JP2016019727A - Information collection provision apparatus and information collection provision program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information collection provision apparatus and information collection provision program that reduce the time and effort spent by hall operators and site operators along with provision and collection of hall information.SOLUTION: Pieces of hall information of halls are collected together from information provision apparatuses 2 of each hall to an information collection provision apparatus 3 (S1), and required hall information, among the pieces of hall information, is individually transmitted upon being requested by an information request apparatus 4 of a site operator (S2). In other words, if the information collection provision apparatus 3 is used, the hall information is required to be provided from a hall side only once, and the required hall information can be collected by the site operator without the need of individually collecting the hall information from each hall. Accordingly, the use of the information collection provision apparatus 3 greatly reduces the time and effort spent by the hall operators and the site operators along with the provision and collection of the hall information.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3

Description

    The present invention relates to an information collecting and providing machine and an information collecting and providing program for collecting hall information from a hall side and providing the collected information to a site operator side.

    In amusement halls (so-called halls), information relating to the introduction and removal of gaming machines, information relating to the appearance of gaming machines, and the like are managed by a hall computer. Hall information consisting of these pieces of information (hereinafter referred to as “provided information”) is provided to each site operator who provides hall information to the user. Each site operator extracts necessary information from the hall information obtained from each hall and posts it on their own site.

  As a result, users can know the replacement information of the game machines in each hall by looking at the sites provided by each site operator, and each hall can advertise the new machine replacement through the site operator. It can be carried out.

The work of collecting and providing hall information must be collected individually from each hall for each site operator, and must be provided to each site operator individually for the hall. For me, it took a lot of work.

    SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide an information collecting and providing machine and an information collecting and providing program for reducing the time and effort required for a hall and a site operator when providing and collecting hall information.

In order to achieve the above object, the information collecting and providing machine according to claim 1,
An information receiving step of receiving hall information from each information provider;
When the information receiving step receives the hole information, a storing step for storing the received hole information;
A first request receiving step for receiving first request information for requesting provision of the required hole information from an information requesting machine;
An information transmitting step of transmitting the hole information stored in the storing step according to the first request information to the information requesting machine that has transmitted the first request information.

  According to this, hall information of each hall is collected from the information provider possessed by each hall to the information collecting / providing machine, and if there is a request from the information requesting machine possessed by the site operator, The necessary hole information is transmitted individually.

  In other words, if the information gathering / providing machine is used, the hall side only needs to provide the hall information once, and the site operator does not collect the hall information separately from each hall. Can be collected.

Therefore, if the information collecting / providing machine is used, it is possible to greatly reduce the time and labor required for the hall and the site operator for providing and collecting the hall information.
In addition, as described in claim 9, the information collecting / providing machine has an information receiving step of receiving hall information from each information providing machine in a computer,
When the information receiving step receives the hole information, a storing step for storing the received hole information;
A first request receiving step for receiving first request information for requesting provision of the hall information from an information requesting machine;
An information collecting / providing program for executing the information transmitting step of transmitting the hole information stored in the storing step according to the first request information to the information requesting machine that has transmitted the first request information is executed. This can be achieved.

The computer is a device capable of communicating with a plurality of information providing machines and a plurality of information requesting machines via an information communication line.
As described in claim 2 and claim 10, the hall information may consist of a plurality of provision information.

  Specifically, as provided information, for example, identification information (name, etc.) for identifying gaming machines such as introduction tables and removal tables, appearance information linked to information for identifying gaming machines, bonus information Or the number of users information may be used. The provided information may be hall service information or commercial information.

As described in claim 3 and claim 11,
In the information transmission step, when the first request information for requesting the provision of specific provision information in the hall information is received in the first request reception step, the provision information for which the provision request has been requested is provided to the information requesting machine. You may make it transmit.

