KR20130093770A - Method of inserting special characters in password for on-line game and on-line game server - Google Patents

Method of inserting special characters in password for on-line game and on-line game server Download PDF

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KR20130093770A
KR20130093770A KR1020110145909A KR20110145909A KR20130093770A KR 20130093770 A KR20130093770 A KR 20130093770A KR 1020110145909 A KR1020110145909 A KR 1020110145909A KR 20110145909 A KR20110145909 A KR 20110145909A KR 20130093770 A KR20130093770 A KR 20130093770A
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Disclosed are a method and an online game server for including special characters in an additional password for an online game. The method for including a special character in the additional password for the online game according to the present invention is a security-required operation in which the request action input by a user who accesses the online game by inputting a login password requires the input of the additional password. Determining whether or not it is recognized; If the request operation is a security required operation, determining whether the user has set an additional password; If the user has set an additional password, sending an additional password change menu to the user terminal allowing the additional password to be changed to include special characters if the additional password does not include special characters other than alphabets and numbers; And if the additional password of the user is not set, transmitting an additional password setting menu to allow the user to set an additional password including a special character to the user terminal.

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Method of inserting special characters in password for on-line game and on-line game server}

The present invention relates to an online game, and in particular, a method for inserting a special character into an additional password input to perform a security necessary operation requiring an input of an additional password among operations that a user wants to perform in order to enhance security in an online game. And a server.

As the network develops, various online game services are being provided. In addition, due to the improvement of the graphics technology and the performance of the game user terminals, high-performance game programs are being produced, and game contents in which a real world or a virtual world is precisely depicted are being provided. Through an online game, a user can cooperatively process a mission with other people or play a game through a battle with other people. Online games are rapidly spreading and are widely loved by many users.

However, as the popularity of online games increases, security problems related to the leakage of personal information through online games become serious. In general, a user uses a monthly flat-rate service that provides a fixed amount monthly to play an online game, or pays each time a specific item is purchased. Items are essentially used to assist the progress of the online game or to make the game more interesting. Users can purchase and use various items necessary for the progress of the game in the item shop on the execution screen of the online game or the item shop of the website for accessing the online game.

It is necessary for the novice users to use an item for improving the ability of the user character in order to be able to compete in the game equally with other users having a certain range of level difference, Item image, and item sales are becoming important parts. Especially,

As such, personal information such as payment information is essentially used to play the online game. Furthermore, due to the nature of online games, an unspecified number of users can access an online game server at high speed. Therefore, online game providers face a huge challenge of ensuring that unspecified number of users are seamlessly connected while preventing malicious server access. In particular, once an online game server is hacked, there is always a risk of reimbursing thousands of users for leaked personal information.

Therefore, there is an urgent need for a technique for maintaining a high security level in order to prevent the leakage of personal information of users using online game services.

An object of the present invention is to detect the security required operation of the users who play the online game, and for the security required operation to enter an additional additional password in addition to the login password, the high security level by forcing the additional password to include special characters To provide a way to maintain it.

Another object of the present invention is to allow a user performing a security-required operation requiring a high security level to set an additional password including special characters, and to users who have previously set an additional password without special characters. It is to provide an online game server to induce changes to the additional password included.

Method for including a special character in the additional password for the online game according to an aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object, the request operation input by the user connected to the online game by the online game server to enter the login password Determining whether a security-requiring action requires an input of an additional password; If the request operation is a security required operation, determining whether the user has set the additional password; If the user has set the additional password, sending an additional password change menu to the user terminal to allow the additional password to be changed to include special characters if the additional password does not contain special characters other than alphabets and numbers. Making; And when the additional password of the user is not set, transmitting an additional password setting menu to allow the user to set the additional password including a special character to the user terminal.

The determining of the security required operation may include: changing the additional password, temporarily releasing the additional password, and selecting a specific character of the online game. And determining whether the input is an input.

The online game is an online soccer game, and the character is preferably a manager character of a soccer team managed by a user in the online game.

