METHOD AND CENTER FOR FUND MANAGEMENT

• Main Authors: SAKAMOTO HIROAKI, TAKAHASHI YOSHIO, HANIYUDA HIRONORI, HASEGAWA TAKESHI, OGURO HIROAKI, IIJIMA MIKIMASA, SUDO MASANORI, TABUCHI EIJI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 26.12.2001
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDEDFOR ELSEWHERE; CALCULATING; CHECKING-DEVICES; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; PHYSICS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a center for fund management which is convenient for a betting system. SOLUTION: A balance management center 5 having a balance database 51 which stores balance data consisting of a telephone number for authentication, the balance, and a password code for each user adds a paid-back amount to the balance of the balance data of a winner according to winning data received from a municipally operated race betting center 7 and pays winning money back. Further, the balance management center 5 answers a payment request from a telephone set 3, specifies balance data corresponding to a specified telephone number for authentication in the balance database 51, and updates the balance according to an withdrawal amount and supplies a withdrawal reception number to the user after authenticating the user. The balance management center 5, after verifying the withdrawal reception number on a reception number verification request from a money paying and receiving terminal 1, allows money to be paid. In response, the store where the money paying and receiving terminal 1 is installed supplies the cash corresponding to the withdrawal amount to the user.