JP5194473B2 - Transportation discount support method - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to calculation of a charge for using a transportation facility such as a railway or a store installed along with the transportation facility. In particular, the present invention relates to a technique for providing incentives (discounts, point grants, and returns) for purchases at stores installed in transportation facilities such as stations.

  Currently, an automatic ticket gate system using an IC card is used in transportation. When using an IC card, in addition to controlling entry / exit, it is possible to give incentives such as automating discount processing and settlement processing of transportation facilities, or giving points for using affiliated stores.

  Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2004-151867 discloses automatic discount processing and settlement processing for transportation facilities. That is, Patent Document 1 discloses a technique for sharing one IC card as various types of boarding tickets such as a commuter pass and a coupon ticket. For this reason, in Patent Document 1, when the ticket medium is used in the fare collection device main body, reading means for reading predetermined discount information recorded on the ticket medium, and the read predetermined discount A calculation means for calculating a fare based on the information, and when the calculated fare satisfies a predetermined discount condition, the discounted fare is reduced from the SF information section recorded on the ticket medium. A system comprising a reduction processing means for reducing the normal fare from the SF information section recorded on the ticket medium when the calculated fare does not satisfy a predetermined discount condition is disclosed. .

  In addition, Patent Document 2 discloses the provision of incentives such as the provision of points for using affiliated stores. In patent document 2, it aims at performing the service which a user (partner store) bears a fare efficiently. In order to achieve this purpose, in Patent Document 2, the date of use of the partner and the amount paid by the partner are stored in a storage medium (S22 to S24), and the date of use of the partner and the entrance to the storage medium when boarding. If the usage date does not meet the prescribed conditions (within a certain period of time), the partner contribution will be cleared to 0 (S32), and the fare will be corrected using the stored partner contribution when participating. (S46, 47) is disclosed.

JP 2001-143108 A JP 2001-351130 A

  However, in Patent Documents 1 and 2, no consideration is given to purchase at a store installed in a transportation facility such as a station premises. In particular, users who do not use transportation will be required to spend extra expenses such as admission fees. For this reason, although it does not use transportation facilities, it will prevent the use about the customer who wants to use only a store.

  Therefore, in the present invention, it is possible to give incentives such as reductions, discounts, point grants, etc. that further encourage purchases at stores in the station premises, or that customers who do not use transportation can also be taken into the store An object is to provide information processing technology.

  In order to achieve this object, the present invention writes the usage information indicating the use status of transportation facilities and the contents of purchase at a store on a storage medium (including an IC card) used as a ticket or an admission ticket, and uses this Based on the information, it is determined whether or not to give an incentive with an automatic ticket gate used at the time of participation. Here, the usage information includes station identification information and purchase information indicating purchase contents.

More specifically, the present invention includes the following aspects.
The user enters the station premises in a discount support method at a transportation facility for discounting the use fee of the transportation facility or the amount of money for the purchase according to purchase at a store installed in the station premises When the first automatic ticket gate writes the first station identification information for identifying the station in a storage medium used for the user to enter the station premises, and the user purchases at the store When the store device used in the store writes purchase information related to the purchase in the storage medium, and the user enters the station premises, the second automatic ticket gate is (1) the storage medium. From the first station identification information written,
(2) The second station identification information for identifying the station stored by itself is compared with the read first station identification information. (3) When the result of the comparison is the same, the purchase information is: It is determined whether or not the discount conditions stored therein are satisfied. (4) When the discount condition is satisfied as a result of the determination, data indicating the amount corresponding to the discount is additionally written to the storage medium. Discount support method in transportation.

  Further, in the discount support method in this transportation system, the store device writes a purchase amount as the purchase information in the storage medium, and the second automatic ticket gate stores the amount information as the discount condition, It is also included in the present invention to determine that the discount condition is satisfied when the purchase amount is larger than the amount indicated by the amount information.

