KR20110058497A - Method for real-time monitoring user abuse in on-line game and system thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for monitoring a user abuse in real time at online game and system thereof are provided to safely supply a service by securing a reliability of online game. CONSTITUTION: Online game servers(20-1, 20-2, 20-n) provides online games to a plurality of gamers. A logging server(30) stores a log message about a plurality of gamers. An abuse monitor(50) on a real time basis receives events about a plurality of gamers. The abuse monitor analyzes events received based on predetermined abuse patterns. The abuse mode transmits the analyzed result to a game manager client.

Description

Method for real-time monitoring user abuse in on-line game and system approximately}

An embodiment according to the concept of the present invention relates to a game abuse detection technology, and in particular, a method for real-time monitoring of user's abuses in an on-line game using a complex event processing company and performing the above method. It's about a system that can do that.

On-line games have a huge amount of development programs and are very complicated in the game progress, and various bugs occur even after the on-line game is released. However, there are cases where gamers use the bugs to their advantage before the developer or operator of the on-line game finds the bugs. This is called user abuse.

In general, a method in which a developer or an operator of an on-line game checks the user's views, and the developer directly participates in the on-line game or visits the on-line game community to exploit bugs and gamers' bug exploits. The method of finding out was used.

Accordingly, the technical problem to be achieved by the present invention is to provide a method capable of real-time monitoring of user views in an on-line game and a system capable of performing the method.

In the on-line game according to an embodiment of the present invention, the method for monitoring user views may include: receiving an event for gamers output from an on-line game server in real time; Analyzing the received events by the above-described monitors based on predefined-about-views patterns; And sending the analysis result to the game manager client.

The predefined Abyss patterns include game money, game items, and game ratings. Analyzing the events uses a complex event processing technique.

In the on-line game according to an embodiment of the present invention, the method for monitoring user views is to record log messages for the gamers output from an on-line game server that provides an on-line game to a plurality of gamers. Receiving events output from a logging server for real time; Analyzing the received events in real time on the basis of predefined Abyss patterns; And sending the analysis result to the game manager client.

In the on-line game, the method of monitoring the user's avives may further include the logging server outputting the events corresponding to the event request signal output from the avives monitor to the avatar monitor in real time.

An on-line game system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an on-line game server for providing an on-line game to a plurality of gamers; And an observers monitor configured to receive the gamers' events output from the on-line game server in real time, analyze the received events in real time based on predefined Abuse patterns, and transmit the analysis result to a game manager client. It includes.

On-line game system according to another embodiment of the present invention is an on-line game server for providing an on-line game to a plurality of gamers; A logging server for storing log messages for the plurality of gamers output from the on-line game server; And an observer monitor for receiving the events for the plurality of gamers output from the logging server in real time, analyzing the received events based on predefined Abuse patterns, and transmitting the analysis result to a game manager client. Include. The Abyss monitor analyzes the received events using a complex event processing technique.

In the on-line game according to an embodiment of the present invention, the method for monitoring user views and the system capable of performing the method have the effect of monitoring the gamers' views in real time.

Therefore, since the method and the system can prevent the spread of the attitudes by gamers, the reliability of the on-line game can be securely provided.

Specific structural and functional descriptions of embodiments according to the concepts of the present invention disclosed in this specification or application are merely illustrative for the purpose of illustrating embodiments in accordance with the concepts of the present invention, The examples may be embodied in various forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein or in the application.

Embodiments in accordance with the concepts of the present invention can make various changes and have various forms, so that specific embodiments are illustrated in the drawings and described in detail in this specification or application. However, this is not intended to limit the embodiments in accordance with the concept of the present invention to a particular disclosed form, it should be understood to include all changes, equivalents, and substitutes included in the spirit and scope of the present invention.

Terms such as first and / or second may be used to describe various components, but the components should not be limited by the terms. The terms are used only for the purpose of distinguishing one component from another, for example, without departing from the scope of rights in accordance with the inventive concept, and the first component may be called a second component and similarly The second component may also be referred to as the first component.

