JP2997937B2 - Off-site release data aggregation system - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to an out-of-office data totaling method in a totalizer system, and in particular, every time a voting ticket is issued at an out-of-office release area, it requires tallying and issuance permission in the home. It is related to the real permission ticketing type off-site release.

[Conventional technology]

The business of releasing winners' betting tickets and the like (hereinafter referred to as “voting tickets”) in public sports is roughly divided into on-site and off-site sales. The on-site release is to sell voting tickets in the stadium where the race is held (hereinafter referred to as the main site), and the off-site release is a place other than the main site, for example, a sales site installed on the street corner or closed It will be on sale at the adjacent adjacent stadium.

In general, the ballot release business in public competitions is legally required that ballot tickets for a certain race must be released before the start of the race and all votes must be counted. The same applies in principle for off-site sales, including horse racing,
In bicycle races and auto racing, the off-site release area releases voting tickets independently from the home, and the results of the voting contents are communicated to the home before the start of the race, and the totals are collected at the home, and voting for the off-site release is performed If it cannot be counted at the home due to a natural disaster or other unforeseen accident, it is allowed to invalidate the voting for off-site release.

On the other hand, in the case of a boat race, the off-site release area according to the above method is set to close at least 30 minutes before the scheduled race start time for the betting ticket, so customers who visit the off-site release area using the above method, When purchasing a voting ticket for the race, it is not possible to refer to deduction information such as start practice, exhibition running, and odds (expected dividend rate). Because of the inability to use the voting funds due to the inability to vote, it was necessary to use an off-site release system in which the deadline for the off-site release hall was set as close as possible to the deadline for the main venue.

For extraordinary special off-field launches at the Five Grand Races (Prime Minister's Cup, Sasakawa Prize, Motorboat Memorial, All-Japan Championship, Grand Prix race), online can be automatically added to the home immediately after the release of the voting ticket at the off-site release floor Only when using a fully functional totalizer system, the release time is allowed to be over 5 minutes before the scheduled race start time.

However, in the case where the deadline is approached to the deadline time of the home in the normal off-site release, it is determined that the out-of-office sales hall is based on the home-authorized ticketing method. This is a method having a function in which a voting ticket can be issued only after voting at an off-site sales floor is counted in the home. As a result, every time one voting ticket is issued by each voting ticket vending machine (hereinafter referred to as “ticket issuing machine”) at the off-site sales floor of this system, the communication between the home and the off-site sales floor for totaling at the home is performed. Need. Generally, multiple ticketing machines are installed in the off-site sales area.However, if many ticketing machines vote at the same time, the communication line between the home and off-site sales areas will be overloaded, and after entering the contents of the voting on the ticketing machine. It takes a very long time before voting tickets are issued.

The legal basis for the operation of the off-site sales area is “Standards for the location, structure and equipment of off-site sales areas” (September 1985
14th Ministry of Transportation Notification No. 392) and related notices.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

The voting window is very crowded just before the deadline, so there is a high percentage of multiple ticketing machines operating simultaneously. In other words, if the communication line between the main store and the off-site sales floor becomes heavily loaded and the time required to issue a voting ticket increases, the waiting time for customers will increase, which will increase congestion and, in some cases, until the deadline for voting. Some customers may not be able to purchase voting tickets, causing trouble.

For this reason, in the off-site sales area that used the conventional on-site ticket issuance method, the capacity of the communication line between the on-site and off-site sales areas was set to be able to cope with congestion just before the voting deadline. It was necessary to use a plurality of expensive high-speed lines. In addition, when increasing the number of ticketing machines at the off-site sales floor, it may be necessary to increase the number of lines.

However, in practice, the high load on the line between the main store and the off-site sales floor is temporary and usually has unnecessary capacity, and the disadvantage is that it is inefficient for operation costs. there were.