  Further, in the discount support method in the above transportation, the store device stores a discount condition, determines whether the purchase satisfies the discount condition, and determines that the discount condition is satisfied, Write discount condition satisfaction information indicating that the discount condition is satisfied as the purchase information, and the second automatic ticket checker can read the discount condition satisfaction information from the storage medium, the discount condition What determines to satisfy | fill is also included in this invention. Further, in the discount support method in this transportation facility, the store apparatus writes, as the discount condition satisfaction information, third identification information for identifying a station where the store is installed, in the storage medium, The automatic ticket checker also includes determining that the discount condition is satisfied when the third station identification information matches one of the first station identification information and the second station identification information. .

  Still further, in these transportation discount support methods, the first automatic ticket gate performs an entrance fee subtraction process on the storage medium at the time of entry, and the second automatic ticket gate In addition, the present invention also includes performing the admission fee replenishment processing as the amount corresponding to the discount.

  Furthermore, an apparatus, a system, and a program for executing the above processing are also included in the present invention. Note that the above-described first automatic ticket gate and the second automatic ticket gate may be the same.

  With the above configuration, in the present invention, it is possible to give an incentive for purchase at a store installed in a transportation facility such as a station premises.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In this embodiment, a person whose amount of money stored in the remaining amount of the IC card is ¥ 5000- enters Tokyo Station → purchases a product of ¥ 1000- at Store A in Tokyo Station, and ¥ 3000- at Store B A case will be described by way of example in which the user enters Tokyo Station 3 hours after purchasing a product and entering, but the present invention is not limited thereto.

  In addition, as a method of calculating the amount of money to be paid to the railway company, it will be explained that payment is made in proportion to the total sales for one month of the amount purchased at the store when performing the return processing. It is not limited to that.

  Two examples will be described as examples of the present embodiment. There are a form in which discount / reduction processing is performed on the ticket gate side and a form in which processing on the ticket gate side is reduced by providing a discount flag on the store side.

  First, a mode in which discount / reduction processing is performed on the ticket gate side will be described. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of a discount / reward system according to the present invention. In the present embodiment, the IC card 100 held by the user, the automatic ticket gate 200 equipped with a discount / reduction function, the merchandise store 300, the amount of money that the merchandise store pays to the railway company by managing the returned amount. It consists of a central center 400 to be managed.

  The IC card 100 includes an IC card table 110 that manages a total usage amount that holds information on the total amount of money purchased at a store between entry and entry.

  The automatic ticket checker 200 includes a ticket checker unique table 210 for managing information inherently held by the ticket checker, a ticket checker detailed information file 220 for managing information transmitted to the central center by the automatic ticket checker, Ticket gate entry processing 230 to deduct the entrance fee from the IC card when entering the entrance and initialize the total usage amount, and when entering the station outside the station, if the entrance station and the entry station are equal, it is possible to enter from the automatic ticket gate, When a certain amount of money has been purchased, the ticket gate entry processing (with a discount / reduction function) 240 is performed to discount / return the entrance fee and create a ticket ticket machine detailed information file.

  The merchandise store 300 has a store-specific table 310 that manages information that is unique and held by the store, a one-item detailed information file 320 that manages information that the store sends to the central center, and purchases at the merchandise store. The purchase processing 330 is performed to add to the total purchase amount and create a store seemingly detailed information file.

  The central center 400 has a personal information database 410 and a discount reduction amount database 420 created by merging data transmitted from a ticket gate and a sales store, and each sales store is a railway company based on the personal information database 410 and the discount reduction amount database 420. A burden amount allocation process 430 for calculating the amount to be paid to

  FIG. 2-1 is a trade sequence (one entry / exit unit) illustrating the flow when entering from an automatic ticket gate, purchasing at a merchandise store, and entering from the automatic ticket gate.

  FIG. 3 is a trade sequence (one day unit) illustrating the flow of sending a case information file accumulated at an automatic ticket gate and a merchandise store to a central center by batch processing (for example, once a day). It is.

