WO2003005266A1

WO2003005266A1 - Method of imposing gambling game fee adding up to adsl service charge

Info

Publication number: WO2003005266A1
Application number: PCT/KR2001/001292
Authority: WO
Inventors: Gi-Ju An
Original assignee: Gi-Ju An
Priority date: 2001-06-29
Filing date: 2001-07-30
Publication date: 2003-01-16
Also published as: KR20030002387A

Abstract

The method of imposing a gambling game fee, which is differentially calculated depending on a result of the network game by adding up to the ADSL service charge, includes the steps of processing game among gamers on Internet through ADSL, calculating the game fee differentially depending on victory or defeat of each gamer, transmitting a breakdown of the calculated game fee to the ADSL service provider so as to add up the game fee to the ADSL service charge.

Description

METHOD OF IMPOSING GABLING GAME FEE ADDING UP TO ADSL

SERVICE CHARGE

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates to a method of imposing network

game fee, and more particularly the present invention relates to a

method of imposing a game fee, which is differentially calculated

depending on victory or defeat of the gambling game, by adding up to

ADSL service charge.

BACKGROUND ART

Recently, there have been stably built infrastructures related to

Internet and the related art has moved ahead grew by leaps and bounds.

Internet thus entered into the center of human society together with

supply of a great variety of services on-line.

Among those, game service is widely used by young people and

the number of game service users has explosively increased. Hence, in

spite of an old biased view, the game is considered as one kind of

cultural contents which is even encouraged through the national policy.

Games provided through PC, video or game machines in a game

room are already antiquated. Today, more spotlighted are network

games which are provided and used through a communications network. The network game allows so-called multi-play. In the network game, a

gamer can enjoy the game against human opponents, not against a

computer which responds to the gamer just in accordance with a

predetermined algorithm. This network game requires more

intelligent reaction of the gamer in the game and also gives more

variables to the gamer. In these points of view, the network game is

more and more popularized among gamers.

There are various kinds of genres in the network game: strategic

simulation game, matching game, role-playing game and adventure

game. Most of them also have a feature of the matching game at least

partially, so allowing a gamer to fight for victory against other gamer(s)

on line.

Related to a method of processing a gambling game depending on

a game result, there is proposed Korean patent publication

No.2000-0037442 which discloses that a mileage point of each gamer is

deposited in an electronic wallet, and the mileage points of a winner

gamer and a loser gamer are settled through the electronic wallets.

Owing to a substantial economic effect on gamers, this gambling

game makes gamers sincerely participate in the game. Thus, the

gambling game may prevent gamers from playing games insincerely

only with the thought of time.

Meanwhile, ADSL service realizing digital communications through a telephone line which is a relatively stable infrastructure is

recently widely spread (occupying about 70% of total Internet users,

reported by Yonhap news, Jun. 10^th. 2001). The number of the

Internet users using the ADSL service is predicted to rapidly increase

and be saturated soon.

DISCLOSURE OF INVENTION

The present invention is designed to solve the problems of the

prior art, and therefore an object of the present invention is to provide a

method of imposing a differential game fee according to victory or defeat

of a gambling game by adding up the game fee to ADSL service charge.

This object, other incidental ends and advantages of the invention

will hereinafter appear in the progress of the disclosure and as pointed

out in the appended claims.

In order to accomplish the above object, the present invention

provides a method of imposing a gambling game fee by adding up to an

ADSL service charge, which comprises the steps of: (A) a gamer

accessing a service server through a computer system using the ADSL

service and playing a network gambling game with other gamers; (B) the

service server differentially calculating a game fee of the gamer

depending on victory or defeat of the network game at the end of the

game; and (C) the service server transmitting a breakdown of the calculated game fee to a service provider of the ADSL service by data

communications and requesting the ADSL service provider to impose

the game fee by adding up to an ADSL service charge.

Preferably, the gamer inputs ADSL service identifier information

including ADSL service name, user ID and password.

