money amount equivalent to 1000 yen as in the point conversion, for example, if the JG electronic money amount based on the conversion remaining amount is 1000 yen as shown in FIG. The designation accepting unit accepts only 1000 yen corresponding to the unit amount below the yen, and accepts designation of the JG electronic money amount (conversion balance) used for conversion.

  Thus, after designating the JG electronic money amount (conversion residual amount) to be used for conversion, when the owner performs an input operation on the “execution” input operation unit provided below the conversion amount acceptance page, the control unit 55 As shown in FIG. 20, the JG application being executed in FIG. 20 activates the A company electronic money application through the control unit 55, and the conversion amount acceptance page for the activated A company electronic money application. After executing the charge request output process for outputting the charge request including the charge amount and the chip ID, which is the amount for which the designation is accepted, the process shifts to a charge completion input waiting state.

  In response to the output of the charge request, the company A electronic money application (control unit 55) transmits charge information including the chip ID and the charge amount included in the charge request to the server computer 16 of the company A.

  In response to the reception of the charge information, the company A's server computer 16 confirms whether or not the chip ID included in the received charge information is a chip ID for which use registration of the electronic money of the company A is made. An authentication process is executed, and on the condition that the use registration of the chip ID is made, a charge instruction including the chip ID and the charge amount included in the received charge information is returned.

  In response to the reception of the charge instruction, the company A electronic money application (control unit 55) provides that the chip ID included in the received charge instruction matches the chip ID stored in the system area of the memory 104. In addition, the remote issuing request including the company ID of the company A described in the application data of the company A electronic money application is transmitted to the server computer 15 of the chip management company. 15 and a relay process that enables data communication between the non-contact IC chip 100 (digital control unit 103).

  After mutual authentication is performed between the server computer 15 and the non-contact IC chip 100 built in the mobile phone 5 based on the remote issue request by using an encryption key, a chip ID, etc., the server computer 15 The non-contact IC chip 100 identified from the ID is determined to be a charge rather than an area allocation by confirming that the storage area 104a of the electronic money service company A is already stored in the common area. Then, the update permission is transmitted to the non-contact IC chip 100.

  In response to the renewal permission, the non-contact IC chip 100 (digital control unit 103) acquires the charge amount from the control unit 55, that is, the charge amount included in the charge instruction, and uses the acquired charge amount as the A company electronic After adding and updating the money amount, that is, the remaining amount in the storage area 104a of the company A, an update completion notification including the chip ID is returned to the server computer 15 and charging completion is output to the JG application and the process is terminated. .

  When the update completion notification is returned, the update completion notification is transferred from the server computer 15 to the server computer 16 of the company A, so that the server computer 16 of the company A receives the received update completion notification. A charge history registration process for registering a chip ID, a charge amount, use date and time, and “money conversion” indicating conversion from JG electronic money as a charge history is performed.

  Further, the JG application (control unit 55) performs charge amount subtraction processing for subtracting and updating the charge amount included in the charge request output to the company A electronic money app from the conversion remaining amount in response to the output of the charge completion. Then, the electronic money conversion completion notification including the charge amount and the chip ID is transmitted to the management server 14.

  In response to the reception of the electronic money conversion completion notification, the management server 14 determines that the electronic money conversion into the A company electronic money has been completed, and charges the management server 14 in association with the chip ID included in the electronic money conversion completion notification. The amount of money, use date and time, and “money conversion” indicating conversion to A company electronic money are registered as a conversion history.

  That is, the control unit 55 of the mobile phone 5 according to the second embodiment uses the mobile phone 5 to supply the A company electronic money amount (second electronic money amount) corresponding to the charge amount that is the conversion use first electronic money amount of the present invention. A charge request is output in the charge request output process in order to add and update the remaining amount stored in the storage area 104a, which is the A company electronic money amount (second electronic money amount) stored in In the amount subtraction process, in the conversion amount acceptance process, the JG electronic money amount (conversion residual amount) that is the first electronic money amount stored in the mobile phone 5 becomes the conversion use first electronic money amount in the present invention. The charge amount which is the received amount is subtracted and updated, and the electronic money conversion means in the present invention is formed by the control unit 55 (JG app). .

