RU2408932C2 - Functional model of game system as method for realisation of interactive sms-game - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: information technologies.

SUBSTANCE: invention is a functional model of game system based on using up-to-date SMS-technologies of cellular communication and computer technologies and is a method to realise an interactive game. A feature of this solution is the fact that a system of available devices intended for realisation of game process is added with a range of additional computer devices. Through coordinated operation of two additional devices (12) and (13) with previously input parametres, automatic definition of winners, synchronous with the game process and not requiring termination of the game, is carried out. Using available devices (11), (15), (7), (6), (5) and (3), SMS messages are generated and sent to the game participants, information parameters of which make it possible to control mechanism of game process protection against probable intervention from outside. Using additional devices (23) and (22) with previously input parametres, most active game participants are identified automatically, and amounts of rewards or types of wins are determined for them. With the help of devices (14) with previously input parametres, amounts of funds are detected automatically, as well as their transfer for various governmental, social, scientific and other purposes, which do not contradict state and society interests, principles of humanity and morality. Mass media means are included into game process to coordinate communication between game operator and its participants, providing the latter with information on the game commencement, progress and results.

EFFECT: possibility to automatically detect amounts of funds and their transfer for various governmental, social, scientific and other purposes.

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Description

1. The technical field to which the invention relates.

The claimed solution is a functional model of a gaming system, based on the use of modern SMS-technologies of cellular communications and computer technologies, and is a way of implementing an interactive game.

2. The prior art.

Various types of gaming systems are widely represented on the world market, in which, along with their unconditional advantages, often due to the attraction of scientific and technological progress in this area, there are often significant shortcomings, which makes these gaming systems not sufficiently popular for widespread use.

Thus, the game system presented in the description of the Eurasian patent EA 2456 B1, although it involves the use of SMS-cellular technologies in the process of interconnecting players with the game center, is designed more for a limited circle of fans, as it creates difficulties for the participation of numerous categories of citizens in the game the process of excess and complexity of various manipulations: registration of participants in the game before it starts, entering game data of the participant, transferring the game data of the participant to the game center, using specially SIM-card, transfer money to your account, and others. It is not convincing it appears in the game system and the mechanism of protection of the game results.

In the system of gaming devices (see the description of the patent of the Russian Federation RU 2295773 C2), an application for participation in an SMS game and the selection of logos for game elements are a less time-consuming way to participate in the game process in comparison with the previous game system, however this is combined with insufficiently reliable mechanism of control over the process of drawing game elements and a number of other shortcomings do not make the game quite popular.

The use of lottery tickets as integral attributes in an SMS game (see the description of the Eurasian patent EA 6072 B1), and consequently, additional steps for their purchase, sending SMS requests to the game operator to receive templates for entering details of the specified lottery tickets, entering data details into the received templates with their subsequent sending to the address of the game operator and so on do not make the game technically quite simple and convenient from the point of view of the participants. In addition, the multi-stage stage of forming the drawing and determining the winning drawing numbers in this method of holding an SMS game complicates the technology of the game process.

The closest analogue (prototype) of the proposed gaming system is a method of conducting an interactive game (see the description of the Eurasian patent EA 5390 B1), according to which the participants of the game send short SMS messages to a predetermined number, the time of receipt of the indicated SMS is recorded messages to the gaming computer center, serial numbers are assigned to these SMS messages, and game participants are identified by their cell phone numbers. Then, according to the specified algorithm, the winners are selected from the list (number) of game participants, the size of the winnings is calculated, etc. The fixed amount of money that is debited from the subscriber accounts of the game participants, who are at the same time users of mobile communication services, as a payment for the SMS messages sent by them, is a source of funds for the formation of the prize pool.

Along with the technically simple and convenient way to enter the game, the disadvantage of the analogue closest to the claimed method is a somewhat belated event related to the selection of the winners of the game from the list (number) of its participants, since it occurs after a specified time interval, i.e. at the end of the game. From the point of view of protecting the game process from external interference, the mechanism of blocking the computer after starting the program is not convincing either.

3. Disclosure of the invention.

The proposed solution is the result of a desire to develop a model of the gaming system in such a direction that it becomes as much as possible and attractive to a wide range of participants due to the improvement of technical methods and operations used in the process of its implementation.

In this regard, this solution is an integrated, well-coordinated functional model of the game system, which includes, along with the well-known, a number of additional computer devices that automate all parts of the game process, and also produce instantaneous, unlike other game systems , synchronizing with the gameplay, a debriefing that does not require the end of the game. In this sense, one of the central points of this technical solution is the instant determination of winners that does not require the end of the game. This is achieved through the installation of two additional computer devices, with the help of which, upon preliminary setting between the parameters of the prize pool formed and the monetary size of the automatic communication gain, this function is implemented that practically eliminates the time needed to prepare and summarize the winning participants.