The transmitting of the additional password change menu to the user terminal may include: receiving the additional password from the user terminal; Determining whether the input additional password matches the preset additional password set by the user; If the entered additional password matches the user's additional password, determining whether the entered additional password includes special characters; And if the additional password input does not include special characters, transmitting the additional password change menu to the user terminal.

The transmitting of the additional password setting menu to the user terminal may include: transmitting, to the user terminal, information indicating that the special character should be included when setting the additional password; Analyzing the input of the user terminal to the additional password setting menu to determine whether the additional password set according to the input of the user terminal includes the special character; And when the additional password set by the user does not include the special character, transmitting the additional password setting menu to the user terminal.

In the method for including a special character in the additional password for the online game according to the present invention, when the user enters, changes or sets the additional password, a special character as a menu that can select the character by using the indicating means of the user terminal The method may further include transmitting a text selection menu, which is a menu including a message, to the user terminal.

The character selection menu includes at least one interface, and the characters displayed in the interface displayed on one screen are preferably randomly arranged.

The online game server according to another aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object, whether the request operation input by the user accessing the online game by entering the login password is a security-required operation that requires the input of an additional password; A security required operation determination unit for determining; An additional password detector configured to determine whether the user has set the additional password if the request operation is a security required operation; If the user has set the additional password, sending an additional password change menu to the user terminal to allow the additional password to be changed to include special characters if the additional password does not contain special characters other than alphabets and numbers. An additional password changing unit; And an additional password setting unit for transmitting an additional password setting menu to allow the user terminal to set the additional password including a special character when the additional password of the user is not set.

The security required operation determination unit determines whether the request operation is an input for any one of an operation of changing the additional password, temporarily releasing the additional password, and selecting a specific character of the online game. It is desirable to.

The online game is an online soccer game, and the character is preferably a manager character of a soccer team managed by a user in the online game.

The additional password changing unit receives the additional password from the user terminal, determines whether the input additional password matches the additional password preset by the user, and the input additional password matches the additional password of the user. If so, it is determined whether the inputted additional password includes special characters, and if the inputted additional password does not include special characters, it is preferable to transmit the additional password change menu to the user terminal.

The additional password setting unit transmits information indicating that the special character should be included when setting the additional password to the user terminal, and analyzes the input of the user terminal for the additional password setting menu to It is determined whether the additional password set according to the input includes the special character, and if the additional password set by the user does not include the special character, it is preferable to transmit the additional password setting menu to the user terminal.

The on-line game server according to the present invention includes a character selection menu, which is a menu including special characters, as a menu for selecting a character by using an instruction means of the user terminal when the user inputs, changes, or sets the additional password. It is preferable to further include a text selection menu display unit for transmitting to the user terminal.

The character selection menu includes at least one interface, and the characters displayed in the interface displayed on one screen are preferably randomly arranged.

Another aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object is a computer-readable recording medium having a program recorded thereon for implementing a method for adding a special character to an additional password for an online game according to an aspect of the present invention. It is about.

According to the present invention, in order to perform a security required operation of the users who enjoy the online game, the user must input an additional additional password in addition to the login password, and further, the additional password may be forced to include special characters as well as numbers. Therefore, malicious hacking attempts can be blocked when performing security-required operations.

In addition, according to the present invention, a user performing a security required operation requiring a high security level must set an additional password including a special character, and a user who previously set an additional password without a special character must have a special character. You must change to the additional password included. Therefore, the security level of the online game service is remarkably improved because a security required operation may be performed by inputting an additional password including special characters in addition to the login password.

1 is a flowchart conceptually illustrating a method for including special characters in an additional password for an online game according to an aspect of the present invention.
2 is a flowchart illustrating a process of changing an additional password to include the special character in the method for including the special character in the additional password for the online game according to the present invention.
3 is a flowchart illustrating a process of setting an additional password to include the special character in the method for including the special character in the additional password for the online game according to the present invention.
4 is a diagram conceptually illustrating an online game system in which a method for including special characters in an additional password for an online game according to the present invention is implemented.
5 is a block diagram conceptually illustrating a server for including special characters in an additional password for an online game according to another aspect of the present invention.
6 is a diagram illustrating messages provided to a user by the present invention.
7 is a diagram illustrating an example of an additional password change screen provided to a user according to the present invention.
8 is a view showing another example of the additional password change screen provided to the user by the present invention.