  Moreover, the control part 55 used as the electronic money conversion means of this invention is limited to the conversion remaining amount used as the conversion 1st electronic money amount of this invention as a conversion use 1st electronic money amount in this invention. (Second electronic money amount).

  In addition, the management server 14 serving as a point conversion unit in the second embodiment is configured to perform the point conversion according to the present invention based on the reception of the selection operation of the “point conversion” menu that is the first conversion operation received from the owner. While the above-described point subtraction process and charge instruction transmission process are performed, the control unit 55 serving as the electronic money conversion means of the present invention in the second embodiment accepts the second conversion operation from the owner. Based on the acceptance of the “electronic money conversion” menu selection operation, the above-described charge amount subtraction process and charge request output process, which are the electronic money conversion process of the present invention, are performed.

  Note that the control unit 55 (JG application) of the mobile phone 5 adds the electronic money amount converted from JG points after sending the electronic money conversion completion notification as shown in FIG. The completion page (screen) including the fact that the process has been completed is displayed on the display unit 56, and the “return” selection input unit on the page (screen) is selected or operated again or after a predetermined time has elapsed. Then, the display state of the My Page shown in FIG.

  In addition, when the selection operation part of the “remaining amount confirmation” in the completion page (screen) is selected, the JG application is terminated, while the A company electronic money application is activated, and the A company electronic money application Company A can check the remaining amount of electronic money.

  As described above, according to the second embodiment, JG points are converted into the JG electronic money amount that is the first electronic money amount, and the JG electronic money amount that is the first electronic money amount is converted into the second electronic money amount. The conversion to company A's electronic money amount can be carried out while making sure that the owner recognizes it, and the amount converted from the JG points and added to the conversion remaining amount, that is, the addition The amount based on the subsequent conversion balance can be used for conversion into the company electronic money amount.

  In addition, according to each of the above embodiments, the owner can use his / her own JG points at a store other than the amusement hall through a JG electronic money amount (first electronic money amount). Since it can be converted into a money amount (second electronic money amount), the point usage destination can be substantially diversified, and as a result, the purpose of the point system of acquiring a repeater can be achieved.

  Further, according to each of the above-described embodiments, the JG electronic money amount that becomes the first electronic money amount is converted into the A company electronic money amount (second electronic money amount) up to the purchase remaining amount. As a result, there is a possibility that the JG electronic money member stores (game halls) cannot be protected due to the decrease or not being used. JG electronic money amount will become a desire to join the service, and willingness to continue membership will fade, JG based on the conversion remaining amount to be converted to the A company electronic money amount (second electronic money amount) By limiting to the electronic money amount, it is impossible to convert the remaining purchase amount, which is the first electronic money amount that can be used at the amusement hall, into the A company electronic money amount (second electronic money amount). Because, to ensure use in JG electronic money amount based on these purchase balance merchants of (the first e-money amount) (game field), can protect the merchants of JG electronic money amount.

  Further, according to each of the above embodiments, the owner converts the number of external points of the other company owned by the owner into JG points, and thereby the JG electronic money amount (first electronic money amount) through the JG points. ) Can be used to improve the sales of the amusement hall.

  Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described with reference to the drawings, the specific configuration is not limited to these embodiments, and modifications and additions within the scope of the present invention are included in the present invention. It is.

  For example, in the above embodiment, the JG electronic money amount can be converted to the A company electronic money amount, but the conversion from the A company electronic money amount to the JG electronic money amount is impossible. The invention is not limited to this, and as shown in FIG. 21, conversion from the A company electronic money amount to the JG electronic money amount may be possible.

  Specifically, the conversion from the A company electronic money amount to the JG electronic money amount may be the same as the conversion from the JG electronic money amount to the A company electronic money amount. Select “Electronic Money Conversion” to execute the conversion amount acceptance process.

  In this conversion amount acceptance process, as in FIG. 18 (d), display of the remaining amount stored in the storage area 104a of the memory 104 and designation of the A company electronic money amount used for conversion to the JG electronic money amount are performed. A conversion amount acceptance screen including a conversion amount designation acceptance unit to be accepted is displayed on the display unit 56 to accept the A company electronic money amount used for conversion to the JG electronic money amount.