  For example, if the hall information includes identification information (name, etc.) that identifies the introduction table or removal table, and the ball information, bonus information, or number of users information linked to this identification information, the identification information If the first request information requesting that only the ball information is transmitted is received, the information may be transmitted to the information requesting machine.

In this way, the site operator can acquire necessary information by communication with the minimum necessary communication capacity.
In addition, as described in claim 4 and claim 12, time information may be associated with provided information. In that case, in the storing step, the hole information received in the receiving step is compared with the previously stored hole information, and if there is provided information associated with different time information, the previously stored hole information Of these, the provision information associated with different time information may be updated.

As described in claim 5 and claim 13,
In the information collection machine or information collection program,
A second request receiving step of receiving second request information for instructing provision of provision information from the user terminal;
You may make it perform the 2nd notification step which notifies the provision information instruct | indicated with 2nd request information with respect to a user terminal.

  According to this, in the user terminal owned by the user of the hall, the provision information (for example, the appearance information) indicated by the second request information is notified, so that the user can collect the information collection provider or the information collection Favorite information can be freely acquired from a computer that executes the provided program.

  The notification to the user terminal may be a push notification as described in claims 6 and 14. If the push notification is performed, the user can obtain information he / she wants at any time.

Further, as described in claims 7 and 15, the user terminal may be notified when a predetermined condition is reached.
In this way, for example, when the instructed provided information is the information on the appearance of a specific stand, and the predetermined condition is the number of appearances, the user is aware of the specific stand that the user is paying attention to. When the number is reached, notification is made in a timely manner.

Therefore, if the information collecting / providing machine is used, information desired by the user can be notified to the user in a timely manner.
As described in claim 8 and claim 16,
A computer that executes an information collecting / providing machine or an information collecting / providing program,
When storing means for storing table information for associating information for identifying the gaming machine included in the hole information and information for identifying the gaming machine by the information collection and providing machine,
In the memory step,
Based on the table information, the information associated with the information for identifying the gaming machine included in the hole information is converted into the hole information associated with the information for the information collecting and providing machine identifying the gaming machine, and the converted hole information May be stored.

  According to this, even if the information for identifying the gaming machine included in the hall information sent from each information provider is different, the computer that executes the information collection provider or the information collection program is unified to identify the gaming machine Information is associated with other information.

  For this reason, in the information collecting / providing machine or the computer that executes the information collecting / providing program, the hole information of different formats can be stored and managed as hall information in a unified format.

  The hall information may be, for example, CSV format information.

It is a computer apparatus of the information collection provision system of embodiment. It is a block diagram of an information collection provision apparatus. FIG. 3A is a flowchart of the information collection and provision program. FIG. 3B is a flowchart of the hole information update process. FIG. 3C is a flowchart of the first request process. FIG. 3D is a flowchart of the second request process.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.
As shown in FIG. 1, the information collection and provision system 1 according to the present embodiment is composed of a computer that is a plurality of information providing machines 2 and a computer that is a plurality of information requesting machines 4 with an information collection and provision machine 3 as the center. Has been.

The information collecting / providing machine 3 is connected to a plurality of information providing machines 2 and a plurality of information requesting machines 4 via a telephone line and other general public lines 5 and 6 so as to be communicable.
For example, the information providing machine 2 is a hall computer installed in the hall.

The information providing machine 2 collects various types of information generated in the hall (the game information of each gaming machine, the bonus information and other information), and creates the hall information in CSV format.
The hall information includes replacement information including information such as the name and number of gaming machines (introduction tables) introduced by each hall, and the name and number of removed gaming machines (removal tables). In addition, the hall information includes a plurality of pieces of information including the replacement information described above, such as identification information for identifying each game machine currently installed in the hall, and game information and bonus information for each game machine. It is included. In addition, time information which shows the time memorize | stored in the information provision machine 2 is attached | subjected to each provision information.

    The hall information is stored in a storage device (not shown) included in the information providing machine 2. In addition, this hall information is updated whenever there is a change in the provided information such as the appearance information. In addition, when the provision information is updated, time information indicating the update time is added to the updated provision information.

