KR20060001274A - Online game service system - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an online game service system, characterized in that after storing a first connection history of a client, at the second connection of the client, a game channel and a game room are provided based on the stored first connection history.

Therefore, the user can easily start the game without executing the repeated procedure of game selection, game channel selection, game room selection.

Game channel, game room, game room, one click

Description

Online game service system {ONLINE GAME SERVICE SYSTEM}

1 is a block diagram of an online game service system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of the channel database of FIG. 1.

3 is a flowchart of providing a game service according to the first embodiment.

4 is a flowchart of providing a game service according to the second embodiment.

5 is a flowchart of providing a game service according to a third embodiment.

 Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawings

100: client 200: internet

300: service provider 310: web server

320: channel server 330: game server

340: Channel Database 341: Channel List DB by Game

343: game room list DB by channel 345: game room status DB

350: user history DB

The present invention relates to an online game service system, and more particularly, to an online game service system that provides an online game service to a plurality of clients connected to a network by opening a game room in a channel for each game.

Recently, with the rapid increase of the Internet, various kinds of services are being made through the same medium. In particular, a variety of games are provided as a service used by many users among services provided through the game service Internet. For example, high-stop games such as hits and card games such as poker are typical game services.

In order to play a game through such a game service, users connect to a server providing the game service and select a game to be played through a web page provided by the server. Then, the server displays a list of several channels available to the game to the user, and when the user directly selects a specific channel, the server displays a list of several game rooms belonging to the selected channel. If a user selects one of the game rooms displayed on his or her computer, or if he or she opens a new game room, the server can play the game with other users in the game room that you selected or opened. To display the game screen.

In general, in order for a user to play an online game through the Internet, the above process must be performed, but there is a problem in that the process must be repeated every time the game is used.

In particular, when the number of channels opened in each game or channels opened for each game is large, the user has difficulty in selecting a game channel or a game room.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide an online game service system that reduces the repeated game connection step when using a game. In addition, another technical problem to be achieved by the present invention is to provide an online game service system that reduces the difficulty of selecting a user's game channel or game room.

An online game service system according to a feature of the present invention for achieving the above object is an online game service system for providing an online game service to a plurality of clients connected to the network by opening a game room in a game-specific channel, the user's first A user history database that stores connection history; And a channel server providing a game channel and a game room based on the first access history stored in the user history database.

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

1 and 2, the online game service system according to an embodiment of the present invention, the web server 310, channel server 320, channel database 340, game server 330 and the user History database 350 is included.

Web server 310 is suitable for a plurality of clients (100-1, 100-2, 100-3, ..., 100-n) connected through the Internet 200, chat, community, It is a server that provides various services such as shopping malls. The client may be configured with a plurality of user computers, and may be configured with various terminals capable of playing games by accessing the web server 310 through the Internet 200 in addition to the computer. For example, the client may be configured as a mobile communication terminal, a television capable of accessing the Internet 200, or the like.

The game server 330 provides a game service selected by the user through the web server 310 and the channel server 320. That is, the game server 330 proceeds the game according to the game rules determined for each game. For example, when a user is right and selects a game, and two users participate by opening or selecting a specific game room in a specific channel through the channel server 320, the game server may play the game so that two users can play the game. Display, game progress, game result settlement, etc.

The user history database 350 stores user connection history. That is, information about a game, a game channel, a game room, a user rating, an in-game acquired item, a game content, and a game record used by a client may be included.

The channel database 340 may include information such as a channel list for each game, a game room list for each channel, and a game room state. At this time, the game room state may include information on the number of people participating in the game in a specific game room.

In particular, as shown in FIG. 2, the channel database may include a game-specific channel list database 341, a channel-specific game room list database 343, and a game room status database 345. However, this is only an embodiment of the present invention, and can be provided in various forms according to the configuration of the game.

