Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.

Konami Corporation

Masahiko Kami

Jiro Hotta

Tadanobu Otaki

Kazutaka Kubota

Yusuke Kitakaze

Keina Kanisawa

Kazuya Takahashi

Yasuyuki Nagatomo

Koji Makino

Satoshi Ueda

Hajime Takahama

Toyofumi Kitano

Hideaki Minoda

Yuuki Harano

In a fee collection system a game machine as a charge collective apparatus is provided with a reader terminal for obtaining predetermined identification information from a card, and a reader control unit for outputting to a control board a signal equivalent to an output signal of a coin selector, wherein when a card ID is transmitted from the reader control unit, a management PC refers to charge setting data, determines the consumption amount of electronic money, and requests an account management server to process withdrawal of the consumption amount from an account of electronic money corresponding to the card ID. The management PC notifies the reader control unit the processing result transmitted from the account management server, and outputs to the control board a signal equivalent to the output signal of the coin selector when the withdrawal is successful.

Fee collection system by electronic money

There is stored in a storage device a conversion coefficient for correcting the difference between payment methods with respect to the correlation between the unit for enumerating a consumption amount and monetary value and treating the consumption amount of monetary value of each payment method as an enumerated value in the same unit system. Obtained from a payment apparatus is consumption record data where the consumption amount of monetary consumption by a user is represented by the number of units for each payment method. Calculated is an enumerate value corresponding to the consumption amount of each payment method based on the consumption amount of each payment method included in the consumption record data and the conversion coefficient. Based on the enumerated value obtained for each payment method and a predetermined unit price, calculated is a counter value to be charged from the first party to the second party.

Value computing system and a storage medium storing a computer program for value computing

A card ID and a consumption amount of virtual money are transmitted from a game terminal as charging-target terminal apparatus, the card ID being recorded in a card possessed by a user (step S). The server apparatus replaces the card ID with a user ID unique to each user (step S), and specifies a virtual money account managed by the server apparatus in association with the user ID. When the balance of the account is not less than the consumption amount, the consumption amount is subtracted from the balance of the account, and when the balance is less than the consumption amount, the subtraction of the consumption amount is stopped (step S). Transaction result information including information indicating whether the subtraction of consumption amount has succeeded is transmitted to the game terminal () as a response (steps S, S).

Charge payment system using virtual money

There is provided a system where usage charge of a facility can be paid by virtual money. A card ID and a consumption amount of virtual money are transmitted from a game terminal as charging-target terminal apparatus, the card ID being recorded in a card possessed by a user (step S). The server apparatus replaces the card ID with a user ID unique to each user (step S), and specifies a virtual money account managed by the server apparatus in association with the user ID. When the balance of the account is not less than the consumption amount, the consumption amount is subtracted from the balance of the account, and when the balance is less than the consumption amount, the subtraction of the consumption amount is stopped (stepS). Transaction result information including information indicating whether the subtraction of consumption amount has succeeded is transmitted to the game terminal () as a response (steps S, S).

There is provided a game system which is capable of differentiating depending on the payment method of a play fee. The game system where it is possible to pay a game play fee by selecting one payment method from a plurality of payment methods, determines the payment method which the play fee has been paid by (S), and controls the game in such a way that modification is generated depending on the payment method, on the basis of the determination result (S-S).

Game system and computer readable information storage medium storing a computer program therefor

A game machine operable to execute a game program is communicatively connected to a center server. In the center server, a first transmitter transmits, to the game machine, first data indicating a settled play amount out of a played amount which is represented by either an accumulated number or time period that the game program has been executed. In the game machine, a first storage is operable to store the first data, a second storage is operable to store second data indicating the played amount, and a third storage is operable to store third data indicating an allowable unsettled play amount which represents either an allowable number or time period of which the game program is executed without settlement. In the game machine, a first receiver receives the first data transmitted by the first transmitter, an updater updates the first data stored in the first storage with the first data received by the first receiver, and a controller controls the game machine based on the first data stored in the first storage, the second data stored in the second storage and the third data stored in the third storage.

Network game system

A network game system includes a center server and game machine. The center server includes a first transmitter, which transmits, to the game machine, first data indicating a settled play amount out of a played amount which is represented by either an accumulated number or time period that a game program has been executed. The game machine includes a first storage, operable to store the first data; a second storage, operable to store second data indicating the played amount; a first receiver; an updater, which updates the first data stored in the first storage with first data received by the first receiver; a third storage, operable to store third data indicating an allowable unsettled play amount which represents either an allowable number or time period of which the game program is executed without settlement; and a controller, which controls the game machine based on the first, second, and third data.

Center server, game machine, methods of controlling the center server and game machine, and network game system including the center server and game machine

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Tokyo, Japan

Masahiko Kami