Next, the information requesting machine 4 is a server (computer) owned by the site operator, as a specific example.
The information requesting machine 4 is used for publishing a home page on which information provided by the information collecting / providing machine 3 is posted on the Internet.

The information collecting / providing machine 3 is a computer that executes an information collecting / providing program to be described later.
As shown in FIG. 2, the information collection / providing machine 3 includes at least a central control device 30 including a CPU and a RAM 30 a (not shown), an interface 32, and an information storage medium 34. The central controller 30 can communicate with each information provider 2 and the information requester 4 via the interface 32.

    The information storage medium 34 stores table information created in advance. This table information associates information for identifying a gaming machine included in the hall information with information for identifying the gaming machine by the information collecting / providing machine 3.

  In each hall, when a gaming machine with a predetermined number of seats is removed and a new gaming machine is introduced into the seat, information for identifying the gaming machine is automatically registered in the information providing machine 2. It has become so.

    However, the information registered at this time often differs depending on the hall computer. For this reason, the information for identifying the gaming machine and the information for identifying the gaming machine by the information collecting / providing machine 3 are often different. In this embodiment, table information in which these information is associated is created and stored in the information storage. It is stored in the medium 34.

Next, an information collection / providing program executed in the information collecting / providing machine 3 will be described with reference to FIG.
In the following description, each process is executed in order from the smallest step number to the largest step unless otherwise specified.

This information collection and provision program is a process that is repeatedly executed from the start instruction of the program until the end instruction.
When this information collection / providing program is executed, the information collection / providing machine 3 performs hole information update processing (S1), first request processing (S2), and second request processing (S3) as shown in FIG. ) Are repeatedly executed sequentially.

Hereinafter, each process is demonstrated in order.
In the hall information update process (S1), the processes of S10 to S16 are executed as shown in FIG.

  In S10, a process for determining whether or not hall information has been received from the information providing machine 2 is executed. Since the information provider 2 periodically transmits the hall information to the information collecting / providing machine 3, in S10, it is determined whether or not the hall information transmitted from the information provider 2 is received periodically. -ing Specifically, since the received hole information is temporarily stored in the RAM 30a, in S10, it is determined whether or not the hole information is stored in the RAM 30a. If the hole information has not been received (S10: NO), the first request process (S2) is immediately executed. On the other hand, when the hall information is received (S10: YES), the process of S12 is executed. S10 corresponds to the information receiving step of the present invention.

In S12, a process of comparing the hole information stored in the RAM 30a with the hole information stored in the information storage medium 34 is executed.
Specifically, the time information attached to each provision information among the provision information included in the hole information stored in the RAM 30a and the hole information previously received and stored in the information storage medium 34 are included. A process of searching for provided information that differs from the time information attached to each provided information is executed.

The search for the provided information is performed based on table information stored in advance in the information storage medium 34.
Specifically, when the provided information is, for example, game table appearance information and a combination of information for identifying the game table and the output information, information for identifying the game table by the information providing machine 2 ( The table information stored in advance in the information storage medium 34 includes the hole information stored in the RAM 30a) and the information for identifying the game machine in the information collecting / providing machine 3 (the hole information stored in the information storage medium 34). Based on the comparison. In S12, the time information is further compared to search for different provision information.

  In S14, the process of updating the provision information stored in the information storage medium 34, which is determined to have different time information in S12, to the corresponding provision information stored in the RAM 30a is executed. Note that S14 corresponds to a storage step of the present invention.

In S16, the process of deleting the hole information stored in the RAM 30a is executed, and then the process of S2 is executed.
Next, the first request process will be described.