At the same time, from the very beginning of the game process, the relationship between the game center and the participants in the game is automatically established, allowing the latter to control the mechanism of protection of the game process from possible external interference. This is ensured by the coordinated work of several computer devices, their coordinated interaction with computer devices responsible for other functions in this gaming system, and, accordingly, timely provision of necessary information to game participants.

This model of the gaming system is also supplemented by two new features. One of them is the determination using additional computer devices of the most active participants in the game and the amount of cash rewards or types of winnings for them. This function seems to be quite appropriate and important, since it increases the chances of the participants in the game to receive material rewards, and therefore, strengthens the compliance of the game system with its original purpose. The second additional function is to determine, with the help of appropriate additional computer devices, the percentage amounts of deductions for state, social, scientific and other purposes that do not contradict state and public interests, the principles of humanity and morality, as well as transfer using these additional devices in automatic the mode of the indicated amounts for the indicated purposes. This function in the proposed solution seems to be quite important from the point of view of the interests of society and the state, which should increase the demand for this declared solution as a whole.

It should be noted that all the essential features described in this section are integral parts of a single technical concept and are carried out synchronously with the game process in a single technical design.

4. A brief description of the drawings.

The drawing shows a block diagram of a functional model of a gaming system as a way of implementing an interactive SMS game.

The game system consists of a mobile phone or other technical device (1), from which a signal is sent in the form of an SMS message to a signal reception and forwarding unit (3) in a signal reception and processing system of a cellular operator (2). The signal reception and forwarding unit (3) at the same time fixes the date and time of receiving the SMS message and with these parameters transmits the signal to the storage device (4), from where the latter is forwarded in two directions: to the device for automatically generating an SMS message to the address of the game participant ( 6) in the signal reception and processing system of the cellular operator (2) and on the signal reception and transmission device (7) in the game operator’s server (8). The device for receiving and transmitting signals (7) transmits the signal to the storage device (9), from where it is sent to the identifier of the cell phones of the game participants (10), to devices for automatic determination and deductions from the cost of received SMS messages to state, social, scientific and other goals that do not contradict state and public interests, the principles of humanity and morality (14), as well as a device for determining the amount of savings used as a prize fund (12), and a device for determining the size of moat gratuities or kinds of wins for the most active participants in the game (22). From the device for determining the amount of accumulations (12), data on the current amount of accumulations are transmitted in real time to the computer monitor of the operator or the organizer of the game (16), where data in real time on the values of the amounts of deductions for these purposes from the devices (14) are also transmitted. From the identifier of the participants of the game (10), the signal is sent to the registration device of the identified participants of the game with the assignment of serial numbers (11), as well as to the device that determines the most active participants in the game (23), which also receives a signal with information about the amount of cash reward or a type of winnings from the device (22), and these data received from the device (22), together with the data on the most active participant in the game from the device (23), are transmitted in real time to a computer monitor Emperor of the organizer and games (16), which is also a real-time information is transmitted on the number of registered participants with their serial registration number of the device (11). From the device for registering participants in the game (11), the signal is also transmitted to the device for automatically determining the winners of the game (13), which is activated when the specified amount of accumulations used as a prize fund is reached by the signal from the device (12). The device for automatically determining the winners of the game (13) is a random number sensor, the output of which is a signal in the form of the serial number of the winning participant in the game. In the current mode (before the start of the prize pool), the signal from the registration device of the identified participants of the game (11) is transmitted to the signal reception and forwarding unit (15), from where the signal with information about the identified participant of the game and its serial number is transmitted to the device (7) . Next, the signal from the device (7) is transmitted to the device for automatically generating SMS messages (6), where, together with the information received from the storage device (4), an SMS message is generated, which indicates the date and time of receiving the SMS message from the game participant , as well as the serial registration number assigned to this participant in the game. Then, the generated SMS message is sent to the SMS center of the cellular operator (5), from where it is transmitted to the participant of the game via the signal receiving and transmitting unit (3) on the cell phone (1).

After determining the winner of the SMS game, a signal with information about its serial number from the device (13) in real time is automatically transmitted to the computer monitor (16) and to the signal reception and forwarding unit (15) for subsequent transmission through the device (7), (6), (5), (3) to the mobile phone (1) of the winning participant in the SMS game.

Signals with information about the amounts of deductions for these purposes from devices (14) are transmitted to the technical devices of the respective institutions (19), (21) that receive information. From devices (14) through a computer network, signals with information about the amounts of deductions are also transmitted to the computer center of the corresponding bank, where the indicated amounts are written off from a certain bank account (17) and transferred to bank accounts (18), (20) of the indicated institutions (19 ), (21).

