WO2009078688A2

WO2009078688A2 - Battle game service system and battle game service providing method using the same

Info

Publication number: WO2009078688A2
Application number: PCT/KR2008/007535
Authority: WO
Inventors: Kwhangmin Whang; Seona Jeong; Youngjun Chun; Hyunshin Kim
Original assignee: Kwhangmin Whang; Seona Jeong; Youngjun Chun; Hyunshin Kim
Priority date: 2007-12-18
Filing date: 2008-12-18
Publication date: 2009-06-25
Also published as: WO2009078688A3

Abstract

A battle game service system and a method for providing a battle game service are provided in the present invention. The battle game service system comprises a first server for providing battle game service; and a second server for providing game software for the battle game, wherein the first server enables game players to access the second server through wired or wireless Internet or mobile communication to play the battle game, the second server transmits the game result of the battle game to the first server, and the first server manages the game result information of each game player based on the received transmitted game result.

Description

BATTLE GAME SERVICE SYSTEM AND BATTLE GAME SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD USING THE SAME

Technical Field

[1] The present invention relates to a battle game service system and a battle game service providing method using the same, for integrally managing the games and game severs of a multiple of game contents providers, enabling the game users to access a predetermined game server through a wired/wireless Internet or mobile handset and enjoy a game, transferring each game result from the game server to a battle game service apparatus, and administrating the game results of each game participants based on the game results. Background Art

[2] Online game generally refers to a computer game that is enjoyed by connecting the computer to an external system through a network and is sometimes called as MUD (Multiple User Dialogue or Multiple User Dungeon) game or MUG(MuMpIe User Graphic) game. The online game has become popular with the development of Internet and it allows users to install a predetermined program in their hard disk drive and access the game server to enjoy the game with other users in real-time. Along with the progress in network and graphic technologies various kinds of games have been developed. With a recent popularization of super- speed Internet various games allowing a multiple of users to simultaneously access and enjoy an online game have been commercialized. Internet game is advantageous to game producing parties due to the higher possibilities of access control and protection against illegal use in comparison to the conventional package software program. A majority of game users enjoys Internet game due to the capability of playing games with anonymous users online. Therefore the game market is continuously expanding and recently the volume of game market exceeded that of movie or music market. Accordingly the accumulation of game entry coupon through online game and development of marketing strategies using game items are currently prevailing.

[3] Under these circumstances the present invention tries to provide a battle game service among game users through online games using Internet. Disclosure of Invention

Technical Problem

[4] The purpose of the present invention is to provide a battle game service system and method for integrally managing the games and game severs of a multiple of game contents providers, enabling the game users to access a predetermined game server through a wired/wireless Internet or mobile handset and enjoy a game, transferring each game result from the game server to a battle game service apparatus, and managing the game results of each game participants based on the game results.

[5] Another purpose of the present invention is to provide a battle game service system and method for notifying the entry of the participant to the opener of a game participating room using a message and allowing the opener and participant to access a game server of a game contents provider through a mutual communication.

[6] Another purpose of the present invention is to provide a tournament-type game league wherein the battle game is performed among gamer teams and the leader of a gamer team can participate in the team game on behalf of the team as a whole by inputting the IDs of each team member in his team.

[7] Another purpose of the present invention is to provide a battle game service system and method for notifying the entry of the participant to the opener of a game participating room by sending a message containing the participant's information via at least one of SMS, voice message, Shot mail and Internet e-mail.

[8] Further purpose of the present invention is to attract attention of gamers to a brand of franchisee and induce membership subscription to the franchisee by providing an advertising medium containing the brand name, logo, advertising description, free coupon, discount coupon, mileage, award, date of game, place of game, method of game, etc., and to share the membership information among the franchisees for use in their marketing strategies.

[9] Further purpose of the present invention is to provide banner advertisements through computer monitors of networked PC rooms and transmit the membership information of the enrolled members intrigued by the advertisements to a multiple of franchisee servers for use in their various customer services, marketing strategies and business revenue strategies. Technical Solution

[10] In order to accomplish the afore-mentioned purposes of the present invention, there is provided a battle game service system according to an embodiment of the present invention comprising a first server for providing battle game service; and a second server for providing game software for the battle game, wherein: the first server enables game players to access the second server through wired or wireless Internet or mobile communication to play the battle game, the second server transmits the game result of the battle game to the first server, and the first server manages the game result information of each game player based on the received transmitted game result.

[11] Further, the battle game service system further comprises a third server for receiving the battle game service from the first and second servers. [12] Further, the third server provides PC room management program which outputs an advertisement for inducing membership subscription on the monitor screen of PCs in the PC room.

[13] Further, the first server notifies game operating information to at least one of game opener who opened a game participating room for the battle game and game participant who joined the game participating room.

[14] Further, the first server notifies the game operating information to the opener's mobile handset using a message selected from a group consisting of SMS, MMS, LMS, mobile e-mail, mobile message using mobile messenger program, voice message, and Shot mail.

[15] Further, in the battle game service system, membership information of the game players collected from at least one of the first, the second and the third servers is transmitted to at least one different server within a server group consisting of the first, the second and the third server.

[16] Further, the battle game service system further comprises a fourth server for providing PC room management program which outputs a banner advertisement for inducing membership subscription on the monitor screen of PCs in the PC room, and transmitting the membership information inputted from the banner advertisement to at least one different server within a server group consisting of the first, the second and the third server.

[17] Further, the banner advertisement comprises at least one of brand name, logo, advertising description, free coupon, discount coupon, mileage, award, date of game, place of game, and form of game.

[18] Further, the first server comprises: a membership management part that authenticates the membership status of the game opener and the game participant through a log-in process at a website that provides the battle game service; a game processing part that opens a game participating room for the battle game upon the request of the game opener and informs the game participant's information to one of mobile handsets of the game opener and the game participant using a message; a game result management part that manages the game result information of each game player based on the game result between the game opener and the game participant transmitted from the second server; and an information storage part that stores information selected from a group consisting of information regarding at least one server among the first, the second and the third server, game type, game opener, game participant, game result, game participating room, game result information, entry coupon.

[19] Further, the game information storage part comprises: a game information storage part that stores information regarding the type of available games and game participating rooms for the battle game; a membership information storage part that stores information regarding the membership of the game players registered to the website providing the battle game service and entry coupon of the game players; a game result information storage part that stores the game result of each battle game and game result information of each player; and a game server information storage part that stores the information regarding at least one server among the first, the second and the third servers.

[20] A method for providing a battle game service according to the present invention uses a first server for providing battle game service and a second server for providing game software for the battle game, and comprises the steps of: (a) opening a game participating room for the battle game at the first server upon request from a game opener; (b) receiving an application of participation to the game participating room from a game participant; (c) providing the battle game service through the second server; and (d) receiving at the first server the game result transmitted from the second server.

