Patent ID: 7090581

Claim:
A point management system comprising: a game terminal mounted to a vehicle; a rewritable point record medium storing information of a number of points for a user; a server comprising a point memory for storing user ID and the number of points, which are associated with one another; an authenticator for authenticating user ID inputted via said game terminal using said user ID stored in said point memory; a game controller for allowing said game terminal to execute a game when said authentication succeeds; and a point processor for updating the number of points on the rewritable point record medium and for updating the number of points associated with said user ID stored in said point memory, in accordance with a result of execution of said game; wherein said server comprises said authenticator, said game controller, and said point processor, said server and said game terminal are configured to be able to communicate with one another via satellite communications, said point processor updates the number of points stored in said point memory in accordance with the traveling conditions of said vehicle, and said point processor instructs the point memory to give a predetermined number of points to a user who used the vehicle, when the vehicle traveled with a time delay.