  By specifying the A company electronic money amount to be used for conversion on the conversion amount acceptance screen and accepting the input operation of the “execute” input operation unit, the A company electronic money application executed in the control unit 55 is As shown in FIG. 21, in response to the input operation, the JG application is activated through the control unit 55, and the charge amount and the chip, which are the amounts received on the converted amount acceptance screen for the activated JG application After outputting the charge request including the ID, the state shifts to a charge completion input waiting state.

  In response to the output of the charge request, the JG application (control unit 55) transmits charge information including the chip ID and the charge amount included in the charge request to the management server 14.

  In response to the reception of the charge information, the management server 14 authenticates whether or not the chip ID included in the received charge information is a chip ID that is registered for use of JG electronic money of the card management company. Processing, that is, whether or not the chip ID is stored in the JG member information table, and on the condition that the registration of the chip ID exists in the JG member information table, A charge instruction including the charge amount is returned.

  In response to reception of this charge instruction, the JG application (control unit 55), on condition that the chip ID included in the received charge instruction matches the chip ID stored in the system area of the memory 104, A remote issue request including the company ID of the card management company described in the application data of the JG application is transmitted to the server computer 15 of the chip management company.

  After mutual authentication is performed between the server computer 15 and the non-contact IC chip 100 built in the mobile phone 5 based on the remote issue request by using an encryption key, a chip ID, etc., the server computer 15 In the non-contact IC chip 100 specified by the ID, by confirming that the storage area 104c of the card management company is already stored in the common area, it is determined that it is a charge rather than an area allocation, Reply to renewal permission.

  In response to the reply of the update permission, the JG application (control unit 55) updates the charge amount included in the charge instruction by adding to the JG electronic money amount, that is, the conversion remaining amount of the JG electronic money amount, and then updating including the chip ID. A completion notification is returned to the server computer 15 and the completion of charging is output to the A company electronic money application, and the process is terminated.

  When the update completion notification is returned, the update completion notification is transferred from the server computer 15 to the management server 14, so that the management server 14 includes the chip ID and the received update completion notification. , Charge history registration processing for registering the charge amount, use date and time, and “money conversion” indicating conversion from company A electronic money as a charge history.

  In response to the charge completion output, the company A electronic money application (control unit 55) subtracts and updates the charge amount included in the charge request output to the company A electronic money application from the remaining amount in the storage area 104c. The electronic money conversion completion notification including the charge amount and the chip ID is transmitted to the server computer 16 of the company A.

  By doing so, mutual conversion between the JG electronic money amount and the A company electronic money amount becomes possible.

  In each of the above embodiments, the JG application is executed to convert the JG points into the JG electronic money amount or the A company electronic money amount, or the conversion remaining amount that is the JG electronic money amount into the A company electronic money amount. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the various conversions can be performed by, for example, the management server 14 or the electronic money. It is connected to the server computer 16 of the service provider A so as to be able to perform data communication, and is equipped with a display / input device, a reader / writer for the non-contact IC chip 100, and implemented at a conversion terminal dedicated to conversion installed in the game hall. You may be able to do it.

  A specific mode in the case where conversion to the JG electronic money amount or the A company electronic money amount is performed in these conversion terminals will be described with reference to FIG. 22 and FIG. 23. If you want to convert JG points to JG electronic money amount from the displayed menu, select “Point conversion”. If you want to convert JG electronic money amount (converted balance) to A company electronic money amount, Select and input "Money Conversion".

  When “point conversion” in the menu is selected, the processing shown in FIG. 22 is performed, and the conversion terminal displays a message prompting the mobile phone 5 to approach the reader / writer on the display device, and displays the proximity. The JG member ID stored in the storage area 104c of the non-contact IC chip 100 of the mobile phone 5 is acquired, the JG member ID is temporarily stored, and the member information output request including the acquired JG member ID Is transmitted to the management server 14.

  In response to receiving this member information output request, the management server 14 associates the JG member ID with the JG member ID included in the member information output request, and stores the possession points and name (first name, last name). , Member information such as gender, occupation, etc. is extracted and returned to the conversion terminal.

