JPH0363763A - Data transmitting/receiving system for in-house race betting system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To exclude a condition that a telephone line can not be connected just before voting is finished and to satisfy the desired voting request of a terminal user by connecting the telephone line from a center side and receiving vote data in an in-house betting system for a race, etc. CONSTITUTION:When a power source is turned on, respective in-house betting terminals 1-1 to 1-N establish the lines with a host system 3 and inform the telephone numbers of the terminals themselves. At a suitable time point before the betting of the race is finished, the host system 3 successively takes out the telephone numbers registered to a telephone number table and calls out the in-house betting terminals 1-1 to 1-N. When there are betting data, the betting data are transmitted to the host system 3 and when there are no betting data, information showing the absence of the betting data are transmitted. Thus, enthusiasts who desire betting can be prevented from being limited concerning time and place.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Summary] A home voting system in which bets and votes are placed from a terminal placed in the home ring to a center of the organizer that manages races such as horse races and FI boats using one communication line. Regarding the transmission and reception method of voting data.

By using the limited number of connection lines on the center side.

The purpose is to give all terminals with a voting request an opportunity to send voting data within a set time.

When each at-home voting terminal inputs ta, it establishes a line with the host system and notifies the host system of its own terminal's telephone number.

The notified phone number is registered in the phone number table, and the information on the principal amount that the unused user can use and the race information are sent to the other party's terminal, and then the line is temporarily disconnected and the call is made before the voting deadline for the first race. At an appropriate point in time, the host system takes out the phone numbers registered in the phone number table in order, calls the home voting terminal, establishes a line, and then queries the presence or absence of voting data. The configuration is such that when voting data is present, the voting data is transmitted to the host system, and when there is no voting data, a response is made to transmit information indicating that there is no voting data.

[Industrial application field]

The present invention allows transmission from a terminal placed in a home or the like to a center of an organizer that manages races such as horse racing and MIS.

The present invention relates to a system for sending and receiving voting data in a home voting system that uses communication lines to vote.

[Conventional technology]

Traditionally, in order to vote in races such as horse racing and boat races,
For many enthusiasts who wish to vote, they must go to the stadium or to a ticket booth outside the stadium.

They were often constrained by time or location.

Therefore, a home voting system has recently been developed. This system installs terminals (referred to as at-home voting terminals) in the homes of enthusiasts, connects them to the center at the stadium through a single communication line, and sends the principal amount information of non-users and race information from the center to the terminal. death.

Enthusiasts can view the race information and send voting data for their desired race to the center from their terminals.

[Problem II to be Solved by the Invention] In general, in race-at-home voting systems, voting requests tend to concentrate just before the deadline for the race in which the race is to be voted.

Therefore, the transmission of voting data from at-home voting terminals to the center is concentrated, and the center side may run out of connection lines, resulting in a number of terminals unable to connect to the center. In this case, the at-home voting terminal waits for a certain period of time when it detects that it is busy.

Although the procedure for connecting to the center is automatically executed again, there is an inconvenience that voting may be closed while waiting for the connection line to be opened.

The present invention is in a racing at-home voting system.

The purpose is to use a limited number of connection lines on the center side to give all terminals requesting voting an opportunity to transmit voting data within a predetermined time.

(Means for solving !!Iff) The present invention connects the line to the terminal from the center side, instead of connecting the line for transmitting voting data from the home voting terminal. 9 Just before the release deadline, the center dialed the phone numbers connected to the terminals one after another.

If voting request data is present in the terminal, the same data is received from the terminal. This method avoids concentration of traffic from the terminal side, and enables the center-side system to sequentially and fairly receive voting request data from all terminals.

FIG. 1 is a diagram explaining the principle of the present invention.

In FIG.

1-1 to 1-N are home voting terminals.

2 is a switching circuit network.

3 is a host system of the center.

4 is a voting data siphoning processing unit.

5 is the at-home voting terminal (1
-1 to 1-N) is registered in the telephone number table.

