Abstract: The present invention manages money received from a general user having no bank account, so that the general user is able to make payment, send remittance, receive lottery prize via a network. A deposit amount managing device of the present invention includes a deposit amount storage unit which stores a deposit amount of each of a plurality of users, a deposit amount managing unit which increases or decreases the deposit amount of any of the users in response to a request from a user terminal device, a store terminal device, or an automatic teller machine, and a cash processing unit which generates a account transfer requesting message and transmit the message to a financial institution system to cause the system to receive or disburse cash in order to convert cash to deposit or deposit to cash.

Abstract: The present invention manages money received from a general user having no bank account, so that the general user is able to make payment, send remittance, receive lottery prize via a network. A deposit amount managing device of the present invention includes a deposit amount storage unit which stores a deposit amount of each of a plurality of users, a deposit amount managing unit which increases or decreases the deposit amount of any of the users in response to a request from a user terminal device, a store terminal device, or an automatic teller machine, and a cash processing unit which generates a account transfer requesting message and transmit the message to a financial institution system to cause the system to receive or disburse cash in order to convert cash to deposit or deposit to cash.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electronic settlement system which is similar to cash settlement and which is available even in a game hall. The present invention provides an electronic settlement system including an electronic settlement server, a mobile communication terminal, and a negotiable-value providing apparatus. In the electronic settlement system, the mobile communication terminal acquires, from the negotiable-value providing apparatus, an equipment ID identifying the negotiable-value providing apparatus. The mobile communication terminal then generates a settlement request message containing a user ID identifying a user, a transfer amount corresponding to consideration for a negotiable value, and the equipment ID. The mobile communication terminal then transmits the message to the electronic settlement server.

Abstract: The present invention manages money received from a general user having no bank account, so that the general user is able to make payment, send remittance, receive lottery prize via a network. A deposit amount managing device of the present invention includes a deposit amount storage unit which stores a deposit amount of each of a plurality of users, a deposit amount managing unit which increases or decreases the deposit amount of any of the users in response to a request from a user terminal device, a store terminal device, or an automatic teller machine, and a cash processing unit which generates a account transfer requesting message and transmit the message to a financial institution system to cause the system to receive or disburse cash in order to convert cash to deposit or deposit to cash.

Abstract: A payment managing method includes: a process in which, when a transaction with a marketing site is performed by operating a terminal machine, bill information including a payment amount due to the transaction with the marketing site is informed to the terminal machine; a process in which the terminal machine having received the notification displays an approval confirmation screen which causes an approval of the payout amount to function as a deposition of the payment amount between the financial institution system and the payment manager; and a process in which a payment manager notifies the completion of deposition of the marketing site when a settlement by deposition of the payment amount is executed as a result of the approval at the terminal machine.

Abstract: A deposit amount managing method includes: a process in which, in response to a request from a terminal machine to which a remittance amount of value and a bank account are input, a deposit amount managing device verifies the terminal machine, and if the request is valid, an approval confirmation screen which causes an approval of the remittance amount to function as an execution of the remittance is displayed on the terminal machine; and a process in which, based on the approval at the terminal machine, the deposit amount managing device generates an account transfer requesting message and sends the message to a financial institution system, and the financial institution system draws an amount corresponding to the remittance amount from a target account of the deposit amount managing device and transfers the drawn amount to the bank account specified by the account transfer requesting message.

Abstract: A deposit amount managing method includes: a process in which, in response to a request from a terminal machine to which a remittance amount of value and a bank account of a remittee are input, the deposit amount managing device verifies the terminal machine, and if the request is valid, an approval confirmation screen which causes an approval of the remittance amount to function as an execution of the remittance is displayed on the terminal machine; a process in which, based on the approval at the terminal machine, a request of remitting the remittance amount to the bank account of the remittee from the terminal machine is received; and a process in which, if there is a deposit information storage unit associated with the bank account of the remittee, the remittance amount is transferred from the deposit information storage unit of the sender terminal machine to the deposit information storage unit of the remittee.

Abstract: A deposit amount managing method includes: a process in which, in response to a request from a terminal machine to which a remittance amount of value, a type of currency, and a bank account of a remittee are input, the deposit amount managing device verifies the terminal machine, and if the request is valid, an approval confirmation screen which causes an approval of the remittance amount and the type of currency to function as an execution of the remittance is displayed on the terminal machine; a process in which, based on the approval at the terminal machine, the deposit amount managing device receives a request of remitting the remittance amount in the type of currency to the bank account of the remittee; and a process in which the type of currency of the remittance amount is converted in the deposit amount managing device based on an exchange rate.

Abstract: The present invention is provides a novel electronic settlement technique which is capable of supplying a deposit so as to continue the play of a game after a deposit available in a game facility has been consumed. A negotiable-value providing device is transmits to a user terminal device a deposit supply demand message demanding supply of a premises deposit upon receipt of a transfer demand message. A user terminal device is transmits a transfer demand message to a management server upon receipt of the deposit supply demand message. Upon receipt of the deposit supply demand message, the management server is transmits to a financial institute system a transfer request message requesting a predetermined transfer of a predetermined amount of money from a user bank account. Upon receipt of a transfer completion message, a premises server is transmits a provision instructing message instructing provision of a negotiable-value to the negotiable-value providing device.

Abstract: A censorship system and method that receives monitored user-generated data, decomposes the monitored data into related terminology, extracts, from the related terminology, a characteristic of the received monitored data, determines a preference of the individual person to be monitored for a specific object based on the extracted characteristic, determines, based on the determined preference for the specific object, whether (i) blocking or terminating of information provision, or (ii) execution of new information provision appropriate to the determined preference, would be an appropriate censorship control command for the individual person to be monitored for the specific object, and outputs an appropriate censorship control command for the individual person for the specific object.

