KR20060092493A - Method for prepaying pc-bang charge - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a PC Bang billing method. PC room billing method according to the present invention, a plurality of Internet-enabled customer computer (10); A counter terminal 20 provided with a payment unit 21, an RF card reader 22, a display unit 23, an input unit 24, and a control unit 25; A management computer 30 communicatively coupled to the customer computers 10 and the counter terminal 20 to integrally manage the customer computers 10 and the counter terminal 20; And a plurality of RF cards 40 each having unique identification information recorded therein: one of the RF cards 40 approaches the RF card reader 22 of the counter terminal 20 to identify the unique identification. Recognizing information; Paying the fee in advance via the payment unit (21); Transmitting the recognized unique identification information and the advance payment fee to the management computer 30; Inputting the unique identification information recorded on the RF card (40) into the empty customer computer (10) to start using the customer computer (10); The management computer 30 recognizes the customer computer 10 to which the unique identification information is input, and includes the corresponding customer computer 10, the corresponding unique identification information, advanced payment fee, unit time usage fee, and start time of use. Generating and maintaining fee data; Terminating the use of the customer computer 10 by the management computer 30 when the use time of the customer computer 10 reaches a use time corresponding to the advance payment fee; If the unique identification information of the RF card 40 is recognized by the counter terminal 20 before the usage time of the customer computer 10 reaches the usage time corresponding to the advance payment fee, the management computer 30 Terminating use of the customer computer 10; And after the use of the customer computer 10 is terminated, the management computer 30 calculating a corresponding usage fee by applying an end-of-use time to the fee data and paying the fee with the advanced payment fee; It includes.

Description

PC Bang payment method {Method for Prepaying PC-bang charge}

1 is an exemplary block diagram of a PC room management system to which the PC room billing method according to the present invention is applied;

2 is an exemplary flowchart of a PC Bang billing method according to the present invention.

<Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

1: PC Bang management system to which the present invention is applied

10: Customer Computer

20: counter terminal

21: Payment Department

21A: Money Settlement

21B: Non-Payment

22: RF card reader

23: display unit

24: input unit

25: control unit

30: management computer

40: RF card

(Technology)

The present invention relates to a PC room bill payment method, and more particularly to a method for paying a PC room fee in advance in managing a PC room provided with a plurality of Internet personal computers and providing services such as Internet use or games to customers. It is about.

(Background)

With the widespread use of the Internet, a business called PC Bang (also known as an Internet room or a game room) has emerged, which establishes a large number of Internet personal computers in offices and provides Internet games and other Internet-related services to customers for a fee.

These PC rooms have become an industry that can be encountered in everyday life with the attractiveness that high speed internet service can be provided conveniently at a low price even in the place where there is no own computer.

Traditionally, payments for PC Bang have been managed by manually recording the time of entry and exit of the customer into the ledger and billing the amount of computer usage time based on the records.

However, this traditional PC room payment method cannot be processed quickly and adds to the burden of labor costs, which could not meet the industry's need to reduce costs due to intense price competition. For this reason, various programmed PC management systems have been developed and applied.

An example of a PCB management system is Korean Patent No. 409292, 'Method for controlling the use time of an Internet computer using a money recognizer,' wherein the computer use time control method is performed in an unattended manner to minimize the management by employees. When you input money and use the keyboard, you can get a usage time that fits your money and select an empty computer to allow the use of the computer and count the actual hours except for breaks.

However, the control method of heading 409292 manages customer computers collectively by a server computer, which makes it convenient to pay bills by class. However, the customer selects a use time and a customer computer to use prior to using the PC room. In order to operate the cashier's buttons in order to operate them, malfunctions caused by poor cashier's operation were frequent, which resulted in a long waiting time for customers due to operation delays and a long time for employees to be involved in payment. There was a limit to achieving management objectives.

An object of the present invention is to solve the problems of the conventional PC room management system as described above, and to provide a PC room billing method that can manage the PC room more easily and efficiently.

According to the present invention, there is provided a method of paying a PC room usage fee in advance in managing a PC room having a plurality of Internet personal computers and providing services such as Internet use or games to a customer.

PC room billing method according to the invention, a plurality of customer computers capable of the Internet; A counter terminal having a payment unit, an RF card reader, a display unit, an input unit, and a control unit; A management computer communicatively connected to the customer computers and the counter terminal to integrally manage the customer computers and the counter terminal; And a plurality of RF cards in which unique identification information is recorded.

