| 摘要 |
<p><P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device charge collecting system a management server, a charge billing server, a device information computer, and an operation information collecting server for collecting operation information as a quantity related to operation of a device, deciding a charge for the device according to the operation information, and billing it along with a communication charge. <P>SOLUTION: In a pachinko machine 8 rented from a game machine manufacturing company 1 to a pachinko parlor 2, a game information storage device 9 is arranged for collecting game information of the pachinko machine 8. The game information is transmitted to a game information collecting server 4 and sent to a hall computer 11 via an in-store network to be transmitted to a game parlor management server 5 of the game machine manufacturing company 1 via the Internet 6. Among the game information, the operation information is transmitted to the charge billing server 10 of a telephone company 3, and on the basis of this operation information, a rental charge is decided and collected from the pachinko parlor 2 with a telephone charge. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO</p> |
