Patent ID: 7344443
Filing Date: 2008-03-18
Classification: A63F,G07F

Abstract:
1. A game system using tokens, comprising: a game ball, lending tokens to a player so that the player may play at least one game machine installed in the game ball with the lent tokens; said game ball accepting from the player and keeping tokens deposited by the player including remaining ones of the lent tokens and tokens won by the player, and said game ball returning the kept tokens to the player upon request only for enabling the player to play the game machines with the tokens wherein said tokens of the system are enabling only for playing said at least one game machine; a management unit provided for the game ball and connecting to the Internet, said management unit including a database for storing and updating combined data, the combined data including data representing tokens available for play, said tokens available for play including the kept tokens including won tokens, and the combined data also including the lent tokens and spent tokens; a portable communication terminal which is hand portable and embodied as a cellular phone connecting to the Internet for receiving game content, said portable communication terminal being configured so as to function concurrently as a portable game terminal and a settlement medium device for making a settlement for said lent tokens, said game content being playable by the player on the portable communication terminal, said cellular phone being operable by the player via an agreement between the player and a communications company; a game content provider for accessing the database to read the combined data and for providing the game content configured for the cellular phone together with the combined data to the portable communication terminal via the Internet; cellular phone transmitting to said management unit gains and losses of the player from playing the game on the portable communication terminal, said management unit updating combined data on the tokens of the player in the database; a communications company relaying means for relaying the game content between the game content provider and the cellular phone transmit the game content from the game content provider to the cellular phone; the management unit automatically lending tokens to the player in response to a communication of the settlement medium device when the tokens available for play stored in the database reaches zero and the player continues to play a game on the portable communication terminal, whereby the player continues to play the game without concomitantly providing more tokens, concomitantly authorizing a purchase of tokens or concomitantly expressly requesting to borrow tokens; an accounting server provided with the communications company for accounting for the automatically lent tokens as soon as said tokens have been spent by the player while relaying between the game content provider and the portable communication terminal through the communications company relaying means, and for assembling and providing accounting information for the communications company to charge cellular phone charges together with charges for the automatically lent tokens; and the communications company charging the player for the cellular phone charges together with the charges for the automatically lent tokens accounted for by the accounting server based on initiation by the cellular phone functioning the settlement medium device.