  FIG. 4A is an item description of the IC card table format 110 and the IC card table format. FIG. 5A is a return amount correspondence table showing item descriptions of the ticket gate specific table format 210 and the ticket gate specific table format, and an example of the amount in the case of a return target. FIG. 6 shows a format 220 of the ticket machine detailed information file.

  FIG. 7A is an item description of the store-specific table format 310 and the store-specific table format. FIG. 8 shows a format 320 of the store detail information file.

  FIG. 9 shows a personal information database format 410. An example of the personal information database created by merging the data of the ticket machine detailed information file sent from the daily ticket checker and the data of the store detailed information file sent from the store every day It is.

  FIG. 10 shows a discount reduction amount database format 420. In the ticket ticket machine detailed information file sent from the ticket gate every day, the information returned to the customer is accumulated.

  FIG. 11A is a flowchart showing a process performed by the automatic ticket checker on the IC card when entering. In the ticket gate entry process, the “electronic money information” (entrance fee) in the ticket machine specific table is subtracted from the “electronic money information” (remaining amount) in the IC card table (S001). In this example, the entrance fee is ¥ 130-. The subtraction result is ¥ 4870-. This ¥ 4870- is overwritten on the “electronic money information” (remaining balance) in the IC card table (S002). Then, a record of entering the station is written on the IC card (S003). Then, during one entry / exit, the “electronic money information” (total usage amount) of the IC card table in which the purchase amount is recorded is initialized (S004). In this example, initialization is to overwrite \ 0-.

  FIG. 12-1 is a flowchart showing a process performed by the automatic ticket checker on the IC card when participating. In the ticket gate appearance processing (with discount / reduction function), it is determined whether the entry station is the same as the entry station (S005), and if they are equal, the discount / reduction function processing (S006 to S011) is performed. In S005, if the (station ID) in the IC card table matches the “ticket gate information” (station ID) in the ticket gate specific table, it is determined that the entrance station is the same as the entry station. Judgment station is different. In S006, the automatic ticket gate determines whether it is within the time determined by the entrance fee for one time. In this example, the determined time is 2 hours. The automatic ticket checker stores this “2 hours” in a ticket checker specific table (however, this information is not shown) and has means for measuring the current time. Then, “card information” (year / month / day) in the IC card table of the IC card is compared with the current time to determine whether it is within 2 hours.

  In the discount / reward function processing, first, the time from entry to entry is calculated, and when the user stays in the station for 2 hours or more, the entrance fee is subtracted from the IC card again (S007). Then, the subtraction result is overwritten on the IC card (S008). When purchasing at a store in the station, in S009, a discount amount of the entrance fee is determined in accordance with the purchase amount and returned to the IC card (S010 to S011). In this example, if you have purchased ¥ 2000- or more, it will be returned. Return is the addition of the purchase amount and the discount amount corresponding to the admission time to the “electronic money information” (remaining amount) in the IC card table (S010), and the addition result is overwritten on the “electronic money information” remaining amount in the IC card table. (S011) Processing. When performing S010, the maximum discount rate varies depending on the time spent in the station. This is because the amount collected for the admission fee differs between the case of admission within 2 hours and the case of admission for 2 hours or more. In this example, if you enter the station for less than 2 hours, the entrance fee is ¥ 130-, and if you enter for more than 2 hours, the entrance fee is ¥ 260-. This amount is the maximum discount amount. Finally, the record of having been outside the station is written to the IC card (S012).

  If the entry station and the entry station are not equal, the discount / reduction process (S006 to S011) is not performed, and the record of participation outside the station is written to the IC card (S012). In this example, since the entrance station and the entry station are the same, the discount / reduction process is executed, and since the time for entering the station is 2 hours or more, the entrance fee of ¥ 130- is paid again. And since the total usage amount purchased at the merchandise store during one entry / exit is ¥ 4000-, it is eligible for discount, and from the return amount correspondence table (example), the IC card is ¥ 190- After executing the reduction process, the participation record is overwritten on the IC card.

