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Jcm American Corporation

Netzero, Inc.

Techfirm Inc.

Ntt Docomo, Inc.

Japan Cash Machine Co., Ltd.

Prism Solutions Inc.

Global Media Online, Inc.

Yuichiro Tsutsui

Yuichiro Itakura

Nobuyuki Fujita

Hiroyuki Yamamoto

Takayuki Takeda

Takeshi Natsuno

Yasumasa Suzuki

Koji Kuroiwa

Masahiro Kaiwa

Kaoru Nakajima

Koichi Takahara

Youichi Tanibayashi

Ichiro Inaba

An application enabling a player to utilize a portable computing device, such as a Smartphone, to function as a game controller for a gaming machine. The portable computing device is paired with the gaming machine using a pairing based, short range protocol. The portable computing device enables manual user input or use of motion controllers for controlling skill based games in a casino environment. The application can receive a configuration from the gaming machine to replicate or mimic the controls and the gaming images, thus enabling the player to play the game at a short distance from the machine. The player can select an image/theme for integration into the game during play.

Gaming machine controller and method of use

An application enabling a player to utilize a portable computing device, such as a Smartphone, to function as a game controller for a gaming machine. The user would receive and return an associating link code to initiate a communication link between the gaming machine and the portable computing device by way of tapping, manually entering the code, or scanning an image of the code. The portable computing device enables manual user input or use of motion controllers for controlling skill based games in a casino environment. The application can receive a configuration from the gaming machine to replicate or mimic the controls and the gaming images, thus enabling the player to play the game at a short distance from the machine. The gaming machine can suspend play or terminate play when the portable computing device becomes distant or disconnected from the gaming machine.

A voucher ticket system and method of use employing a bill validator installed into any suitable automated machine, including an Automated Teller Machine (ATM), a gaming machine, etc. The bill validator is integrated with a bill reader, a voucher ticket reader, a reader to obtain an electronic voucher ticket from a portable computing device, a printer, and any other supporting peripheral devices. The method processes a deposit, a withdrawal, a transfer and a management of a financial balance of each account. The electronic money handling terminal and the electronic money transaction server communicate through an electronic money handling terminal interface. Upon recognition of an electronic money account of a gaming player, the system receives a voucher ticket master ID issued by a voucher ticket management system at the cash-out, and proceeds with a cash out event to the electronic money account.

Electronic voucher ticket system

A gate control system includes an authentication device and a gate control device. The authentication device specifies a card number of a credit card of a user of a gaming facility, performs a credit inquiry of the credit card using the card number, and transmits permission information indicating that the gate should be opened to the gate control device when a result of the credit inquiry indicates that using the credit card is approved. Upon receiving the permission information from the authentication device, the gate control device opens the gate.

Gate control method, authentication device, and gate control system

A voucher ticket system and method of use employing a bill validator installed into any suitable automated machine, including an Automated Teller Machine (ATM), a gaming machine, etc. The bill validator is integrated with a bill reader, a voucher ticket reader, a reader for acquisition of electronic voucher ticket information from a portable computing device, a printer, and other supporting peripheral devices. The voucher ticket system includes a secured communication link with a host account manager serving a plurality of electronic money accounts. The method includes steps of receiving a value of electronic money or identification information associated with the electronic voucher ticket with account information associated with the electronic money account and sending the received value of the electronic money or the identification information of the voucher ticket to an upper control section of the one of the gaming machine and the ATM for completion of a financial transaction.

A voucher ticket system employing a bill validator installed into any suitable automated machine, including an Automated Teller Machine (ATM), a gaming machine, etc. The bill validator is integrated with a bill reader, a voucher ticket reader, a reader to obtain an electronic voucher ticket from a portable computing device, a printer, and any other supporting peripheral devices. The bill validator communicates with an electronic money account manager through a voucher ticket system interface. The electronic money account manager maintains records associated with the electronic voucher ticket using a master voucher ticket ID, including a financial value, an electronic marker, an expiration, a status, etc. The electronic money account manager enables use of the electronic voucher ticket as common currency at an associated gaming facility, any associated ATM, etc. The electronic marker defines authenticity to maintain integrity of the electronic vouchers tickets.

An electronic payment system is provided to comprise a mobile terminalfor emitting a remotely operable signal, a communications deviceconnected to an automated machinefor receiving remotely operable signal emitted from mobile terminal, and an automatic payment devicelinked to a financial database. Communications deviceretrieves from remotely operable signal an account number of a holder of the account at financial database. Payment devicereceives a monetary signal indicative of a transaction fee, withdraws the amount of transaction fee from the correct holder's account to produce an authorization signal to communications devicethat drives automated machinewithout credit transaction.

Electronic payment system for automated machine

There is provided a mail distributing apparatus, a program and a mail transmitting method capable of shortening an average wait time for completing transmission of mails. The mail distributing apparatus has a transmission recording section for recording the date and time when a mail has been successfully transmitted last per mailing address, an address selecting section for selecting the addresses to which the mails have been successfully transmitted last on the date and time within a predetermined period by making reference to the transmission recording section when it is commanded to distribute mails to a plurality of addresses and a transmitting section for transmitting the mails to the addresses selected by the address selecting section at first and then transmitting the mails to the other addresses.

Mail distributing apparatus, program and mail transmitting method capable of shortening average wait time for completing transmission of mails

The present invention aims to provide a common platform for providing location information, which provision corresponds to network integration. In the present invention, a location information providing unit of a gateway server obtains from a position measuring center location information of mobile communication terminals. The location information of each mobile communication terminal may generated in different representational formats. A location information providing unit converts the obtained location information into representational formats that are capable of being handled by IP servers. Following conversion, the location information providing unit transmits the location information the IP servers.

Location information notifying method and location information notifying apparatus

To provide a terminal with which a user can safely make payments using a communication network. The terminal has a browser for communicating with the World Wide Web or other public computer network and a message viewer for communicating with a private network. The browser allows for ordering goods from a host computer connected to the World Wide Web, for receiving a bill for the goods from the World Wide Web, and for transmitting the bill to the message viewer. The message viewer allows for paying the bill through the private network.

Information provider, terminal and system and recording medium for the terminal

A message searching and system and a terminal, which display messages to terminal users based on their individual characteristics profile, even when a plurality of users use the same terminal and even when users copy and use the same program. The system includes a message user database for storing records defining user characteristics profiles of terminal users, and a transmittal condition database for storing searching conditions for each message which may be transmitted to the terminal. This system detects a necessity to revise the user characteristics when communicating with the terminal, and revises the user characteristics if necessary. This system reads user characteristics from the message user database, and searches for appropriate messages from the transmittal condition database based on the user characteristics and characteristics associated with each message identifier. The message user database stores each user's birth date and the last system communication date. The user's characteristics profile is updated based on various conditions. For example, if the date obtained by adding a predetermined period to the user's birth date is after the last communication date with the user, the characteristics profile is revised.

Message searching system and terminal

In the communication network for distributing messages such as advertisements to terminal users, an information providing system provides the suitable information to each user. The system includes a terminal connected to a communications network, a user database for storing the characteristics of each user, a message database for storing messages, and a transmittal condition database for storing the user characteristics of the class of suitable recipients for each message. A message searcher searches for messages from the transmittal condition database based on the characteristics read out from the user database. A reader reads the retrieved messages from the message database and a transmitter transmits the messages to the terminal. An adder increases the value of a parameter associated with each user when the transmitted message is displayed on the terminal. A detector detects whether the user is active, and a stop means prevents the value of the parameter from being increased when the user is inactive.

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Yuichiro Tsutsui