Hereinafter, a method and an online game server for including a special character in an additional password for an online game in each embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

In the following description, in order to clarify the understanding of the present invention, description of well-known technology for the features of the present invention will be omitted. The following examples are detailed description to help understand the present invention, and it should be understood that the present invention is not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. Therefore, equivalent inventions that perform the same functions as the present invention will also fall within the scope of the present invention.

In addition, in adding reference numerals to the constituent elements of the drawings, it is to be noted that the same constituent elements are denoted by the same reference numerals even though they are shown in different drawings. In the following description of the present invention, a detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may make the subject matter of the present invention rather unclear.

In addition, in describing the component of this invention, terms, such as 1st, 2nd, A, B, (a), (b), can be used. These terms are intended to distinguish the constituent elements from other constituent elements, and the terms do not limit the nature, order or order of the constituent elements. When a component is described as being "connected", "coupled", or "connected" to another component, the component may be directly connected to or connected to the other component, It should be understood that an element may be "connected," "coupled," or "connected."

1 is a flowchart conceptually illustrating a method for including special characters in an additional password for an online game according to an aspect of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, a user enters a login password to access an online game (S110) and performs operations required to play a game. For example, a user may select a character used in an online game, purchase an item required to play the game, or participate in an auction of the item. Alternatively, the user may manage his or her personal information, such as a password, or may enter personal information necessary for payment. When the user selects an action to perform, the request action is transferred from the user's online game client to the online game server.

Then, the online game server determines whether the request operation that the user intends to perform is a security-requiring action requiring an input of an additional password (S120). In the present invention, the 'security required operation' is an operation that can be performed by users inputting an additional password other than the login password, and means operations requiring a high security level.

For example, an operation of modifying user's personal information or inputting payment information may be regarded as requiring a high security level. Of course, which operation is required for security may be changed according to the policy of the company providing the online game service.

If the operation requested by the user is not a security required operation, the user performs the requested operation.

However, if the operation requested by the user is a security required operation, an additional password is required to increase the security level. Then, first, it is determined whether or not the additional password preset by the user exists (S130). If the additional password does not exist, the user is prompted to set an additional password necessary to perform the security required operation (S160), and in this case, the user is prompted to set an additional password including a special character.

If the user has an additional password already set, it is determined whether the existing additional password includes a special character (S140). As a result, if the additional password includes special characters, there is no need to change the existing additional password. However, if the existing additional password does not include a password, the user is prompted to set an additional password including a special character (S150).

As such, when the method for including the special character in the additional password for the online game according to the present invention is applied, the additional password necessary for performing the security necessary operation necessarily includes the special character. Therefore, since there are many cases incomparable with cracking a password consisting of only numbers or letters, the level of security is significantly improved.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a process of changing an additional password to include the special character in the method for including the special character in the additional password for the online game according to the present invention.

First, in order to change the additional password, the user must enter the existing additional password (S210). It requires a high level of security to change additional passwords, and changing the password can be seen as a security-required operation. Therefore, even if the existing additional password does not contain special characters, the additional password should be entered.

When the user enters the additional password, it is determined whether the input additional password is the same as the additional password of the pre-stored user (S220). If the determined additional password does not match the previously stored user's additional password, this means that the user does not meet the level of security required to change the additional password. Therefore, a warning message indicating that the additional passwords do not match is displayed (S230), and the user is prompted to enter the additional password again.

If the additional password entered matches the pre-stored additional password of the user, this means that the user satisfies the level of security required to change the additional password. Therefore, these users are encouraged to change additional passwords.

To this end, the online game server first guides the user to change the additional password to include the special characters (S240). When the user who has received such a guide inputs a new additional password to be changed (S250), the online game server determines whether the changed additional password includes a special character (S260).

If the user's newly entered additional password contains special characters, the security of the new additional password is significantly improved, so it ends. However, if the additional password entered by the user does not include special characters, the warning message that the additional password must be changed to include the special characters is notified (S270), and allows the user to enter the additional password again.