The game-specific channel list database 341 stores a list of channels provided for each game. For example, the game-specific channel list database 341 may include a channel list classified by grade, a channel list classified by age, and the like.

The game room list database 343 for each channel stores a list of game rooms included in each channel. That is, when a plurality of game rooms are established in each channel, the list of each game room opened is stored. The list may store the general information on the opened game room, for example, the title of the game room, the number of participants, and the like.

The game room state database 345 stores state information of each game room stored in the game room list database for each channel. Such information may include the title of the game room, the number of participants, game progress status, and information related to each participant.

When the user selects a game through the web server 310, the channel server 320 provides the user with a selected game related channel and a list of game rooms for each channel. Accordingly, the user may select a channel to which the user wishes to play the game and a specific game room belonging to the channel through the channel list and the game room list provided by the channel server 320.

Meanwhile, the channel server 320 may provide a game channel and a game room based on the access history stored in the user history database 350. At this time, the channel server may provide a recently accessed game channel stored in the user history database 350, or may provide a game channel set according to a user grade stored in the user history database 350. Alternatively, an appropriate game channel may be provided based on an in-game user acquired item stored in the user history database 350. Therefore, if the user selects only the type of games he wants, he can enjoy online games without repeatedly selecting a specific game channel and game room.

At this time, the game room may be a game room in which an appropriate number of people participates in accordance with game characteristics. That is, if the number of participants in the game room is too large, the progress of the game may be slow. If the number of participants in the game room is too small, the fun of the game may decrease, so the number of players is corrected according to the type of game such as poker.

In addition, the channel server 320 may determine the number of participants in each game room based on the game room state database of the channel database to provide a game room close to the standard number of people.

In addition, the channel server 320 may display a game channel provided based on preset channel selection criteria. That is, regardless of the progress of the game of the user, a predetermined game channel may be displayed to provide a game room selected based on the channel and a predetermined criterion when the user clicks.

In this case, the displayed game channel may be a recent access channel based on the access history stored in the user history database 350, or the channel with the largest number of participants or the channel with the most recent participants may be set. Do.

Therefore, the user can immediately move to another game channel at any stage of the game, and can enjoy the online game in the automatically selected game room.

In addition, the channel server 320 may display other recently used games based on the access history stored in the user history database 350. When the user selects one of the displayed games, the game channel may be provided based on the user access history of the selected game, and the game room selected based on a predetermined criterion may be provided for the game channel.

Therefore, the user can conveniently change the type of the game being played and enjoy the online game through the automatically provided game channel and game room.

Alternatively, the channel server 320 may automatically provide a game channel and a game room upon client connection according to a pre-set criterion based on a user's connection history stored in the user history database 350.

For example, as described above, the most recent access channel may be provided, or the game channel may be selected and provided based on the channel with the largest number of participants or the channel with the largest number of participants within a certain period of time. Do. In the game channel selected according to the standard, the number of participants can automatically provide a game room closest to the standard number of people provided according to the type of game.

Hereinafter, a control flow according to various embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

As shown in FIG. 3, when the user accesses the web server 310 and selects a desired game (S100), the channel server 320 provides the user with a selected game-related channel and a game room list for each channel. Accordingly, the user may select a channel to which he / she wants to play the game and a specific game room belonging to the channel through the channel list and the game room list provided by the channel server 320 (S101, S103, S105, and S107).                     

In this case, the game server 330 provides a game service selected by the user through the web server 310 and the channel server 320. That is, the game server 330 proceeds with the game according to the game rules determined for each game (S109). The user history database 350 stores user connection history. That is, information about a game, a game channel, a game room, game contents, and a game record used and accessed by a client may be stored.

At this time, when the user accesses the web server 310 again and selects a desired game (S111), the channel server 320 selects a game channel for the selected game based on the access history stored in the user history database 350. And provides a game room (S113).

In addition, the game server 330 provides a game service to a game channel and a game room provided based on the connection history (S115).