5. The implementation of the invention.

For example, a television channel informs about the start of an interactive SMS game. At the same time, they indicate the size of upcoming winnings, which may be, for example, $ 50,000 (in the equivalent of the national currency) or the winnings can be set, for example, in the form of an apartment. Accordingly, the specified parameters regarding the size and type of winnings before the start of the game process, the game operator enters into the computer device (12), into which the parameters regarding the size of the prize pool are also entered. They can be, for example, 70% of the cost of SMS messages received from game participants. If the cost of these SMS messages is set, for example, in the amount of US $ 1.43 (in national currency), then after 50 million people from their mobile phones (1) send SMS messages to the specified number, which is generally it’s not difficult to do this to any owner of a cell phone at any time and from any place, from the device (13) information about 1000 game participants who won will be automatically transmitted to the computer monitor (16). Moreover, this information is transmitted not after the specified number of people took part in the game, but sequentially, in real time, as each successive winner is determined, since according to the parameters specified in the device (12), each successive winner will be determined using device (13) at a time when, as SMS messages arrive from game participants, the prize pool will reach a predetermined amount of the winning amount. At the same time, the specified information about the results of the SMS game is transmitted in real time via a television channel. If the number of participants in the game reaches 50 million people every three days, then, correspondingly, in one month the number of winning participants reaches 10,000 people. And if 50 million people participate in the game every day, then for one month, 30,000 people get the opportunity to purchase new apartments or simply receive cash rewards corresponding to the value of these apartments. This, of course, cannot but arouse great public interest, and therefore, can turn the game into a large-scale collective activity, so productive and, as already noted, accessible to a wide range of participants.

During the game process, they are also determined using computer devices (23) and (22) in accordance with the parameters of the most active participants in the game entered in them before the start of the game and the amount of cash rewards or types of winnings for them. The data obtained is automatically transmitted to a computer monitor (16) and, accordingly, transmitted on a television channel in real time. And if, for example, parameters relative to the amount of cash compensation equal to 1.4% of the indicated value of SMS messages received from the game participants are entered into device (22), and the number of SMS messages received from game participants will be 50 million at a given time interval , then the most active participant in the game will receive a reward of $ 1,000,000 (in national currency), respectively. This, of course, is an additional and quite convincing incentive to participate in the SMS-game.

Parallel to the described processes in this game system, after it is included in the game process as its integral components, deductions also take place for various state, social, scientific and other purposes that do not contradict state and public interests, the principles of humanity and morality. These deductions are made using devices (14), into which parameters regarding the size of these deductions are preliminarily entered. And if the amount of deductions, for example, to the state budget for intended use for solving housing problems is set at 10% of the cost of SMS messages received from game participants, then, using the specified device (14), in automatic mode for one month at the above figures regarding the density of the game process (50 million SMS messages per day) to the state budget for these purposes will be transferred 214500000 US dollars (in national currency). If at the same time you also establish the amount of deductions, for example, for the needs of pensioners and the poor, in the amount of 2.0% of the cost of SMS messages received from the participants of the game, then, for one month, USD 42,900,000 will be transferred for the indicated purposes (in national currency).

For one year, respectively, $ 2574 billion will be transferred to the state budget (in national currency), for five years - $ 1.287 billion (in national currency), which could be a good help in implementing the state program for the construction of a new and repair of dilapidated and emergency housing. For the needs of pensioners and the poor, respectively, they will transfer: for one year - 514.8 million US dollars (in national currency), for five years - 2574000000 US dollars (in national currency).

Of course, in this case, deductions for other purposes are also possible: scientific, medical, etc. purposes.

It seems that this decision has the prospect of public and state recognition.

Claims (2)