As shown in FIG. 2, according to the present invention, when the additional password is changed, the user is required to enter the existing additional password regardless of whether the special character is included to achieve the security level required to change the additional password. Thus, the change of the additional password is allowed only if the additional password entered matches the previously stored additional password.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a process of setting an additional password to include the special character in the method for including the special character in the additional password for the online game according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, setting an additional password means that there is no existing stored additional password. Therefore, the process of encouraging the user to enter the existing additional password is omitted.

Therefore, when setting an additional password, it must be guided that a special character must be included (S310). When the user who has received such a guide inputs an additional password to be set (S330), the online game server determines whether the input additional password includes a special character (S350).

If the additional password entered by the user contains special characters, the security of the additional password is significantly improved, so it ends. However, if the additional password input by the user does not include the special character, the warning message that the additional password must be set to include the special character is notified as a warning message (S370), and allows the user to enter the additional password again. This process is repeated until the additional password you enter contains special characters.

Through the additional password setting process as shown in FIG. 3, all additional passwords set to perform the security necessary operation include special characters. Therefore, it is almost impossible to crack an additional password as compared to cracking a password composed only of English or numbers, and the security level of the online game is significantly improved.

In the present invention, 'special characters' refers to all characters except the English alphabet and numbers, among the characters that a user can input through a keyboard or select and input through a character selection menu displayed on a screen. That is, symbols such as '!', '@', '#', Or paragraph symbols such as '?', '.', ',' May also be included in special characters. In addition, special characters may include figures instead of characters. For example, if an online game server provides a character selection menu, arbitrary shapes such as 'spade shapes', 'diamond shapes', 'heart shapes', and 'clover shapes' may correspond to special characters. to be.

The reason you must include special characters when setting and changing additional passwords is to increase the security level by making it difficult to crack additional passwords. For convenience of explanation, the case where the additional password is limited to six characters will be described.

If the additional password consists only of alphabets or numbers and is not case sensitive, the total number of characters that can be included in each digit is 26 + 10, which is 36. Thus, the total number of possible combinations of six additional digits would be 36 ^ 6 = 2,176,782,336.

On the other hand, if the additional password must include special characters, and the number of special characters that can be included is 10, the total number of possible combinations of the additional password is (36 + 10) ^ 6 = 9,474,296,896. If it takes one second to enter a password, it takes about 69 years to crack a password consisting of only alphanumeric characters, while it takes more than 300 years to add 10 special characters. Therefore, the security level is significantly improved by simply adding 10 special characters.

Hereinafter, an online game system in which the method according to one embodiment of the present invention is implemented will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 4.

4 is a diagram conceptually illustrating an online game system in which a method for including special characters in an additional password for an online game according to the present invention is implemented.

Referring to FIG. 4, the online game system 400 according to the present invention includes an online game server 450 that provides an online game service, and a plurality of online games connected to the online game server 450 through a communication network 490. Clients 410, 420, 430, 440. In addition, the online game system 400 further includes a database 480 and a security enhancement server 460 that store information about the item and the lottery algorithm.

In the present invention, a game server or an online game server means a server computer to which users access to use game contents. In the case of a game having a small capacity or a small number of users, a plurality of game programs can be operated in one game server. In addition, in the case of a game having a very large capacity or a large number of real-time connections, there may be one or more game servers for operating one game depending on the functions of the game.

In addition, middleware for the database and servers performing payment processing may be connected to the game server, but the description thereof will be omitted in the present invention.

The online game clients 410, 420, 430, and 440 include various terminals that can access the online game server 450 through the communication network 490. Although desktop computers 410 and 420 and mobile phones 430 and 440 are illustrated in FIG. 4 as online game clients, it should be noted that this is not a limitation of the present invention.

The user connects to the online game server 450 through various online game clients 410, 420, 430, 440. In particular, with the development of electronic engineering technology, a user may access the online game server 450 anytime, anywhere through various communication networks through various online game clients 410, 420, 430, and 440. For example, the communication network 490 may be the Internet, or may be a mobile communication network such as 2G, 3G, or 4G. In this specification, "communication" scene "communication network" and "network" may be used in the same sense. The three terms refer to wired and wireless local and wide area data transmission and reception networks capable of transmitting and receiving files between a user terminal, a terminal of other users, and a download server.