According to the present invention, a method of payment for a PC-based bill includes: accessing one of the RF cards to an RF card reader of the counter terminal to recognize the unique identification information; Paying the fee in advance via the payment unit; Transmitting the recognized unique identification information and the advance payment fee to the management computer; Initiating use of the customer computer by inputting the unique identification information recorded on the RF card to the empty customer computer; Recognizing, by the management computer, the customer computer to which the unique identification information is input, and generating and maintaining fee data including the corresponding customer computer, the corresponding unique identification information, advance payment fee, unit time usage fee, and start time of use; ; Terminating the use of the customer computer by the management computer when the use time of the customer computer reaches a use time corresponding to the advance payment fee; If the unique identification information of the RF card is re-recognized by the counter terminal before the usage time of the customer computer reaches the usage time corresponding to the advance payment fee, the management computer terminating the use of the customer computer; And after the use of the customer computer is terminated, the management computer calculates a corresponding usage fee by applying an end-of-use time to the fee data and settles the payment fee. It includes.

Preferably, after the step of generating and maintaining the fee data, if there is an extension of use of the counter terminal before the end of the use of the customer computer, the unique identification information of the RF card is recognized at the counter terminal and the fee is advanced. The payment and the subsequent steps are resumed.

Preferably, the payment unit includes a payment unit for recognizing the input of bills and coins, and a non-payment unit for processing a payment using a credit card, a debit card, a financial card including an electronic money or a mobile phone.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail the PC Bang billing method according to the present invention. The following embodiments are merely illustrative of the PCBill billing method according to the present invention, and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention.

1 is an exemplary block diagram of a PC room management system to which the PC room billing method according to the present invention is applied, and FIG. 2 is an exemplary flowchart of the PC room billing method according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the PC Bang management system 1 to which the PC Bang billing method according to the present invention is applied includes a plurality of customer computers 10, a counter terminal 20, a management computer 30, and a plurality of PC rooms. RF cards 40 are included.

The customer computer 10 is a conventional computer, which can be used for Internet communication by showing various information in multimedia formats such as O / S software such as Windows or Linux, various protocols, graphics, sounds, and images necessary for Internet access. It is a web browser, or an Internet personal computer with various software plugged in.

The counter terminal 20 is a terminal that allows the customer to pay the fee for the use of the PC room in advance without direct management of the staff in the present invention, the payment unit 21, RF card reader 22, display unit 23 And an input unit 24 and a control unit 25.

The payment unit 21 is a means for paying the fee for using the PC room.

As the payment unit 21, for example, a bill input unit, a coin input unit, a bill release unit, and a coin release unit so that cash (banknotes and coins) can be used for payment of a fee, similarly to a cash machine widely applied to a vending machine. A money settlement part 21A including a wealth and the like may be used.

In addition, the payment unit 21 performs non-monetary payments by means of a financial card or a mobile phone so that payments using various financial functions such as credit cards, debit cards, electronic money, etc., or cash can be used. The payment unit 21B may be further included.

The specific configurations and functions of the monetary payment unit 21A and the non-monetary payment unit 21B as the payment unit 21 are known in the relevant technical fields (eg, technical fields such as vending machines and credit card readers). Since a known technique can be applied as it is to the present invention, a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

The RF card reader 22 corresponds to a conventional RF card reader for reading the RF card 40.

As is well known, an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) system is a system that processes information by identifying an RF card (for example, an RF smart card or a tag) in a non-contact manner through an RF radio signal. It consists of RF card reader, RF card with built-in information and related operating software, and is used in various fields such as document management, logistics management, identity verification, document authentication, and one of its representative uses is credit card. B. It is a payment system by smart card such as electronic money (eg transportation card).

In general, an RF card reader includes a microprocessor for controlling the overall RF reading, an RF reading module for reading an RF card, a memory for storing various data, a key input for inputting necessary contents, a monitor for displaying the necessary contents, and an RF. An RF antenna for wireless communication with the card is provided. An RF card that interacts with an RF reader includes a semiconductor contactless IC chip (or contact / contactless needle, eg, a combination chip) and an antenna.

As a result, the RF card reader reads the unique information recorded on the RF card through electromagnetic induction wireless communication with the RF card. If the RF card is a card capable of reading and writing, the RF card reader may input new information into the RF card.

In the present invention, the RF card reader 22 and the RF card 40 apply the RF card reader and the RF card in the RFID system according to the present invention. Of course, the monitor or the like of the RF card reader 22 may share the display unit 23 necessary for the construction of the counter terminal 20.