[21] Further, the battle game service further uses a third server for receiving the battle game service through the first and the second servers, and the method further comprises the step of: (e) transmitting membership information of the game players collected from at least one of the first, the second and the third servers to at least one different server within a server group consisting of the first, the second and the third server.

[22] Further, the method for providing a battle game service further comprises the step of:

(f) notifying at the first server game operating information to the game opener and the game participant using the membership information.

[23] Further, the method for providing battle game service further comprises the steps of: receiving the membership information through a banner advertisement on a website provided by at least one server among the first, the second and the third servers; allowing the game player to click the banner advertisement; providing the game player with membership subscription process; inspecting information regarding at least one server among the first, the second and the third servers; and transmitting the membership information to the inspected server.

[24] Further, the method for providing battle game service comprises the steps of: authenticating at the first server the membership status of the game opener; providing at the first server the items required to open a battle game to the game opener if the game opener was verified to have a membership from a normal log-in process or membership status authentication process; and opening at the first server the game participating room based on the items provided by the game opener.

[25] Further, in the method for providing battle game service, the items provided by the game opener includes at least one selected from a group consisting of name of the game participating room, game type, ID of game opener, contact information of game opener, date of game, game server, form of game, entry coupon and game level. [26] Further, the method for providing battle game service comprises the steps of: authentication at the first server the membership status of the game participant; verifying at the first server the items required to participate in the game participating room filled- out by the game participant; and notifying at the first server the application of participation of the game participant to the game opener using a message when the items were verified as acceptable.

Advantageous Effects

[27] The battle game service system and method of providing the battle game service using the same according to the present invention have the following advantageous effects.

[28] According to the present invention there is provided a battle game service system and method for integrally managing the games and game severs of a multiple of game contents providers, enabling the game users to access a predetermined game server in easy and convenient ways to enjoy the game, transferring each game result from the game server to a battle game service apparatus, and managing the game results of each game player based on the game result.

[29] According to the present invention there is provided a battle game service system and method for notifying the entry of the participant to the opener of a game participating room using a message and allowing the game opener and the game participant to access a game server of a game contents provider through a mutual communication.

[30] According to the present invention there is provided a battle game service system and method for notifying the entry of the participant to the opener of a game participating room by sending a responsive message to their mobile handsets, the message in the form of at least one of SMS, MMS, LMS, mobile e-mail, mobile message using mobile messenger program, voice message, and Shot mail.

[31] According to the present invention there is provided a battle game service system and method for integrally managing the game type, date of game and game severs of a multiple of game contents providers in order to perform risk diversification to prevent each server from be overloaded.

[32] According to the present invention there is provided a battle game service system and method for integrally managing the games and game severs of a multiple of game contents providers, enabling the game users to access a predetermined game server in easy and convenient ways to enjoy the game, transferring each game result from the game server to a battle game service apparatus, and managing the game results of each game player based on the game result.

[33] Another purpose of the present invention is to provide a tournament-type game league wherein the battle game is performed among gamer teams and the leader of a gamer team can participate in the team game on behalf of the team as a whole by inputting the IDs of each team member in his team and each member of the team may decide whether he would join using a selection button contained in the message.

[34] According to the present invention there is provided a battle game service system that can attract attention of gamers to a brand of franchisee and induce membership subscription to the franchisee by providing an advertising medium containing the brand name, logo, advertising description, free coupon, discount coupon, mileage, award, date of game, place of game, method of game, etc., and to share the membership information among the franchisees for use in their marketing strategies.

[35] According to the present invention there is provided a battle game service system and method for providing banner advertisements through computer monitors of networked PC rooms and transmitting the membership information of the enrolled members intrigued by the advertisements to a multiple of franchisee servers for use in their various customer services, marketing strategies and business revenue strategies. Brief Description of Drawings

[36] Fig. 1 shows a conceptual view of a battle game service system and method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[37] Fig. 2 shows a block diagram of a battle game service apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.

[38] Fig. 3 shows a flow chart of an opening procedure of game participating room according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[39] Fig. 4 shows exemplary game lists according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[40] Fig. 5 shows a flow chart of an application for an entry to a game according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[41] Fig. 6 shows a list of matches in a tournament- type game league according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[42] Figs. 7 and 8 show integrative administrative view for game servers of game contents providers according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[43] Fig. 9 shows a conceptual view of a server network for providing the battle game service according to a further embodiment of the present invention.

[44] Fig. 10 shows a banner advertisement for inducing membership subscription according to the further embodiment of the present invention.

[45] Fig. 11 shows a block diagram of a battle game service apparatus of the further embodiment of the present invention.

[46] Fig. 12 shows a flow chart of processes for membership subscription and membership information sharing according to the further embodiment of the present invention.

[47] Fig. 13 shows an overall flow chart of a battle game service method according to an embodiment of the present invention. Best Mode for Carrying out the Invention

[48] The advantageous features and merits of the present invention and the method for obtaining the same will be explained in detail with reference to the accompanied drawings illustrating embodiments of the present invention. However, the spirit and scope of the present invention should not be limited to the description of the embodiments and various modifications and changes may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the scope of the present invention defined by the accompanied claims. The identical reference numbers shall indicate identical components of the embodiments throughout the specification of the present invention.

[49] Fig. 1 shows a conceptual view of a battle game service system and method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[50] Referring to Fig. 1, game players (including game opener and game participant) perform a battle game at a game server 350 of an affiliated battle game service provider. The game players are supposed to access the game server 350 at a promised time and play a battle game. Each game contents provider may have their own game server 350 and a multiple number of game servers 350 may exist online. The game server 350 provides game software to users to play online games using the game software. For example, a game server of a game contents provider servicing a game tournament hosted by the city of Seoul is to be registered at a battle game service apparatus 100 as a different game server distinguished from a game server of the game contents provider servicing a game tournament hosted by the city of Pusan. Thus a multiple of distinguished game servers 350 may exist within a same game category and each game tournament may be performed in the respective game server 350. Further, as aforementioned, the detailed information about the game server 350 is registered at the battle game service apparatus 100 to be managed in an integrated form.

[51] In detail, an opener of a game may identity the participant information using SMS, or he may access the website providing battle game service to inspect the information of the participant who participated in the game participating room opened by him. The opener may communicate with the participant to know detailed information of each other and play a battle game through a game server 350.

[52] If the game is a mobile game that is played using a mobile handset 202 then the players enjoy the mobile game using mobile handsets through a wireless communication network. Further, the information of each game server 350 is registered to the battle game service apparatus 10, and the address of game server 350 and access information are provided so that the players may access the game server 350 to play the game. The information of a game server 350 may be registered in real-time by the game contents provider.

[53] The game server 350 may be associated with a game broadcasting system 320 and actual scenes of the played game may be broadcasted in real-time through a website providing the battle game service. In this case, the battle game service apparatus 100 further comprises a video processing unit (not shown) for receiving and processing the broadcasted videos of the battle game played in the game server 350.