When a component is referred to as being "connected" or "connected" to another component, it may be directly connected to or connected to that other component, but it may be understood that other components may be present in between. Should be. On the other hand, when a component is said to be "directly connected" or "directly connected" to another component, it should be understood that there is no other component in between. Other expressions describing the relationship between components, such as "between" and "immediately between," or "neighboring to," and "directly neighboring to" should be interpreted as well.

The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. Singular expressions include plural expressions unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. As used herein, the terms "comprise" or "having" are intended to indicate that there is a feature, number, step, action, component, part, or combination thereof that is described, and that one or more other features or numbers are present. It should be understood that it does not exclude in advance the possibility of the presence or addition of steps, actions, components, parts or combinations thereof.

Unless defined otherwise, all terms used herein, including technical or scientific terms, have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art. Terms such as those defined in the commonly used dictionaries should be construed as having meanings consistent with the meanings in the context of the related art, and shall not be construed in ideal or excessively formal meanings unless expressly defined herein. Do not.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a schematic block diagram of an Abbey monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the on-line game system 10 includes a plurality of on-line game servers 20-1, 20-2,..., 20-n, a logging server 30, a database 40. ), The Avius monitor 50, and the on-line game manager client 60.

Each of the plurality of on-line game servers 20-1, 20-2,..., 20-n may provide an on-line game to a plurality of gamers.

Each of the plurality of on-line game servers 20-1, 20-2,..., 20-n may periodically or aperiodically log data, such as log messages, for each of the plurality of gamers. To send).

The logging server 30 transmits data output to each of the plurality of on-line game servers 20-1, 20-2,..., 20-n, for example, log messages, to the database 40.

The Abbey monitor 50 may mean a module. The module may drive the hardware or the hardware capable of analyzing the events for gamers output from the logging server 30 and execute the technical idea that can monitor the Abyss according to the analysis result according to an embodiment of the present invention. It can mean a functional or structural combination of software. In addition, the module may mean a logical unit of a predetermined program code and a hardware resource for executing the program code.

The Abbey monitor 50 may transmit an event request signal Req to the logging server 30. The event request signal may be set through the on-line game manager client 60.

For example, the event request signal may be a signal for requesting information about a change in game money of each gamer, a signal for requesting information about a change in game items of each gamer, or a request for information about a change in a rank of each gamer. It may be a signal for requesting, or a signal for requesting information about a change in the grade of each character.

That is, the event request signal may be information for designating an object that each gamer wants to acquire or an object to realize in the on-line game.

The logging server 30 corresponds to data output from each of the plurality of on-line game servers 20-1, 20-2,..., 20-n in response to the event request signal, for example, log messages. Events that are sent (Events) to the Abbey monitor (50).

The Avews monitor 50 is configured to collect events from the event collector, and analyze the events output from the event collector in real time based on predefined Abyss patterns, and transmit the analysis result to the game manager client 60. It may include a CEP engine (complex event prosessing engine).

The event collector may be implemented as a module.

The Abyss monitor 50 may analyze the events output from the logging server 30 to detect the Abuses that exploit bugs that may occur in the on-line game development process in real time. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the Abyss monitor 50 may monitor the Abyss in an on-line game in real time using a complex event processing (CEP) technique.

The CEP technique is a technique for discovering various event patterns occurring in a large information processing system.

By setting event patterns that can be exploited by gamers in the CEP engine as complex events, the CEP engine filters the events output from the event collector based on the complex events and monitors the interviews according to the filtering result.

The complex events may be written in structure query language (SQL) or event pattern language (EPL).

For example, two gamers may acquire the game item by simultaneously acquiring one game item at almost the same time and place. Therefore, when a pattern for preventing such an abuse is set in the CEP engine, the CEP engine may prevent the abuse by comparing the events output from the logging server 30 with the composite events. In this case, the pattern may be the total number of game items acquired in a specific space.

As another example, when one gamer purchases the game item and does not pay the game item purchase cost through abnormal game termination when trading a game item between gamers, the Abbey monitor 50 may display any of the above game items. Events for one gamer, for example, the time at which the game item is acquired, the change in the game money of the gamer, and the price of the game item may be monitored in real time to detect the attitude.