Also, the ADSL service provider in concert with the service server

can receive payments of the game fee added up to the ADSL service

charge from the gamer and then provides the service server with the

game fee of the gamer.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

These and other features, aspects, and advantages of the present

invention will become better understood with regard to the following

description, appended claims, and accompanying drawings, in which

like components are referred to by like reference numerals. In the

drawings:

FIG. 1 shows a configuration of a network system to which a

method of imposing a gambling game fee by adding up to an ADSL

service charge in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the

present invention is applied;

FIG. 2 shows a functional configuration of a gambling game

service server included in the network system of FIG. 1 ; FIG. 3 is a flow chart for illustrating the process of imposing a

gambling game fee by adding up to an ADSL service charge in

accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a flow chart for illustrating the process of calculating a

gambling game fee for a gambling game which is progressed by gamers

and outputting a breakdown of the game fee through a web page in

accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention; and

FIG. 5 is a flow chart for illustrating the process of transmitting

the breakdown of the game fee to the ADSL service provider and

requesting to impose the game fee adding up to an ADSL service charge

in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

BEST MODES FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will

be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

First of all, terms and words used in the specification and the

claims should be interpreted not in a limited normal or dictionary

meaning, but to include meanings and concepts conforming with

technical aspects of the present invention, based on the face that

inventors may appropriately define a concept of a term to describe

his/her own invention in a best way.

Therefore, the configurations described in the specification and drawn in the figures are just most preferred embodiments of the present

invention, not to show all of the technical aspects of the present

invention. So, it should be understood that there might be various

equalities and modifications to be replaced with them.

FIG. 1 shows a configuration of a network system to which a

method of imposing a gambling game fee adding up to ADSL service

charge in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present

invention is applied.

The network system includes a gamer terminal (10) using ADSL

(Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) service, a telephone office system

(20) providing the ADSL service, an ADSL communication network (40)

for connecting the gamer terminal (10) and the telephone office system

(20), an on-line gambling game service server (40) and a network (50) for

connecting the telephone office system (20) and the gambling game

service server (40).

The gamer terminal (10) is a client system on a gamer side, which

allows a gamer to access the gambling game service server (30) through

the ADSL Internet service and play a network gambling game against

other gamer(s). The gamer terminal (10) includes an ADSL modem for

ADSL service and a web browser program for using Internet. The

gamer terminal (10) can be a common personal computer or a portable

computer. The telephone office system (20) is a computer system on a

service provider side, which provides the ADSL Internet service, or

upstream/ downstream asymmetric digital communication service,

through an existing twisted-pair cable telephone lines. The telephone

office system (20) receives a breakdown of a gambling game fee of a

gamer from the gambling game service server (30), and then imposes

the game fee adding up to an ADSL service charge on the gamer.

According to this invention, it is preferable that the telephone

office system (20) includes information related to ADSL service users in

database and provides user certification to the gambling game service

server (30) when required.

The gambling game service server (30) is a server system that

provides the network gambling game(s) to be executed on the web. The

gambling game service server (30) differentially calculates a game fee of

each gamer depending on a result of the game and provides a

breakdown of the game fee to the telephone office system (20) through

data communications so that the game fee is added up to an ADSL

service charge when imposed.

As described above, the gamer terminal (10) and the telephone

office system (20) are connected through the ADSL communication

network (40). The communication network (50) supports data

communications between the telephone office system (20) and the gambling game service server (10). Preferably, wire Internet network

based on world wide web (WWW) is applied as the communication

network (50).

Though it is exemplarily described that the gambling game service

server (30) itself provides various network games, the gambling game

service server (30) may also relay various network games through a

plurality of other affiliated game servers.

FIG. 2 schematically shows a functional configuration of the

gambling game service server according to a preferred embodiment of

the present invention.

The gambling game service server (30) includes a server engine

(32), a plurality of web pages (34), a gamer managing module (36a), a

gambling game providing module (36b), a game result information

obtaining module (36c), a game fee calculating module (36d), a game fee

imposition requesting module (36e), a gamer information DB (38a), a

gambling game DB (38b), a game result information DB (38c) and a

game fee breakdown DB (38d).

The server engine (32) provides various web pages (34) to the

gamer terminal (10) accessing through the ADSL Internet service and

provides a platform for server-side programs such as above-mentioned

modules (36a ~ 36e).

At this point, the web page (34) is preferably made in a HTML format. But, the web page may be made in any format that can be

read out by a computer system.

The gamer managing module (36a) carries out accepting a request

of member registration and stores and manages personal information

input as the gamer requests member registration, log-in information

including ID and password and ADSL service identifier information in

the gamer information DB (38a). The gamer managing module (36a)

also carries out authorizing whether a gamer who trying to log in using

ID and password is a proper user.

The gambling game providing module (36b) is a program that

provides network gambling games to be executed on the web. For this,

the gambling game providing module (36b) works together with the

gambling game DB (38b) storing the gambling game program. The

gambling game providing module (36b) also helps the gamer to select an

opponent gamer through its arrangement.

