KR20060019498A - Bingo game of interactive short message service - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a bingo game in which a plurality of simultaneously play the same game using a text message of a text message service (SMS) in both directions.

The present invention is an SMS receiver for receiving an SMS sent by a bingo game user, a message analyzer for analyzing the contents of a text message sent by the bingo game user, a game performer performing a practical bingo game, and a game content and advertisement to be sent to the bingo game user. Using a message generator that generates a text message composed of phrases and a message sender that sends the generated message to the Web To Phone method, the game number is automatically generated and provided to game applicants, and game participants provide the game number. The present invention proposes a game method using a game function that enables the continuity of the game, the integrity of the game, the convenience of use, and the advertisement distribution function so that advertisements are evenly displayed on a large number of wireless terminals.

Therefore, anyone who can use the short message service (SMS) can easily use the bingo game of the present invention, as a bingo game with a group, there is no limitation of place and space, there is no restriction on the number of participants and game fee Is free, and can attract many people, both young and old.

In addition, it is expected to contribute to the establishment of an advertising strategy by providing advertisements evenly to more users and providing the current status of game users to the advertisers through the distribution of advertisements. Many advertisements can be attracted and high profits can be expected from the bingo game service providers of the present invention.

Bingo Games, Text Message Games, Two-way SMS

Description

Bingo game using text message of text message service in both directions {Bingo Game of Interactive Short Message Service}

1 is a representative drawing

2 is an SMS receiver

3 is a message analyzer

4 is a game application processing

5 is a game participation process

6 is a game performance function

7 is a message generator

8 is SMS transmitter

The present invention relates to a bingo game in which a plurality of characters play the same game at the same time by using a text message in a text message service (SMS) in both directions. There is no choice but to be constrained by the space where internet-capable PCs are available, and the network bingo game using the wireless Internet can be used by ordinary users who are inexperienced in the wireless Internet. There is a difficulty in playing games for both sexes because of the inconvenience of access, the complexity of the method, and the burden of the fee due to the easy and complicated menu configuration.

In the present invention, the bingo game actively accepts the characteristics of games that both young and old people enjoy together easily, and enables a large number of continuity bingo games by exchanging text messages of a simple short message service in both directions rather than wireless Internet. In addition, the purpose is to add a cost corresponding to the message received by the user to the advertiser to play the game for free for the user.

In the processing method for achieving the above object of the present invention, the SMS receiver 130 for receiving the SMS sent by the bingo game user and the message analyzer 140 for analyzing the contents of the text message sent by the bingo game user and substantial The game executor 150 for performing the bingo game and the message generator 160 for generating a text message composed of the content of the game to be sent to the bingo game user and the generated message to send the web to phone (Web To Phone) method By using the message transmitter 170, the game number is automatically generated and provided to the game applicant, and the game participants input and transmit the provided game number only once to enable the continuity of the game and the integrity and convenience of the game. It uses the game distribution function and advertisement distribution function so that advertisements are evenly displayed on a large number of wireless terminals.

In the SMS receiver 300 of FIG. 2, the SMS-only transmitter / receiver 320 is attached to the SMS receiver server 310 that receives the SMS, and is provided by the manufacturer of the SMS-only transmitter / receiver in the computer 310. By using the API (Application Program Interface) to periodically obtain a text message and a phone number received by the SMS dedicated transmission and reception device is transmitted to the message analyzer 400 of the game server.

The message analyzer 400 of FIG. 3 classifies key words necessary for a game from a character string of a text message with reference to the BaseWord information 810 and delivers them to the game executor 500 together with the phone number of the terminal. In other words, if a “bingo” and bingo range number (eg, 1 to 50 is 50) is found in a string, it is passed to the game application processing function 510 of the game executor 500. Function 520, and if it finds a two-digit number is passed to the game performance function 530 with up to four numbers, the other is passed to the exception handling function (540).

The game executor 500 checks a bingo by comparing a game application processing function 510 for generating a game number and a new game, a game participation processing function 520 for participating in a game of the corresponding game number, a bingo correct answer number, and a number of game users. The license plate area 611 includes a game execution function 530 for correcting bingo by determining whether bingo is performed and an exception processing function 540 such as a help providing function.

In the game application processing function 510 of FIG. 4, in order to minimize the convenience of game users and to minimize the unauthorized participation of users outside the group, a game number of four digits is randomly selected, but the game numbers are not duplicated. The game number generation function 511 and the game number generated are indexed, and game information 820 composed of 16 bingo correct answer numbers randomly extracted from numbers within the bingo range (for example, 1 to 50 if 50) is generated. The game information generation function 512 is passed to the message generator 600 with the game number as an argument.