FIG. 13A is a flowchart of a process performed by a merchandise store on an IC card when making a purchase at a merchandise store in a station.
In the purchase processing flow, first, “electronic money information” (utilization amount) managed by the store side is subtracted from “electronic money information” (remaining amount) in the IC card table, so that the amount of goods purchased at the store is IC Subtract from the card (S013). The subtraction result is overwritten on the IC card (S014). The amount purchased at the store is added to the “electronic money information” (total usage amount) of the IC card table that manages the amount purchased at the store during one entry / exit (S015). Then, the addition result is overwritten on the IC card (S016). In this example, since purchases are made at two locations, store A and store B, two purchase processes are performed.

  Figure 14 shows the breakdown when each merchant store bears the total amount returned to the user from the automatic ticket gate, calculated based on the data for one month sent from the automatic ticket gate and the merchant store. This is a calculation process.

  The burden amount allocation process specifies one item from the discount reduction amount database (S018). A personal information database for the specified information is extracted (S019). And since the specified information is an entry record, data is extracted from that time until the entry record is written (S020). In this example, a total of four data items are extracted: entry record, purchase record at store A and store B, and entry record. In the extracted information, if the purchase is made at a store in the station (S021), the amount of purchase is added to the sales total for each store (S022). In this example, since there are three stores A, B, and C in the station, control is performed so that S022 is performed three times. The processing of S018 to S022 is continued until the processing for all cases is completed for the number of cases for which discount reduction has been performed (S017). In this case, not all cases but a fixed number may be used. When the processing for all cases is completed, the sales total for each store of the amount of money purchased for the return to the user is calculated. Therefore, the ratio of the sales total for each store is obtained (S023). In this example, the sales ratio of store A: store B: store C is 2: 3: 5. By dividing the sum of the amount that was discounted to the user, which was calculated in advance, with a weight proportional to the sales at each store, the burden amount for each store paid to the railway company is calculated (S024). ). Assuming that the total amount of discounts returned to the user calculated in advance is ¥ 1000-, the amount borne by each store is store A = ¥ 200-, store B = ¥ 300-, store A = ¥ 500- It becomes.

  FIG. 15A shows the data flow among the IC card table, the ticket gate specific table, and the ticket gate case description information file in the ticket gate entry process.

  The process flow between the IC card table and the ticket gate specific table follows FIG. To create a ticket machine detailed information file, after the processing in FIG. 11-1 is completed, necessary data is set from the IC card table and the ticket machine specific table. In particular, a value after subtracting the entrance fee ¥ 130- is set for the remaining amount of the ticket ticket case details information file.

FIG. 16A shows the data flow among the IC card table, the ticket gate unique table, and the ticket gate specific information file in the ticket gate entry process.
The processing flow between the IC card table and the ticket gate specific table follows FIG. The ticket ticket case details information file is created after completion (S012). However, if the entrance station and the entry station are equal and the entrance fee is subtracted again (S008), it is also created after completion.

  FIG. 17A shows the flow of data among the IC card table, the store-specific table, and the store-specific information file in the process when purchasing at a merchandise store in the station.

  The process flow between the IC card table and the store specific table follows FIG. For the creation of the store details information file, the necessary data is set from the IC card table and the store-specific table after the completion of the processing of FIG. In particular, a value after the purchase fee is added is set for the remaining amount in the store detail information file.

  Next, a mode in which processing on the ticket gate side is reduced by giving a discount flag on the store side will be described. The description of the same processing as that of the discount / reduction processing on the ticket gate side is omitted.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of a discount / reward system according to the present invention. In the present embodiment, the IC card 100 held by the user, an automatic ticket gate 200 equipped with a return function, a merchandise store 300 with a discount flag, and the merchandise store pays the railroad company to manage the returned amount. It consists of a central center 400 that manages contributions.

  The IC card 100 manages the total usage amount that holds information on the total amount of money purchased at the store between entry and entry, and is the same as the entrance station at the time of entry. And the IC card table 110 that manages the return fee that holds the amount to be returned.