[54] When at least one member is changed in a team game the game players may let the examiner (or inspector) of the game identify the change of team member(s) through a video monitor before they join the game. For example, a member of a team is changed the personal information such as certificate of residence of the changed member may be recognized by the examiner through the video monitor and the team may resume the game with changed team members after the allowance of the examiner. The processes for member change and video identification may be modified according to the local rule of the game tournament. The battle game service apparatus 100 may further comprise the video processing module (not shown) for this purpose.

[55] The battle game service apparatus 100 may be associated with a billing server 2210, messaging server 212 and management server 214. The billing server 210 provides account settlement service to the game players so that they purchase the game entry coupon, and transmits the settlement result to the battle game service apparatus 100 when the account settlement is completed in a normal way. Then the battle game service apparatus 100 raises the number of accumulated coupons by the purchased amount.

[56] The messaging server 212 provides mobile communication serve (e.g., SMS, e-mail service, etc.) among membership players to enhance mutual communication and information exchange.

[57] The management server 214 manages communication error and data error in each network, handles game events, checks the function of each module of the battle game service apparatus 100, and manages the checking result as history.

[58] The functions of the billing server 210, messaging server 212 and management server 214 may be implemented as a functional module in the battle game service apparatus 100.

[59] At least parts of functions of each component of the battle game service apparatus

100 may be modularized to be installed in the game contents provider server 360 and/ or battle game service provider server 190. The game contents provider server 360 provides online game by running a game software (or game program) through the game server 350 and various kinds of game-related online services to players. In a different embodiment, the game contents provider server 360 may contain the function of the game server 350 to provide game as well as other related service together.

[60] Hereinafter, the detailed feature of the embodiment will be described assuming that the battle game service apparatus 100 is installed in the battle game service provider server 190.

[61]

[62] Fig. 2 shows a block diagram of a battle game service apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.

[63] The battle game service apparatus 100 comprises a membership management part

110, game operating part 120 and information storage part.

[64] The membership management part 11 performs information management such as storing, deleting, addling and updating for those membership-related information including, but not limited to, personal information of membership player, game participating room information opened by the membership player and entry coupon (or league coupon) information of the membership player. The game players may subscribe to the website providing a battle game service of the present invention via mobile handset and wired/wireless Internet, open game participating room and apply for a game using the opened game participating room.

[65] The membership-related information may be stored in the information storage part

130 which will be explained in detail below. The membership management part 110 manages information management for the membership-related information stored in the information storage part 130. The membership management part 110 may inspect the membership status for the game opener who desires to open a game participating room for a given game and the game participant who desires to apply for participating in the opened game for the given game, and induce the membership subscription when the player does not have a membership.

[66] The game operating part 120 performs operational managements including, but not limited to, opening process of game participating room, message communication between players, providing game tournament chart, administrating game results of each membership player. The game operating part 120 comprises game processing part 122 and game result management part 124.

[67] The game processing part 122 opens a game participating room for a game according to the request by the game opener and then informs the game opener of the participation of a game participant using a message when the game participant completed the participation to the game participating room opened by the game opener. The message is preferably an SMS transmitted through a mobile communication network or an e-mail transmitted through Internet. The game processing part 122 searches the mobile phone number of the game opener and sends the SMS containing the participant information. The meaning of SMS herein includes at least one of a text-type SMS (Short Message Service), MMS (Multimedia Message Service), LMS (Long Message Service), mobile e-mail, mobile message using mobile phone messenger program, voice message, Shot mail, etc.

[68] The message may be communicated to the game participants in various ways. For example, when the game opener opens a game participating room a message informing that the game participating room is open and registered may be transmitted. More specifically, the message contains the ID of the game opener, name of the game participating room, game type, date of opening, game server where the battle game shall be held, etc. Further, when the participant completes the participation to the game participating room an SMS thereof can be transmitted to the game opener. More specifically, the ID of the game participant, contact information of the participant, number of participants, date of participation, game result information, etc.

[69] The game opener may decide whether he would allow the participation using the message. That is, a message of "Would you allow the participation of this participant?" may be transmitted to the game opener with a selection button of YES or NO format, and the game opener may decide the participation by clicking the selection button. Further, the participant may receive a message regarding the allowance for the participation to the game participating room. That is, when the game opener decides on the participation the game processing part 122 transmits the corresponding message to the participant. For example, the message may contain the name of the game participating room, game type, ID of the game opener, contact information of the game opener, game result information, date of game, game server and the decision on the participation.

[70] For example, when the participant gives up or retreats the participation or the game opener closes the game participating room a relevant message will be transmitted to the game opener and the game participant.

[71] Further, in a game league consisting of a multiple of tournament games, when there are teams with respective team leader the team leader may participate in the game participating room and register his team with the IDs of his team members and preferably only the information of team leader can be transmitted to the game opener. Alternatively, the information of all team members may be transmitted to the game opener and the game opener can identify the information of the team leader and other team members.

[72] Further, the message to the team leader may be delivered to the other team members.

For example, when a team leader applies for a game participating room a message thereof can be transmitted to the other team members and team members can recognized the participation from the message. Each team member may decide whether he would join the game with the selection button in the message and the response message may be delivered to the game opener and team leader.

[73] Using the response to the message transmission the game participants may identify the allowance for participation, game participant information, game opener information, game information, game participating room information, etc.

[74] The game processing part 122 perform the constitution of tournament schedule based on the game result between the game teams. That is, the game processing part 122 makes the winners of the round of 32 matches to progress to the round of 16 matches and transmits messages containing opponent's information according to the tournament schedule. Therefore, the winner of each game receives the information of new opponents of the next stage in the tournament schedule. The tournament schedule information may be displayed in the website providing the battle game service of the battle game service apparatus 100. In an alternative embodiment, the game processing part 122 may be implemented as a messaging server that processes various messages of the present invention.

[75] Further, when there are a number of game participating rooms for a given game the game processing part 122 may transmit a message to the game openers who did not have participant yet. That is, the game processing part 122 sends a message to game openers with no participant in order to link them each other to proceed with the battle game.

[76] The game result management part 124 receives the game result between the game opener and the game participants from the game sever of the game contents provider and manages the individual game result data of each game player. For example, the game result management part 124 may calculate the winning ratio of the game players based on the historical game result information and manage the game result history data. The game result information may include game type, win or lose in each game, winning rate, date of game, opponent of game, etc

[77] The information storage part 130 stores at least one of game server, game opener, game participant, game result, game participating room, game result of each game player and entry coupon. That is, the information storage part 130 stores membership information other necessary information used for the operation of battle game service. The information storage part 130 comprises game information storage part 132, membership information storage part 134, game result information storage part 136 and game server information storage part 138. The game information storage part 132 and the game result information storage part 136 can be integrated to a single database. Further each components 132, 134, 136, 138 of the information storage part 130 may be stored in a multiple number of logically allocated areas of a physical storage means. Alternatively, the information storage part 130 may be implemented as a kind of database server.