In FIG. 4, the security enhancement server 460 implements an operation according to the method for providing a second item lottery service according to an aspect of the present invention. The configuration and operation of the security enhancement server 460 will be described later in detail with reference to FIG. 5. Therefore, repeated descriptions are omitted for the sake of simplification of the description.

In the present invention, the online game means game content that can be used by users by accessing the above-mentioned game server. Particularly, it means a game in which a plurality of users can simultaneously access and enjoy the game, and the level is raised through an act of acquiring experience while fostering a character by advancing a game. In addition, it means a game in which various types of items can be purchased in order to smoothly progress the game in the game.

In FIG. 4, the security enhancement server 460 is shown as a separate device separate from the online game server 450. However, the security enhancement server 460 does not necessarily need to be implemented separately from the online game server 450. Rather, it is noted that the online game server 450 may be implemented integrally incorporating the functionality of the security enhancement server 40.

That is, the present invention is not necessarily limited to these embodiments, as all the constituent elements constituting the embodiment of the present invention are described as being combined or operated separately. In other words, within the scope of the present invention, all of the components may be selectively operated in combination with one or more. In addition, although all of the components may be implemented as one independent hardware, some or all of the components may be selectively combined to perform a part or all of the functions in one or a plurality of hardware. As shown in FIG. Codes and code segments constituting the computer program may be easily inferred by those skilled in the art. Such a computer program may be stored in a computer readable storage medium and read and executed by a computer, thereby implementing embodiments of the present invention. As a storage medium of the computer program, a magnetic recording medium, an optical recording medium, or the like can be included.

Using the online game system 400 according to FIG. 4, a user can acquire an item interestingly by using various second lottery items at any time while playing an online game.

5 is a block diagram conceptually illustrating a security enhancement server for including special characters in an additional password for an online game according to another aspect of the present invention.

As noted above, it is noted that the security enhancement server may be implemented integrated with an online game server.

Referring to FIG. 5, the security enhancement server 560 is connected to and operates with the communication network 590. On the online game client side, it is possible to connect to the security enhancement server 560 via the communication network 590, in which case the communication network 590 and the security enhancement server 560 are considered to be transparent channels. It can also be regarded as an all-enhanced 500 including a server.

The security enhancement server 560 includes a security required operation determining unit 510, an additional password detecting unit 520, an additional password changing unit 530, an additional password setting unit 540, and a character selection menu display unit 550.

The security required operation determination unit 510 determines whether a request operation that a user who accesses the online game by inputting a password is a security required operation that requires input of an additional password. As an example of the security required operation, the request operation may be an operation of changing an additional password, an operation of temporarily releasing the additional password, an operation of selecting a specific character of an online game, and the like, but the present invention is not limited thereto. do.

As a result of the determination, if the user's request operation is a security required operation, the additional password detection unit 520 determines whether the additional password already set by the user exists.

If the user has not set an additional password, the additional password setting unit 540 prompts the user to set an additional password including special characters, and if the user has set an additional password, the additional password changing unit 530 allows the user to set the additional password. Induce extra passwords to include special characters

When the user sets or changes the additional password, the character selection menu display unit 550 transmits and displays a character selection menu including special characters to the user so that the user can directly select a desired character. Among the hacking tools, there is a tool that detects all key inputs of the user and delivers them to the hacker. Using these hacking tools, even if a user enters special characters when setting an additional password, all hacking tools can be detected. However, when the character selection menu displayed by the character selection menu display unit 550 is used, the user selects a desired character by using a mouse, thereby disabling such a hacking tool. Thus, the security level is significantly improved.

The following operating scenarios are possible. First, when a user attempts to perform a security-required action in an online game, the additional password is notified that special characters must be included. Then, the user who has already set the additional password, the additional password changing unit 530 informs that the additional password should include a special character and induces to change the additional password.

