Patent ID: 8608557

Claim:
A betting ticket purchase system, comprising: receiving means for receiving a plurality of betting ticket purchase requests each having a bet selection specified therein; execution requesting means for sequentially requesting betting processing means to execute betting processing on the plurality of betting ticket purchase requests received by the receiving means based on processing order management data of a betting request management queue; obtaining means for obtaining odds of each bet selection which are calculated in the betting processing executed by the betting processing means; identifying means for referring to storing means for storing data representing a correspondence relation between the odds and an impact level indicating a level of impact of each bet selection on the odds to identify, based on the bet selection specified in each of ones of the plurality of betting ticket purchase requests on which the betting processing is executed, the odds of each bet selection which are calculated in the betting processing, and the bet selection specified in each of ones of the plurality of betting ticket purchase requests on which the betting processing means is yet to be requested to execute the betting processing, the level of impact of the each of the ones of the plurality of betting ticket purchase requests on which the betting processing means is yet to be requested to execute the betting processing on the odds of each bet selection; and setting means for setting in the betting request management queue, as the processing order management data, an order in which the execution requesting means requests the betting processing means to execute the betting processing so that as the level of impact of one of the plurality of betting ticket purchase requests which is identified by the identifying means becomes larger, the one of the plurality of betting ticket purchase requests is processed earlier in the betting processing executed by the betting processing means.