KR101689595B1 - Apparatus and method of manifesting online game character's relevancy to another character on web site - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for displaying associations between characters in a game in a web site linked to an online game, the apparatus comprising: a log extractor for extracting character-by-character log data from an activity log of an online game; A relational analyzer for analyzing the inter-character association using the extracted log data for each character; A context generating unit for selecting a text or an icon describing a relation of one character with another character using the character-to-character association information; A login processing unit for sharing account information with an online game server and receiving account login information from a client connected via the Internet to determine whether the account login information matches the login information of the online game account and processing the login of the website if the login information matches; And an interface for displaying the information of the player character other than the character belonging to the online game account of the client on the personalized web page of the client when the client logs in to the web site and displaying the selected text or icon together with the player character And a processing unit.

Description

[0001] APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANIFESTING ONLINE GAME CHARACTER'S RELEVANCY TO ANOTHER CHARACTER ON WEB SITE [0002]

The present invention relates to a method of analyzing how online game characters interact with each other during a game in an online game on a web site linked to an online game, and displaying the analyzed relationship through a web page.

Due to the rapid spread of the Internet infrastructure, stand-alone games, which were conventionally enjoyed by gamers alone using personal computers or game machines, have evolved into online games in which a plurality of players simultaneously access and compete their skills or cooperate.

These online games have been growing rapidly in quantitative and qualitative terms for the past decade, and have been used for a variety of purposes ranging from simple arcade games, manipulation of characters to missions and quests, role-playing Roleplaying), the spectrum has been diversified.

On the other hand, MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game), a role-playing game that many concurrent users enjoy together, has gained great popularity. Such MMORPG is a game in which the contents of a game are continuous, It is characteristic that community nature is very strong due to the characteristic that it should proceed together.

Therefore, we have voluntarily created new Internet cafes and bulletin boards to exchange information with gamers before they play the game, or to search for members to perform missions or quests together.

However, most of the relationships made in the game are one-time and volatile relations because they are difficult to remember or recognize each other.

Therefore, it is urgent to search for ways to overcome these limitations and to recognize and remember the characters of other gamers who played games together in the game, not on the game

It is an object of the present invention to provide a method of automatically displaying the association between characters in an online game in the form of a text or an icon in a website linked to an online game do.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for displaying associations between characters in a web site linked to an online game, the apparatus comprising: a log extractor for extracting character log data from an activity log of an online game;

A relational analyzer for analyzing the inter-character association using the extracted log data for each character;

A context generating unit for selecting a text or an icon describing a relation of one character with another character using the character-to-character association information;

A login processing unit for sharing account information with an online game server and receiving account login information from a client connected via the Internet to determine whether the account login information matches the login information of the online game account and processing the login of the website if the login information matches; And

When the client logs in to the web site, displays the information of the player character other than the character belonging to the online game account of the client on the personalized web page of the client, and displays the selected text or icon together with the player character ; And

In order to achieve the above object, in a web site linked to an on-line game of the present invention, a method for displaying associations between characters in a game comprises the steps of: obtaining an activity log from an online game server and extracting log data for each character;

120) analyzing the inter-character association using the extracted log data for each character;

130. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of: selecting a text or an icon describing association of one character with another character using the analyzed inter-character association information;

140 is a flow chart for explaining the operation of the web site login process according to the third embodiment of the present invention; And

And displaying the information on the player character other than the character belonging to the online game account of the client on the personalized web page of the client together with displaying the selected text or icon together with the player character .

According to the present invention as described above, it is possible to easily memorize the characters formed in the game by giving the context automatically describing the characters of other gamers who have enjoyed the game together in the online game.

In addition, this is a means to recognize and memorize each other on the online game related websites for acquiring and exchanging information before proceeding to the online game, and thus has the effect of improving the community property in the online game related website .

In particular, in the MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) in which a plurality of gamers simultaneously access and cooperate with each other to play a game, formation of a relationship between gamers is very important for inducing interest and interest in the game. According to the present invention, It is possible to positively contribute to the improvement of the game performance of the MMORPG.