Reference numeral 6 is a data file that stores information on the principal amount and race information of unused users, and voting data sucked from the terminal.

Note that in FIG. 1, only one telephone line that can be used by the host system 3 is shown between the center host system 3 and the switching circuit network 2, but this is for the purpose of simplifying the explanation. In reality, calls are controlled simultaneously and in parallel to the same number of home voting terminals using any number of telephone lines.

Principal amount information and race information can be transmitted from the host system to each at-home voting terminal, or voting data can be transmitted from the at-home voting terminal to the host system.

When the at-home voting terminals 1-1 to 1-N are turned on and the calling line 11 (by automatic dialing) is connected to the host system 3 at the center, they notify the telephone number of their own terminals. . The host system 3 registers the received telephone number in the telephone number table 5 and stores it in the data file 6.
The principal amount information and race information of the corresponding user are extracted from and sent to the other party's terminal.

The voting data siphoning processing unit of the center host system 3 starts controlling the siphoning of voting data from the home voting terminals 1-1 to 1-N a certain time before the race deadline.

In that case, refer to the telephone number table 5 to sequentially read the telephone numbers of the at-home voting terminals, make a call using automatic dialing to establish a line with the terminals, and then inquire about the presence or absence of voting data. If there is, the terminal transmits it, receives the voting data, and stores it in the voting data file 6. This operation is performed for each telephone number in the telephone number table 5.

[Effect]

In FIG. 1, a person who does not use a voting terminal at home and wishes to vote in a race notifies the host system 3 of the center in advance of the telephone number of his/her own terminal and makes a reservation for voting participation. This voting participation reservation is automatically made by turning on the power of the own terminal.

The voting data uptake processing unit 4 of the host system 3 registers the telephone number of the terminal that accepted the reservation in the telephone number table 5, and sends information regarding the principal amount allowed to non-users at the secondary end and race information to a data file 6. , and send it back to the other party's terminal. At this point, the line connection between the host system 3 and the terminal is temporarily disconnected.

Non-users who have reserved voting participation will look at the 1 yuan information and race information, create voting data, and store it in @Shuniku.

The voting data downloading processing unit 4 of the host system 3 refers to the telephone number table 5, reads one telephone number in order, and makes one call before the race voting deadline.

When a line is established with the other party's terminal, the voting data downloading processing unit 4 inquires as to whether there is voting data, and if the terminal has voting data, it transmits it, and if there is no voting data, it sends it. respond.

The voting data downloading processing unit 4 stores the voting data received from the terminal in the data file 6 when there is voting data, disconnects one line, reads the next telephone number from the telephone number table 5, and establishes a connection with the other party's terminal. The process of establishing a line in between and downloading voting data is repeated.

On the other hand, if there is a response from the terminal that there is no voting data, the voting data siphoning processing unit 4 immediately disconnects the line,
The process moves on to the next phone number in the phone number table 5.

In this way, the voting data siphoning process is executed for all the telephone numbers registered in the telephone number table 5. Note that the voting data downloading from the terminal with the last phone number must be completed before the voting deadline, and in order to do so, the start time of voting data downloading control must be set according to the phone number registered in the phone number table 5. It needs to be set appropriately.

[Embodiment] FIG. 2 shows the main part configuration of an at-home voting system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In fig.

1-1 to 1-N are home voting terminals.

2 is a switching circuit network.

3 is a host system of the center.

Reference numeral 4 denotes a voting data siphoning processing unit that controls siphoning of voting data from the at-home voting terminals 1-1 to 1-N.

Reference numeral 5 denotes a telephone number table for managing the telephone numbers of home voting terminals that have received reservations for voting participation.

6 is a data file that stores 1 principal amount information, race information, and voting data sucked from the terminal.

7-1 to 7-M are modems for modulating and demodulating data to be transmitted and received, and are provided for one line (the number of lines is M, M<N).

8-1 to 8-M are NCUs (line control units) that control connection and disconnection of telephone lines.

9-1 to 9-M are automatic dialing devices that automatically transmit dial signals.

