STORE INFORMATION PRESENTATION SYSTEM AND SERVER DEVICE

• US 20130073427A1
• Filed: 09/07/2012
• Published: 03/21/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Company Limited (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Company Limited (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: SASAKI, Ryu, YAMANE, Kiyohiko
• Application Number:
  US13/607,291
• Publication Number:
  US 20130073427A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26.9
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0238 at point-of-sale [POS]

Abstract

In a store information presentation system which is connected to perform communication with a plurality of game machines installed in stores, a server and a user terminal which transmits position information to the server, each of the plurality of game machines transmits installation information including a game machine code used to individually identify the game machine and a store code used to individually identify the store to the server, the server manages the game machine code and the store code, specifies the store closest the position represented by the position information received from the user terminal with reference to the game machine list and the store list and transmits store information of specified store to the user terminal, and the user terminal presents a user with the store information received from the server.

Claims

1. A store information presentation system comprising:

a plurality of game machines which are installed in stores;

a server device which is connected to perform communication with the plurality of game machines; and

a user terminal which is connected to perform communication with the server device and transmits position information to the server device;

wherein

each of the plurality of game machines includes an information transmitting device which transmits installation information including a game machine code used to individually identify the game machine and a store code used to individually identify the store to the server device,

the server device includes a game machine list managing device which manages the installation information transmitted from the plurality of game machines as a game machine list for each game machine, a store list managing device which manages information in which store position information representing the position of the store is associated with the store code as a store list for each store, a store specifying device which specifies the store closest the position represented by the position information received from the user terminal with reference to the game machine list and the store list, and a store information transmitting device which transmits store information of the store specified by the store specifying device to the user terminal, and

the user terminal includes a position information acquiring device which acquires position information, a positional information transmitting device which transmits the acquired position information to the server device, a store information receiving device which receives the store information from the server device, and a store information presenting device which presents a user with the store information received by the store information receiving device.

2. The store information presentation system of claim 1, wherein

the game machine list managing device updates the game machine list each time the installation information is received from each of the plurality of game machines.

3. The store information presentation system of claim 2, wherein

when the game machine list managing device receives the installation information from each of the plurality of game machines and updates the game machine list, the game machine list managing device records an update time in association with a game machine code included in the installation information of an update target, and invalidates information related to the corresponding game machine code when a time from the update time to the current time is a predetermined time or more.

4. The store information presentation system of claim 1, wherein

the installation information further includes vacant seat information representing whether or not a vacant seat is present in the game machine, and

the store information transmitting device transmits the store information including the vacant seat information to the user terminal.

5. The store information presentation system of claim 1, wherein

the user terminal includes a map information acquiring device which acquires map information based on the position information acquired by the position information acquiring device and store information acquired by the server device, and

the store information presenting device presents the map information in addition to the store information.

6. The store information presentation system of claim 5, wherein

a route between a first point represented by the position information acquired by the position information acquiring device and a second point represented by the store information is indicated on a map represented by the map information acquired by the map information acquiring device.

7. The store information presentation system of claim 1, wherein

the position information acquiring device automatically acquires the position information of the user terminal.

8. A server device which is connected to perform communication with a plurality of game machines installed in stores and a user terminal which transmits position information, comprising:

a game machine list managing device which receives installation information including a game machine code used to individually identify the game machine and a store code used to individually identify the store from the plurality of game machines, and manages the installation information as a game machine list for each game machine;

a store list managing device which manages information in which the store code is associated with store position information representing the position of the store as a store list for each store;

a store specifying device which specifies the store closest to the position represented by position information received from the user terminal with reference to the game machine list and the store list; and

a store information transmitting device which transmits store information of the store specified by the store specifying device to the user terminal.