1 is a view illustrating a structure in which a client, an online game server, and a web server are connected to each other on the Internet,
FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram illustrating a configuration of a relation display device between characters in a game in a web site linked to an online game according to the present invention,
3 is a conceptual diagram illustrating the structure of an activity log of an online game,
FIG. 4 is a view illustrating a screen in which a list of online game characters is displayed on a personalized web page of a client,
FIG. 5 is a view illustrating a screen in which an interaction history with a selected character is displayed when a client selects one character,
FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a method of displaying associations between characters in a game in a time-series manner in a web site interlocked with an online game according to the present invention.

Hereinafter, a configuration of a display apparatus for associating characters in a game in a web site linked to an online game according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a structure in which a client, an online game server, and a web server are connected to each other on the Internet. FIG. 2 illustrates a structure of a display apparatus for associating characters in a game in a web site linked with an online game according to the present invention Fig.

3 is a conceptual diagram illustrating the structure of an activity log of an online game,

FIG. 4 and FIG. 5 are diagrams for explaining how the association between characters is displayed on the browser screen of the client.

1, the client 3 accesses the online game server 1 or the web server 2 via the Internet network.

The client 3 is for accessing the online game server 1 through the Internet network to play an online game or browsing a web page by accessing the web server 2 and must be a form of a personal desktop computer And there is no particular restriction on the form of UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC), PDA (Personal Data Assistant), Smart Phone, and the like.

The online game server 1 is a main body for providing online game services to a plurality of clients 3 connected via the Internet. The provision of the online game service means that the client 3 transmits game data-game software And data on game play of other gamers, and stores account information for each client 3 in order to store an existing play record when the client 3 is connected again.

On the other hand, the online game server 1 stores various kinds of activities occurring on the online games connected by a plurality of clients 3 in the form of a log.

When the online game service provided by the online game server 1 is an online role playing game, the clients 3 manipulate their own characters, also referred to as avatars, (MOB: Mobile OBject), or performing a mission or a quest within the map. At this time, the game server 1 logs every single action (i.e., activity) in the game of the player character operated by the client or the non player character (NPC).

FIG. 3 conceptually illustrates such an activity log. In the top line of the activity log shown at the top of FIG. 3, there is a phrase such as "2009-10-25, character A, (210, 190), attack command". That is, the coordinates of the character X in the game are 210 and 190 on the basis of 01:15:10 on October 25, 2009, and the current state records that the attack command is input. (In Figure 3, the activity log is expressed in words to facilitate understanding, and it is natural that it will actually be stored by a predefined data structure.)

On the other hand, unlike Stand Alone games, when the number of concurrent users reaches tens of thousands, the amount of data in these activity logs is very large, and simply storing them causes a heavy load on the server.

Therefore, the online game server 1 generally stores the activity log generated in this way as a file at a predetermined time.

FIG. 2 shows each of the components of the association display apparatus 100 between characters in a game in a web site linked to an online game according to the present invention.

The inter-character association display apparatus according to the present invention includes a log extractor 110, a relationship analyzer 120, a context generator 130, a login processor 140, and an interface processor 150.

At this time, the context generation unit 130, the login processing unit 140, and the interface processing unit 150 may be implemented in the web server 2, as shown in FIG. As a result, the association between the character belonging to the account of the client 3 and other player characters can be displayed on the personalized page of the client 3 connected to the web server 2 as described later .

However, since the log extractor 110 and the association analyzer 120, which analyze the activity log file acquired from the online game server 1, take a considerable load on the processing process, they are separated into separate servers to distribute the load desirable. Of course, if the processing capability of the server is sufficient, it is of course possible to implement it in the web server 2 or the online game server 1.

The log extractor 110 extracts character-specific log data from the activity log of the online game. That is, the activity log acquired from the online game server 1 is merely storing the state of the online game server at every time according to a predetermined data structure as shown in FIG. 3, Extracts log data of player characters from a large amount of log data.

Referring again to FIG. 3, data indicating the state of the character A in the middle of the large log data are included in several places. The log extractor 110 extracts log data for each player character as described above. That is, log data about NPC, mob, and other game environment is discarded.

The associativity analyzer 120 analyzes the inter-character associations using the extracted log data for each character. The analysis of the association can be made by analyzing whether the two player characters have performed the mission or quest together, whether they have exchanged items or game money with each other.