1. A method of implementing an interactive game based on the use of SMS-technologies of cellular communication and computer technologies, in which the participants of the game, using the cellular operator, send SMS messages to the computer base of the game operator using personal technical communication devices in the receiving system and the signal processing of the mobile operator record the time of receipt of the specified SMS-messages, then in the computer database of the game operator identify them by the numbers of personal technical devices among the participants in the game, assign serial numbers to them, characterized in that in the device system of the game operator prior to the start of the game process, a device is installed in which they enter, as a percentage of the funds received from the game, the source of which is the cost of the specified SMS messages, certain informational and numerical parameters regarding the amount of accumulations used as a prize fund, certain informational information is also entered into this device the parameters for the quantitatively-monetary value of the gain, and also enter into this device conditional parameters associated with the indicated parameters with respect to the value of the gain with information regarding the type of winnings, then after the start of the game, the specified SMS signals received from the game participants are automatically transmitted to this device, determined in this case with the help of this device in the current automatic mode in connection with the specified information-numerical parameters regarding the amount of accumulations yes the total amount of accumulations used as a prize fund, and when the value of the specified amount of accumulations used as a prize fund is compared with the specified winnings as received from the participants of the game, the signal from this device is automatically sent to another additional a device that is also preliminarily installed before the start of the game process in the device system of the game operator and onto which during the game process in the current automatic mode give signals with information about the serial numbers of participants in the game, enter certain parameters into this device before the start of the game process, in connection with which it is activated when the above signal arrives, which carries information about the achievement of the value of the amount of accumulations used as a prize fund, the value equal to the set winning size is automatically generated in the current mode while using the last specified device as a random number sensor, at its output cash in the form of the serial number of the winner, which information was contained in the signal received at that time on this device, transmit the received data on the winner in real time in automatic mode as a signal to the computer monitor of the operator or game organizer, which also in real time, information about the total number of registered participants in the game and the indicated current amount of accumulations used as Thus, using the indicated technical operations in automatic mode, winners of the game are determined instantly, synchronously with the game process, as well as in the current automatic mode, signals with information about serial numbers of all participants in conjunction with information about the date and time of receipt of the indicated data SMS messages to the system of receiving and processing signals of a cellular operator are formed in the form of SMS messages indicating all three of the above information components and for example they send in the form of SMS-signals to personal technical communication devices of the game participants, thus providing the latter with “documented” technical method information acting as a means of control over the mechanism of protecting the game process from external interference, similar information supplemented by information that its recipient at the same time, it is the winner, indicating in this case, in monetary terms, the size of the winnings and their type, in the current automatic mode they transmit and each before the start of the game process, additional devices are also installed in the device system of the game operator, into which, as a percentage of the funds received from the game, enter informational and numerical parameters regarding the amounts of deductions for state, social, scientific and other purposes that do not contradict the state and public interests, the principles of humanity and morality, transmit during the game process in the current automatic mode to these devices coming from the participants games, these SMS signals are determined and automatically determined using these devices in accordance with the specified informational and numerical parameters the indicated amounts of deductions for state, social, scientific and other purposes that do not contradict state and public interests, the principles of humanity and morality, in real time, in automatic mode, the received data is transmitted in the form of a signal to the computer monitor of the operator or the organizer of the game, as well as to the information receiving technically Devices of the relevant state, social, scientific and other institutions for monitoring the specified process, as well as from the specified determining amounts of deductions of devices in the current automatic mode, transmit signals through the computer network with the help of which, in accordance with the information contained in them about the indicated amounts of deductions write off money from a specific bank account and transfer it to the specified accounts in the specified accounts of the specified institutions, establish it before the start of the game of the process in the device system of the game operator is also an additional device into which the parameters of a certain time interval or parameters are entered regarding a certain number of the specified SMS signals received by the participants from the game, as well as the parameters associated with the specified parameters of the time interval or specified parameters are entered into this device relative to a certain number of specified SMS signals received from game participants, information-numerical parameters are relatively definitely the number of the most active participants in the game, transmit signals with information about the identified participants in the game in the current automatic mode during the game process to this device, and determine in the current automatic mode using this device depending on the specified parameters of the time interval or parameters relative to a certain amount received from the game participants specified SMS-messages, as well as depending on the specified parameters regarding the number of the most active Astronomers of the game of one or more of the most active participants in the game at a given time interval or upon reaching the number of specified SMS signals of a given value received from participants of the game and whose identified signs, respectively, after the specified time interval has expired or at the time of reaching the number of specified SMS signals received from participants of the game of a given value, the greatest number of times in comparison with other participants was received in the form of information embedded in the signal to this device, set in addition, before the start of the game process, an additional device is poured into the device system of the game operator, into which, as a percentage of the funds received from the game, enter informational and numerical parameters regarding the amount of cash rewards for the most active participants in the game at a specified time interval or upon reaching the amount received from participants of the game specified SMS signals of a given value, or conditional parameters are entered into this device regarding the types of winnings for these participants, in in the current automatic mode during the game process, the specified SMS signals received from the game participants are transmitted to this device and in the current automatic mode, using this device, in accordance with the specified parameters, determine the amount of cash rewards or the types of winnings for the most active game participants in the specified interval time or upon reaching the number of specified SMS signals of a given value received from the game participants, transmit data on the most active game participants, as well as on the amount of cash rewards or the types of winnings for them in real time in automatic mode in the form of a signal to the computer monitor of the operator or game organizer, as well as in the current automatic mode, transmit the specified information in the form of SMS messages to personal technical devices communication data of participants. 2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the media includes media in the game process and, accordingly, they inform about the beginning of the game and its results.