System and method for providing and distributing game on network

• US 8,131,797 B2
• Filed: 06/30/2008
• Issued: 03/06/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NHN Entertainment Corporation
• Original Assignee: NHN Corporation
• Inventors: Joo, Seongyoun, Kim, Younhee
• Primary Examiner(s): Boutah, Alina N.
• Application Number:
  US12/215,786
• Publication Number:
  US 20090005174A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,345 Days
• Field of Search: 709/201, 709/206, 463/42, 463/43
• US Class Current: 709/201
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/323 wherein the player is informed, e.g. advertisements, odds, instructions

Abstract

A system and a method for providing and distributing a game widely on a network are disclosed. The method includes: creating and storing game platform data which load a game to be distributed; providing a copy function that allows source address information of a game platform, corresponding to the game to be distributed, to be copied; downloading the game platform data in response to a request for the game platform from a client using the source address information of the game platform; and downloading the game to be distributed and additional information in response to an activation of the downloaded game platform data, wherein the game platform provides the copy function that allows the source address information of the game platform to be copied in response to a request from the client.

Claims

1. A system for providing and distributing a game, the system comprising:

a game providing unit configured to provide at least one game content to a client;

a game platform unit configured to generate, by a processor, a game platform comprising data and a source address of the game platform, the data comprising game platform skin data, related game link data, advertisement information data, or any combination thereof, wherein the game platform skin data is configured to display the game platform associated with providing a copy function using a user interface, wherein a non-transitory storage medium is configured to store the data of the game platform; and

a request unit configured to request the data of the game platform and in response to detection of activating the copy function associated with the user interface, the game platform is converted into a format allowing to copy the source address of the game platform, wherein the data is downloaded using the source address.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the copy function further comprises allowing to copy a network address of the game platform via the game server or the game platform.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the related game information or the advertisement information is updated associated with the game platform.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the related game information comprises link information of a page for linking a game comprising a similar genre as the game to be distributed.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the format allowing to copy the source address of the game platform comprises a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) address format or a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) tag format.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the game platform is configured to request data of the game to be distributed in response to detection of a document including the HTML tag being activated on a web.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the game platform is configured to provide a network address of the game platform to be copied on the web where the game platform is activated.

8. A method for providing and distributing a game, the method comprising:

creating a game platform;

loading data comprising at least one of source address data of the game platform, one or more game data to be distributed, related game data, or advertisement data into the game platform;

providing a copy function to copy the data associated with the game platform by generating a user interface, wherein the game platform is converted into a format allowing to copy the source address of the game platform;

downloading the data in response to receiving a request for the game platform using the source address information of the game platform; and

activating the loaded data in response to detection of a selection of the downloaded data using the user interface.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

creating data for the game to be distributed;

matching the game to be distributed with the related game data;

matching the game to be distributed with the advertisement data;

creating the source address data of the game platform; and

creating the game platform data comprising at least one of game platform skin data, source address data for game to be distributed, related game link data, advertisement information data, or game platform source address information data.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the related game data comprises at least one of a game data having a similar genre as the game data to be distributed, a recommended game data or a popular game data.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the game platform comprises link information of the related game data.

12. The method of claim 8 further comprising:

providing a page comprising the related game data in response to detection of a request for the related game data.

13. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising a computer executable program, executed by a processor to perform the steps of claim 8.

14. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising a computer executable program, executed by a processor to perform the steps of claim 9.

15. A server comprising non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising a data structure for a game platform, executed by a processor, for providing and distributing a game, the server comprising:

game platform being generated by the processor, the game platform comprising data and a source address of the game platform, the source address configured for a game to be distributed which is loaded on the game platform, the data comprising game platform skin data configured to design an outer appearance of the game platform and to display the game platform associated with providing a copy function using a user interface, and the game platform further comprising;

related game link data configured to display link information of a game related to the game to be distributed; and

advertisement information data;

wherein in response to detection of activating the copy function associated with the user interface, the game platform is converted into a format allowing to copy the source address of the game platform, wherein the data is downloaded using the source address.

16. The server of claim 15, wherein the data of the game platform is generated by using Flash software.

17. The server of claim 15, wherein the source address of the game platform to be distributed is designed by using Flash software.

18. The server of claim 15, wherein the source address of the game platform is formed by using an html tag.