[78] The game information storage part 132 stores information including types of available games and game participating rooms for battle game. Here, each game contents provider may access the website providing the battle game service and register the list of game that can be provided for the battle game service, and the list of game is stored in the game information storage part 132. Then the game opener selects a game among those games provided by the game contents providers and opens a game participating room for the selected game. The game participating room is a virtual room for a game selected from a list of games provided by the battle gamer service apparatus 100 for a battle game between the game opener and game participant.

[79] For example, the game opener may select a soccer game from the list of games and fill out necessary items to open the game participating room. The items that are filled out by the game opener includes at least one of name of the game participating room, game type, ID, contact information and game result information of the game opener, date of game, game server, form of game (e.g., 1 to 1 or 1 to multiple, etc.), entry coupon for joining a battle game, and game level or difficulty.

[80] Further, the game opener may define the necessary items and optional items to be filled out by the game participant. According to this, the game participant has to fill out the items designated by the game opener in order to join the game participating room. When the game opener successfully opens the game participating room, the game processing part 122 stores the information regarding the newly opened game participating room to the game information storage part 132.

[81] Further, the membership information storage part 134 stores the member information and the member's entry coupon information that are registered in the website providing the battle game service. The membership information includes personal information comprising ID, password, name, resident registration number, address, contact information, game result information, etc. The membership information may further include the member's entry coupon, credit information and so on. The member may buy the entry coupon through electronic payment means. For example, the member may purchase the entry coupon using such payment means as mobile phone, ARS, banking transaction, cultural gift certificate, game gift certificate, credit card, payment to bank account, etc. The entry coupon may be accumulated as a kind of cyber money such as "dotory" and used for an entry into the battle game. Further the members may present the items as gifts to each other.

[82] The game result information storage part 136 stores the game result of each battle game and game result information of each player based on the game result of each battle game. That is the game result information storage part 146 stores each game result transmitted from the game server as well as the game result information of each player processed by the game result management part 124.

[83] Further, the game server information storage 138 stores the affiliation (or membership) information of game contents providers and game server information provided by the game contents providers. The game server information storage 138 stores may store at least one of game server address, game server name, port number and link information provided by the game contents provider. The game players may access the game server to play game using the link information or game server address. The game players perform the battle game by accessing a remote game server using their computer or mobile terminals (e.g., mobile handset, PDA, etc.).

[84] For information, the game opener may open a game participating room by selecting one from a list of available server. Further, he may open the game participating room first and then select game server through a discussion among the game participants. With these features, the battle games may be processed in various ways to overcome communication traffic problems and entail risk diversification effects.

[85]

[86] Fig. 3 shows a flow chart of an opening procedure of game participating room according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[87] Let's assume that the city of Seoul holds a game league of tournament battle games and the tournament match applies to games between the stages of round of 32 and final match. The game opener opens a game participating room to gather participants to join the battle game tournament and the participant applies for entry into the battle game in the opened game participating room. Here, one participant is the team leader A of a team A and the team leader A and other multiple members are grouped as the team A. The team leader A as well as other team members may present the entry coupon to join the battle game tournament together. The entry coupon could be of a cyber item like "dotory" and the member may present the entry coupon to apply for entry into the battle game.

[88] The some team members who joined the battle game as a member of team A may opt not to play the battle game personally. These options may be given by the rules of the battle game tournament. Hereinafter, we will assume that all members of the team plays a given battle game together. The winners of round of 32 are entitled to proceed to the round of 16 to match with other winners and this kind of tournament game is continued until the final game where the final winner is decided.

[89] Hereinafter, the process of opening a game participating room using the battle game service apparatus 100 of the present invention will be explained in more detail.

[90] At first, in the step of S301, the membership management part 110 performs an authentication on membership status of the game opener. The authentication on membership status may be performed by a log-in process in the website providing the battle game service. Preferably, the membership management part 110 induces the website visitors who are not members to a membership subscription process. Alternative a non-member player may access the battle game service through of process of inputting required personal information without subscribing to the membership program. The membership management part 110 may store the information of subscribed member to the membership information storage part 134.

[91] Next, in the step of S311, the game operating part 120 provides the game opener with the items required to open a game participating room when the game opener is verified to have membership from a normal log-in process or membership status authentication process.

[92] Then, in the step of S321, when the game opener fills out the items and transmits the game operating part 120 checks whether the required fields are filled out. Preferably the items required of opening a game participating room includes game title, game category, game server, ID, contact information of the player, game level, special restriction, game results, etc. The game server may already be given as a default in the selection of items.

[93] Then, in the step of S331, a game participating room is open based on the given items. The open game participating room is registered to the list of open rooms.

[94] Then, in the step of S341, the game opener sets the items required to be input by the game participants. This S341 step may be omitted when the game opener already done this in the step S321 when opening the game participating room. In this case, the game opener may only change some items to be filled out by the participant in the step of S341.

[95] The items to be input by the participants may be classified as necessary items and optional items. For example, the items may include ID, entry coupon, game results and contact information of the participant, date of game, number of participants, and team name for a team participation (or team registration). When an entry coupon is required for entry or participation to the game the item of entry coupon shall be classified as a necessary item.

[96] That is, the game participant shall submit the entry coupon to join the battle game tournament. For example, when one piece of entry coupon is required for a participant to join the game the game participant selects "1" in the item input of entry coupon set by the game opener. When the number of entry coupon is not sufficient the participant may replenish the numbers of entry coupon through various payment means as aforementioned. When a team joins a team game the team leader inputs or selects necessary numbers of entry coupons according to the number of team members and the number of participants are decided based on the number of input entry coupons. [97] Here, the participant may submit an offline certificate of allowance for participation instead of online or cyber entry coupon. In this case the item for inputting entry coupon may be set out as an optional item. When the rules of battle game tournament allow the participation to the game without entry coupon the item for inputting entry coupon may be omitted.

[98] Further, the system may be configured to automatically submit necessary number of entry coupons and reduce the number of remaining entry coupons when the participant register to the game participating room, which makes it unnecessary to input the entry coupon information at the time of participation.

[99]

[100] Fig. 4 shows exemplary game lists according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[101] In Fig. 4, the game list contains information registered at the time of opening the game participating room and the information comprises a game category 402, game title 404, entry coupon 406, type of tournament 408, form of game 410 and date of registration 412.

[102] The game participant may apply for participation by clicking the game participating room that he would like to enter in the list of open and available game participating rooms. The process of applying for game participation will be explained in more detail with reference to Fig. 5.

[103]

[104] Fig. 5 shows a flow chart of an application for an entry to a game according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[105] At step S501, the membership management part 110 performs authentication on the membership status of the game player who desires to join the game participating room. The membership management part 110 performs authentication on the membership status of the participant via log-in process at the website of battle game service.