Abstract: A server comprises an electronic data item receiving unit, an identification code receiving unit, an identification code storing unit, and an electronic data item transmitting unit. The electronic data item receiving unit receives an electronic data item. When a person exists within a predetermined range from an output terminal, the identification code receiving unit receives a first identification code concerning any one of the person and a device used by the person and a second identification code for identifying the output terminal. The identification code storing unit stores therein the first and second identification codes received by the identification code receiving unit, in association with each other. The electronic data item transmitting unit transmits the electronic data item received by the electronic data item receiving unit to a corresponding output terminal based on the first and second identification codes stored in the identification code storing unit.

Abstract: A data reader can read data regardless of the position of a radio IC tag. The data reader reads data at a separate position from a radio IC tag provided with a storage unit storing data and a communicating antenna for transmitting the data stored in the storage unit, and includes a reader/writer for generating a modulated signal by modulating a carrier wave and a plurality of antenna units for transmitting radio waves for a read for communicating data with a storage medium by radiating the modulated signal into the air. The reader/writer includes a phase adjustment circuit for changing the phase of a carrier wave.

Abstract: The information processing system of the present application extracts data that satisfies both a predetermined relation condition characterized for each community regarding an object and a predetermined characteristic condition characterized for each community regarding an attribute of the object, from the decomposed text data that can identify the meaning, the decomposed text data obtained by decomposing text data based on individual person generated data generated by many individual persons who take part in and configure a main system, and extracts data that satisfies a particular condition indicating a predetermined particularity characterized for each community regarding the object so as to detect the predetermined particularity to make it available, thereby determining an individual person to be monitored and the contents of monitoring for controlling the monitoring.

Abstract: A gaming system includes: a reader configured to read chip identification information which identifies a chip used in a casino; a writer configured to write validity information, betting information, and information about whether the chip is received from a cashier or from a dealer into chip information based on the chip identification information; and a determination unit configured to determine the validity, the betting state, and the source based on the chip information, wherein the writer is configured to update the validity information from invalid to valid when the chip is handed from the cashier or the dealer to a player and vice versa, to update the betting information as being betted when the chip is placed on a betting area and vice versa.

Abstract: An account adjusting system according to an embodiment of the invention comprises a game machine that pays an award corresponding to a kind of a prize of a game; and an account adjusting apparatus that adjusts an account for a user. The game machine has a paying section for determining an award corresponding to a kind of a prize of a game and a determining section for determining whether or not tax payment is required based on the award determined by the paying section, and when determining that tax payment is required, transmitting award information indicative of the award to the account adjusting apparatus. The account adjusting apparatus has a receiving section for receiving the award information; a tax payment amount calculating section for calculating a tax payment amount based on the award information; and a tax payment certificate providing section for producing an output to prepare a tax payment certificate based on the tax payment amount.

Abstract: A financial transaction system includes: an ATM process substituting server connected to a backbone server that executes a user accounting process through a communication mechanism capable of concealing content of communication; and a transaction screen WEB server connected to the ATM process substituting server and capable of connecting to a user communication terminal. The transaction screen WEB server transmits, to the communication terminal, transaction screen data for the user to input transaction necessary information, receives, from the communication terminal, transaction necessary information data inputted in accordance with the transaction screen data, and transmits the transaction necessary information data to the ATM process substituting server. The ATM process substituting server transmits the transaction necessary information data to the backbone server and transmits a message requesting the user for a specified transaction process.

Abstract: A gaming system includes: a reader configured to read chip identification information which identifies a chip used in a casino; a writer configured to write validity information, betting information, and information about whether the chip is received from a cashier or from a dealer into chip information based on the chip identification information; and a determination unit configured to determine the validity, the betting state, and the source based on the chip information, wherein the writer is configured to update the validity information from invalid to valid when the chip is handed from the cashier or the dealer to a player and vice versa, to update the betting information as being betted when the chip is placed on a betting area and vice versa.

Abstract: A gaming system includes: an IC chip reader configured to read chip identification information which uniquely identifies a specific casino chip; journal data generation unit configured to generate journal data corresponding to a transaction of the chip operated during the reading, based on the chip identification information; a journal data DB configured to accumulate the journal data and capable of generating, based on accrual accounting, balance sheet data to be reflected onto a balance sheet in real time by using data indicating a financial condition and a profit-or-loss condition of a casino, based on the accumulated journal data; and a controller configured to control a process of a game and issue an instruction to a dealer based on the data read by the IC chip reader.

Abstract: The information processing system of the present application extracts data that satisfies both a predetermined relation condition characterized for each community regarding an object and a predetermined characteristic condition characterized for each community regarding an attribute of the object, from the decomposed text data that can identify the meaning, the decomposed text data obtained by decomposing text data based on individual person generated data generated by many individual persons who take part in and configure a main system, and extracts data that satisfies a particular condition indicating a predetermined particularity characterized for each community regarding the object so as to detect the predetermined particularity to make it available, thereby determining an individual person to be monitored and the contents of monitoring for controlling the monitoring.

Abstract: A wireless IC tag reader includes a receiving antenna, a transmitting antenna and a beam direction control unit. The receiving antenna has a maximum beam direction and a half-value angle. The transmitting antenna has a maximum beam direction and a half-value angle narrower than the half-value angle of the receiving antenna. The beam direction control unit changes the maximum beam direction of the transmitting antenna.