JP2001006009A - Wireless voting system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce burden on a reception port and to shorten a time required for a reception processing by permitting the reception port to receive only a radio signal from a portable terminal having intrinsic information which can be received by means of the port itself. SOLUTION: A table is registered, which consists of ID of the portable terminals corresponding to the respective reception ports (AP) 31-33 and of information indicating that a signal including the ID is already received, in order to fix the signal of a certain portable terminal to AP. Then AP 31 extracts ID from the radio signal from the portable terminals 21-24, confirms the existence of register in the table and abandons the signal when the radio signal is transmitted from the portable terminal 22. Besides, when the signal is from the portable terminal 21, reception information of the table is confirmed, received answer information is temporarily held when the confirmation is 'no', the sum-up results of answer information are collected at the point of time when an answer limit time elapses, they are transmitted to a sum-up server 11 with a bus 41, whole pieces of information from AP 31-33 are summed-up and it is displayed in a display 12.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a wireless voting system using a portable terminal.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art For example, when an intention or a disagreement is displayed in an event venue or a TV program, there are a method of selecting a button on a desk and a method of selecting a button provided on a portable terminal. Sent to the aggregation terminal via
The tally result is displayed on the display screen. If it is difficult to set up the system using a large number of participants and cables are used, a reception port (AP) is provided between the portable terminal and the aggregation terminal, and the portable terminal and the AP communicate wirelessly. Is trying to solve it.

[0003]

However, the above-mentioned wireless voting system using wireless still has the following problems to be solved. That is, since the signal from the mobile terminal is a wireless signal, the wireless signal is received by all the APs that have detected the wireless signal. Therefore, as the number of mobile terminals increases, the time required for the reception process by the AP increases. As a result, the transmission to the counting terminal is delayed, so that the counting time takes a long time. The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a wireless voting system capable of performing a totaling time at a totaling terminal at a high rate.

[0004]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a portable terminal for outputting selection information as a radio signal, a reception port for receiving a radio signal output from the portable terminal, and a reception port for receiving the radio signal. A receiving port of a wireless voting system having a totaling server for totalizing the selection information received via a port, holding information specific to a portable terminal that outputs a radio signal that can be received by itself, and stores this information. Characterized in that only the wireless signal from the portable terminal is received and processed.

[0005]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows a wireless voting system of the present invention, in which a tallying server 11 for counting the voting results, a display 12 for displaying the results tallyed by the tallying server 11, and a radio signal indicating a user's selection result. Mobile terminals 21 to 24 that output the data as selected, and selectively receive the outputs of the mobile terminals 21 to 24, and collect the received selection results via the cable 41 into the tallying server 11
The receiving ports (APs) 31 to 33 are configured to transmit data to the communication ports. Note that in the wireless voting system of the present invention, the combination of the wireless terminal and the AP is fixed, and FIG. 1 shows that the wireless terminal and the AP surrounded by a broken line are one group. The mobile terminal does not need to exist in the broken line, and the group is determined by a mechanism described below. Next, the operation of the wireless voting system having the above configuration will be described. First, before the mobile terminal is handed over to each user, the mobile terminal is provided to each AP in order to fix the combination of the mobile terminal and the AP, that is, to fix the AP that receives a signal of a certain mobile terminal. Identification information (ID) unique to the terminal is registered.

When this registration work is completed, each of the APs 31 to
A table as shown in FIG. This table includes an ID of the portable terminal and reception information indicating whether a signal including the ID has already been received. For example, as shown in FIG. 1, since the AP 31 forms a group with the portable terminal 21, the table registered in the AP 31 is as shown in FIG. As shown in the table, the ID of the portable terminal 21 is “0021”, the reception information is set to “0” in the reception state, and is set to “1” when received. After the mobile terminals 21 to 24 are distributed to each user, the display 12 displays a question limit time together with a question. The user is the mobile terminal 21 (22, 23, 34)
To select an answer. The choice of this answer depends on the configuration of the mobile terminal, but it may be possible to select one having buttons for “agree” and “disagree”, one having a plurality of number buttons, or one having both of the above. You can use them together. Here, when the user selects an answer and presses an enter button (not shown), the portable terminal 21 (2
2, 23, 24), a wireless signal including an ID and response information is output, and each of the APs 31 to 33 performs a reception process.

[0007] The reception process in each of the APs 31 to 33 will be described with reference to the flow chart of FIG. In the AP 31, the mobile terminals 21 to 24
It is confirmed that the wireless signal transmitted from is received (S
1) When a radio signal is received, I
D is extracted (S2), and it is confirmed whether the extracted ID is registered in the table (S3). For example, if the signal is transmitted from the mobile terminal 22, the table registered in the AP 31 is as shown in FIG.
Is determined not to be registered, and the received signal is discarded (S5). Conversely, if the received wireless signal is from the portable terminal 21, the ID (0021) of the portable terminal 21 is registered in the table, so that it is determined that there is registration, and the following processing is performed. If the ID has been registered, it is confirmed based on the reception information in the table whether the reception from the portable terminal 21 with the same ID has already been performed (S4). If the reception has already been performed, the received signal is discarded. (S5)
If the answer has not been received, the received answer information is temporarily stored, and when the answer time limit has come, the result of summing up the answer information is summarized and transmitted to the tallying server 11 via the bus 41 (S
6).

Each of the APs 31 to 33 resets the reception information in the table to "0" at the time of transmitting the tally result to the tally server 11, and prepares for the next question. The aggregation server 11 aggregates all the aggregation information received from each of the APs 31 to 33, and displays the aggregation result on the display 12. By limiting the radio signals received by each of the APs 31 to 33 in this manner, the load of the reception processing at the AP is reduced, and the response information received for each of the APs 31 to 33 is totaled. The load on the tallying process is dispersed, and the tallying time can be reduced for the entire system. In the above description, the response information is totalized for each of the APs 31 to 33. However, the totalization is not necessarily performed, and the response information can be transmitted to the totaling server 11 in the order of reception.
Alternatively, the wireless signals transmitted from the mobile terminals 21 to 24 may be encrypted and transmitted to the APs 31 to 33.
In this case, it is possible to prevent the contents of the user's selection from being leaked to a third party, and to maintain confidentiality. Furthermore, the communication between the mobile terminals 21 to 24 and the APs 31 to 33 is not only encrypted but also encrypted /
It is also possible for the decryption key to be different.

[0009]

As described above, according to the present invention, the radio signal that can be processed by the reception port (AP) that receives the radio signal is limited, so that the load on the reception port is reduced, and thus the reception processing is reduced. Can be shortened.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an outline of a wireless voting system of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a table registered in a reception port.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a table registered in a reception port.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a flow of a reception process in a reception port.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 tallying server 12 display 21, 22, 23, 24 mobile terminal 31, 32, 33 reception port

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A portable terminal for outputting selection information as a wireless signal, a receiving port for receiving a wireless signal output from the portable terminal, and a tabulation for counting the selection information received via the receiving port. In the wireless voting system having a server, the reception port holds information unique to the mobile terminal that outputs a wireless signal that can be received by the reception port, and receives and processes only a wireless signal from the mobile terminal having the information. A wireless voting system characterized by the following.