[106] At step S511, the game participant identifies open game participating rooms from the game list and selects one game participating room that he desires to participate in (or register to).

[107] Then, at step S521, the game participant clicks the game participating button in the game participating room, fills out all required items to join the game and apply for participation to the game. The game operating part 120 checks the items filled out by the participant and decides whether the items are inputted correctly. In a team game the leader of a team inputs his ID as well as his member's IDs to register them all as the participants to the game. Therefore the contact information of each team member can be verified through the IDs and provided to the game opener. The items required by the participant are illustrated in the above explanation regarding the step of S341. [108] Then, at step S531, the game participant is registered to the game participating room and the game operating part 120 send a SMS (or e-mail using wired or wireless Internet) to the game opener to inform that the participant registered (or applied) to the game participating room. The participant's information is also transmitted to the game opener's mobile terminal by the SMS service. For this service, the battle game service apparatus 100 is supposed to provide the messaging service in cooperation with a wireless communication company. The game opener can easily know the registration of the participant at any time any place and communicate with the participant for a battle game. When all players register the game participating room will be marked as closed for registration.

[109] The game opener may decide whether he will allow the participant's participation to the game that he opened. When he allows the participation of the participant he will click the YES button in the message asking for his allowance. Then the opener's response message shall be delivered to the participant. The response message may include the name of game participating room, game type, ID, contact information and game results of the game opener, date of game, game server, the allowance of participation, etc. The message may be in the form of at least one of SMS, MMS, LMS, mobile e-mail, mobile message using mobile messenger program, voice message and Shot mail.

[110] Then, at step S541, the game opener connects to the game server at a promised time by a mutual communication with the game participant and plays the battle game. When the date of game for each game is given by the rules and schedule of game tournament, the game opener and game participant shall access the game server on the designated date and time to play the game. The game operating part 120 transmits the information of game opener and game participant to the game server and the game server uses the transmitted information to perform authentication or transmit the game result to the battle game service apparatus 100. The game player participating to the game may perform information exchange and community activities through mutual communication.

[I l l] When the battle game is over, at step S551, the game server transmits the game result to the battle game service apparatus 100 and the game operating part 120 receives the game result and manages and updates the game results information of each player based on the receive game result. When the game is over the game result may be delivered to the game players and other members of the battle game service and the battle game service apparatus 100 may receive the game result data from the game server 350. Thereafter the management for the game results for the players is performed. The game status between the players may be marked as finished as shown by the game end mark 602 of the Fig. 6. The game result of win or lose may be auto- matically decided by the game server when the game is over.

[112] Especially when one to one match is played, one of the opener or the participant may click a "win" or "lose" button according to the game result that he thinks and the other player may click "consent" button to finish the game. For example, the participant may click the "YOU LOSE" button to send a message to the participant and the participant agrees by clicking the "consent" button. The game players may show the exhibits for game results using screen capture function and this may prohibit any manipulation on the game result and possible dispute.

[113] The aforementioned explanations regarding Fig. 3 and Fig. 5 will be applied not only to the tournament type game league but also to a 1 to 1 or 1 to many type matches.

[114] As shown in Fig. 6 the game schedule may be provided and updated according to each game result.

[115]

[116] Fig. 6 shows a list of matches in a tournament- type game league according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[117] As shown in Fig. 6, the battle game service apparatus 100 may provide a game schedule 600 according to game results played in the game server through the game participating room. That is, the game schedule 600 is composed through the processes from in Fig. 3 to Fig 5. When a game is over an end mark 601 is given to the match in the game schedule 600. The game players can understand the overall tournament status as well as the team status more easily with the game schedule 600.

[118] For example, when the round of 32 is over the game schedule 600 is updated for the round of 16 and messages will be automatically sent to the winners so that they identify their opponents in the round of 16.

[119] Further, one team can get contact information of the other team by clicking the other team in the game schedule 600 and communicate with each other to have a battle game again through the game participating room. The game schedule 600 is be provided by the battle game service apparatus 100 or the game server where the game is played.

[120]

[121] Figs. 7 and 8 show integrative administrative view for game servers of game contents providers according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[122] As aforementioned, the battle game service apparatus 100 can manage the game servers (#1~#N) of a multiple of game contents providers and a multiple of games (#1~#N) played in each game server in an integrated form. When the game schedule and the server are confirmed between game opener and game participant they access the confirmed game server and play the battle game.

[123] For example, a nationwide game league is held for the game #6 in various cities including Seoul, Pusan, Daegu, Daejeon, etc. As shown in Fig. 7, the game #6 may be played in the game servers #1~#5 and each game server may be a game server of a single game contents provider or of different game contents providers. The information of each game server may be registered to the battle game service apparatus by an operator providing the battle game service or the game contents provider. The game players access one of the #1 ~ #5 servers on a designated date to play the game of #6. The game server may be selected at the time of opening the game participating room by the game opener or by a mutual agreement between the game opener and game participant afterward.

[124] When the number of game players using a game server (e.g., the game server #3) exceeds the limitation and a new game opener selects the game server #3 to open a new game participating room, the game processing part 122 may constrain the selection of the game server #3 or recommend different game servers by sending a predetermined message to him. This process may disperse the risk of overload in the game server #3.

[125] Further, as shown in Fig. 8, a multiple of games and game servers servicing the battle game may be managed in an integrated form on a seasonal basis. That is, with reference to the date of game service, the games and game servers servicing the games may be managed by the battle game service apparatus 100. For example, the games held between July and August and related game servers may be managed in an integrated form. This principle may apply to other cases where games and game servers are managed based on the cities or special events.

[126] The above feature of the present invention prevents the player's rush into a specific server or overload of a specific server that provide a multiple of game services. For this reason the system may limit the player's right of selecting game server when opening game participating rooms or recommend the player to select a specific server of sufficient capacity. Further the system operator may identify the opener's information and notify the recommendation to the game opener. The management on the game and game servers according to a predetermined reference (e.g., date, city, special event, etc.) enhances the efficiency in the game operation and the overall network and system.

[127] According to further features of the present invention, Fig. 7 and Fig. 8 may be implemented on the monitor screen of the battle game apparatus. The game processing part 122 presents the information such as types of registered games, game server, game participating rooms, etc. and accordingly the monitor screen of the operator displays information charts. The system operator may identify the overall registration status of the game, game server and game participating room and manage it in an easier way.

[128] In this embodiment of the present invention the process of membership subscription has been explained in detail, whereas another embodiment will explain the process and special feature of sharing the collected membership information among several servers.

[129]

[130] Fig. 9 shows a conceptual view of a server network for providing the battle game service according to a further embodiment of the present invention. Fig. 10 shows a banner advertisement for inducing membership subscription according to the further embodiment of the present invention.

