Internet bingo game method and system capable of promoting perception and studying ability

• US 20020183108A1
• Filed: 11/27/2001
• Published: 12/05/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Chang Suhn Baeg
• Original Assignee: Chang Suhn Baeg
• Inventors: Baeg, Chang Suhn
• Granted Patent: US 6,835,138 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/19
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/407 Data transfer via internet
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/062 Bingo games, e.g. Bingo card games
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/0645 Electric lottos or bingo games

Abstract

If a person who opens Internet bingo game selects subjects, data pool is formed of many bingo data materials in a subject database, and N² bingo data materials are selected from data pool to fill an N×N bingo board, to thereby produce a data set. Then, using bingo data materials in data set, different data sets are produced by the number of users. When users apply for taking part in bingo game, data set is transmitted to fill a bingo board of each user terminal. Then, if N² bingo data materials are converted into multimedia data and multimedia data is randomly and subsequently provided to each user as playing card data, user clicks a corresponding block of the bingo board corresponding to corresponding playing card whenever users receive playing cards. If user who forms a preset bingo goal in the earliest announces a bingo, game terminates. If problems are provided to playing card data and bingo data materials in bingo board are provided as answers to problems, perception and learning ability to each subject can be promoted through game.

Claims

1. An Internet bingo game method having an effect of enhancing a perception ability and a learning ability, the Internet bingo game method comprising the steps of:

making a bingo data set with N² selected bingo data materials in order to fill an N×

N bingo board in which N is an integer equal to or more than three, from a number of subject database when at least one user applies for participating in a game;

aligning the N² bingo data materials in the data set at random to thereby produce respectively different data sets by as many as the number of game participants;

transmitting the respectively different bingo data set from a system server to each participant terminal so as to fill a bingo board of each participant terminal;

converting the N² bingo data materials into multimedia data and providing the multimedia data randomly and sequentially to each participant as playing card data; and

selecting a corresponding block of the bingo board corresponding to a corresponding playing card whenever the participant receives the playing card, to thereby make a participant who forms a predetermined bingo goal pattern in the earliest announce a bingo.

2. The Internet bingo game method of claim 1, further comprising the step of allowing a game participant to learn an explanation with respect to a game subject to be selected before or after participating a bingo game.

3. The Internet bingo game method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of setting a game configuration in order to establish at least one among game termination conditions set with any one among a game subject, a game level, a maximum number of gamers, a gaming rule, a goal pattern, use language of multimedia data, graphic style, the number of times of bingo, a game progress time and the number of playing card and a game option of the bingo game, in which a bingo board and playing card data is selected according to a pre-stored game configuration in the case that a following bingo game.

4. The Internet bingo game method of claim 3, further comprising the step of storing the set game configuration.

5. The Internet bingo game method of claim 1, wherein problems enhancing a perception and learning ability are provided to the playing card data provided from the server to the participant terminal, as multimedia data, and the bingo data materials for the bingo board are provided as answers with respect to the problems.

6. The Internet bingo game method of claim 1, wherein said bingo data set making step comprises the sub-steps of:

selecting one or more subjects among a number of subjects at the configuration setting time of the participant;

forming a data pool having a number of bingo data materials included in the respective subject databases according to the selected subject and playing a role of answers with respect to problems; and

selecting N² bingo data materials to fill the bingo board from the dat pool to thereby make a data set.

7. The Internet bingo game method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

continuing to play the same bingo game in succession to the primary bingo annunciation; and

accumulating and calculating a winning point of the participant in the case that the same participant announces the secondary bingo, in the result of playing a game in succession to the primary bingo annunciation.

8. The Internet bingo game method of claim 1, wherein said subject is any one of an advertisement of a company, an entertainment, an amusement, a hobby and a common sense.

9. The Internet bingo game method of claim 1, wherein respectively different bingo board data materials corresponding to the number of applicants are transmitted to one of said terminals, when one or more users apply for participating a bingo game using a single terminal, respectively.

10. The Internet bingo game method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of converting the bingo board and playing card selected by the user into a separate form of print files and transmitting the same to the user.

11. The Internet bingo game method of claim 1, wherein said participant re-aligns the bingo board filled with the received data set.

12. The Internet bingo game method of claim 1, wherein virtual participants are automatically created by as many as the remaining shortage persons, in the case that the participant starts to play a game before the number of participants reaches the maximum gamers.

13. The Internet bingo game method of claim 1, further comprising the step of providing supplemental materials helpful for solving problems after having provided the playing card, to the respective participants.

14. The Internet bingo game method of claim 1, further comprising the step of recording and analyzing the pronounced voice of the participant in response to the voice embodied by the voice data among the multimedia data of the playing card.

15. The Internet bingo game method of claim 1, wherein said multimedia data includes voice data, and further comprising the step of setting a repetition period, the number of times of repetition and pronunciation speed of voice embodied by the voice data.

17. The Internet bingo game system of claim 16, wherein said system server comprises:

a bingo board display displaying his or her own bingo board on each participant terminal when a participant applies for taking part in a bingo game of the system server;

a number of small-sized bingo board displays for identifying other participants'"'"' proceeding situations;

a playing card display displaying graphic data of the playing card;

a character data display displaying the character data of the playing card; and

a game screen including a chatting space for allowing for communicating an item to be transmitted between the participants.

18. The Internet bingo game system of claim 16, further comprising a learning database including a number of learning data materials for explaining the subject bingo data materials in detail, and a learning select menu for selecting learning data materials relating to the game subject.

16. An Internet bingo game system comprising:

a number of Internet accessible participant terminals each including a web browser; and

a system server including a bingo database configured to have a number of subject databases each including a number of subject bingo data materials, and a web server making a bingo data set with N² selected bingo data materials in order to fill an N×

N bingo board in which N is an integer equal to or more than three, from a number of subject databases when at least one user applies for participating in a game, aligning the N² bingo data materials in the data set at random to thereby produce respectively different data sets by as many as the number of game participants, transmitting the respectively different bingo data set to each participant terminal so as to fill a bingo board of each participant terminal, converting the N² bingo data materials into multimedia data and providing the multimedia data randomly and sequentially to each participant as playing card data, selecting a corresponding block of the bingo board corresponding to a corresponding playing card whenever the participant receives the playing card, to thereby make a participant who forms a predetermined bingo goal pattern in the earliest announce a bingo,

wherein problems enhancing a perception and learning ability are correspondingly provided to the playing card data and the bingo data materials in the bingo board are provided as answers with respect to the problems.