KR200343092Y1 - Franchise terminal for issuing a united type lotto tickets - Google Patents

Abstract

This design works in conjunction with a server computer that performs the control of issuance of individual bank companies, such as discounts at affiliated stores, the association lottery, discounted gift cards, gift certificates, etc. (hereinafter referred to as lottery tickets), automatic calculation and management of winnings, etc. A merchant terminal, comprising: a terminal main body provided with a display unit for displaying a winning amount of money, discounts and gratuities, and a keypad for key input; A communication module provided in the main body for data transmission and reception with the server computer; A printer provided in the main body to print lottery related information or the like on a predetermined sheet of paper; Approval request means provided in the main body for requesting payment approval according to the use of a merchant; And a ticketing control unit which displays the accumulated amount of winnings on the display unit and drives the printer to print lottery issuing authentication information or lottery information on the paper corresponding to a key input for issuing a lottery ticket. A merchant terminal characterized by the above is disclosed. According to the present invention, even if you do not pay extra money for the purchase of lottery tickets, as a sales promotion company of merchants, you can conveniently issue lottery tickets by using the merchant terminal of the present invention to actively attract merchant customers. Can provide individual and united promotional effects.

Description

Franchise terminal for issuing a united type lotto tickets}

The present invention relates to an affiliated store terminal having issuance means such as lottery tickets for promoting the sale of affiliated stores. More specifically, it can be used as a means for promoting publicity in various affiliated stores, and an authentication number for selecting a lottery lottery number and By printing and expressing private bank companies, etc., performed by each affiliated store in a lottery ticket, it is provided to customers using affiliated stores so that the paper can be kept continuously, and the lottery number can be selected and registered from the homepage using the lottery ticket. Induce visits to the Internet homepage and use the space around the screen to enter the lottery lottery to further promote the merchants used by the customers to maximize the sales promotion of the merchants by fixing the customers. It relates to a merchant terminal.

Recently, as the number of people who use various lottery services as a monetary expectation or part of a game rapidly increases, it is required to develop a new lottery-related system that can provide lotteries more conveniently and quickly.

In order to purchase various lottery tickets such as gift certificates and lotto lotteries, cash, credit cards, and wire transfers have been used in the past, and these payment methods are not only cumbersome but also may cause excessive consumption. In particular, such as lotto lotteries In the case of an explosive number of lottery users, there are many inconveniences such as waiting for a long time in line for the purchase, so the countermeasures are urgently needed.

On the other hand, in the past, businesses that have been signed by the franchise contract with the headquarters and affiliated stores have widely used methods to provide free promotional materials or printed materials to promote their businesses. In addition, it was not possible to obtain satisfactory results as well as to maintain continuous interest or to develop a recurring relationship.

As an alternative, in recent years, a lottery for credit card payment receipts has been implemented to provide a certain private banking company to both affiliates and users, but this service is not a way for users to randomly select a lottery number. It is not enough to satisfy, and there is a limit to the inability to engage customers using regular cash.

The present invention was created in view of the above problems,

In order to enhance the use of affiliated public relations and customers when using the affiliated stores, we issue individual private banking companies or promotional contents desired by the affiliated companies on predetermined papers with the effect of lottery, sales promotion, and customer gratitude. Is to provide a merchant terminal that can issue an authorization number and an affiliated merchant number for issuing lottery tickets, etc., paid by the merchant for free according to the merchant's usage records.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a merchant terminal that can perform a private banking company by utilizing the points earned by the merchant's use of the merchant, and also perform a credit card payment function and a cash receipt (sales slip) issuing function. .

The following drawings attached to this specification are illustrative of the preferred embodiments of the present invention, and together with the detailed description of the present invention to serve to further understand the technical spirit of the present invention, the present invention is a matter described in such drawings It should not be construed as limited to.

1 is a perspective view showing an appearance example of an affiliated store terminal according to the present invention.

2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an affiliated store terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a diagram schematically showing information on accumulated accumulation amount and earning points displayed on the display unit of FIG. 1; FIG.

Figure 4 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an affiliated store terminal according to another embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a flowchart schematically illustrating the operation of an affiliated store terminal according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

Figure 6 is a view showing an example of the Union lotto voucher paper printed information such as lotto lottery game type by the merchant terminal according to the present invention.

7 is a flowchart schematically illustrating the operation of an affiliated store terminal according to another embodiment of the present invention;

8 is a view showing an example of a sheet of information, such as payment history and lottery ticket is printed by the merchant terminal according to the present invention.

