JPH01315870A - Residual time automatic calculation type terminal for horce race - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To decrease the CPU load of a minicomputer and the communication load between the minicomputer and a CRT terminal by executing a residual time calculating processing with the CRT terminal. CONSTITUTION:A CRT terminal 3 accumulates all race sales condition information received from a minicomputer 2 in an accumulating device 5, and a residual time calculating mechanism 7 searches the race whose sales deadline time is nearest out of the races on sale from the race sales condition information accumulated in the accumulating device 5. Further, the difference between the sales deadline time of the race and the current time obtained from a time measuring device 6 is obtained, it is delivered to a residual time display mechanism 8 as the residual time, and displayed on the display device of the CRT terminal 3. Here, when the residual time is 0, the race whose sales deadline time is nearest is searched out of the residual races on sale, and thereafter, the same residual time calculating processing is executed in the same way. Thus, the CPU load of the minicomputer 2 and the communication load between the minicomputer 2 and the CRT terminal 3 can be reduced.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Field of Application] The present invention relates to automatic calculation of remaining time in a pari-mutuel telephone voting system (there are a pari-mutuel telephone voting CRT system and a pari-mutuel telephone voting ARS system) in which a pari-mutuel telephone voting system requests the purchase of pari-mutuel betting tickets by telephone. Regarding a type horse racing terminal.

[Conventional technology]

The pari-mutuel telephone voting CRT system is a system in which pari-mutuel telephone voting subscribers (hereinafter referred to as subscribers) who have entered into a pari-mutuel telephone voting contract with a horse racing organizer (e.g. Japan Racing Association) purchase pari-mutuel betting tickets. In the pari-mutuel telephone voting system where applications are made by telephone, the pari-mutari telephone voting operator (hereinafter referred to as the operator) at the pari-mutuel telephone voting place communicates with the subscriber over the phone while using a dedicated CRT terminal (for pari-mutuel telephone voting) installed at the operator's seat. (hereinafter referred to as a CRT terminal),
This is a system that performs purchasing operations for pari-mutuel betting tickets on behalf of subscribers. Normally, this winning and betting telephone voting CRT system consists of a host computer and multiple (usually 64 to 256) CRT systems.
It consists of RT terminals and a minicomputer placed between them.

The host computer has all seven subscriber information, the sales status of pari-mutuel betting tickets, the operation status of pari-mutuel betting, etc.
By communicating with the mini-computer, winning and winning votes from subscribers are accepted and accepted.

The minicomputer is the core of the pari-mutuel telephone voting system, and operates as follows while controlling the CRT terminal and communicating with the host computer.

When this mini-computer system is started, communication with the host computer begins, and the host computer sends information indicating the sale status of pari-mutuel betting tickets (hereinafter referred to as "sales status information") and information indicating the operation status (hereinafter referred to as "operation status information"). (referred to as information) is sent. This pari-mutuel betting ticket sales status information and operation status information is transmitted when communication between the minicomputer and the host computer begins, and also
This is done each time the release status or operational status changes. The minicomputer transmits the sale status information and operation status information of the pari-mutuel betting transmitted from the host computer to all CRT terminals to be controlled. The CRT terminal displays on the display the sale status information and operation status information of the pari-mutuel betting transmitted from the minicomputer.

When an operator who receives a call from a subscriber types the subscriber number into the CRT terminal, the subscriber number is transmitted from the CRT terminal to the minicomputer. Further, when the minicomputer transmits the subscriber number received from the CRT terminal to the host computer, subscriber information corresponding to the subscriber number is transmitted from the host computer to the minicomputer. This subscriber information is transmitted from the minicomputer to the CRT terminal where the subscriber number is entered. The operator purchases pari-mutuel betting tickets on behalf of the subscriber in response to instructions from the subscriber over the telephone while viewing the subscriber information, sales status information, and operation status information displayed on the CRT terminal.

The release status information displayed on the display of the CRT terminal includes the time from the time the CRT terminal is operated to the race release deadline (hereinafter referred to as "information about the race whose release deadline approaches the earliest" among the races currently on sale). (referred to as remaining time). This remaining time decreases with the passage of time, and when the sale deadline for one race has passed, the remaining time with respect to the sale deadline of the next race is displayed and similarly decreases with the passage of time.