  The automatic ticket checker 200 includes a ticket checker unique table 210 for managing information inherently held by the ticket checker, a ticket checker detailed information file 220 for managing information transmitted to the central center by the automatic ticket checker, Ticket gate entry processing 230 to deduct the entrance fee from the IC card when entering the entrance and initialize the total usage amount, and when entering the station outside the station, if the entrance station and the entry station are equal, it is possible to enter from the automatic ticket gate, It consists of a ticket gate entrance process (with a discount / reduction function) 240 that extracts the reduction fee from the IC card, discounts / returns the entrance fee, and creates a ticket ticket machine detailed information file.

  The merchandise store 300 has a store-specific table 310 that manages information that is unique and held by the store, a one-item detailed information file 320 that manages information that the store sends to the central center, and purchases at the merchandise store. Is added to the total purchase amount, a return amount is set in accordance with the total purchase amount, and a purchase process 330 for creating a single item detail information file is made up.

  FIG. 2-2 is a trade sequence (one entry / exit unit) illustrating the flow when entering from an automatic ticket gate, purchasing at a merchandise store, and entering from the automatic ticket gate. FIG. 4B is an IC card table format 110. FIG. 5-2 shows the ticket gate specific table format 210.

  FIG. 7-2 shows a store specific table format 310. FIG. 11-2 is a flowchart showing a process performed by the automatic ticket checker on the IC card when entering.

  In the ticket gate entry process, “electronic money information” (entrance fee) in the ticket machine specific table is subtracted from “electronic money information” (remaining amount) in the IC card table (S101). In this example, the entrance fee is ¥ 130-. The subtraction result is ¥ 4870-. This ¥ 4870- is overwritten on the “electronic money information” (remaining balance) in the IC card table (S102). A record of entering the station is written on the IC card (S103). Finally, during one entry / exit, the “electronic money information” (total usage amount) of the IC card table in which the purchase amount is recorded is initialized (S104). In this example, initialization is to overwrite \ 0-.

FIG. 12-2 is a flowchart showing a process performed by the automatic ticket checker on the IC card when participating.
In the ticket gate appearance process (with a return function), it is determined whether the entry station is the same as the entry station (S105), and if they are equal, the return function process (S106 to S110) is performed. In S105, if the (station ID) in the IC card table matches the “ticket gate information” (station ID) in the ticket gate specific table, it is determined that the entrance station and the entry station are equal. Judgment station is different. In S106, the automatic ticket gate determines whether it is within the time determined by the entrance fee for one time. In this example, the determined time is 2 hours. The automatic ticket checker stores this “2 hours” in a ticket checker specific table (however, this information is not shown) and has means for measuring the current time. Then, “card information” (year / month / day) in the IC card table of the IC card is compared with the current time to determine whether it is within 2 hours.

  In the return function processing, first, the time from entry to entry is calculated, and when the user has been in the station for two hours or more, the entry fee is subtracted from the IC card again (S107). Then, the subtraction result is overwritten on the IC card (S108). Then, “electronic money information” (return amount) in the IC card table and “electronic money information” (remaining amount) in the IC card table are added (S109). At this time, we will not return more than the amount collected as the entrance fee. In this example, if you enter the station for less than 2 hours, the entrance fee is ¥ 130-, and if you enter for more than 2 hours, the entrance fee is ¥ 260-. This amount is the maximum discount amount. The addition result is overwritten on the “electronic money information” balance of the IC card table (S110). Lastly, the record of having entered outside the station is written to the IC card (S111). If the entry station and the entry station are not equal, the discount / reduction process (S106 to S110) is not performed, and the record of participation outside the station is written to the IC card (S111). In this example, since the entrance station and the entry station are the same, the reduction process is executed, and since the time for entering the station is 2 hours or more, the entrance fee of ¥ 130- is paid again. And since the total usage amount purchased at the merchandise store during one entry / exit is ¥ 4000-, it is eligible for discount, and from the return amount correspondence table (example), the IC card is ¥ 190- After executing the reduction process, the participation record is overwritten on the IC card.