In the first request process (S2), as shown in FIG. 3C, the processes of S20 to S24 are executed.
In S20, it is determined whether or not there is a hall information provision request from the information requesting machine 4 (S20). Specifically, when there is a provision request from the information requesting machine 4, the provision request is stored in the RAM 30a, so in S20 it is determined whether there is a provision request in the RAM 30a. If there is no provision request (S20: NO), the second request process (S3) is immediately executed. On the other hand, if there is a provision request (S20: YES), the process of S22 is executed. S20 corresponds to the first request receiving step of the present invention.

  In S22, processing for transmitting the provision information of the hall information for which the provision request has been made is executed. That is, in S22, the entire hall information or a part of the hall information (a part of the plurality of pieces of providing information constituting the hall information) is transmitted in response to the provision request. S22 corresponds to an information transmission step.

In S24, a process for deleting information related to the provision request stored in the RAM 30a is executed, and then a process in S3 is executed.
Next, the second request process will be described.

In the second request process (S3), as shown in FIG. 3D, the processes of S30 to S38 are executed.
In S <b> 30, it is determined whether or not a provision request for provision information (for example, appearance information) has been received from the user terminal 6. Specifically, when there is a provision request from the user terminal 6, the provision request is stored in the RAM 30a, so in S20 it is determined whether there is a provision request in the RAM 30a.
If there is no provision request (S30: NO), next, the process of S32 is executed. On the other hand, if there is a provision request (S30: YES), the process of S31 is executed. Note that S30 corresponds to the second request receiving step of the present invention.

  In S31, the content of the provision request is stored in the information storage medium 34, or if the content of the provision request has been stored in the information storage medium 34, the content is updated with the provision request received. Processing is executed.

  In S32, it is determined whether it is a notification time. Since the information collection / providing machine 3 performs push notification in response to the provision request every predetermined time, in S32, it is determined whether or not a predetermined time has elapsed since the previous push notification. If it is determined in S32 that the predetermined time is not reached (S32: NO), the process of S1 is executed again. If it is determined in S32 that the predetermined time is reached (S32: YES), the process of S34 is executed.

  In S34, a process for determining whether a provision condition is set in the provision information is executed. This provision condition is set when it is included in the provision request received in S30. If it is determined in S34 that the provision condition is not set (S34: NO), the process of S38 is executed. If it is determined in S34 that the provision condition is set (S34: YES), the process of S36 is executed.

  In S36, a process for determining whether the provision condition is satisfied is executed. More specifically, if the provision information is the appearance information, and if provision conditions are set to start notification when the number of appearances reaches a predetermined number, whether there is a gaming machine that satisfies the provision condition Is determined. If it is determined in S36 that the provision condition is not satisfied (S36: NO), the process of S1 is executed again. If it is determined in S36 that the provision condition is satisfied (S36: YES), the process of S38 is executed.

  In S38, a process of notifying the provision information for which provision conditions are not set in S34 and the provision information determined to satisfy the provision conditions in S36 by push notification is executed. When S38 ends, the process of S1 is executed again. Note that S38 corresponds to the second notification step of the present invention.

When the information collection / providing system 1 described above is executed, there are the following characteristic operations and effects.
In the information collection / providing system 1 of the present embodiment, the hole information of each hole is collected from the information providing machine 2 of each hall to the information collecting / providing machine 3 (S10). If there is a request from the information requesting machine 4 owned by the site operator (S20), the hall information is transmitted individually.

  In other words, if the information collecting / providing machine 3 is used, the hall side only needs to provide the hall information once, and the site operator does not collect the hall information individually from each hall. Can be collected.

Therefore, if the information collecting / providing machine 3 is used, the time and labor required for the hall and the site operator associated with the provision and collection of the hall information can be greatly reduced.
Next, in S22 (corresponding to the information transmission step of the present invention), the information collection / providing machine 3 sends first request information for requesting provision of specific provision information of the hall information to S20 (first request reception of the present invention). Information corresponding to the provision request is transmitted to the information requesting machine 4.