That is, for example, the association analyzer 120 compares the log data of the characters A and B in order to compare the association between the character A, which is a character belonging to the account of the client 3, and the character B, which is a character of another gamer. Analysis of the log data is preferably done in chronological order. As a result of the log analysis, character A has performed the quest "key of the abyss", and character B is also called "the key of the abyss" If you have done the Quest, Character A and Character B can be judged as having performed the quest "Key of Abyss" together.

As shown in the example of FIG. 3, the activity log simply stores the activities of the characters. Thus, what kind of interaction the characters have exchanged in the game is determined by comparing the character log data in chronological order Lt; / RTI > Basically, if you compare the coordinates of two characters and you can see that there was no interaction if they were not in the same place at the same time, if you can see that coordinate values were in the same space, To analyze whether there was interaction between the two characters, and if so, what the contents are.

5 shows a state in which the client 3 logs in to the website and confirms the relationship history between the character A, which is a character in the online game, and the character B, which is a character of another gamer. Specifically, FIG. 5 corresponds to an example of a screen in which a profile of a character B, which is a character of another gamer, is displayed through a web browser of the client 3.

5, the relationship between the character B and the character A, which is the character of the client 3, is displayed in the form of a history.

In the first of its contents, it is marked as "The key of the abyss is done together (2009-07-09 12:23)", and the characters A and B have completed the quest of the key of the abyss, This indicates that the incident occurred at 12:23 on July 9, 2009.

On the other hand, underneath it, there are "Missions / Quests to be together", "There are three game friends I know together", and "There are two enemies of the public who attacked me and Character B." Can be confirmed.

That is, the associations between characters can simply include missions, quests, off-line game items and game money, whether there are missions or quests to join, whether there are game friends to know have.

To do this, the associativity analyzer 120 first compares the log data of the two characters in chronological order, and then analyzes the current level of the two characters, races or occupations in the game, and the list of missions or quests that have not yet been completed It is possible to select a mission or a quest that the two characters should proceed together.

On the other hand, a list of characters having a certain relationship in the online game is generated for each of the two characters, and then it is confirmed whether or not a character having a constant relationship with another character among the characters having a certain relationship with any one character exists It is possible.

In this case, the relationship in the online game may be a relationship in which a party is established in the game, a relationship in which the client 3 directly registers with a character of another interested person in the online game, or a relationship in which a certain number of times Or a case in which a quest is performed.

The fact that "there are three game friends who know each other" is shown in the history of the relationship between the character A and the character B in FIG. 5 indicates that the above-mentioned analysis results show that the relationship between the character B and the character B It means that there are three characters.

On the other hand, in a certain relation within the online game, the characters to be compared may be the characters attacking the online characters in the online game. In Figure 5, "There are two enemies of the public who attacked me and the character B" is the result analyzed in this context.

On the other hand, the context generation unit 130 selects a text or an icon for explaining the association of one character with another character, using the result analyzed by the association analyzer 120. [

That is, if the relevance analyzer 120 has analyzed that the characters A and B have completed the quest of "the key of the abyss", the context generator 130 concludes that " "The text is selected. In the example of FIG. 5, although only the text is displayed, it is also possible to display the relationship between the characters with an icon instead of the text, and the context generating unit 130 may select an appropriate one among a plurality of previously stored icons.

The relationship between the two characters selected in the form of text or icons is displayed on the personalized web page of the client 3 only when the client 3 logs in to the web site. ) Website login.

The login processing unit 140 shares account information with the online game server 1. An online game account is required for the client 3 to access the online game server 1 and proceed with the online game. The login processor 140 implemented in the web server 2 receives the online game server 1, Means that the account login information such as the ID and password input by the client 3 to log in to the web server 2 is stored in the account log of the online game account for proceeding to the online game in the online game server 1 It means that it matches the information.

In some cases, an online game may be executed by accessing only a Web site, logging into an account, and launching a launcher for progressing online games on the Web. In this case, the launcher program is automatically connected to the online game server 1 and a separate login procedure may be omitted. However, even in such a case, the account login information of the online game server 1 and the web server 2 is The point that they match (or become common) remains unchanged.