[131] Fig. 9 shows an environment where a game sponsor server 400 and PC room managing servers (not shown) are attached to the network providing the battle game service of the present invention. Here the game sponsor server 400 may provide the PC room managing server with a management program and work as a game service providing server through the PCs of the PC room 500.

[132] As shown in Fig. 9, the battle game service provider server 190, game contents provider server 360 and game sponsor server 400 are linked to each other through a network and they can share the membership information. The game sponsor server 400 requests battle game service to the battle game service provider server 190 for holding a game tournament, the battle game service provider server 190 provides the battle game service through the battle game service apparatus 100, and the game contents provider server 360 provides the battle game service provider server with the games and related contents. The battle game service apparatus 100 may be included in the battle game service provider server 190 and the battle game contents provider server 360 may provide the game software through a separate game server 350.

[133] The battle game service provider server 190, game contents provider server 360 and game sponsor server 400 can induce the game players to subscribe to a membership at its website by various advertisement media (e.g., banner advertisement 10a to 10c, which will be explained below) and share the membership information each other. Hereinafter an example of arranging banner advertisement 10a to 10c on website and collecting membership information therefrom, however other types of advertisement media may be available for collecting membership information. For example, still-cut image, movie clip, picture, character/voice message, e-mail, manual mean for input offline, etc. may be used as media for collecting membership information.

[134] In Fig. 10a, the battle game service provider server 190 may provide game advertisement using banner ad 10a on its website to induce game players to sign up at the website providing the battle game service. The membership information of the subscribed player may be provided to the game contents provider 360 and game sponsor server 400.

[135] The banner ad 10a may comprise the brand name, logo and (visual) promotion slogan of the game sponsor (or game contents provider or battle game service provider, etc.) and further comprise various free coupon, discount coupon, award, date of game, place of game, form of game, etc.

[136] The customer or player who subscribed by clicking the banner ad may use the battle game server and enjoy various advantages. The membership subscription may be performed by not only the click on the banner ad 10a but also the log-in process of the relevant website and the membership information may be shared among the affiliated companies.

[137] As aforementioned the membership subscription may be performed by not only the battle game service apparatus 100 but also the game sponsor server 400 or game content provider server 360. The membership information can be shared or transmitted among the servers 190, 360, 400 of the battle game service provider, the game contents provider and game the sponsor.

[138] For example, in Fig. 10b where the game sponsor is a sort of portal service provider and membership subscription is performed using the banner ad 10b at its website, it can ask the player whether he desires to co-sign up for several memberships as a member of battle game service provider and game contents providers. The membership information of the joined member may be shared among each affiliated entities such as game sponsor, battle game service provider and game contents provider, etc. and the shared information may be used for the purposes of marketing, promotion, brand PR, and other services. When a subscribed member applies for battle game mailing service and SMS service may be used to inform him of the information about date and place of the battle game and participant.

[139] When the game sponsor is the city of Seoul, the city government of Seoul may induce the membership subscription of players by providing the banner ad for membership subscription via the homepage of the city of Seoul and this gives the city of Seoul with a promotion effect about their the policy, operation, plan and projects of the city of Seoul. In a similar way, the membership information derived from the banner ad may be transmitted to the battle gamer service provider server 190 and the game contents provider server 360 for the service of battle games and various marketing activities.

[140] This membership subscription, provision of game service and banner ad for corporate brand promotion may be accomplished in a more efficient way through the affiliated PC rooms 500.

[141] In Fig. 10c, a battle game league can be advertized with a banner or button type logo 10c on the PC monitors in the PC room 500. Here the coupon of free use of PC room 500 may be distributed to the newly subscribed game player. Throughout these process brand advertisements are performed for game sponsor, battle game service provider or game contents provider, and membership subscription and battle game between game participants may be performed throughout the nationwide PC room 500 network. [142] For example, the PC rooms 500 of nationwide network may be managed in integrated form by a management program. The management company who distributes the management program may allocated the banner ad at the monitor screen of the PCs in the PC room 500 or other website upon receiving at the server connected to the PCs the request of advertisement from the game service provider server, game sponsor server 400 or game contents provider server 360.

[143] This advertisement enables the PC room 500 or related management company, game service provider, game sponsor and game contents provider to enjoy various marketing effects including brand promotion and rise in sales revenue. The sharing strategy of membership information obtained by the advertisement gives further marketing opportunities.

[144] When the game sponsor server 400 is connected with the computers in each PC room 500 and provides PC room management program and the battle game is held using the computers in each PC room 500, the game sponsor server 400 operates to manage the programs of the PC room 500 and provides the battle game service.

[145] As aforementioned, in order to transmit the membership information collected online/offline from at least one server of a server group of the multiple of servers 190, 350, 360, 400 to another server in the server group, the battle game service apparatus 100 may be configured as Fig. 11. The battle game service apparatus 100 of the Fig. 11 comprises the components of the Fig. 2 and further comprises the advertisement output part 105 and data receiving/transmitting part 107. Hereinafter the functions of the newly added components will be explained in more detail since the other components have the same function as explained with regard to Fig. 2.

[146]

[147] Fig. 11 shows a block diagram of a battle game service apparatus of the further embodiment of the present invention.

[148] The battle game service apparatus of Fig. 11 comprises the components shown in the Fig. 2 and further comprises advertisement output part 105 and data receiving/ transmitting part 107. Hereinafter, explanations for the same or similar components as in Fig. 2 shall be reduced or omitted and the process of sharing and delivering membership information using the battle game service apparatus will be explained in more detail.

[149] The battle game service apparatus 100 may be included in the game service provider server 190, or otherwise all or some components of the battle game service apparatus 100 may be constituted in the game contents provider server 360, game sponsor server 400 or PC room management server (not shown). Hereinafter explanation will be provided assuming that the battle game service apparatus 100 is installed in the game service provider server 190. [150] The battle game service provider server 190 provides game players with the game requested by the game sponsor server 400 and related battle game service is provided through the affiliated game contents provider server 360.

[151]

[152] *The advertisement output part 105 provides banner ads on the website to induce membership subscription using various advertisement media including the banner ads. The contents of banner ad may comprise logo, name and commercial slogan f battle game service provider (or game contents provider or game sponsor, etc), free coupons, discount coupons, awards, date and place of battle game. During the process of membership subscription to the website providing the battle game service, the battle game service provider server may ask the member for subscribing to the game contents provider server 360 and game sponsor server 400. When the member agrees on co- subscription the member shall be processed accordingly.

[153] Banner advertisement in the website gives opportunities of advertisement/promotion of game tournament and brand marketing of game contents provider, game sponsor and other companies sponsoring the game tournament. The brand marketing for the sponsoring companies who are supporting the budgets of game advertisement and promotion is accomplished during the process of the present invention and win- win strategies among the above affiliated sponsoring companies may be accomplished.