  Specifically, when the hall information includes identification information (name, etc.) that identifies the introduction table or removal table, and the ball information, bonus information, or number of users information linked to this identification information, When receiving the first request information requesting to transmit only the identification information and the ball information, the identification information and the ball information are transmitted to the information requesting machine 4.

  Next, when the information collecting / providing machine 3 receives the second request information for instructing the provision of the provided information from the user terminal 6 (S32) (corresponding to the second request receiving step of the present invention), the information collecting / providing machine 3 uses the second request information. The instructed provided information is notified to the user terminal 6 (S38) (corresponding to the second notification step of the present invention).

  According to this, in the user terminal 6 owned by the user of the hall, the provision information (for example, the appearance information) indicated by the second request information is notified. , You can get the information you like freely.

Further, since the notification of the provided information to the user terminal 6 is performed by push notification (S38), the user can obtain the information he / she wants at any time.
Further, the user terminal 6 is notified to the user terminal when a predetermined condition is reached (S36). In this way, for example, when the instructed provided information is the information on the appearance of a specific stand, and the predetermined condition is the number of appearances, the user is aware of the specific stand that the user is paying attention to. When the number is reached, notification is made in a timely manner.

Therefore, if the information collection provider 3 of this embodiment is used, the information which a user desires can be notified to a user timely.
Next, the information collection / providing machine 3 stores information related to associating information identifying the gaming machine included in the hall information and information identifying the gaming machine with the information collecting / providing machine 3 as information storage means. A storage medium 34 is provided. In the storing step (S31), based on the related table information, the information associated with the information for identifying the gaming machine included in the hall information is associated with the information for the information collecting / providing machine 3 identifying the gaming machine. The information is converted into hole information, and the converted hole information is stored.

  In this way, even if the information identifying the gaming machine included in the hall information sent from each information providing machine 2 is disjoint, the information collecting / providing machine 3 adds other information to the unified information identifying the gaming machine. Can be associated.

For this reason, the information collection / providing machine 3 can store and manage the hall information in a different format as the hall information in a unified format.
The following are other embodiments.

(1) The information collection and provision system 1 described in the above embodiment is merely an example, and the present invention is not limited to this.
(2) In the above-described embodiment, an example of communicating hole information or provision information in the CSV format has been described. However, the file format of these information is not limited to the CSV format.

  (3) In the above embodiment, the gaming machine and the output information linked to the gaming machine as the provision information have been described. However, for example, identification information (name, etc.) for identifying the gaming machine such as an introduction table or a removal table ), The bonus information linked to the identification information, or the number of users information. Also, the provided information may be hall service information or commercial information, but is not limited thereto.

  (4) In the above embodiment, when it is determined in S34 that the predetermined time has elapsed, the push notification is performed in S38, but the push is performed at predetermined times (0 minutes and 45 minutes of each time). You may make it notify.

  (5) In the above embodiment, push notification is performed according to preset conditions. However, when a provision request for provision information is received from the user terminal 6, information corresponding to the provision request is transmitted to the user terminal 6. May be.

  (6) In the above-described embodiment, the information line 2 and the information requesting machine 4 and the information collection / providing machine 3 are connected to the information collection / providing machine 3 in a communicable manner. The line dedicated to the providing system 1 may be used, but is not limited thereto. Further, the communication line between each information provider 2 and the information collection provider 3 and the communication line between each information requester 4 and the information collection provider 3 may be different or the same. .