If the user has not set an additional password, the additional password setting unit 540 informs that the additional password should be set to include special characters, and induces the user to set the additional password.

In this case, the text selection menu display unit 550 may display a text selection menu when inputting a password, changing a password, setting a first password, and temporarily releasing the password.

If the online game is an online soccer game in which the user manipulates and plays football players, the user may be required to set an additional password when the user selects a manager of a soccer team managed by the user in the online game.

When the number of characters displayed in the text selection menu provided by the text selection menu display unit 550 is large, the text selection menu display unit 550 may display one or more text pages. In order to improve security, the character selection menu display unit 550 may randomly display characters displayed in the same page.

6 is a diagram illustrating messages provided to a user by the present invention.

6A illustrates a message 600 indicating that a function for including special characters in an additional password has been added. The message 600 includes a content display section 610, a confirmation button 620, and a safety account guidance button 630.

When the confirmation button 620 is pressed, the message 600 is closed, and when the safety account guide button 630 is pressed, a description of what the safety account is is displayed. In the embodiment shown in Fig. 6, the safety account means that the user has registered an additional password in order to require a security required operation. Therefore, when a user logs in to an online game for the first time, the user's login account is not a safety account, and when an additional password is registered, the account may be changed to a safety account.

In order for a user to perform a security-required operation, the user may require the user to access a security account, for which the user must enter an additional password.

FIG. 6B illustrates a message 650 indicating that a change of the additional password is necessary since the special password is not included in the additional password of the current user. The message 650 includes a content display section 660, a confirmation button 670, and a special character view button 680.

When the confirmation button 670 is pressed, the message 650 is closed, and when the special character view button 680 is pressed, a guide for the available special characters may be displayed. For example, the available special characters are '->', '!', '@', '#', '$', '%', '^', '&', '*', '(', ')' Are displayed on one page, and the remaining special characters '-', '_', '=', '+', ',', '.', '/', '?', ';', '' 'May be displayed on one page. However, it is noted that this is only illustrated for convenience of understanding and does not limit the present invention.

Thus, '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '0', '!', '@', It is also possible to use only '#', '$', '%', '^', '&' and '*' as special characters used to enter additional passwords, and all of these special characters can be displayed on one page. Do. As described above, it is preferable that the characters displayed on the same page are changed at random whenever they are displayed.

7 is a diagram illustrating an example of an additional password change screen provided to a user according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 7, the additional password change screen 700 includes an additional password input section 710, a text selection menu 720, a confirmation button 730, and a cancel button 740.

The user may enter an additional password he / she wants to change in the additional password input section 710. In this case, the desired character may be directly input from the keyboard, or the desired character may be directly selected from the character selection menu 720. If you click the 'Special Characters' button in the character selection menu, special characters that can be entered by the user are displayed. Pressing the confirmation button 730 terminates the input of the additional password, and pressing the cancel button 740 cancels the additional password input process.

8 is a view showing another example of the additional password change screen provided to the user by the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 8, the additional password change screen 800 includes an additional password input section 810, a character selection menu 820, an OK button 830, a cancel button 840, and previous and next buttons 850 and 860. ).

Operations of the additional password input section 810 and the confirm and cancel buttons 830 and 840 are similar to the additional password change screen shown in FIG. 7, and thus, repeated descriptions are omitted for simplicity.

In FIG. 8, the character selection menu 820 displays special characters that can be input by the user. A total of 12 special characters are displayed. If necessary, the user may change the special characters displayed by using the previous and next buttons 850 and 860.

As described above, the present invention can block malicious hacking attempts because the user must input an additional password including special characters in order to perform the security necessary operation, and the security level of the online game service is significantly improved.

The method for adding a special character to the additional password according to the embodiment of the present invention described above, the application basically installed in the terminal (this may include a program included in the platform or operating system, etc., which is basically installed in the terminal) It may be executed by the user, or may be executed by an application (ie, a program) directly installed on the terminal by an application providing server such as an application store server, an application, or a web server associated with the corresponding service. In this sense, the method for adding a special character to the additional password according to the embodiment of the present invention described above is implemented as an application (that is, a program) which is basically installed in the terminal or directly installed by the user, and read by a computer such as a terminal. Can be recorded on a recording medium.