Accordingly, when the client 3 connected to the web server 2 inputs the account login information on the web login screen, the login processing unit 140 determines whether the account login information inputted is the login information of the online game account of the client 3 , And processes the login if there is a match.

4 or 5 is provided through the web browser of the client 3. The interface processor 150 processes the personalized page of the client 3 as shown in FIG. A character of another gamer is displayed on the page, and at the same time, a text or an icon indicating the association between the character and a character belonging to the online game account of the client 3 is displayed together.

That is, the interface processing unit 150 displays a text or an icon indicating the relationship with other characters on the browser screen of the client 3 who has logged into the website as shown in FIG. 4 or 5.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a screen for displaying a list of online game characters on a personalized web page of a logged-in client 3. FIG. In FIG. 4, the character A belonging to the online game account of the client 3 and the characters of other gamers having a certain relationship with each other in the online game are displayed in a list form.

4, summary information such as a name, a level, and the like is displayed for each character, and a text indicating the association with the character A is displayed below the summary information.

In the first of these, the character's name is "Character B", the level is "32", and the relationship with character A, the character of the client (3), is "I have missed the mission twice."

In this way, the interface processing unit 150 can display characters in a predetermined relationship on the online game with the character of the client 3 in the form of a list on the personalized page of the client 3. At this time, Text or icon indicating the association with the character can be displayed together.

At this time, the characters displayed in the list form may be the characters directly selected by the client 3, but it may be a condition that the association with the client 3 character is constant (for example, Present, etc.) can be automatically selected and displayed as a list.

An interface for showing the inter-character association provided by the interface processing unit 150 will be described. For example, the personalized page of the logged-in client 3 displays a list of characters as shown in FIG. 4 (At this time, the text or icon indicating the inter-character association may not be displayed), and when the client 3 selects the "profile go" link for any one of the characters displayed in the list, The controller 160 may provide the profile of the selected character through a separate web page as shown in FIG.

On the other hand, when the client 3 selects the "relationship history" menu on the profile screen of the player character as shown in FIG. 5, the interface processing unit 150 displays the relationship history on the browser screen of the client 3 At this time, the relationship history means that, when there are a plurality of texts indicating the correspondence between the two characters, they are arranged in chronological order. It is needless to say that the context generating unit 130 has to select a plurality of texts.

At this time, the two characters can recommend a mission or a quest to be together, or show a game friend (character) who knows the game together as described above.

In displaying the relationship history, the interface processing unit 150 may display a separate web page as a pop-up display, or may generate and display a layer on a current web page as shown in FIG.

In the above description, the interface processing unit 150 simply displays a text or an icon for explaining the association between characters selected by the context generating unit. However, the interface processing unit 150 allows the client 3 to display the selected text Alternatively, a separate interface may be provided to change the icon.

Although it is possible to easily memorize the interaction among the characters by automatically generating the context, since it can not precede the subjective impression or memory felt by the gamer, it is automatically generated first, It is desirable to be able to modify it.

Hereinafter, referring to FIG. 6, a process of displaying inter-character associations in the association display apparatus between characters in a web site linked to an online game according to the present invention will be described.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a method of displaying associations between characters in a game in a web site interlocked with an online game according to the present invention in a time-series manner.

First, the log extractor 110 acquires an activity log from the online game server 1 and extracts log data for each character (S110).

Next, the association analyzer 120 analyzes the character-to-character association using the extracted log data for each character. In the analysis of the association, it is determined whether two characters to be analyzed have performed a mission or a quest together, whether they have exchanged items or game money, or whether there is a character having a predetermined interaction with both the characters in the online game .

Then, the context generating unit 130 selects a text or an icon for explaining the association with one of the other characters using the analyzed inter-character association information (S130).

Thereafter, when the client 3 accesses the web site through the Internet and inputs the account login information, it judges whether or not the login processing unit 140 matches the login information of the online game account of the client 3, (S140).

When the client 3 logs in to the web site, the interface processing unit 150 displays player characters in a predetermined relationship with the client 3 character on the personalized page of the client 3 in the online game.

