Distance based distributed online game server system

• US 20040116186A1
• Filed: 12/05/2003
• Published: 06/17/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Kim, Jong-Sung, Park, Il-Kyu, Lee, Eun-Hee, Shim, Kwang-Hyun, Chung, Jaeyong, Choi, Byoung-Tae
• Application Number:
  US10/729,477
• Publication Number:
  US 20040116186A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/42
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/12 involving interaction between a plurality of game devices, e.g. transmisison or distribution systems protocols for networked virtual reality, networked games H04L29/06034
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/30 Interconnection arrangements between game servers and game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game servers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/335 using Internet
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/352 involving special game server arrangements, e.g. regional servers connected to a national server or a plurality of servers managing partitions of the game world
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/71 using secure communication between game devices and game servers, e.g. by encrypting game data or authenticating players
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/79 involving player-related data, e.g. identities, accounts, preferences or play histories
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/50 characterized by details of game servers

Abstract

A distance based distributed online game server system is disclosed. The distance based distributed online game server system provides online game of an imaginary game world with various characters by dividing the imaginary game world into a plurality of regions and managing online game based on the regions. The distance based distributed online game server system includes a session server for providing information including region information; a database server 102 for managing player information and transmitting corresponding player information to the session server; a non-player character (NPC) server for managing data and processing scripts of non-player character by artificial intelligence; a game server for providing a game service to payers within a region assigned by the session server according to the region information and managing the game of region by dividing the region into cells; and a real-time download server for provides a real-time downloading service to the player.

Claims

1. A distance based distributed online game server system for providing online game of an imaginary game world with various characters by dividing the imaginary game world into a plurality of regions and managing online game based on the regions, the distance based distributed online game server system comprising:

a session server for authenticating a player and providing information including region information and character information, wherein the character information has information of game character selected by the player;

a database server 102 for managing player information including account information of the player and character information and transmitting corresponding player information to the session server when the session server requests to have player information of a player;

a non-player character (NPC) server for managing data and processing scripts of non-player character by artificial intelligence, wherein the non-player character is a game character that are not selected by the player;

a game server for providing a game service to payers within a region assigned by the session server according to the region information and managing the game of region by dividing the region into cells; and

a real-time download server for provides a real-time downloading service to the player.

2. The distance based distributed online game server system as recited in claim 1, wherein the session server provides the region information including a server address and a port number of the game server assigned to a player within corresponding region.

3. The distance based distributed online game server system as recited in claim 1, wherein the game server is managed by the NPC server, the database server and the session server.

4. The distance based distributed online game server system as recited in claim 1, wherein when a region is added, a game server is added to manage the region.

5. The distance based distributed online game server system as recited in claim 1, wherein a transmission control protocol (TCP) or a reliable user datagram protocol (RUDP) is used in communication between the player for obtaining reliability of the system and an area of interest method is used for reducing system load.

6. The distance based distributed online game server system as recited in claim 1, wherein movements or changes of characters are predicted by dead-reckoning within a limit of error.