The Abbey monitor 50 may analyze the received events in real time based on the predefined Abbey patterns (ie, complex event patterns), and transmit the analysis result to the game manager client 60.

In FIG. 1, the Abbey monitor 50 transmits an event request signal to the logging server 30 without transmitting an event request signal to each of the plurality of on-line game servers 20-1, 20-2,. By transmitting a request signal, the events output from the logging server 30 are analyzed in real time to monitor the Abyss. In other words, the Abuts monitor 50 is a real-time event output from the logging server 30 in a state separated from each of the plurality of on-line game servers (20-1, 20-2, ..., 20-n) Analyze and monitor Abyss.

2 is a schematic block diagram of a monitoring system according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the on-line game system 100 includes a plurality of on-line game servers 20-1, 20-2,..., 20-n, an Abbey monitor 51, and an on-line. And a line game manager client 60.

Unlike the Abyss monitor 50 shown in FIG. 1, the Abyss monitor 50 shown in FIG. 2 is a plurality of on-line game servers 20-1, 20-2,..., 20-n, respectively. Receive the events for the gamers output from the real-time, and analyze the received events based on the predefined Abyss patterns, and transmit the analysis results, for example, the Abyss report to the game manager client 60.

The on-line game system 100 receives data, for example log messages, for a plurality of gamers output from each of the plurality of on-line game servers 20-1, 20-2, ..., 20-n. You can send to the logging server periodically or aperiodically. In addition, the logging server may transmit data, for example, log messages, output to each of the plurality of on-line game servers 20-1, 20-2,..., 20-n to a database.

The structure and the function of the Arbor monitor 51 are the same as the structure and the function of the Arbor monitor 50.

In the on-line game described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2, the program code capable of executing the method for monitoring the user's views may be stored in a computer-readable recording medium.

For example, the microprocessor may execute program code promoted in the recording medium. Thus, the microprocessor may include receiving events in real time for gamers output from an on-line game server or a logging server; Analyzing the received events based on the predefined Abyss patterns; And transmitting the analysis result to the game manager client.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to one embodiment shown in the drawings, this is merely exemplary, and those skilled in the art will understand that various modifications and equivalent other embodiments are possible therefrom. Therefore, the true technical protection scope of the present invention will be defined by the technical spirit of the appended claims.

The detailed description of each drawing is provided in order to provide a thorough understanding of the drawings cited in the detailed description of the invention.

1 is a schematic block diagram of a monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a schematic block diagram of a monitoring system according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (9)

Receiving the events for gamers output from an on-line game server in real time; Analyzing the received events by the above-described monitors based on predefined-about-views patterns; And And transmitting the analysis result to a game manager client. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the predefined patterns of interests comprise game money, items, and ratings. The method of claim 1, wherein analyzing the events uses a complex event processing technique. Receiving, in real time, events output from a logging server for recording log messages for the gamers output from an on-line game server providing an on-line game to a plurality of gamers; Analyzing the received events in real time on the basis of predefined Abyss patterns; And And transmitting the analysis result to a game manager client. The method of claim 4, wherein the method for monitoring user views in the on-line game includes: And the logging server outputting, in real time, the events corresponding to the event request signal output from the Abbers monitor to the Abbers monitor. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program capable of executing the user's A-Views monitoring method in the on-line game according to claim 1. An on-line game server for providing an on-line game to a plurality of gamers; And An observer monitor for receiving the gamers' events output from the on-line game server in real time, analyzing the received events in real time based on predefined Abuse patterns, and transmitting the analysis result to a game manager client. Including on-line game system. An on-line game server for providing an on-line game to a plurality of gamers; A logging server for storing log messages for the plurality of gamers output from the on-line game server; And Includes an observer monitor for receiving the events for the plurality of gamers output from the logging server in real time, analyzing the received events based on the predefined Abbey patterns, and send the analysis results to the game manager client On-line game system. 10. The on-line game system of claim 7 or 8, wherein the Abyss monitor analyzes the received events using a complex event processing technique.

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