The display unit 23 is a means for displaying information necessary for employees and customers in using the counter terminal 20, such as information on how to use the customer, advance payment fee, usage time, charged fee, and settlement fee. For example, conventional display means, such as an electronic board or an LCD, can be used.

The input unit 24 is a conventional input means for inputting various commands and data necessary for the operation of the counter terminal 20, for example, a keypad or a touch pad may be used as an input means.

The control unit 25 is a microprocessor for controlling the first half of the counter terminal 20 such as the payment unit 21, the RF card reader 22, the display unit 23, and the input unit 24.

The counter terminal 20 having such a configuration is typically provided at the entrance front of the PC room, and the customer can operate the counter terminal 20 by himself or herself without the direct management of the staff.

The management computer 30 is interconnected with the customer computers 10 and the counter terminal 20 by LAN, for example, and in accordance with the method according to the invention the whole customer computer 10 and the counter terminal ( 20 is a conventional computer for integrating management.

The management computer 30 and the counter terminal 20 have a functionally separate configuration, but physically, the management computer 30 and the counter terminal 20 are integrated into one device so that one device is the counter terminal 20. Naturally, it can be constructed to have both a function as) and a function as the management computer 30.

The RF card 40 is read by the RF card reader 22 of the counter terminal 20 as an RF card corresponding to the RF card of the above-described RFID system in which unique identification information is recorded. The RF card 40 is provided next to the counter terminal 20, which the customer can see well, at least the number of customer computers 10 held by the PC room.

The unique identification information of the RF card 40 is composed of the internal identification information read only by the RF card reader 22 and the external identification information recorded on the surface of the card so that the customer can see it visually. Information is interconnected.

The RF card 40 may take the form of a card, for example a conventional transportation card or a credit card, or may be manufactured in another form such as a tag.

Hereinafter, with reference to Figure 2 will be described PCC billing method according to the present invention.

First, a customer who enters to use a PC room accesses one of the RF cards 40 provided in the counter terminal 20 to the RF card reader 22 of the counter terminal 20 to recognize the unique identification information. (S10). As a result, the counter terminal 20 specifies the corresponding customer by the recognized unique identification number.

Next, the customer pays the fee corresponding to the expected use time of the PC room through the payment unit 21 of the counter terminal 20 in advance (S20). At this time, the counter terminal 20 determines whether the payment means is cash or not a credit card or a mobile phone (S21), and if there is cash input in the cash payment unit 21A (YES), the cash input is paid as a prepaid payment fee. If there is a contact of the financial card through the non-payment unit 21B or the input of the mobile phone number without the cash input, the customer inputs the payment amount through the input unit 24 (S22) to perform the authentication process (S23). The coarse amount is paid by advance payment. Here, the existing authentication procedure is applied to the payment verification by the financial card or mobile phone payment verification process.

In the illustrated embodiment, an example in which the payment process is performed after the unique identification information recognition process through the RF card 40 has been described, but it is also possible to perform the unique identification information recognition process after the payment process.

During the recognition and payment process of the RF card 40, the unique identification information of the RF card 40 recognized by the counter terminal 20 and the data about the advance payment fee paid by the payment process are sent to the management computer 30. It is transmitted (S30).

After completing the prepaid fee payment, the customer moves to an unused empty customer computer 10 and inputs unique identification information (external identification information) recorded on the RF card 40 to use the customer computer 10. It starts (S40). To this end, the customer computer 10 is displaying a start screen for starting to use the computer.

When the use of the customer computer 10 is started, the management computer 30 recognizes the customer computer 10 that has been started using the unique identification information, and starts using the customer computer 10 and its unique identification information. Generate and maintain a fee data including advance payment fee, unit time usage fee, and start time of use (S50).

In the process of using the customer computer 10, the management computer 30 determines whether the actual use time of the customer computer 10 has reached the use time corresponding to the advance payment fee (S60), the use time is advanced When the usage time corresponding to the payment rate is reached (YES), the use of the corresponding customer computer 10 is automatically terminated (S61), and thus the use and payment process of the customer computer 10 is finally terminated.

If the usage time does not reach the usage time corresponding to the advance payment fee (NO), the management computer 30 causes the RF card reader 22 of the counter terminal 20 to retransmit the unique identification information of the RF card 40. If it is recognized (S70), and if it is recognized (YES), the use of the customer computer 10 is terminated (S71), if not recognized (NO), the actual use time of the customer computer 10 is returned to the prepayment fee. The previous process is repeated to determine whether the corresponding use time has been reached (S60) and whether the RF card reader 22 of the counter terminal 20 recognizes the unique identification information of the RF card 40 again (S70).