[154] Once a membership subscription is completed the membership information of the subscribed-member will be provided in real-time to the game sponsor server 400, game contents provider server 360 (or game server 350) through the data receiving/ transmitting part 107. The transmitted membership information may be used by the game contents provider server 400, for example, in corporate promotion and membership services in the future.

[155] For more effective advertisement/promotion of corporate brand and game contents as well as differentiated marketing scheme, the banner advertisement and other marketing strategies may be provided through each of the PC rooms where brand promotion using video contents is available.

[156] The data receiving/transmitting part 107 transmits the membership information collected by the banner ad or other advertisement tools to other apparatus or server. That is, the data receiving/transmitting part 107 can transmit the membership information to the game sponsor server 400, game contents provider server 360, game server 350, etc. in real time or at a predetermined time.

[157] When there are a number of contents provider servers 360 a main server may manage the other server and the membership information may be sent to the main server only.

[158] When several affiliated companies use one server through a network the membership information may be stored in the database of the server and the affiliated companies may share the stored information.

[159] The membership management part 110 performs management operation including storing, deleting, addling and updating for those membership information, game participating room information and other member-related information such as the member's entry coupon (or league coupon) information. The membership information of a member who completed the subscription by the advertisement may be delivered in real time to the game sponsor server 400, game contents provider server 360 (i.e., game company) and so on. For this reason the system of the present invention may ask for the member's consents on the information sharing and co-subscription to other company's services through a ready-made provision or personal questionnaires.

[160] The game operating part 120 performs management on the game operation such as opening of game participating room, message communication between the parties of each game, scheduling of game tournament, game result management for each member, etc. The game operating part 120 comprises game processing part 122 and game results management part 124. Please refer to Fig. 2 and related explanation for more detailed features of each component.

[161] The information storage part 130 stores at least one of information regarding game server 360, affiliated organizations, servers connected via a network, names of the affiliated or joined companies, game openers, game participants, game results, game participating rooms, game results of the game participants and entry coupon. That is the information storage part 130 stores membership information and other information that are necessary for the operation of the battle game service. The information storage part 130 comprises the game information storage part 132, membership information storage part 134, game result information storage part 136 and game server information storage part 138.

[162] The game information storage part 132 stores information about available games and game participating rooms opened for a given game.

[163] Further, the membership information storage part 134 stores the member information and the member's entry coupon information that are registered in the website providing the battle game service. The membership information includes personal information comprising ID, password, name, resident registration number, address, contact information, game result information, game server address, purpose of participation, etc. The membership information may further include the member's entry coupon, credit information and so on. The member may buy the entry coupon through electronic payment means. For example, the member may purchase the entry coupon using such payment means as mobile phone, ARS, banking transaction, cultural gift certificate, game gift certificate, credit card, payment to bank account, etc. The entry coupon may be accumulated as a kind of cyber money such as "dotory" and used for an entry into the battle game. Further the members may present the items as gifts to each other.

[164] The game result information storage part 136 stores the game result of each battle game and game result information of each player based on the game result of each battle game.

[165] The game result information storage part 136 stores the game result of each battle game and game result information of each player based on the game result of each battle game. That is the game result information storage part 136 stores each game result transmitted from the game server as well as the game result information of each player processed by the game result management part 124.

[166] Further, the game server information storage 138 stores information of networked servers (especially the affiliated servers) such as battle game service provider server 190, game sponsor server 400, game contents provider server 360, game server 350 and management server (not shown) providing PC room 500 management programs.

[167] For example, the game server information storage 138 stores may store at least one of game server address, game server name, port number, location of sharing folder, name of affiliated companies and their link information for the battle game provider server 360 and other affiliated servers 190, 400. The game players may access the game server 360 to play game using the link information or game server address. The game players perform the battle game by accessing a remote game server using their computer or mobile terminals (e.g., mobile handset, PDA, etc.). The aforementioned affiliated companies or organizations includes an entity who registered its server to the battle game service provider server 190 based on a contract with the battle game service provider. The affiliated companies include, but not limited to, the game contents provider, game sponsor and other sponsoring companies.

[168] When a player subscribes to a membership due to the website banner ad provided by the game service provider server 190, the data receiving/transmitting part 197 searches the registered servers and transmits the related membership information of the newly joined member to those registered servers. The transmitted information may include not only the member's person information but also various kinds of information related to games and other services given to the member, or those information contained in the information storage part 130.

[169]

[170] Fig. 12 shows a flow chart of processes for membership subscription and membership information sharing according to the further embodiment of the present invention.

[171] For a battle game to be proceeded, a membership subscription should be made through a website and the membership information of the subscribed member may be provided to external servers affiliated to the game service provider. Hereinafter it is assumed that the battle game service apparatus 100 provides a banner ad through a website screen online to induce membership subscription and transmits the membership information to game sponsor server 400, and the battle game is processed by the game server 350 of the game contents provider.

[172] In a method for providing a battle game service using a first server for providing battle game service, a second server for providing game software for the battle game and a third server for receiving battle game service through the first and the second servers, membership information collected by at least one of the first, the second and the third servers is transmitted to at least one different server among the first, the second and the third servers at step S 1201. For example, the battle game service provider server 190 provides the banner ad about the game tournament held by the game sponsor at a website screen, the player clicks the banner ad, and membership subscription process is given to the player and the inputted information is stored. Then a search for affiliated entities (or servers) is performed and the subscribed member's membership information is transmitted via online network to the searched servers (e.g., game contents provider server 360, game sponsor server 400)

[173] The banner ad may include the brand of the game sponsor, title of the game tournament, schedule of the game tournament, name of the battle game service provider, advantages given to the player (or member) such as discount coupon, gift coupon and attendance coupon). The banner ad may be provided to each computer screen (e.g., wallpaper or website screen, etc.) of each PC room 500 by a PC room management program of affiliated companies.

[174] Further a concurrent membership subscription to the game sponsor and game contents provider may be included in the membership subscription process. Further, an authentication of membership status may be performed through the membership management part 110 and the membership management part 110 may induce the non- member players to subscribe into the membership.

[175] When a server is co-operated through a network the membership information may be shared by the database of the server, the process of transmitting membership information among different servers could be omitted. The membership information may include not only member's personal information but also various event information (i.e., services provided to the member and games that the member played and other game related information, etc.). The membership information may further include predetermined information contained in the information storage part 130.

[176] The game service provider, game contents provider and game sponsor may utilize the received the membership information for corporate brand promotion, game promotion, online service provision, product sales, product promotion, mobile SMS, various game related notification and statistical information such as statistics to relating to battle game, website access and research.

[177] For example, when the game sponsor is the government organization the sponsor may perform promotions regarding official activities including election promotion activities for presidential or congressman election using membership information. Further, an entity having an Internet portal may enable the members of the battle game service to access its own portal site without a separate membership subscription or it may use the shared membership information for its own marketing purposes.