In the game participation processing function 520 of FIG. 5, the game information 820 is read by the game number, and if there is no corresponding game, the message number 600 is transmitted to the message generator 600 with the error number as an argument. Takes the game number and generates the participant information (830) to the terminal phone number index and is passed to the message generator 600 with the game progress message number 1 as an argument.

In the game performance function 530 of FIG. 6, first, the participant information 830 is read from the game progress function 531 to the terminal phone number, and if there is no game in progress, an error number is passed to the message generator 600. If there is a corresponding game, the game progress result is sent to the message generator 600 by comparing the numbers received from the message analyzer 400 with the participant information 830. At this time, the bingo processing function 532 is executed when the condition of the bingo is satisfied. .

The bingo processing function 532 first determines whether the game is still valid by viewing the end field of the game information 820. If the game is already finished due to bingo, the message generator 600 takes the game end as an argument. If the game is in progress, first, the "end" is recorded in the end field of the game information 820, and second, the message generator 600 to notify all the players of the game participant bingo and third, the participant information After deleting the information of the game participants from among the (830) is passed to the message generator 600 by taking the bingo winning argument.

In the message generator 600 of FIG. 7, a message is generated differently according to the transmitted parameter. The message generator 600 is divided into a game progress message generation 610 and a notification message generation 620. In this case, the advertisement distribution function 630 for inserting an advertisement phrase Using the message and the phone number of the terminal as an argument is passed to the SMS caller 700.

The game progress message 610 is composed of a bingo license plate area 611 consisting of a total of 32 bytes (4 (8Bytes) X 4 vertical) and an advertisement phrase area 612 consisting of 48 bytes. It consists of "♡" but the correct answer is replaced with the corresponding number (2Byte) and the ad text area 612 is inscribed in the rest of the text except for the necessary text in the game progress. At this time, in order to maintain the composition of the game screen, the characteristics of carriage return and linefeed are appropriately used, and the screens of 80 bytes or less are prepared in advance, and the corresponding characters are replaced.

The notification message 620 uses a maximum of 80 bytes as a guide message to inform the game progress.

Ad distribution function (630) is to reduce the phenomenon that the specific advertiser's advertising text is concentrated on a specific terminal to display the advertisement of the particular advertiser evenly on more terminals, one advertiser's ads are displayed for each game, As a method, the advertisement having the smallest number of advertisements is selected with reference to the advertisement history information 920 which records the advertisement placement history for each phone number of the terminal. In the same game, different advertisement texts can be displayed for each message that is in progress. As a method, the advertisement text information 910 in which the pre-written advertisement text is recorded for each game progress message screen is recorded.

The SMS transmitter 700 of FIG. 8 transmits a message to a game user in a web-to-phone manner, and the transmission history is recorded in the message transmission information 930.

The present invention is, firstly, anyone who can use the short message service (SMS) can easily use the bingo game of the present invention, there is no restriction on the number of participants as well as a limited number of participants as a bingo game with a group The game is free of charge, and can attract many people of all ages.

Secondly, since it enabled the game with continuity using only short message service (SMS), it is expected to contribute to the revival of high quality game contents using short message service.

Third, it is expected to greatly contribute to the establishment of advertising strategy by providing more advertisement evenly to more users with advertisement distribution function and providing the current status of game users to advertisers. Many advertisements can be attracted and high profits can be expected from the bingo game service providers of the present invention.

Claims (5)

In the method of playing a bingo game with a continuity by sending and receiving a text message of a short message service in both directions, Receiving an SMS sent by a bingo game user; and Analyzing the contents of text messages sent by bingo users To play the actual bingo game Generating a text message consisting of the content of the game and the ad text to be sent to the bingo game user; Bingo game method using a short message service in both directions comprising the step of sending the generated message to the Web To Phone (Web To Phone) method. The method according to claim 1, In the two-way game using the short message service, the game number is automatically generated and provided to the game user only once, and the game user inputs the game number only once, and from the second time, the continuity of the game and the integrity of the game are guaranteed. How to provide convenience for the use of the game. The method according to claim 1, How to create a game information consisting of 16 bingo answer number randomly extracted from the numbers in the bingo range according to the bingo range number sent by the bingo game user. The method according to claim 1, The game progress message consists of a bingo license plate area consisting of 4 bytes (8 bytes) x 4 vertically and a total of 32 bytes, and an ad text area consisting of 48 bytes.The bingo plate area is initially composed of 16 “♡” and confirmed as correct. The place is replaced with the corresponding number (2Byte), and the advertisement text area is displayed on the LCD screen of the wireless terminal with the advertising text inscribed in the remaining area except the necessary text for the game. The method according to claim 1, A method of alleviating the phenomenon of a particular advertiser's advertising text focused on a specific terminal, so that a specific advertiser's advertising text is distributed evenly to more terminals, and displaying different advertising texts for each message in the same game.

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