[Means for solving the problem]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made with an object to provide an out-of-office sales data totaling method in a total permitting system of a real-permit ticket-issuing type to solve the above-mentioned problem. Voting ticket issuance request data (hereinafter referred to as issuance request data) generated by the ticket issuing machine of the above-mentioned ticketing machine by the outside communication control device installed at the outside sales floor at a short time interval that does not cause a problem in business operation, etc. Data is temporarily collected and transmitted to the home as batch issuing request data with a small amount of data.The data is collected and transmitted. Even if a problem occurs, it has been configured so that real-time authorized ticketing-type off-site sales can be realized without increasing the load on the communication line connecting the home and the off-site sales floor. Than it is.

[Action]

According to the method of the present invention, even when a number of ticketing machines simultaneously vote at the off-site sales floor, the load on the communication line between the home and off-site sales floors is low and constant as compared with the conventional method, and the ticketing machine Since the time until the voting ticket is issued after the voting content is input is fixed and short, the waiting time of the customer does not increase even when the voting window is crowded. Therefore, the serviceability in the off-site sales business for providing services to customers is improved, and the cost efficiency of the communication line connecting the home site and the off-site sales site is improved, so that an economical system can be constructed.

Further, in the method of the present invention, since the load on the communication line between the home and the off-site sales floor is basically unrelated to the number of ticketing machines, it is not necessary to add a communication line even when adding a ticketing machine on the off-site sales floor. .

〔Example〕

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

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a mechanism for realizing a home-permitted ticket-issuing type off-site release according to the present invention.

In the figure, 1 is a home totalizer system,
It is a system that has the functions necessary to collect data released at the home and off-site sales areas, and to run race events.

Reference numeral 3 denotes an out-of-office totalizer system, which is composed of a ticket issuing machine group 3a composed of a plurality of ticketing machines TI1 to TIn, and an out-of-office communication control device 3b which communicates with the home totalizer system 1 and controls the ticket issuing machine group 3a. It will be set up at an off-site sales floor.

A communication line 2 connects the home totalizer system 1 and the outside totalizer system 3. Generally, a communication service such as NTT is used, and an electrical connection is made by a modem device.

Next, the flow of data in the home-authorized ticketing type outside the market will be described with reference to FIG.

In the conventional system, the issuance request data generated by each ticket issuing machine is transmitted as it is via the communication line 2, and the off-site communication control device 3b operates as a simple line switch. That is, the issuance request data generated in the ticketing machine group 3a is transmitted to the home totalizer system 1 via the out-of-office communication control device 3b and the communication line 2 each time it is generated, and after the totalization, the home totalizer system 1 Issuance data generated by the issuance device is transmitted via the communication line 2 and the out-of-office communication control device 3b to the ticket issuing machine of the ticket issuing machine group 3a that has issued the issuance request, and the ticket issuing machine votes after receiving the issuance permission data. Start issuing tickets. In this case, if an issuance request is issued from a large number of ticketing machines, the communication line 2 becomes heavily loaded, so that the issuance of the issuance from the home totalizer system 1 is delayed, and the issuance of voting tickets by the ticketing machines is awaited.

In the method of the present invention, the issuance request data generated by the individual issuance machines of the issuance machine group 3a is temporarily totaled by the out-of-office communication control device 3b at fixed time intervals, and transmitted as the batch issuance request data via the communication line 2. The external communication control device 3b has a temporary counting function. In this case, of the issuance request data generated in the ticketing machine group 3a,
Those that occur within one unit time at a fixed time interval preset in the out-of-office communication control device 3b are temporarily counted by the out-of-office communication control device 3b by race and set number. This tabulated data is transmitted to the home totalizer system 1 via the communication line 2 as batch issuing request data. After the tabulation, the batch issuing permission data created by the home totalizer system 1 is transmitted via the communication line 2 to the off-site communication. Transmitted to the control device 3b, the off-site communication control device 3b transmits the issuance permission data to all of the ticket issuing machines 3a that participated in the tallying within the corresponding one unit time, and the corresponding ticket issuing machine is issued. After receiving the permission data, the voting ticket issuance starts. In this case, even if the issuance request data is generated simultaneously by many ticketing machines, the load on the communication line 2 is constant, and the transmission between the home totalizer system 1 and the outside totalizer system 3 is realized at a constant and high speed. You. Therefore, there is no need to wait for the issuance of a voting ticket by a ticket issuing machine installed at the off-site sales floor.