At this time, the player character in a predetermined relationship may be a character of another gamer directly selected by the client 3, or may automatically select characters satisfying a condition with which the association with the character of the client 3 is constant .

Meanwhile, the interface processor 150 may display characters of other gamers, as shown in FIG. 4, or may display a text or an icon indicating the degree of association with each of the characters (S160 ).

On the other hand, when the client 3 selects any one of the characters displayed on the list instead of displaying the text indicating the degree of association when displaying the characters of other gamers in the list form as shown in FIG. 4, May be displayed on a separate web page, and the degree of association with the client 3 character may be displayed.

Preferably, as shown in FIG. 5, it is possible to sort and display chronologically by "relationship history ", and it is also possible to display a game friend who recommends missions or quests or knows game friends together.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the embodiments themselves have been disclosed for illustrative purposes and those skilled in the art will readily appreciate that many modifications, additions and substitutions are possible, , Which should be construed as not departing from the scope of the following claims.

1: Online game server 2: Web server
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110: log extractor 120: associativity analyzer
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150: Interface processor

Claims (19)

A log extractor for extracting character-specific log data from the activity log of the online game;
A relational analyzer for analyzing the association between characters by analyzing whether or not two characters have performed a mission or a quest together with the extracted log data for each character or whether they have exchanged items or game money;
A context generating unit for selecting a text or an icon describing a relation of one character with another character using the character-to-character association information;
A login processing unit for sharing account information with an online game server and receiving account login information from a client connected via the Internet to determine whether or not the login information matches the login information of the online game account of the client, And
A character having an association with a character belonging to an online game account of a client logged into a web site and a character, and displaying information of the selected character on a personalized web page of the client, And an interface processing unit for displaying the generated text or icon together,
The inter-character association includes whether there is a mission or a quest to be performed in the future,
The future missions or quests are checked from the log data of the two characters to see if they are in the same game location at the same time, and then the current level of the two characters, the race or occupation of the game, and the list of missions or quests In addition,
Wherein the character selected by the interface processing unit is a character in a relationship in which a mission or a quest is carried out together with a set number of times or more in an online game. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the context generator, the login processor, and the interface processor are implemented in a web server. delete delete delete The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the interface processor configures a web page by arranging one or more texts or icons describing the association between the character belonging to the online game account of the client and the associating character in chronological order, and provides the web page to the client An association display between characters in a game on a web site linked to an online game. delete delete The method according to claim 1,
The association analyzer selects another player character that has attacked both the client's character and the related character on the online game,
Wherein the interface processing unit displays information on the selected other player character on a personalized web page of the client, in association with the online game. The method according to claim 6,
Wherein the interface processing unit forms a web page by adding a layer to a separate web page or a current web page to sort one or more texts or icons describing the association between the character of the client and the related character A display of association between characters in a game on a web site linked to the game. A step 110 of acquiring an activity log from the online game server and extracting log data for each character;
120) analyzing the inter-character associations by analyzing whether the two characters have performed missions or quests together or have exchanged items or game money using the extracted log data per character;
130. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of: selecting a text or an icon describing association of one character with another character using the analyzed inter-character association information;
140 is a flow chart for explaining the operation of the web site login process according to the third embodiment of the present invention; And
A character associated with a character belonging to an online game account of the client and a character having a correlation between the character and the character; displaying the information of the selected character on a personalized web page of the client, And displaying the first and second images together,
The inter-character association includes whether there is a mission or a quest to be performed in the future,
The future missions or quests are checked from the log data of the two characters to see if they are in the same game location at the same time, and then the current level of the two characters, the race or occupation of the game, and the list of missions or quests In addition,
The method of claim 15, wherein the selected character is a character in a relationship in which a mission or a quest is carried out together with a set number of times or more in an online game. delete delete delete 12. The method of claim 11,
And displaying the selected one or more texts or icons on the web page in a chronological order according to the order of the characters and the association between the characters belonging to the online game account of the client and the associating character, A method of displaying associations between characters in a game on a web site linked to the game. delete delete delete 16. The method of claim 15,
Wherein in step 160, the player character who has attacked both the character having the connection and the character of the client on the online game is selected, and the information on the selected player character is displayed. How to display associations between characters in a game on a website.

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