10-1 to 10-M are telephone lines owned by the center.

11-1 to 11-N are telephone lines that the at-home voting terminals 1-1 to 1-N respectively have.

12-1 is an NCU provided within the terminal.

13-1 is a modem provided in the terminal.

14-■ is an automatic dialing device coupled to the NCU 12-1.

15-1 is a data file that temporarily stores race information and voting data within the terminal.

16-1, in response to an inquiry from the center about the presence or absence of voting data, if there is voting data, the data file 15 is sent.
This is a voting data transmission processing unit that performs control to transmit the voting data in -1 to the center, and to transmit "None" if there is no voting data.

The internal configuration of at-home voting terminals 1-2 to 1-H is 1-
Since it is the same as that shown in No. 1, it is omitted.

The general operation of the system according to one embodiment of the present invention will be explained with reference to FIGS. 3(a) to 3(c).

FIG. 3(a) shows the operation of the at-home voting terminal when the power is turned on.The details of the operation are as follows.

■ When the power is turned on to the home voting terminal, the terminal dials the center and connects the telephone line.

■ When the line connection is completed, the terminal notifies the center of the telephone number of the line to which the terminal is connected.

- When the center receives the telephone number from the terminal, it stores the number in a data file, sends the principal amount and race information data to the terminal, and the terminal stores the received data in the data file.

■ The terminal stores the data received from the center in a data file and disconnects the telephone line.

FIG. 3(b) shows the state when voting data is being input at the at-home voting terminal. The details of the operation at this time are as follows: (1) The non-user creates voting data based on the information stored in the data file, and the created data is stored in the data file of the terminal.

FIG. 3(c) shows the operation at the voting deadline.

The operation details are as follows.

■ When the voting deadline is reached, the center dials the telephone line connected to the terminal using the telephone number stored in the data file of the center.

■ When the telephone line is connected, the center makes an inquiry regarding a voting request, and if the terminal has voting data, the voting data is sent to the center from the data file on the terminal.

If not, a response indicating that there is no data is returned.

■ When the center receives data from the terminal, it disconnects the telephone line.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the data transmission and reception method of the at-home voting terminal according to the present invention, in an at-home voting system that performs race voting by connecting a telephone line from the center side and receiving voting data, voting requests concentrate near the voting deadline. This completely eliminates the situation in which telephone line connection is impossible due to the telephone line being disconnected, and the voting request desired by the user of the home voting terminal can be reliably received at the center side. In addition, since the center side connects a telephone line from the center, it becomes possible to sequentially process voting requests from terminals concentrated at the time of one sales deadline, and the load on the computer at the center side can be reduced.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating the principle of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating the main part of a system according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating the operation of a system according to an embodiment of the present invention. 1-1 to 1-N in Figure 1: Home voting terminal 2: Switching circuit network 3: Center host system 4: Voting data uptake processing unit 5: T! Episode 1 number table 6: Data file

Claims (1)

[Claims] A host system on the center side and a plurality of at-home voting terminals on the user's side are connected via a telephone line, and the host system sends the user's principal information and race information to the at-home voting terminal. In the race at-home voting system, in which voting data is sent from the at-home voting terminal to the center host, each at-home voting terminal establishes a line with the host system when the power is turned on and sends its own telephone number. Notify the host system, and the host system registers the notified phone number in the phone number table and sends information on the principal amount that can be used by the end user and race information to the other party's terminal, and then temporarily disconnects the line. Then, at an appropriate point before the voting deadline for the race, the host system retrieves the phone numbers registered in the phone number table in order, calls the home voting terminal, and after establishing the line, queries whether there is voting data. , When the home voting terminal receives the inquiry, if it has voting data, it sends the voting data to the host system, and if there is no voting data, it responds by sending the information that there is no voting data, and the host system receives these responses. A data transmission and reception method in a racing at-home voting system is characterized in that the line is then disconnected, the next telephone number is retrieved from the telephone number table, and the above-described operation is executed again.