  (7) In the above embodiment, the hall computer is exemplified as the information providing machine 2, but the present invention is not limited to this, and any computer may be used as long as the hall has a computer.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Information collection provision system 2 ... Information provision machine 3 ... Information collection provision machine 4 ... Information request machine 6 ... User terminal 30 ... Central control apparatus 32 ... Interface 34 ... Information storage medium

Claims (16)

An information receiving step (S10) for receiving hall information from each information provider;
When the information receiving step receives the hole information, a storing step (S14) for storing the received hole information;
A first request receiving step (S20) for receiving first request information for requesting provision of the hall information from each information requesting machine;
An information transmission step (S22) for transmitting the hole information stored in the storage step according to the first request information to the information requester that has transmitted the first request information is performed. Information gathering / providing machine for gaming machines In the information collecting and providing machine according to claim 1,
The hall information is provided by a plurality of pieces of provision information. In the information collecting and providing machine according to claim 2,
In the information transmission step,
When the first request information for requesting provision of specific provision information among the hole information is received in the first request reception step, the provision information requested for provision of the hole information is requested as the information request. An information gathering / providing machine characterized by being transmitted to a machine. In the information collecting and providing machine according to claim 2 or claim 3,
The hall information includes a plurality of the provision information associated with time information,
In the storing step,
The hole information received in the information receiving step is compared with the previously stored hole information (S12), and when there is the provision information associated with different time information, the previously stored hole Of the information, the provision information associated with different time information is updated (S14).
An information gathering / providing machine. In the information collecting and providing machine according to any one of claims 2 to 4,
A second request receiving step (S30) for receiving second request information for instructing provision of the provision information from the user terminal;
And a second notification step (S38) of notifying the user terminal of the provision information instructed by the second request information. In the information collecting and providing machine according to claim 5,
In the second notification step,
An information gathering / providing machine, wherein the provision information instructed by the second request information is pushed. In the information collecting and providing machine according to claim 5,
In the second notification step,
The information collecting and providing machine, wherein when the provision information specified by the second request information reaches a predetermined condition (S36), the user terminal is notified. In the information collecting and providing machine according to any one of claims 1 to 7,
Storage means (34) for storing table information associating information for identifying a gaming machine included in the hall information with information for identifying the gaming machine by the information collecting and providing machine;
In the storing step,
Based on the table information, information associated with information identifying a gaming machine included in the hall information is converted into the hole information associated with information identifying the gaming machine by the information collection provider, and converted. An information gathering / providing machine for storing the later hall information. On the computer,
An information receiving step of receiving hall information from each information provider;
When the information receiving step receives the hole information, a storing step for storing the received hole information;
A first request receiving step for receiving first request information for requesting provision of the hall information from an information requesting machine;
An information collection program for executing the information transmission step of transmitting the hole information stored in the storage step according to the first request information to the information requesting machine that has transmitted the first request information. In the information collection and provision program according to claim 9,
The hall information comprises a plurality of pieces of provision information. The information collection / providing program according to claim 10,
In the information transmission step,
When the first request information for requesting provision of specific provision information among the hole information is received in the first request reception step, the provision information requested for provision of the hole information is requested as the information request. Information collection program characterized by being transmitted to a machine. In the information collection and provision program according to claim 10 or 11,
The hall information includes a plurality of the provision information associated with time information,
In the storing step,
When the hole information received in the information receiving step is compared with the previously stored hole information, and there is the provision information associated with different time information, among the previously stored hole information An information collection and provision program for updating the provision information associated with different time information. In the information collection and provision program according to any one of claims 10 to 12,
A second request receiving step of receiving second request information for instructing provision of the provision information from a user terminal;
And a second notification step of notifying the user terminal of the provision information instructed by the second request information. In the information collection and provision program according to claim 13,
In the second notification step,
A push notification of the provision information instructed by the second request information. In the information collection and provision program according to claim 13,
In the second notification step,
The information collection / providing program for notifying the user terminal when the provision information specified by the second request information reaches a predetermined condition. In the information collection and provision program according to any one of claims 9 to 15,
Used in the computer comprising storage means for storing association table information for associating information for identifying a gaming machine included in the hall information with information for identifying the gaming machine by the computer executing the information collection and provision program ,
In the storing step,
Based on the table information, information associated with information identifying a gaming machine included in the hall information is converted into the hole information associated with information identifying the gaming machine by the information collection provider, and converted. An information gathering / providing program for storing the hole information later.

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