When the use of the customer computer 10 is terminated (S71), that is, the customer reads the RF card of the counter terminal 20 in order to terminate the use of the customer computer while the use time does not reach the use time corresponding to the advance payment fee. When the RF card 40 is approached to the unit 22 to recognize the unique identification information again (if YES), the management computer 30 displays the above-mentioned fee data (customer computer, unique identification information, classification, etc.). The applicable fee is calculated by applying the end time (the time when the unique identification number is recognized second) to the settlement fee, the unit time fee and the start time of use. Settlement (S80).

As a result of the settlement, the balance of the prepaid fees remaining unused is returned or accumulated (S81), and the fee payment process is finally terminated. In this case, the balance can be credited after the member log-in if the member is registered, and the member can be credited after signing up and logging-in for non-members. Can be attracted by

When the customer uses the customer computer 10, it may be necessary to use the customer computer 10 by extending the usage time corresponding to the fee prepaid initially, without ending the use of the customer computer 10.

In this case, the customer inputs the use extension to the input unit 24 of the counter terminal 20 before the end of the use of the customer computer 10 (while continuing to use), and then inputs the unique identification information of the RF card 40 to the counter terminal 20. Recognize in step (S10) through the payment unit 21 to perform the additional payment to the advance payment (S20).

At this time, the management computer 30 determines whether there is a usage extension input after generating and maintaining the charge data (S50) (S90), and if there is a usage extension input (YES), the unique identification of the RF card 40 is performed. Even if the information is recognized by the counter terminal 20, without repeating the use of the customer computer 10 without repeating the above-described step after step S10, if there is no extended use input (NO), the process after step S60 is left as it is. Run

If there is an extended use input (YES) and there is an additional advance payment through the payment unit 21, the management computer 30 adds the advanced payment fee in the fee data to the first advanced payment fee. Update to a new advance payment fee.

According to the PC room bill payment method according to the present invention described above, it is possible to pay the bill quickly by class without malfunction because the operation that the customer has to process in order to pay the PC room fee by class is very simple and easy, Therefore, it is possible to solve the problem of operation delay that was previously accompanied by advance payment of PC room service fee, increase of customer waiting time, and increase of labor cost due to increase of employee involvement time. It is expected to work.

Claims (3)

A plurality of customer computers 10 capable of internet; A counter terminal 20 provided with a payment unit 21, an RF card reader 22, a display unit 23, an input unit 24, and a control unit 25; A management computer 30 communicatively coupled to the customer computers 10 and the counter terminal 20 to integrally manage the customer computers 10 and the counter terminal 20; And a plurality of RF cards 40 in which distinct identification information is recorded, respectively: Accessing one of the RF cards (40) to the RF card reader (22) of the counter terminal (20) to recognize the unique identification information; Paying the fee in advance via the payment unit (21); Transmitting the recognized unique identification information and the advance payment fee to the management computer 30; Inputting the unique identification information recorded on the RF card (40) into the empty customer computer (10) to start using the customer computer (10); The management computer 30 recognizes the customer computer 10 to which the unique identification information is input, and includes the corresponding customer computer 10, the corresponding unique identification information, advanced payment fee, unit time usage fee, and start time of use. Generating and maintaining fee data; Terminating the use of the customer computer 10 by the management computer 30 when the use time of the customer computer 10 reaches a use time corresponding to the advance payment fee; If the unique identification information of the RF card 40 is recognized by the counter terminal 20 before the usage time of the customer computer 10 reaches the usage time corresponding to the advance payment fee, the management computer 30 Terminating use of the customer computer (10); And After the use of the customer computer 10 is terminated, the management computer 30 calculating a corresponding usage fee by applying an end-of-use time to the fee data and paying the payment fee; PC room bill payment method comprising a. The unique identification of the RF card (40) according to claim 1, wherein if there is a usage extension input on the counter terminal (20) before terminating the use of the customer computer (10) after generating and maintaining the fee data. Recognizing information in the counter terminal (20) and the step of paying the fee in advance and subsequent steps, characterized in that the PC Bang billing method. According to claim 1 or 2, wherein the payment unit 21 is a payment unit 21A for recognizing the input of bills and coins, and a financial card or mobile phone including credit card, debit card, electronic money PC bill payment method comprising a non-payment unit (21B) for processing the payment using.

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