  FIG. 13-2 is a flowchart illustrating a process performed by the merchandise store on the IC card when making a purchase at the merchandise store in the station.

  The purchase processing flow first subtracts the amount of “electronic money information” (use amount) purchased from the store managed by the store from the “electronic money information” (remaining amount) of the IC card table (S112). The result is written in “electronic money information” (remaining amount) in the IC card table (S113). Then, it is determined whether or not there is a store in the same station as the entrance station (S114), and if it is the same station, a discount flag is assigned (S115 to S118). If the entrance station and the store are not the same station, no processing is executed.

  In the process of assigning a discount flag, first, the amount purchased at the store is added to the “electronic money information” (total usage amount) in the IC card table (S115), and the addition result is added to the “electronic money information” ( The total usage amount is overwritten (S116). Then, if a purchase of a certain amount or more is made at a store in the same station as the entrance station (S117), the discount amount corresponding to the purchase amount is converted to “electronic money information” (return on the IC card). Money amount) (S118). Depending on whether or not the amount written in the “electronic money information” (return amount) of this IC card is larger than ¥ 0-, whether or not the return process will be performed when entering if the entrance station and the exit station are the same It serves as a flag.

  FIG. 15-2 shows the flow of data among the IC card table, the ticket gate specific table, and the ticket ticket machine detailed information file in the ticket gate entry process.

  The processing flow between the IC card table and the ticket gate specific table follows FIG. 11-2. To create the ticket gate detailed information file, after the processing in FIG. 11-2 is completed, necessary data is set from the IC card table and the ticket machine specific table. In particular, a value after subtracting the entrance fee ¥ 130- is set for the remaining amount of the ticket ticket case details information file.

  FIG. 16-2 shows the data flow among the IC card table, the ticket gate specific table, and the ticket machine specific information file in the ticket gate entry process.

  The processing flow between the IC card table and the ticket gate specific table follows FIG. 12-2. The ticket ticket machine detailed information file is created after completion of (S111). However, if the entrance station and the entry station are equal and the entrance fee is subtracted again (S108), it is also created after completion.

  FIG. 17-2 shows the flow of data among the IC card table, the store-specific table, and the store-specific information file in the process when purchasing at a merchandise store in the station.

  The processing flow between the IC card table and the store specific table follows FIG. 13-2. For the creation of the store details information file, the necessary data is set from the IC card table and the store-specific table after the processing in FIG. 12-2 is completed. In particular, a value after the purchase fee is added is set for the remaining amount in the store detail information file.

  In this embodiment, ¥ 130- (entrance fee) is subtracted at the time of admission (S001) (S101), but this need not be done at the time of admission. In this case, ¥ 260− is subtracted in (S007) and (S107), and in (S010) and (S109), instead of adding the discount fee, the amount obtained by subtracting the discount fee from ¥ 130− (admission fee) is subtracted. (Maximum ¥ 0- subtraction). Further, instead of the admission fee at the time of admission, another amount such as the initial ride fare may be subtracted, or the amount obtained by subtracting the other amount may be subtracted when the discount amount is added.

  In addition, if an accident or the like occurs, it may be controlled to participate in free of charge. This control may be controlled such that each entry process described above (subtraction of admission fees, etc.) is suppressed, or may be controlled to add an amount obtained by subtracting the discount fee from the admission fees.

  As described above, the present embodiment has been described with the configuration in which each information is recorded on a medium or the like. However, the following modes may be employed. Centrally manage information with the central equipment and ticket gates. In this case, the information may be displayed on a medium or the like, and the information may be recorded on the medium or the like.