Such a program may be recorded on a recording medium that can be read by a computer and executed by a computer so that the above-described functions can be executed.

As described above, in order to execute the method for adding a special character to the additional password according to each embodiment of the present invention, the above-described program is a computer such as C, C ++, JAVA, machine language, etc., which can be read by the processor (CPU) of the computer. It may include code coded in a language.

The code may include a function code related to a function or the like that defines the functions described above and may include an execution procedure related control code necessary for the processor of the computer to execute the functions described above according to a predetermined procedure.

In addition, such code may further include memory reference related code as to what additional information or media needed to cause the processor of the computer to execute the aforementioned functions should be referenced at any location (address) of the internal or external memory of the computer .

In addition, when a processor of a computer needs to communicate with any other computer or server, etc., to perform the above-described functions, the code may be stored in a computer's communication module (e.g., a wired and / ) May be used to further include communication related codes such as how to communicate with any other computer or server in the remote, and what information or media should be transmitted or received during communication.

The functional program for implementing the present invention and the related code and code segment may be implemented by programmers of the technical field of the present invention in consideration of the system environment of the computer that reads the recording medium and executes the program, Or may be easily modified or modified by the user.

Examples of the computer-readable recording medium on which the above-described program is recorded include ROM, RAM, CD-ROM, magnetic tape, floppy disk, optical media storage, and the like.

Also, the computer-readable recording medium on which the above-described program is recorded may be distributed to a computer system connected via a network so that computer-readable codes can be stored and executed in a distributed manner. In this case, one or more of the plurality of distributed computers may execute some of the functions presented above and send the results of the execution to one or more of the other distributed computers, The computer may also perform some of the functions described above and provide the results to other distributed computers as well.

In particular, a computer-readable recording medium recording an application, which is a program for executing a method for adding a special character to an additional password according to each embodiment of the present invention, may be an application store server, an application, or a corresponding application. It may be a storage medium (for example, a hard disk) included in an application provider server such as a web server related to a service, or the application providing server itself.

A computer capable of reading a recording medium recording an application, which is a program for executing a method for adding a special character to an additional password according to each embodiment of the present invention, is not only a general PC such as a general desktop or a laptop, but also a smart phone. It may include a mobile terminal, such as a tablet PC, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and mobile communication terminals, as well as to be interpreted as any computing device.

In addition, a computer capable of reading a recording medium recording an application, which is a program for executing a method for adding a special character to an additional password according to an embodiment of the present invention, is a smart phone, a tablet PC, a personal digital assistant (PDA) and a mobile device. In the case of a mobile terminal such as a communication terminal, the application may be downloaded from the application providing server to a general PC and installed on the mobile terminal through a synchronization program.

It is also to be understood that the terms such as " comprises, "" comprising," or "having ", as used herein, mean that a component can be implanted unless specifically stated to the contrary. But should be construed as including other elements. All terms, including technical and scientific terms, have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs, unless otherwise defined. Terms used generally, such as terms defined in a dictionary, should be interpreted to coincide with the contextual meaning of the related art, and shall not be interpreted in an ideal or excessively formal sense unless explicitly defined in the present invention.

The foregoing description is merely illustrative of the technical idea of the present invention, and various changes and modifications may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the essential characteristics of the present invention. Therefore, the embodiments disclosed in the present invention are intended to illustrate rather than limit the scope of the present invention, and the scope of the technical idea of the present invention is not limited by these embodiments. The protection scope of the present invention should be interpreted by the following claims, and all technical ideas within the equivalent scope should be interpreted as being included in the scope of the present invention.