Therefore, when the user selects only the type of game, the game channel and the game room are automatically selected and provided, so that the user can conveniently enjoy the online game service without having to repeat the game channel selection and game room selection process.

As shown in FIG. 4, according to another embodiment of the present invention, first, a game channel and a game room provision selection criteria are automatically provided when a user selects a game.

For example, as described above, the most recent access channel may be provided, or the game channel may be selected and provided based on the channel with the largest number of participants or the channel with the largest number of participants within a certain period of time. Do. In the game channel selected according to the standard, the number of participants can automatically provide a game room closest to the standard number of people provided according to the type of game.                     

Therefore, when the user accesses the web server 310 and selects the desired game type (S200), the channel server 320 selects and provides a specific game channel and a game room according to the preset selection criteria (S201, S203). The game server 330 provides a game service through the selected game channel and the game room (S205).

Therefore, even if the user uses the online game service for the first time, the user can enjoy the online game service without feeling difficulty in selecting various game channels and game rooms by selecting only the desired game type.

At this time, the user history database 350 stores the user connection history. That is, information about a game, a game channel, a game room, game contents, and a game record used by a client may be stored (S207).

At this time, when the user accesses the web server 310 again and selects a desired game (S209), the channel server 320 selects a game channel for the selected game based on the access history stored in the user history database 350. And a game room (S211, S213, S215). In addition, the game server 330 provides a game service to a game channel and a game room provided based on the connection history (S217).

Thus, for example, when a predetermined change is made during the game for the automatically provided game channel and the user accesses the web server 310 again, a game channel and a game room reflecting the changed change may be provided.

In addition, as shown in Figure 5 according to another embodiment of the present invention, when the user accesses the web server 310 to select a desired game (S300), the channel server 320 is selected channel and channel related to the game Provide the user with a list of game rooms by star. Accordingly, the user may select a channel to which he / she wants to play the game and a specific game room belonging to the channel through the channel list and the game room list provided by the channel server 320 (S301, S303, S305, and S307).

In this case, the game server 330 provides a game service selected by the user through the web server 310 and the channel server 320. That is, the game server 330 proceeds with the game according to the game rules determined for each game (S309). The user history database 350 stores user connection history. That is, information about a game, a game channel, a game room, game contents, and a game record used and accessed by a client may be stored.

At this time, when the user accesses the web server 310 again and selects a desired game (S313), the channel server 320 accesses the latest game on the selected game based on the access history stored in the user history database 350. One game channel is displayed (S315, S317, S319). At this time, the recently accessed channel may be configured with one or two or more.

Next, when a user selects a desired game channel, a game room corresponding to the game channel is selected and provided (S321, S323, and S325). At this time, the selection standard of the game room is set in advance, and the game room having the closest number of participants in the provided channel can be selected according to the type of game, and various other criteria can be set.

In addition, the game server 330 provides an online game service selected by the user through the web server 310 and the channel server 320 (S327).

As described above, according to the present invention, an online game service can be conveniently used only by selecting a game without repeating the procedure.

In addition, even when using the online game service for the first time, if you select only the type of the desired game, you can enjoy the online game service without feeling the difficulty of selecting various game channels and game rooms.

In addition, since a game channel is provided based on the user's connection history, and a game room selected according to appropriate standards considering the fun of the game is provided, the user can more conveniently use the online game that suits his or her taste.

Claims (3)

An online game service system that provides an online game service to a plurality of clients connected to a network by opening a game room in a game-specific channel, A user history database that stores a user's first access history; And And a channel server for providing a game channel and a game room based on the first access history stored in the user history database. The method of claim 1, It further comprises a channel database containing information of one or more of the channel list by game, the list of game rooms by channel and the game room status, The channel server is an online game service system, characterized in that to provide a game room based on the state of the game room stored in the channel database. The method of claim 2, The game room state is an online game service system, characterized in that the current number of game participants to the number of game participants.

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