It is a block diagram which shows the whole structure of the discount / reduction system by this invention. This is a trade sequence for one entry / exit unit when discount / reduction processing is executed on the ticket gate side. This is a trade sequence for one entry / exit unit when a discount flag is given on the store side. It is a trade sequence about batch processing. It is item description of an IC card table format and an IC card table format when a discount / reduction process is executed on the ticket gate side. It is item description of an IC card table format and an IC card table format when a discount flag is given on the store side. FIG. 10 is an item description of a ticket gate machine specific table format, a ticket machine machine specific table format, and a return amount correspondence table when discount / return processing is executed on the ticket gate side. It is an item explanation of a ticket gate machine specific table format, a ticket machine machine specific table format, and a return amount correspondence table when a discount flag is given on the store side. This is the format of the ticket ticket detail information file. It is item description of a store specific table format and a store specific table format when a discount / reduction process is executed on the ticket gate side. It is item description of a store specific table format and a store specific table format when a discount flag is given on the store side. This is the format of the store details information file. It is an example of a personal information database state. This is a discount reduction amount database format. It is a flowchart which shows the process which an automatic ticket gate performs with respect to an IC card at the time of entrance in the case of performing discount / reduction processing on the ticket gate side. It is a flowchart which shows the process which an automatic ticket gate performs with respect to an IC card at the time of entrance in the case of giving a discount flag at the store side. It is a flowchart which shows the process which an automatic ticket gate performs with respect to an IC card at the time of participation in the case of performing discount / reduction processing on the ticket gate side. It is a flowchart which shows the process which an automatic ticket gate performs with respect to an IC card at the time of participation in the case of giving a discount flag at the store side. It is a flowchart which shows the process which a merchandise store performs with respect to an IC card in the case of performing discount / reduction processing on the ticket gate side. It is a flowchart which shows the process which a merchandise store performs with respect to an IC card in the case of giving a discount flag on the store side. This is a process of calculating the amount paid by each merchandise store to the railway company. The flow of data in the ticket gate entry process when the discount / reduction process is executed on the ticket gate side is shown. It shows the data flow in the ticket gate entrance process when a discount flag is given on the store side. The flow of data in the ticket gate entry process when the discount / reduction process is executed on the ticket gate side is shown. It shows the data flow in the ticket gate entry process when a discount flag is given on the store side. The flow of the data in the process at the time of purchasing in the merchandise store in a station when performing a discount / reduction process in the ticket gate side is shown. The flow of the data in the process at the time of purchasing in the merchandise store in a station when giving a discount flag at the store side is shown.

Explanation of symbols

100 IC card
200 automatic ticket gate
300 retail stores
400 Central Center
110 IC card table
210 Ticket gate specific table
220 ticket machine detailed information file
230 Ticket gate entrance processing
240 ticket gate entry process (with discount / reward function) (with return function)
310 Store-specific table
320 Store details information file
330 Purchase processing (no discount flag assignment function) (with discount flag assignment function)
410 Personal information database
420 Discount reduction amount database
430 Disbursement process

Claims (3)

In the discount support method in the transportation system for discounting the usage fee of the transportation facility or the amount of money in the purchase according to the purchase at the store installed in the station premises,
When the user enters the station, the first automatic ticket gate writes first station identification information for identifying the station on a storage medium used for the user to enter the station,
When the user purchases at the store, the store device used at the store writes purchase information regarding the purchase into the storage medium,
When the user enters the station, the second automatic ticket gate
(1) Read the written first station identification information from the storage medium,
(2) The second station identification information for identifying the station stored by itself is compared with the read first station identification information,
(3) When the result of the comparison is a match, it is determined whether the purchase information satisfies a discount condition stored therein;
(4) When the judgment result discount condition is satisfied, before Symbol Symbol 憶 the medium body, discount support method in transportation, wherein you memorize by adding the data indicative of the amount corresponding to the discount . The discount support method for a transportation facility according to claim 1,
The store apparatus writes a purchase amount as the purchase information in the storage medium,
The second automatic ticket gate stores price information as the discount condition, and determines that the discount condition is satisfied when the purchase price is larger than the price indicated by the price information. Support method. In the transportation assistance discount method according to claim 1 or 2,
The first automatic ticket gate subtracts an entrance fee from the storage medium at the time of entrance.
And
The second automatic ticket gate performs a replenishment process of the entrance fee as an amount corresponding to the discount.
A discount support method for transportation, which is characterized by being applied .

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