FIG. 2 shows an example of issuance request data transmitted between the off-site totalizer system 3 and the home totalizer system 1 according to the conventional method. This data is issued as ticketing machine number 20 as specific information for specifying the issuing machine number that issued the issuance request, and as voting information indicating the content of voting,
It is composed of the race information 21, the set number data 22 for the required number of bets (for example, 5 bets), and the number-of-votes data 23, and is required every time one ticket issuing machine issues one voting ticket. Data.

 In this case, the text length is specific information: 20, ticketing machine number ... 1 byte Voting information: 21, race information ... 1 byte 22, group number data ... 1 byte 23, number of votes data ... 2 bytes From first bet The total up to the fifth bet is 3 * 5 = 15 bytes, totaling 17 bytes.

Assuming that the time required to transmit one byte depending on the transmission speed of the communication line 2 is T, and the number of ticket issuing machines is N, if all ticket issuing machines make an issuing request at the same time, the issuance request data is sent to the home totalizer.・ To transmit to system 1, (17 * N) * T (time) is required.

For this reason, the ticket issuing machine which has generated the issuance request data transmitted last issues the voting ticket after the above-mentioned time has elapsed. This time is proportional to the number N of ticketing machines and the time T required to transmit one byte. For this reason, when a large number of ticketing machines are installed, the time required for transmitting the issuance request data becomes longer, or a line with a higher transmission capacity (high-speed line, a plurality of lines) is required. Inconvenience occurs in system design and operation.

Here, the issuance permission data created by the home totalizer system 1 is composed of only specific data for specifying the ticket issuing machine that has issued the issuance request, and is sufficiently small as compared with the issuance request data. When full-duplex communication is performed on the communication line 2, the time required for the transmission can be ignored. The terminal number in the specific information of the issuance request data is indispensable for specifying the ticket issuing machine that has issued the issuance request data when performing full-duplex communication by the conventional method.

FIG. 3 shows an embodiment of the batch issue request data according to the present invention, which shows the race information 30 of a specific race (the current race) and the number of votes for each set number from 1-2 to 6-5 in that race. Number of votes by group number 31 (1 for boat races)
There is no zigzag such as -1. ) Collective voting information.

 In this case, the text length is collective voting information: 30, race information: 1 byte 31, vote number data by group number: 90 bytes * Each group number is composed of 3 bytes and 30 from 1-2 to 6-5 3 * 30 = 90 bytes, for a total of 91 bytes.

As in FIG. 2, assuming that the time required to transmit one byte is T, (91) * T, and this text is transmitted at regular intervals. In other words, the out-of-office communication control device 3b counts the issuance request data generated in the ticketing machine group 3a within this fixed time by group number only for a specific race, and uses this as the batch issuance request data. Is to be transmitted. At this time, the out-of-office communication control device 3b temporarily stores the terminal numbers involved in the aggregation of the corresponding batch issuance request data, and after receiving the batch issuance permission from the home totalizer system 1, stores each of the stored numbers. Grant issuance permission to the ticketing machine. Here, the same text as that of the conventional system shown in FIG. 2 is used for communication between the ticketing machine group 3a and the off-site communication control device 3b. Also, the fixed time interval in this case needs to be a time interval that does not affect the voting ticket issuance work, and is usually set to a relatively short time of 1 second or less.

The feature of this method is that the transmission time does not change depending on the number of ticketing machines that have issued issuance requests at the same time, and when the number of off-site ticketing machines is 6 or more compared to the conventional method of FIG. That is, even if issuance requests are generated at the same time, the contents of voting can be transmitted to the totalizer system at high speed and for a fixed time.