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10.Device main unit 11 ... Display unit

12 Keypad 13 Telephone line

14 ... data transmission line 15a ... approval request

15b ... Ticketing control part 15c ... Point conversion part

16 ... Communication module 17 ... printer

In order to achieve the above object, an affiliated store terminal according to the present invention includes an affiliated store terminal interworking with a server computer that performs control of issuance of individual private bank company contents such as discounts of affiliated stores and lottery tickets, automatic calculation and management of winning accumulated amount, etc. The present invention relates to a mobile terminal comprising: a terminal main body provided with a display unit for displaying a winning amount of money, discounts and gratuities, and a keypad for key input; A communication module provided in the main body for data transmission and reception with the server computer; A printer provided in the main body to print lottery related information or the like on a predetermined sheet of paper; Approval request means provided in the main body for requesting payment approval according to the use of a merchant; And a ticketing control unit which displays the accumulated amount of winnings on the display unit and drives the printer to print lottery issuing authentication information or lottery information on the paper corresponding to a key input for issuing a lottery ticket. It features.

In addition, the ticketing control unit, in conjunction with the server computer further displays the customer's earning point information on the display unit, and the authentication information or lottery information for the lottery is issued on the paper within the limit of the earned point The printer can be controlled to print.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, the terminal body is provided with a display unit and a keypad on one side of the body for the payment and lottery issuance operation according to the use of the merchant; A communication module provided in the main body for transmitting and receiving data with an external payment approval system; A printer provided in the main body to print payment information and lottery related information on a predetermined sheet of paper; A point converting unit calculating a point corresponding to a payment amount of the customer; The ticketing control unit which displays the calculated point information on the display unit and drives the printer to print lottery issuing authentication information or lottery information within the limit of the point in correspondence with a key input for issuing a lottery ticket. There is provided a merchant terminal comprising a.

Preferably, the ticketing control unit may be operated to print an authentication number or a lottery number of a predetermined game count on a sheet corresponding to the key input.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a perspective view showing an appearance example of an affiliated store terminal according to the present invention. Referring to the drawings, the present invention is installed in an affiliated store that provides a variety of goods sales or services, the terminal body 10 is connected to a power line (not shown) for the supply of power, and one side of the terminal body 10 Information related to the lottery ticket, payment, promotion and gratitude information while discharging the display unit 11, the keypad 12 and the approval request means 15a and the predetermined paper 5 from the inside of the terminal body 10 to the outside. It includes a printer (see 17 of FIG. 2) provided in the terminal body 10 to print.

The display unit 11 is for displaying the accumulated amount and payment related information, the accumulated points corresponding to the payment amount, etc. at the time of use of the merchant, and preferably, a liquid crystal display (LCD) may be employed, and various other equivalents. This can be employed. Here, the cumulative amount of the prize money displayed on the display unit 11 is formed by a union lotto voucher (or union lotto lottery ticket), that is, when the operators of the affiliated store where the merchant terminal is installed, for example, purchase a predetermined roll of paper 5. Refers to the accumulated amount of the Union Lotto.

The keypad 12 is a key for numbers, letters and special symbols for requesting lottery issuance or input of private bank company / public information, for example, 'lottery issuing', 'accumulating points', 'printing guide', Function keys such as 'enter individual bank company' may additionally be included.

Preferably, two serial ports are built into the terminal body 10, and a telephone line 13 and / or a data transmission line 14 may be connected to the serial port. The telephone line 13 or data transmission line 14 connected to the serial port transmits the accumulated money data from the external server computer (100 in FIG. 2) to the terminal body 10, and is unique to the merchant at the server computer 100. It performs two-way data transmission and reception for number recognition and storage and management of points. Here, the server computer 100 is preferably linked to the external payment system 101.

As the printer 17, a conventional 2-inch thermal transfer printer (e.g., ATP48M) connected to the following controller 15 via a serial port may be preferably employed, and various other known printing means may be employed. . In addition, the paper 5 corresponding to the printer 17 may use a dedicated thermal paper having a predetermined form, including a general sales slip.

2 is a block diagram illustrating a functional configuration of an affiliated store terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, in the present invention, the controller 15 controls the operation of the display unit 11 or the printer 17 according to the command data transmitted from the keypad 12 so as to issue the lottery. A communication module 16 for bidirectional data transmission and reception with an external server computer 11 or a conventional payment system 101 connected via a network is provided. The network may be a conventional public switched telephone network (PSTN), a wired or wireless Internet, a value added network (VAN), a POS system, or the like, depending on the purpose.

Specifically, the controller 15 includes a ticketing controller 10b to display the accumulated amount of prizes, discounts / rewards, lottery-related information, and accumulated points, for example, on the display unit 11 as shown in FIG. 3. In addition, when the 'lottery issuing' key input for issuing lottery tickets is controlled, driving of the printer 17 is controlled so that related information such as lottery tickets are printed on the paper 5.

