JPS62184568A - Instant processing system for balance transfer in voting system by telephone - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To permit a member who has insufficient voting fund to propose the next vote on a drawback by transferring instantly the drawback for a voter who has a winning ticket, setting the drawback as the voting fund when a race is finished. CONSTITUTION:When the member proposes the vote by telephone, a voting content 7 is sent to a data processor 3, then being resistered on a magnetic disk 4, and a purchasing amount in the member account information is updated. Also the content 7 is sent to a totalizator system 5 in the hall as the tabulation information 9 classified by races/pairs. When the race is finished and determined, the drawback information 10 found by a divided calculation in the totalizator system 5 is received by the processor 3, and based on the information 10, the retrieval of the winning ticket is performed by a voting detail classified by member on the disk 4. At a time of completing the retrieval of the winning ticket, a dividend information 10 is multiplied by the number of voted sheets in the voting detail classified by member, and a drawback amount of member account information on the disk 4 is updated instantly. Since an updating is vocalized with a sound, the member can propose for the next vote within the voting fund.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] Industrial Field of Application The present invention relates to a telephone voting system, and in particular, focuses on making effective use of refunds, and uses the remaining voting funds on that day as winnings for telephone voting. This invention relates to an instant balance transfer processing method that allows immediate transfer of funds during service.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Conventionally, the process of transferring the balance of the refund amount to the bank was carried out in batches as a post-processing process after the telephone voting service was completed on that day.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention In implementing the instant balance transfer process of the present invention, it is assumed that voting funds are calculated from the following three elements as a necessary condition. Voting funds refer to the voting limit that a member can purchase at the time of voting application. In other words, the voting funds are the voting funds - the member's account balance - the refund amount based on the purchase price based on the voting application.

This information is registered as a member account information file on the magnetic disk, and must be updated sequentially to calculate voting funds. Due to competition with a large amount of refund amount update processing, input/output processing to the member account information file is concentrated, resulting in waiting times.
Immediacy is lost, so this needs to be resolved.

Means for Solving the Problems In order to solve the above problems, the processing method according to the present invention is as follows:
To develop member account information on a magnetic disk onto a main storage device at the initial stage of a voting application.

If the voting funds are calculated using the member account information on the main memory until the end of the voting application, the purchase amount must be updated on the member account information file at the end of the voting application, and there will be no conflict with the member account information file. In order to reduce the search time for winning tickets based on refund information, a management table for controlling update waiting is provided to prevent this problem, and the presence or absence of purchases for each race and member is managed using the table.

Embodiment Next, a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be specifically explained with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a telephone voting system according to the present invention.

Members who have subscribed to telephone voting apply for voting by pressing a push button using a telephone. The voting contents (push button signals) are sent to the data processing device 3 through a voice response device connected to the public telephone line B, where they are analyzed and then the voting contents are read back as voice data t. The voting contents include the race number, winning ceremony, group number, and number of votes, of which the number of votes is 1 for every 7 votes.
It is 00 yen.

The voting details are registered on the magnetic disk as voting details for each member. The purchase amount in the member account information on the magnetic disk is updated according to the number of votes in the voting details for each member. Regarding the voting contents, the number of votes is tallied for each race and group, and is sent to the in-venue totalizer system 5 as final race and group tally information 9 at the voting deadline for the race. The on-site totalizator system 3 adds up the total information for each race and group released by the on-site totalizator system and the total information for each race and group from the telephone voting system, and uses the total information as the total information for calculating the payout.

When the race is determined, the data processing device J receives the payout information 10 determined in the above-mentioned payout calculation, and searches for winning tickets in the voting details for each member recorded on the magnetic disk based on the payout information lθ. The payout information 10 includes the race number 1 winning formula, group number, and payout, among which the race number, winning formula, and group number are used to search for a winning ticket. When a winning ticket is searched, the dividend in the payout information 10 is multiplied by the number of votes in the voting details for each member, and the payout amount in the member account information on the magnetic disk store is immediately updated.

FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining a purchasing amount update processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The member first notifies the member of his or her membership number and password using the telephone. The data processing device 3 searches the member account information file 13 based on the received member number and password,
The account information of the corresponding member is expanded//into the main storage device.

Voting funds are calculated based on the member account information stored in the main memory, and the information is transmitted as voice over the phone. For example, a voice message may say, "You can purchase up to ¥.

(Da) Next, members apply to vote using their voting funds.

The data processing device 3 first updates the purchase amount in the member account information ii on the main storage device based on the number of votes for the received voting details 7. In other words, the voting funds during a voting application are calculated using the member account information // stored in the main memory, so the member account balance and refund amount are fixed values, and only the purchase amount is updated. Ru.

Further, even if a payout due to a winning vote occurs during a voting application, the member account information // on the main storage device will not be affected by this. The voting details 7 are registered in the voting detail file /lI on the magnetic disk store, and updated and registered in the race-by-group tally file 16. Thereafter, the process is repeated until the voting application is completed.

After receiving the notice of completion of voting application from the member, the data processing device 3 issues a voice prompt to input the contract number. When a member enters this contract number exactly, all voting contents applied for up to that point are considered to be a contract. Upon receiving this contract number notification, the data processing device 3 performs the following processing. first.

The voting details file/S is read out one by one and registered in the voting details of the member account information file/S. At this time, if the corresponding member account information file/3 is already in progress in the update waiting control management table 13 (refund amount update processing status is set), a retry timer is activated and the file is placed in a waiting state. . For example, a retry is performed based on the hard interval timer of the data processing device 3. When the in-progress status of the update waiting control management table 13 disappears, the purchase amount update processing status of the table 13 is set. At the time of registering the voting details file/41 to the voting details of the member account information file lj, the status of the race-by-member purchase management table/co is set to "purchased" based on the voting details. When the registration process for the voting details in the member account information file 15 is completed, the purchase amount in the member account information file/3 is updated based on the total number of votes in the voting details. When this process is completed, the purchase amount update process status in the table/3 is deleted.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a refund amount update processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

At the deadline for telephone voting for a race, the data processing device J reads the race-by-group summary file/6 on the magnetic disk L,
Total information by race and group! It is sent to the on-site totalizer system 5 as a. The venue totalizer system j is □
, the total information 10 for each race and group for the on-site totalizator system and the telephone voting system are added up and captured as overall total information.

When the race is confirmed, there is a totalizer system in the venue! Then, a payout is calculated based on the overall total information, and the obtained payout information 10 is sent to the data processing device 3. The data processing device 3 searches for a winning ticket from the voting details of the member account information file /j and updates the refund amount based on the received refund information lO. At this time, if the corresponding member account information file/S is already in progress in the update waiting control management table/3 (purchase amount update processing status is set), the purchase amount update processing shown in Figure 1 is performed. Similarly, the retry interval timer 100m5 is activated and placed in a waiting state. When the in-process status in the table 13 disappears, a refund amount update processing status is set.

Next, a search for winning tickets is performed from the voting details of the member account information file/S only for members whose purchased cloth status is set in the race-by-member purchase management table l-. When a winning ticket is searched, the dividend amount in the payout information IO is multiplied by the number of votes in the voting details, and the payout amount in the member account information file 15 is updated. When this process is completed, the refund amount update process status in the update waiting control management table 13 is deleted.

As described in detail, according to the present invention, when the race is determined, the refund amount is immediately transferred to the voting fund balance of the winning ticket voter, thereby preventing a shortage of voting funds. Members who have previously voted will be able to use their refund money to apply for the next vote.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the telephone voting system according to the present invention, FIG. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a refund amount update processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (1)

[Claims] A telephone voting system comprising a voice response device compatible with push-button telephones, a magnetic disk device for storing voting information managed for each member, and a data processing device connected to an on-site totalizer system, wherein Information on votes cast using push-button telephones is stored in the magnetic disk device for each member, and when the race is confirmed, refund information is notified to the data processing device from the totalizer system in the venue, and the information is received by the data processing device. An instant balance transfer processing method for a telephone voting system characterized by immediately transferring the refund amount to the winning ticket voter to the remaining amount as voting funds.