  In response to the reception of the member information, the conversion terminal displays a display screen similar to the above-described use point reception page (see FIG. 13B) including the display of the owned points included in the received member information. Then, the used point number receiving process for receiving the used point number within the range of the owned points is performed.

  Then, after accepting the designation of the number of JG points used for conversion, a message prompting the mobile phone 5 to approach the reader / writer is displayed again, and the JG member ID is acquired from the mobile phone 5 in proximity. On the condition that the acquired JG member ID matches the JG member ID temporarily stored in the above, point conversion 1 including the JG member ID and the used point number received in the used point number receiving process The request is transmitted to the management server 14.

  In response to the reception of this point conversion 1 request, the management server 14 determines that the owned point number stored in the JG member information table in association with the JG member ID included in the received point conversion 1 request is the received point conversion. It is confirmed whether or not the number of used points included in one request is equal to or greater than the number of owned points.

  When the number of owned points is equal to or greater than the number of used points, a JG electronic money amount corresponding to the number of used points, for example, if the number of used points is 100 points, 1000 yen is specified as the charge amount.

  Then, the identified charge amount and the chip ID stored in the JG member information table in association with the JG member ID included in the received point conversion 1 request, that is, the non-contact IC mounted on the mobile phone 5 A charge instruction including the chip ID of the chip 100 is returned to the conversion terminal.

  This charge instruction is relayed to the non-contact IC chip 100 via the reader / writer, and the non-contact IC chip 100 (digital control unit 103) responds to the received charge instruction in response to reception of the relayed charge instruction. After the included charge amount is added and updated to the conversion remaining amount in the storage area 104c, a charge completion notification including the chip ID and the charge amount is transmitted to the management server 14 via the conversion terminal.

  In response to the reception of the charge completion notification, the management server 14 is included in the point conversion 1 request from the possession points stored in the JG member information table corresponding to the chip ID included in the received charge completion notification. A point subtraction process for subtracting and updating the number of used points was performed, and the charge amount, usage date, and “point” indicating conversion from the point are registered as a charge history in association with the chip ID. Execute the charge history registration process.

  In response to the reception of the charge completion notification, the conversion terminal displays that the point conversion processing has been completed.

  On the other hand, when “electronic money conversion” in the menu is selected, the processing shown in FIG. 23 is performed, and the conversion terminal displays a message prompting the mobile phone 5 to approach the reader / writer on the display device. Then, the chip ID of the non-contact IC chip 100 of the mobile phone 5 that is in close proximity and the conversion remaining amount stored in the storage area 104c are acquired, and the acquired chip ID and the conversion remaining amount are temporarily stored.

  Then, a display screen similar to the conversion amount acceptance page (see FIG. 18 (d)) including the display of the acquired conversion remaining amount is displayed, and within the range of the conversion remaining amount, the A company electronic money amount is displayed. Conversion amount acceptance processing for accepting the amount of JG electronic money used for the conversion is executed.

  Then, after accepting the designation of the JG electronic money amount used for conversion, a message prompting the mobile phone 5 to approach the reader / writer is displayed again, and the chip ID is obtained from the mobile phone 5 in proximity. On the condition that the acquired chip ID and the chip ID temporarily stored in the above match, the chip ID and the charge amount which is the JG electronic money amount used for the conversion accepted in the conversion amount acceptance process are The included charge information is transmitted to the server computer 16 of company A.

  In response to the reception of the charge information, the company A's server computer 16 confirms whether or not the chip ID included in the received charge information is a chip ID for which use registration of the electronic money of the company A is made. An authentication process is performed, and on the condition that the use registration of the chip ID is made, a charge instruction including the chip ID and the charge amount included in the received charge information is returned to the conversion terminal.

  This charge instruction is relayed to the non-contact IC chip 100 via the reader / writer, and the non-contact IC chip 100 (digital control unit 103) responds to the received charge instruction in response to reception of the relayed charge instruction. After the included charge amount is added and updated to the remaining amount in the storage area 104a, that is, the A company electronic money amount, a charge completion notification including the chip ID and the charge amount is transmitted to the A company server computer 16 via the conversion terminal. To do.