The lottery-related information printed on the paper 5 may include a cumulative amount of lottery winnings, a type of lottery game, and an authentication serial number for issuing a lottery, preferably including an affiliated store's unique number. As an alternative to the authentication serial number, a lottery number such as six lotto numbers may be preprinted. In addition, the paper 5 may be printed in addition to the relevant information, such as lottery, the affiliated store's unique number and the individual / special private bank company contents of the affiliated store. In addition, before the paper 5 is issued by the main body terminal, the advertisement texts of the general companies as well as the affiliated stores may be ordered and loaded on the back of the paper. Merchants can receive a lotto lottery number when the customer enters or registers the serial number for issuing the lottery on the homepage provided by the server computer 100 after issuing the paper 5 which is the Union Lotto gift certificate from the merchant.

The accumulated points are additionally given in correspondence with the payment amount according to the use of the affiliated store, and the calculation and the accumulation process of the points may be automatically performed in the external server computer 100. Here, the server computer 100 corresponds to a dedicated server that calculates and accumulates a predetermined point corresponding to a payment amount while interworking with an affiliated store terminal of the present invention and stores and stores it in a customer-specific earning point DB (100a). do.

Alternatively, when the calculation of the point is performed in the affiliated store terminal of the present invention, the controller 15 may additionally include a point converting unit (see 15c of FIG. 4).

The controller 15 is provided with a normal approval request means 15a that interlocks with an MSR module (not shown) provided on one side of the terminal body 10 to read a customer's payment card. Payment approval request data and corresponding approval information can be received. As the payment system 101, various payment systems corresponding to the customer's payment means, including a normal credit card payment approval system may be employed.

The communication module 16 preferably includes a modem (eg, TDK73k224bl) for connecting the aforementioned telephone line 13 and an RS-232C interface for connecting the data transmission line 14, but the present invention has such a configuration. Of course, it is not limited to.

On the other hand, Figure 4 shows a functional configuration of the merchant terminal according to another embodiment of the present invention. As shown in the figure, the present invention is to assign points corresponding to the payment amount in the merchant terminal itself without the configuration of a separate server computer 100 for the automatic calculation and transmission of the winning amount, the storage and management of the accumulated points The point converting unit 15c is further provided in the controller 15.

According to the configuration described above, the point converter 15c built in the controller 15 calculates a predetermined point corresponding to the payment amount at the time of the customer's payment according to the use of the affiliated store, and the ticket amount control unit 15b calculates the payment amount and the accumulated points. Information on the lottery ticket purchase points and the like is displayed on the display unit 11. In addition, the ticketing control unit 15b drives the printer 17 to print the lottery-related information on a predetermined paper 5 corresponding to, for example, a credit card sales slip, within the points for which the lottery can be purchased. Here, the lottery-related information printed on the paper 5 may be a lottery number, such as six lotto numbers. Alternatively, the user may be issued a lottery ticket when the user separately inputs the information on the corresponding web page. It may also be a certification number for issuing lotteries.

Then, the operation of the affiliated store terminal according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention having the configuration as described above will be described with reference to FIG.

Referring to FIG. 5, first, the accumulated amount information of the current lottery lottery ticket stored in the server computer 100 is displayed on the display unit 11 of the affiliated store terminal via the communication module 16 and the network (step P10). ).

At this time, when the customer pushes the 'issuance of lottery' button on the keypad 12 of the merchant terminal when making a payment according to the use of the merchant (step P20), the contents of the private bank company together with the lottery information on the union lotto voucher paper (5) , Affiliated store introduction, etc. are printed out (step P30). In addition, according to the operation of the 'issuance of the lottery' button, the server computer 100 recognizes the unique number of the merchant terminal and generates an authentication serial number in the order in which allied lotto vouchers are issued from the terminals of all affiliated stores connected to the network. As shown in the figure, it automatically transmits to be printed on the union lotto voucher paper (5). Here, the authentication serial number may include a unique number for identifying the type of lotto lottery ticket (for example, 5 games), it is preferable that the affiliated lotto voucher paper (5) is printed with the merchant's unique number and the accumulated amount of the winnings. .

In the server computer 100, in addition to the cumulative calculation of the winnings corresponding to the purchase of the paper 5 of each affiliated operator, the accumulated information of the winnings is transmitted to the affiliated store terminal of the present invention and the display unit 11 by the ticketing control unit 15a. To be automatically displayed.

On the other hand, Figure 7 shows the operation of the merchant terminal according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 7, payment amount information according to the use of an affiliated store is transmitted to the server computer 100 through the communication module 16 and the network, and calculated and accumulated in accordance with the payment amount in the server computer 100. Points are again received by the merchant terminal of the present invention and displayed on the display unit 11 together with the payment amount information (step S10). This operation is performed by the ticketing control unit 15b provided in the controller 15. Preferably, the display unit 11 may additionally display the accumulation point information that can be purchased for lottery purchase. 100) various private banking companies or promotional contents received from the side may be displayed.

