Venus system

• US 20050170891A1
• Filed: 06/04/2004
• Published: 08/04/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/24/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Park, Il Kyu, Shim, Kwang Hyun, Lim, Bum Hyun, Jung, Yung Woo, Chung, Jaeyong, Choi, Byoung Tae
• Application Number:
  US10/860,304
• Publication Number:
  US 20050170891A1
• 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 13/35 Details of game servers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/535 for monitoring, e.g. of user parameters, terminal parameters, application parameters, network parameters

Abstract

A VENUS (Virtual Environment Network User Simulator) system, including: a VC (Virtual Client) agent for managing a plurality of VCs and providing a monitoring result; a server observer for transmitting a state of a server system by a request or periodically; a client observer for transmitting a state of a client system by a request or periodically; a testing game client for transmitting a state of an application program by using an API (Application Program Interface) provided from an observer library; a testing game server cluster for transmitting a state of an application program using the API provided from the observer library; and a CES (Central Engineering Station) for receiving an input from a user to setup a simulation environment, managing the VC agent, monitoring a network state and the state of the server system through the server observer, and monitoring the state of the client system through the client observer.

Claims

1. A VENUS (Virtual Environment Network User Simulator) system, comprising:

a VC (Virtual Client) agent for managing a plurality of VCs and providing a monitoring result;

a server observer for transmitting a state of a server system by a request or periodically;

a client observer for transmitting a state of a client system by a request or periodically;

a testing game client for transmitting a state of an application program by using an API (Application Program Interface) provided from an observer library;

a testing game server cluster for transmitting a state of an application program using the API provided from the observer library; and

a CES (Central Engineering Station) for receiving an input from a user to setup a simulation environment, managing the VC agent, monitoring a network state and the state of the server system through the server observer, and monitoring the state of the client system through the client observer.

2. The VENUS system of claim 1, further comprising a database for storing simulation-targeted performance information and user definition information.

3. The VENUS system of claim 1, wherein the VC and the VC agent use a generalization protocol to control various VCs.

4. The VENUS system of claim 1, wherein the VC agent and the CES use the generalization protocol to control various VCs.

5. The VENUS system of claim 1, wherein the CES and the testing game client use a flexible protocol to transmit user definition data.

6. The VENUS system of claim 1, wherein the CES and the testing game server cluster use the flexible protocol to transmit the user definition data.

7. The VENUS system of claim 1, wherein a limit for applying a load to the testing game server cluster is dynamically calculated depending on a performance of the VC agent, and is controlled according to need.