Of course, the terminal number temporarily stored in the off-site communication control device 3b can be added to the communication message without being stored, and an example of the batch issue request data in this case is shown in FIG. This batch issuance data is a specific race (temporary race) for which temporary aggregation was performed in the same way as in the method of FIG.
Race information 40 and collective voting information of the number-of-partitions-by-group number data 41 which is the number of votes for each group number from 1-2 to 6-5 in the race, as well as the number of the ticketing machine that issued the issuance request. The specific information includes a ticket issuing machine number 42.

Even in this case, high-speed transmission is possible as compared with the conventional method.

 In this case, the text length is collective voting information: 40, race information: 1 byte 41, vote number data for each set number: 90 bytes * Each set number is composed of 3 bytes and 30 from 1-2 to 6-5 Street 3 * 30 = 90 bytes Specific information: (ticketing machine number group) 42, ticketing machine number ... 1 byte Total 91 + N bytes.

As in FIG. 2, if the time required to transmit one byte is T and the number of ticketing machines is N, then (91 + N) * T, and the transmission time varies depending on the number of ticketing machines that issued the issuance request at the same time. Is at most N * T (time). If the change is much smaller than the conventional method shown in FIG. 2 and the number of off-site ticket issuing machines is 6 or more, the issuance request is issued at the same time. Even in this case, there is a feature that voting contents can be transmitted to the home totalizer system at high speed.

In addition, since data of races (advance races) other than those transmitted by the method of the present invention have ample release time, issuance request data for each ticket issuing machine by the conventional method is provided between transmissions by the method of the present invention. Is realized by transmitting

〔effect〕

As described above, the off-site data aggregation method of the present invention can reduce the load on the communication line between the off-site release site and the conventional system even when many ticketing machines vote at the off-site release site at the same time. Low and constant. For this reason, the time until the voting ticket is issued after the voting content is input by the ticket issuing machine is constant and short, and the waiting time of the customer does not increase even when the voting window is crowded.
As a result, the serviceability to the customer is improved, and the cost efficiency of the communication line connecting the main store and the external sales store is improved, thereby making it possible to construct an economical system.

In addition, according to the off-site data aggregation method of the present invention, since the load on the communication line between the home site and the off-site sales floor is basically independent of the number of ticketing machines, even if the number of ticketing machines is increased at the off-site sales site, the communication line is expanded. do not have to.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a configuration for realizing the present invention, FIG. 2 is an example of an issuance request data configuration used in a conventional system, and FIGS. 3 and 4 are a batch issuance request data configuration used in a system of the present invention. It is an example. 1 ... Home totalizer system, 2 ... Communication line, 3 ... Outside totalizer system, 3a ... Ticketing machine group, 3b ... Outside communication controller, TI1-TIn ... Ticketing machine, 20 ... Ticketing machine Number, 21: Race information, 22: Group number data, 23: Number of vote data, 30: Race information, 31: Number of vote data by group number, 40: Race information, 41: Number of vote number data by group number , 42 ... The ticketing machine number.

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Hajime Nakamura 1-9-9 Motohongo-cho, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo Inside Chuo Denshi Co., Ltd. (56) References JP-A-60-7572 (JP, A) 1987-103767 (JP, A) FUJITSU, 29 [7] (1978), P121-137 [Outside compound compound horse voting ticket system]

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] An off-site totalizer system having an off-site communication control device and a plurality of voting ticket vending machines, and a real on-site totalizer system connected to the off-site totalizer system via a communication line. In the out-of-office data aggregation system that conducts out-of-office ticketing type out-of-office sales that require tallying and issuance at the home every time a voting ticket is issued, a plurality of voting tickets generated in the plurality of betting ticket vending machines of the out-of-office totalizer system The betting ticket issuance request data is aggregated at each time interval determined by the out-of-office communication control device, and transmitted as batch issuance request data to the home totalizer system. Out-of-market release data, characterized by giving a total issuance permission to the totalizer system Tabulation system.