Subsequently, when the affiliated user inputs a request for issuing a lottery ticket, for example, in a manner of performing six lotto number input operations over a predetermined number of games (step S20), the ticketing control unit 15b requests the purchase amount of the lottery requested by the user. It is determined whether or not within the accumulated points (step S30). Here, when a merchant user wants to purchase a lottery later, if a user inputs a function key provided at one side of the terminal body 10, for example, a 'point earning' key, the customer's earning point DB (100a) of the linked server computer 100 is entered. Point store processing may be performed.

The input operation of the request for issuing the lottery ticket may simply input the type or number of the lottery ticket. There may be various modifications. Here, of course, the present invention may be modified such that the key input step for issuing the lottery ticket is preceded by the above-described accumulation point display step.

In step S30, when the user requests a lottery issuance exceeding his or her own points, the process of step S20 is performed again, and when the lottery is issued within the points, the printer 17 by the ticketing control unit 15b. ) Is driven and payment details and lottery-related information are printed on the paper 5 corresponding to the sales slip, as shown in FIG. 8 (step S40). Here, the lottery-related information may correspond to a lottery number corresponding to a predetermined number of games, as shown in Figure 8, alternatively, the lottery issuance authentication number corresponds to the user separately to the authentication number on the corresponding Internet web page You can also select a lottery number after you enter it.

At the time of the printing operation, various private bank companies or promotional contents, which are input on the merchant terminal of the present invention and stored on the server computer 100 side by the merchant operator or the like, are additionally read out, and on the paper 5 together with the settlement / lottery-related information. May be printed on Alternatively, the private bank company or the promotional contents may be provided to the affiliated store terminal of the present invention unilaterally from the server computer 100.

In the above, preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described with reference to the accompanying drawings. Herein, the terms or words used in the present specification and claims are not to be construed as being limited to the ordinary or dictionary meanings, and the inventors properly define the concept of terms in order to explain their own design in the best way. Based on the principle that it can be done, it should be interpreted as meaning and concept consistent with the technical idea of this paper. Therefore, the embodiments described in the specification and the drawings shown in the drawings are only the most preferred embodiment of the present invention and do not represent all of the technical ideas of the present invention, various modifications that can be replaced at the time of the present application It should be understood that there may be equivalents and variations.

As described above, the present invention will be issued a publicity gift certificate with a lotto lottery effect when using the merchant, so that you can obtain a lottery ticket quickly and conveniently without paying a separate lottery ticket. There is an advantage to promote.

The present invention, the accumulated amount of the prize is displayed on the display unit when the payment due to the use of merchants to make the customer of the merchants who have been issued a publicity lotto voucher trust, and the earned points are automatically displayed on the display unit as a separate function. The user can conveniently purchase and issue a lottery lottery ticket and the like within their earned points.

In addition, according to the present invention, since the merchant customer possesses a paper on which the publicity / gratitude content is printed for the guardianship of the lottery issuance number or the lottery number, there is an advantage of enhancing the promotion and sales promotion effect.

Claims (4)

As a merchant terminal that works with server computers that perform the control of issuance of individual bank companies, such as discounts at affiliated stores, lottery tickets, automatic calculation and management of winnings, etc. A terminal body provided with a display unit for displaying the accumulated amount of prizes, discounts and gratuities, and a keypad for key input on one side of the body; A communication module provided in the main body for data transmission and reception with the server computer; A printer provided in the main body to print lottery related information or the like on a predetermined sheet of paper; Approval request means provided in the main body for requesting payment approval according to the use of a merchant; And And a ticketing control unit which displays the accumulated amount of winnings on the display unit and drives the printer to print the lottery issuing authentication information or the lottery information on the paper corresponding to a key input for issuing a lottery ticket. Merchant terminal. According to claim 1, The ticketing control unit, In conjunction with the server computer to further display the customer's earning point information on the display unit, and to control the printer to print the lottery issuing authentication information or lottery information on the paper within the limit of the earning point. Merchant terminal characterized in that. A terminal body provided with a display unit and a keypad on one side of the body for payment and operation of issuing lotteries according to the use of an affiliated store, and an approval request unit; A communication module provided in the main body for transmitting and receiving data with an external payment approval system; A printer provided in the main body to print payment information and lottery related information on a predetermined sheet of paper; A point converting unit calculating a point corresponding to a payment amount of the customer; The ticketing control unit which displays the calculated point information on the display unit and drives the printer to print lottery issuing authentication information or lottery information within the limit of the point in correspondence with a key input for issuing a lottery ticket. Merchant terminal characterized in that it comprises a. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, Merchant terminal characterized in that the ticketing control unit is operated so that the authentication number for the issuance of the lotto or the lotto number of the predetermined game count is printed on a sheet corresponding to the key input.