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Determining, by the online game server, whether a request operation input by a user accessing the online game by entering a login password is a security-requiring action requiring an input of an additional password;
If the request operation is a security required operation, determining whether the user has set the additional password;
If the user has set the additional password, the user terminal has an additional password change menu allowing the user to change the additional password to include special characters when the additional password does not include special characters other than alphabets and numbers. Transmitting; And
And if the additional password of the user is not set, transmitting an additional password setting menu for allowing the user to set the additional password including a special character to the user terminal. How to add special characters. The method of claim 1,
Determining whether or not the security required operation,
And determining whether the request operation is an input to any one of an operation of changing the additional password, temporarily releasing the additional password, and selecting a specific character of the online game. A method for adding special characters to an additional password for an online game. The method of claim 2,
And said online game is an online soccer game, said character being a supervisor character of a soccer team managed by a user in said online game. The method of claim 1,
The step of transmitting the additional password change menu to the user terminal,
Receiving the additional password from the user terminal;
Determining whether the input additional password matches the preset additional password set by the user;
If the entered additional password matches the user's additional password, determining whether the entered additional password includes special characters; And
And transmitting the additional password change menu to the user terminal when the input additional password does not include the special characters. The method of claim 1,
The step of transmitting the additional password setting menu to the user terminal,
Transmitting, to the user terminal, information indicating that the special character should be included in setting the additional password;
Analyzing the input of the user terminal to the additional password setting menu to determine whether the additional password set according to the input of the user terminal includes the special character; And
If the additional password set by the user does not include the special character, transmitting the additional password setting menu to the user terminal; the method for adding a special character to the additional password for an online game. The method of claim 1,
When the user inputs, changes or sets the additional password, transmitting a text selection menu to the user terminal, the menu including special characters as a menu for selecting text by using an instruction means of the user terminal; Method for adding a special character to the additional password for the online game, characterized in that it further comprises. The method according to claim 6,
The character selection menu includes at least one interface, and the characters displayed in the interface displayed on one screen are randomly arranged. A security required operation determination unit for determining whether a request operation input by a user accessing an online game by entering a login password is a security required operation requiring an input of an additional password;
An additional password detector configured to determine whether the user has set the additional password if the request operation is a security required operation;
If the user has set the additional password, sending an additional password change menu to the user terminal to allow the additional password to be changed to include special characters if the additional password does not contain special characters other than alphabets and numbers. An additional password changing unit; And
An additional password setting unit which transmits an additional password setting menu to the user terminal to allow the user to set the additional password including a special character when the additional password of the user is not set; . 9. The method of claim 8,
The security required operation determination unit,
An online game, characterized in that it is determined whether the request operation is an input for any one of an operation of changing the additional password, temporarily releasing the additional password, and selecting a specific character of the online game. server. 10. The method of claim 9,
The online game is an online soccer game, and the character is an online game server, characterized in that the manager character of the soccer team managed by the user in the online game. 9. The method of claim 8,
The additional password change unit,
The additional password is input from the user terminal, and it is determined whether the additional password input matches the additional password preset by the user. If the additional password input matches the additional password of the user, the additional password input is input. Is determined to include a special character, and if the inputted additional password does not include the special character, the online game server, wherein the additional password change menu is transmitted to the user terminal. 9. The method of claim 8,
The additional password setting unit,
The user terminal transmits information indicating that the special character should be included when setting the additional password, and analyzes the input of the user terminal with respect to the additional password setting menu, so that the additional password set according to the input of the user terminal Determining whether to include the special character, and when the additional password set by the user does not include the special character, transmitting the additional password setting menu to the user terminal. 9. The method of claim 8,
When the user enters, changes or sets the additional password, a text selection menu for transmitting a text selection menu to the user terminal, the text selection menu being a menu containing special characters as a menu for selecting text using the means for indicating the user terminal. The online game server further comprises a display. The method of claim 13,
The character selection menu includes at least one interface, wherein the characters displayed in the interface displayed on one screen are randomly arranged. Determining, by the online game server, whether a request operation input by a user accessing the online game by entering a login password is a security-requiring action requiring an input of an additional password;
If the request operation is a security required operation, determining whether the user has set the additional password;
If the user has set the additional password, sending an additional password change menu to the user terminal to allow the additional password to be changed to include special characters if the additional password does not contain special characters other than alphabets and numbers. Doing; And
And if the additional password of the user is not set, transmitting an additional password setting menu to allow the user terminal to set the additional password including a special character to the user terminal. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for implementing a method for adding characters.
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