Electronic payment system for automated machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9582957-B2
Application number	US-201213644352-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 4, 2012
Priority date	Oct 4, 2011
Publication date	Feb 28, 2017
Grant date	Feb 28, 2017

Abstract

An electronic payment system is provided to comprise a mobile terminal 10 for emitting a remotely operable signal, a communications device 5 connected to an automated machine 1 for receiving remotely operable signal emitted from mobile terminal 10 , and an automatic payment device 6 linked to a financial database 7 . Communications device 5 retrieves from remotely operable signal an account number of a holder of the account at financial database 7 . Payment device 6 receives 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 device 5 that drives automated machine 1 without credit transaction.

First claim

What is claimed are:

1. An electronic payment system comprising:
a mobile terminal having:
a memory for storing an electronic amount signal of prepaid money and at least one specific signal of PIN and ID numbers for identifying a holder of the mobile terminal,
a transmission device for emitting a remotely operable signal including the at least one specific signal, and
a reception device connected to the memory,

a storage device for storing at least one of users' PIN and ID numbers,
a bill acceptor for validating a bill inserted from outside to produce a monetary signal when the bill acceptor decides that the inserted bill is genuine, and
an automated machine being a gaming machine that comprises a drive device connected to the bill acceptor and gaming hardware drivingly connected to the drive device, and
a communications device for receiving the remotely operable signal emitted from the mobile terminal to retrieve the at least one specific signal in the remotely operable signal and for also receiving a monetary signal indicative of a transaction fee necessary to drive the automated machine simultaneously with, before or after receiving the remotely operable signal, the monetary signal being either contained in the received remotely operable signal or transmitted from an entry device provided in the automated machine,
wherein the communications device produces the received monetary signal and a deduction signal of the transaction fee to the mobile terminal, when the communications device decides that the monetary signal and the at least specific signal are valid as a result of comparing at least corresponding one specific signal from the mobile terminal with at least one of users' PIN and ID numbers stored in the storage device,
the communications device forwards the received monetary signal to the bill acceptor and forwards the deduction signal to the reception device of the mobile terminal,
the bill acceptor forwards to the drive device both of the monetary signals that the bill acceptor produces and receives from the communications device,
the drive device generates to the gaming hardware drive signals of the amount equivalent to the value of the transaction fee to allow the gaming hardware to conduct a game, and
the reception device in the mobile terminal receives the deduction signal from the communications device to deduct the transaction fee from the prepaid money amount in the memory.

2. The electronic payment system of claim 1 , wherein the mobile terminal transmits to the communications device the monetary signal that indicates a money amount corresponding to one or more of denominations of bills optically or magnetically readable by the bill acceptor.

3. The electronic payment system of claim 1 , herein the monetary signal indicates a money amount corresponding to each denomination of bills optically or magnetically readable by the bill acceptor.

4. The electronic payment system of claim 1 , wherein the drive device generates and transmits to the communications device a refund money signal of an unspent remaining amount, award, prize or jackpot obtained from the game if any when the drive device has completed its program-controlled operation or when a force-quit button is operated to terminate the game, and
the communications device transmits the refund money signal to the mobile terminal.

5. The electronic payment system of claim 1 , further comprising a printer for recording game information on a recording medium,
wherein the printer records data on the refund money signal from the drive device on the recording medium and prepares a coupon of the recording medium for dispensation of the coupon from the printer.

Assignees

• Nippon Kinsen Kikai Kk

Inventors

• Takeda Takayuki
• Suzuki Yasumasa
• Kuroiwa Koji
• Tsutsui Yuichiro

Classifications

• G07F7/04

  by paper currency · CPC title

• G06Q20/327

  Short range or proximity payments by means of M-devices · CPC title

• G07F17/32 Primary

  for games, toys, sports, or amusements · CPC title

• G06Q20/18

  involving self-service terminals [SST], vending machines, kiosks or multimedia terminals · CPC title

• G07F19/20

  Automatic teller machines [ATMs] · CPC title