The calculation and display of this remaining time is controlled by a minicomputer as follows. That is, the sale status information sent from the host computer when the system starts operating includes the race venue name, race name, and sale deadline time. The minicomputer uses the release status information of all races sent from the host computer to search for the race whose release deadline approaches the earliest among the races currently on sale.
The remaining time from that point to the race sale deadline is calculated and sent to all CRT terminals together with the race venue name and race name. Thereafter, the remaining time, which is decremented by one minute, continues to be sent to all CRT terminals at the same time every minute until the sale deadline for the race is reached (that is, until the remaining time becomes zero). When the sales deadline for the race reaches its sales deadline, the race is closed, and the race whose sales deadline approaches the earliest among the remaining races on sale is searched. Thereafter, control for calculating and displaying the remaining time is similarly performed.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

In the conventional control for calculating and displaying the remaining time mentioned above, all CRT terminals (64
256 machines) - Since the remaining time information is sent all at once,
The CPU load on the minicomputer and the communication load between the minicomputer and the CRT terminal increase rapidly every minute. Therefore, the operator's C at this timing
This method has the disadvantage that it interferes with the winning and winning voting operation by operating the RT terminal (the voting operation time becomes longer).

Furthermore, even though the remaining time information is sent to all CRT terminals at once, the same remaining time information is actually sent to each CRT terminal in turn, so if there are many CRT terminals, Another disadvantage is that different remaining time information is displayed between the CRT terminal that first received the remaining time information and the terminal that received it last due to the difference in processing time.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a horse racing terminal of an automatic remaining time calculation type that improves the above-mentioned drawbacks by providing a means for calculating remaining time on the terminal side.

[Means to solve the problem]

The automatic remaining time calculation type horse racing terminal of the present invention includes a device that accumulates race release status information, a time measurement device that measures the current time, and a remaining time calculation mechanism that calculates the time from the current time to the race deadline time. and calculates the remaining time from the current time to the race deadline time based on the race release status information.

〔Example〕

Next, the present invention will be explained with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, a CRT terminal 3 includes a storage device 5, a time measuring device 6.
Remaining time calculation mechanism 7. It is configured with a remaining time display mechanism 8.

When the system starts operating, all race release status information is transmitted from the host computer 1 to the minicomputer 2. A transmission mechanism 4 that transmits race sale status information to the CRT terminal transmits all of the race sale status information received from the host combinator 1 to the CRT terminal 3.

The CRT terminal 3 stores all of the race release status information received from the minicomputer 2 in the storage device 5. The remaining time calculation mechanism 7 searches the race release status information stored in the storage device 5 for the race whose release deadline approaches the earliest among the races currently on sale, and calculates the release deadline time of that race and the time measurement device 6. The difference between the time and the current time obtained from the time is determined, and the difference is passed to the remaining time display mechanism 8 as the remaining time. The remaining time display mechanism 8 displays the remaining time received from the remaining time calculation mechanism 7 on the display of the CRT terminal together with the race name and race venue name of the race. Thereafter, the remaining time calculating mechanism 7 obtains the time from the time measuring device 6, updates the remaining time every minute, and passes it to the remaining time display mechanism 8 each time it is updated.

When the remaining time reaches zero, the race whose release deadline approaches the earliest among the remaining races on sale is searched from among the race release status information stored in the storage device 5, and the remaining time calculation process is subsequently performed in the same manner. conduct.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the present invention, the remaining time calculation process is
By doing this on the RT terminal, there is no need to send remaining time information from the minicomputer to the CRT terminal, and therefore the CPU load on the minicomputer and the CRT between the minicomputer and the
The communication load with the RT terminal is significantly reduced. As a result, there is an effect that the operator can efficiently perform the winning and winning betting operation by operating the CRT terminal.

Furthermore, it is possible to avoid differences in remaining time information displayed on CRT terminals between CRT terminals.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1...Host computer, 2...Mini computer, 3...CRT terminal, 4...Transmission mechanism, 5...
Storage device, 6... Time measuring device, 7... Remaining time calculation mechanism, 8... Remaining time display mechanism.

Claims (1)

[Claims] It has a device that accumulates race release status information, a time measurement device that measures the current time, and a remaining time calculation mechanism that calculates the time from the current time to the race deadline time, and calculates the current time based on the race release status information. A horse racing terminal that automatically calculates the remaining time, which is characterized by calculating the remaining time from the time to the race deadline time.