  In response to the reception of the charge completion notification, the server computer 16 of company A indicates that the conversion is from the chip ID, charge amount, usage date and time, and JG electronic money amount included in the received update completion notification. Charge history registration processing for registering “money conversion” as a charge history is performed.

  The conversion terminal that has received the charge completion notification relays the charge completion notification to the server computer 16 of company A, and then includes the chip ID and the charge amount included in the received charge completion notification in the non-contact IC chip 100. Send a subtraction instruction.

  In response to the reception of the subtraction instruction, the non-contact IC chip 100 (digital control unit 103) subtracts and updates the charge amount included in the received subtraction instruction from the conversion remaining amount in the storage area 104c, and then the chip ID and the charge amount. A subtraction completion notification including is returned to the conversion terminal.

  In response to the reception of the subtraction completion notification, the conversion terminal transmits to the management server 14 an electronic money conversion completion notification including the charge amount and the chip ID included in the received subtraction completion notification.

  In response to the reception of the electronic money conversion completion notification, the management server 14 determines that the electronic money conversion to the A company electronic money has been performed, and charges the management server 14 in association with the chip ID included in the electronic money conversion completion notification. The amount of money, use date and time, and “money conversion” indicating conversion to A company electronic money are registered as a conversion history.

  In response to the reception of the subtraction completion notification, the conversion terminal displays that the electronic money conversion process has been completed.

  Also in these conversion terminals, the processing by the menu selection of the “point conversion” and the processing by the menu selection of the “electronic money conversion” described above are connected and performed by accepting a single operation. Similarly to the first embodiment, the conversion from the JG points to the A company electronic money amount via the JG money amount (conversion residual amount) may be performed only by one operation.

  In the above embodiment, the conversion of the JG point of the external point can be performed on the menu of the My page by executing the JG application and accessing the management server 14. The display device and the input device are not limited and are installed in a store or the like of another company that assigns the external points to convert the external points to JG points, and connected to the other company's point management server 18 so as to be able to perform data communication. Alternatively, it may be implemented in a member terminal equipped with a reader / writer for the non-contact IC chip 100.

  When performing point conversion to JG points at these member terminals, as shown in FIG. 24, the owner of the external point inputs the member number and password from the member terminal to another company as shown in FIG. The acceptance information including the membership number and password input to the point management server 18 is transmitted.

  In response to the reception of the acceptance information, the other company's point management server 18 performs the member authentication process based on the membership number and password included in the received acceptance information. Specifically, registration of the membership number included in the received acceptance information exists in the membership number managed as a member, and the acceptance information received for the password registered corresponding to the membership number Determine whether the included passwords match.

  If the authentication result in the authentication process is “OK”, the number of external points managed in association with the member number, that is, the number of owned external points owned by the owner is specified. The top menu including the display of the number of owned external points is displayed on the member terminal by returning the point information including the specified number of owned external points to the member terminal.

  When the owner wants to move JG points, select the “Point Conversion” menu in the top menu, display a conversion point number acceptance screen (not shown) on the display device, and select the conversion destination of the point conversion. After accepting the selection of the JG point that is the point name and the designation of the number of conversion points used for the point conversion, the mobile phone 5 is brought close to the reader / writer, and the point conversion destination JG that accepted the designation Acquire the JG member ID stored in the storage area 104c of the card management company that manages the points, accept the conversion destination point name (JG point), the number of conversion points, the JG member ID, and the received A point conversion request including the existing membership number and password is transmitted to the other company's point management server 18.

  In response to the transmission of the point conversion request, the other company's point management server 18 obtains a password managed corresponding to the membership number included in the received point conversion request and a password included in the received point movement request. On the condition that they match, it is confirmed that the number of external points managed corresponding to the member number is equal to or greater than the number of conversion points included in the received point conversion request, and the number of external points is conversion points. If it is confirmed that the conversion point number can be subtracted from the external point number, the point name included in the received point conversion request is updated after subtracting the conversion point number from the external point number. Included in the received point movement request to the management server 14 of the card management company identified from the JG points. It transmits the JG member ID is, the point addition request including the number of conversion points.

  In response to the reception of the point addition request, the management server 14 adds the conversion point included in the received point addition request to the number of owned points in the JG member information table corresponding to the JG member ID included in the received point addition request. The number is added and updated, and after performing the pool amount update process similar to the pool amount update process in FIG. 17 described above, an addition completion notification is returned to the other company's point management server 18.