[178] Then, the first server notifies game operating information to the game opener and game participant using the membership information at step S 1211.

[179] Then, the second server transmits the game result of the game played between the game opener and the game participant to the first server at step S 1221

[180] References will be made to Fig. 3 and Fig. 5 for the processes of opening of game participating room, notifying game operating information and transmitting game result.

[181]

[182] The overall descriptions regarding the Fig. 1 to Fig. 12 may be roughly classified in three steps as shown in Fig. 13.

[183] Fig. 13 shows an overall flow chart of a battle game service method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[184] The battle game service flow begins with a game preparation stage of step S 1300. The game preparation stage S 1300 may be divided into membership subscription process S 1301, membership information sharing process S 1302, game participating room opening process S 1303 and process for participating into the game participating room and related notification S 1304. The membership subscription process S 1301, membership information sharing process S 1302 and the game participating room opening process S 1303 are already described with reference to the Fig. 3, the process for participating into the game participating room and related notification S 1304 is described with regard to the Fig. 5, and the membership information sharing process S 1302 are explained with regard to the Fig. 12.

[185] The next is a game operation stage of step S1310. The game operation stage S1310 is divided into game operation process of S 1311 at the game server 350 and game result data collecting process of S1312. The game operation process S1311 and the game result data collecting process S 1312 are described with regard to the Fig. 5.

[186] Lastly there comes a game result processing stage of step S 1320. The game result processing stage S 1320 may be divided into the process of notifying the game result to the game players and members of the battle game service at step S 1321, the process of transmitting the game result data from the game server 350 to the battle game service apparatus 100 at step S 1322, and the process of managing the game result information of each game players at step S 1323. Each sub-process (S 1321 through S 1323) within the game result processing stage is explained with regarding to the Fig. 5.

[187]

[188] The components or parts illustrated in Figs. 2-11 may be implemented as a kind of modular device or computer server. The modular device means a hardware or software functional units such as FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) or ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit). However the modular device is not limited to the hardware or software type only. The modular device may be implemented in an addressable storage device or may be implemented to run one or more processors. The functions given by the components or modular devices may be further divided or integrated in accordance with a design scheme.

[189] Although the present invention has been described with regard to the accompanied drawings showing exemplary embodiments of the present invention, the person having ordinary skill in the art will understand that various conversions and modifications thereof could be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention.

Claims

[1] A battle game service system comprising a first server for providing battle game service; and a second server for providing game software for the battle game, wherein: the first server enables game players to access the second server through wired or wireless Internet or mobile communication to play the battle game, the second server transmits the game result of the battle game to the first server, and the first server manages the game result information of each game player based on the received transmitted game result.

[2] The battle game service system of claim 1, further comprising a third server for receiving the battle game service from the first and second servers.

[3] The battle game service system of claim 2, the third server provides PC room management program which outputs an advertisement for inducing membership subscription on the monitor screen of PCs in the PC room.

[4] The battle game service system of one of claims 1 to 3, the first server notifies game operating information to at least one of game opener who opened a game participating room for the battle game and game participant who joined the game participating room.

[5] The battle game service system of claim 4, the first server notifies the game operating information to the opener's mobile handset using a message selected from a group consisting of SMS, MMS, LMS, mobile e-mail, mobile message using mobile messenger program, voice message, and Shot mail.

[6] The battle game service system of claim 2,

Membership information of the game players collected from at least one of the first, the second and the third servers is transmitted to at least one different server within a server group consisting of the first, the second and the third server.

[7] The battle game service system of claim 2, further comprising a fourth server for providing PC room management program which outputs a banner advertisement for inducing membership subscription on the monitor screen of PCs in the PC room, and transmitting the membership information inputted from the banner advertisement to at least one different server within a server group consisting of the first, the second and the third server.

[8] The battle game service system of claim 7, the banner advertisement comprises at least one of brand name, logo, advertising description, free coupon, discount coupon, mileage, award, date of game, place of game, and form of game.

[9] The battle game service system of claim 2, the first server comprises: a membership management part that authenticates the membership status of the game opener and the game participant through a log-in process at a website that provides the battle game service; a game processing part that opens a game participating room for the battle game upon the request of the game opener and informs the game participant's information to one of mobile handsets of the game opener and the game participant using a message; a game result management part that manages the game result information of each game player based on the game result between the game opener and the game participant transmitted from the second server; and an information storage part that stores information selected from a group consisting of information regarding at least one server among the first, the second and the third server, game type, game opener, game participant, game result, game participating room, game result information, entry coupon.

[10] The battle game service system of claim 9, the game information storage part comprises: a game information storage part that stores information regarding the type of available games and game participating rooms for the battle game; a membership information storage part that stores information regarding the membership of the game players registered to the website providing the battle game service and entry coupon of the game players; a game result information storage part that stores the game result of each battle game and game result information of each player; and a game server information storage part that stores the information regarding at least one server among the first, the second and the third servers.

[11] A method for providing a battle game service using a first server for providing battle game service and a second server for providing game software for the battle game, comprising the steps of:

(a) opening a game participating room for the battle game at the first server upon request from a game opener;

(b) receiving an application of participation to the game participating room from a game participant;

(c) providing the battle game service through the second server; and

(d) receiving at the first server the game result transmitted from the second server.

[12] The method for providing a battle game service of claim 11, wherein the battle game service further uses a third server for receiving the battle game service through the first and the second servers, and the method further comprising the step of:

(e) transmitting membership information of the game players collected from at least one of the first, the second and the third servers to at least one different server within a server group consisting of the first, the second and the third server.

[13] The method for providing a battle game service of claim 12, further comprising the step of:

[14] The method for providing battle game service of claim 12, wherein the step (e) comprises the steps of: receiving the membership information through a banner advertisement on a website provided by at least one server among the first, the second and the third servers; allowing the game player to click the banner advertisement; providing the game player with membership subscription process; inspecting information regarding at least one server among the first, the second and the third servers; and transmitting the membership information to the inspected server.

[15] The method for providing battle game service of claim 11, wherein the step (a) comprises the steps of: authenticating at the first server the membership status of the game opener; providing at the first server the items required to open a battle game to the game opener if the game opener was verified to have a membership from a normal login process or membership status authentication process; and opening at the first server the game participating room based on the items provided by the game opener.

[16] The method for providing battle game service of claim 15, wherein the items provided by the game opener includes at least one selected from a group consisting of name of the game participating room, game type, ID of game opener, contact information of game opener, date of game, game server, form of game, entry coupon and game level.

[17] The method for providing battle game service of claim 17, wherein the step (b) comprises the steps of: authentication at the first server the membership status of the game participant; verifying at the first server the items required to participate in the game participating room filled-out by the game participant; and notifying at the first server the application of participation of the game participant to the game opener using a message when the items were verified as acceptable.