  In response to receiving this addition completion notification, the other company's point management server 18 transmits a completion page to the member terminal to display that the point conversion has been completed on the member terminal.

  Further, in each of the above embodiments, the JG electronic money amount that can be converted into the A company electronic money amount is limited only to the conversion remaining amount, but the present invention is not limited to this, and JG other than these conversion remaining amounts The remaining purchase amount, which is an electronic money amount, may be converted within a range that does not exceed the upper limit of the conversion amount in a predetermined period, or may be converted without limitation.

  In each of the above embodiments, the configuration in which the management server 14 stores and manages JG points is exemplified. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the number of JG points is stored in the mobile phone 5. It may be stored and managed, or may be stored and managed by both the management server 14 and the mobile phone 5.

  Further, when storing and managing the JG point number only in the mobile phone 5, the JG point number in the above-described embodiments is converted into the JG electronic money amount or the A company electronic money amount, or the point movement or the like is performed. When implementing, the management server 14 should just acquire the number of JG points memorize | stored in these mobile telephones 5 at the time of access to the management server 14 by starting of a JG application in the mobile telephone 5. FIG.

  In each of the above embodiments, external points can be moved (converted) to JG points. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the external points cannot be moved (converted) to JG points. It is also good.

  Further, in each of the above embodiments, only the use for the second lending process in the card unit 3 that is used for the game in the game hall is illustrated as the use of the JG electronic money amount that is the first electronic money amount. The present invention is not limited to this, and these JG electronic money amounts are used for purposes other than games, such as merchandise charges and service charges, at stores that are affiliated with JG electronic money inside or outside the game hall. It may be used for settlement.

  In each of the above-described embodiments, when the JG electronic money amount (converted balance) that is the first electronic money amount is converted into the A company electronic money amount that is the second electronic money amount, the conversion is performed via the mobile phone 5. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and these conversions are performed by exchanging the mobile phone 5 by exchanging information between each management server 14 and the server computer 16 of the electronic money service provider A. You may make it implement without going through.

  Also, point conversion rate for converting JG points and JG electronic money amount, money conversion rate for converting JG electronic money amount (conversion balance) to A company electronic money amount, and external conversion to external points and JG points The rate is not limited to each of the above embodiments, and the point conversion rate, money conversion rate, and external conversion rate can be changed as appropriate, for example, to be a high rate during the campaign period. Also good.

  When the conversion terminal is used, a reader / writer having a placement unit on which the mobile phone 5 can be placed is provided to convert JG points into JG electronic money amount or A company electronic money amount. The mobile phone 5 is continuously placed on the placement unit during the process, during the conversion process of the conversion remaining amount that is the JG electronic money amount into the A company electronic money amount, or during the conversion process of the external point to the JG point. In this way, the non-contact IC chip 100 of the mobile phone 5 and the reader / writer may continue to communicate stably during processing.

It is a system block diagram which shows the structure of the point system in Example 1 of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the mobile telephone 5 in Example 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the structure of the memory area | region in the non-contact IC chip used for the mobile telephone 5 in Example 1 of this invention. It is a front view which shows the card unit 3 and the pachinko machine 2 which were used in Example 1 of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the card unit 3 used in Example 1 of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the management computer 110 and the management server 14 which were used for this invention. (A) is a card management database in the management server 14 used in the present invention, (b) is a JG member information table, and (c) is a game hall information table. It is a figure which shows the process condition regarding the download of the application in the mobile telephone 5 used in Example 1 of this invention. (A)-(f) is a figure which shows the display content at the time of the download of the application of the mobile telephone 5 used in Example 1 of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the processing content in the card unit 3 used for Example 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the process condition of the point system accompanying the cash charge process in the card unit 3 of Example 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the processing condition of the point system accompanying the 2nd rental process in the card unit 3 of Example 1 of this invention. (A)-(e) is a figure which shows the display content displayed on the mobile telephone 5 used for Example 1 of this invention with point conversion. It is a figure which shows the processing condition accompanying the point conversion 1 in the point system of Example 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the processing condition accompanying the point conversion 2 in the point system of Example 1 of this invention. (A)-(f) is a figure which shows the display content displayed on the mobile telephone 5 used for Example 1 of this invention with the point movement. It is a figure which shows the processing condition accompanying the point movement in the point system of Example 1 of this invention. (A)-(e) is a figure which shows the display content displayed on the mobile telephone 5 used for Example 2 of this invention with point conversion. It is a figure which shows the process condition accompanying the point conversion in the point system of Example 2 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the processing condition accompanying the electronic money conversion in the point system of Example 2 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the processing condition accompanying the electronic money conversion in another form. It is a figure which shows the processing condition accompanying the JG point conversion in another form. It is a figure which shows the processing condition accompanying the electronic money conversion in another form. It is a figure which shows the processing condition accompanying conversion of the external point in another form.

Explanation of symbols

3 Card unit 4 Issuing and depositing machine 5 Mobile phone 14 Management server 15 Server computer 16 Server computer (Company A)
17 Server computer (Company B)
18 Other company point management server 100 Non-contact IC chip 104 Memory 110 Management computer 328 Control unit 330 External card reader / writer 332 Electronic money communication unit

Claims (4)

A portable terminal provided with electronic money storage means storing at least a first electronic money amount usable in a game hall and a second electronic money amount usable in a store other than the game hall ; and the first of the portable terminals A point computer comprising: a server computer provided with point giving means for giving points to the owner of the mobile terminal in accordance with the use of the electronic money amount for a game in a game hall;
The server computer
Point storage means for storing the number of owned points of the owner in association with owner identification information that can identify the owner of each mobile terminal;
When receiving a conversion request including owner identification information of the mobile terminal owner transmitted in response to a predetermined conversion operation being performed in the mobile terminal and the number of conversion use points used for conversion, On the condition that the number of conversion use points included in the conversion request is within the range of the number of owned points stored in the point storage means in association with the owner identification information included in the conversion request. and processing that subtract updates the number of the transformation point of use of several, by the addition instruction of the first electronic money amount corresponding to the converted number of used points is transmitted to the transmission source of the portable terminal of the conversion request, the portable terminal and point conversion means for performing point conversion processing including an addition update causes processing to the first electronic money value stored in the electronic money storing means,
With
The electronic money storage means distinguishes and stores a purchased first electronic money amount that is added and updated based on charge and a converted first electronic money amount that is added and updated in the point conversion process,
The portable terminal is
A first conversion for adding and updating a first electronic money amount corresponding to the converted use point number to the converted first electronic money amount stored in the electronic money storage means based on receiving the addition instruction First conversion means for performing processing;
Only the transformation first electronic money value stored in said electronic money storing means, and processing for subtraction update a predetermined conversion using the first electronic money amount from the conversion first electronic money amount, the conversion using the a second converting means intends row a second conversion process including a second electronic money amount corresponding to 1 electronic money amount and a process for adding updated second electronic money value stored in said electronic money storing means,
Game use processing means for performing a game use process for using the first electronic money amount stored in the electronic money storage means for a game;
With
The game usage processing means consumes the amount used for games preferentially over the purchased first electronic money amount, and the insufficient amount when the purchased first electronic money amount is insufficient with respect to the amount used for gaming. The point system is characterized in that the first electronic money amount is converted . Said second converting means, when there is added to the conversion first electronic money amount based on said sum instruction receiving by accepting the conversion operation of the owner, without requiring the acceptance of further transformation operations points system according to claim 1, which comprises carrying out the pre-Symbol second conversion process. The point conversion means performs the point conversion processing based on acceptance of the first conversion operation from the owner in the mobile terminal ,
3. The point system according to claim 1, wherein the second conversion unit performs the second conversion process based on reception of a second conversion operation from an owner in the portable terminal . The server computer
External point number acquisition means for acquiring a different number of external points from the point owned by the owner, and subtracting and updating a predetermined conversion use external point number from the external point number acquired by the external point number acquisition means An external point conversion process including a process for generating and a process for adding and updating the number of points corresponding to the number of external points used for conversion to the number of points of the owner stored in the point storage means points system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that it comprises a point conversion means.

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