The game result information obtaining module (36c) is a program

that obtains the game result information such as winner/ loser and

game using time of a gambling game executed among gamers and stores

and manages the game result information in the game result

information DB (38c).

The game fee calculating module (36d) differentially calculates a

game fee of each gamer in a way of charging a game fee of a winner gamer to a loser gamer by using the obtained game result information.

The game fee calculating module (36d) also manages and stores

information related to the game fee in the game fee breakdown DB

(38d).

The game fee imposition requesting module (36e) is a program

that provides a breakdown of the calculated game fee of each gamer to

the telephone office system (20) through communication networks (50)

and requests to charge the game fee to be added up to the ADSL service

charge.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart for illustrating the process of imposing a

gambling game fee adding up to ADSL service charge in accordance

with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

A gamer using ADSL Internet service accesses the gambling game

service server (30) and then establishes data link to execute a gambling

game on line through his/her own computer system.

In other words, the gamer accesses a URL representing the

gambling game service server (30) using a web browser in the user

terminal (10), and then the user may check a web page corresponding

to the URL, which is transmitted from the gambling game server (30)

and displayed on the screen of web browser.

Thereafter, as a usual process, the gamer proceeds member

registration for the usage of service (step SI 00). The gambling game service server (30) accepts the member registration of the gamer and

stores input information of the gamer in the gamer information DB

(38a).

At this point, the gamer information includes log-in information

such as ID and password and ADSL service identifier information such

as ADSL service name (e.g. Megapass of Korean Telecom Co. Ltd.), user

ID, password or the like.

Preferably, the gambling game service server (30) accepts the

member registration properly only after checking that the gamer uses

ADSL service through data communications with the computer system

(20) of the corresponding ADSL service provider, in the member

registration process.

The gamer registered as a member logs in the server using

his/her own ID and password, and then the gambling game service

server (30) performs certification of the gamer by using the gamer

information DB (38a) (step S200).

If the gamer is certified proper, the gambling game service server

(30) provides a web page on which various service menus are displayed.

The gamer then requests the usage of a desired gambling game on the

provided web page (step S300).

The gambling game service server (30) then shows other gamers

who are waiting for executing the corresponding gambling game so that the gamer may select an opponent gamer among them (step S400).

At this time, the process of configuring gamers participating in a

game can be performed in a manner commonly adopted in a multi-user

network game.

After the participants in the gambling game are configured as

above, the gambling game service server (30) provides the corresponding

gambling game to be executed on the web by using the gambling game

DB (38b). Then, the gamer progresses the gambling game displayed on

the monitor screen against the opponent gamer by using an input

device such as a keyboard (step S500).

The gambling game is over at the time that a winner or loser is

concluded (step S600). If the gambling game is concluded, the

gambling game service server (30) obtains the game result information

such as victory/ defeat data and game using time and then stores the

information in the game result information DB (38c) (step S700).

Then, the gambling game service server (30) calculates a game fee

of each gamer for the gambling game differentially (step S800), and

displays the calculated game fee through a web page for the gamers to

check.

FIG. 4 shows the step S800 in more detail. Referring to FIG. 4,

the gambling game service server (30) calculates an original game fee of

a gamer for the enjoyed gambling game (step S800a). The original game fee may be calculated based on game using time.

The gambling game service server (30) then determines whether

the gamer is a winner gamer based on the game result (step S800b). If

the gamer is a winner gamer, the calculated original game fee is not

imposed to the gamer. But, if the gamer is not a winner gamer but a

loser gamer, the original game fee of the winner gamer is imposed on

the loser gamer together with the original game fee of the loser gamer

(step S800c).

Then, a breakdown of the imposed game fee is stored in the game

fee breakdown DB (38d), and the breakdown is output and displayed on

a web page (step S800d).

Referring to FIG. 3 again, at a predetermined time, the gambling

game service server (30) transmits the game fee breakdown of the gamer,

stored in the DB (38d), to a computer system of the ADSL service

provider so that the corresponding game fee is imposed on the

corresponding gamer by being added up to an ADSL service charge (step

S900).

FIG. 5 shows the step S900 in more detail. Referring to FIG. 5,

the gambling game service server (30) firstly determines whether it

comes the time to transmit the game fee breakdown (step S900a). If

the time comes, the gambling game service server (30) identifies gamers

who need to pay game fees by using the game fee breakdown DB (38d) (step S900b). Then, the gambling game service server (30) checks an

ADSL service provider, which is used by an identified gamer, from the

gamer information DB (38a) (step S900c). The gambling game service

server (30) then extracts the game fee breakdown of the corresponding

gamer from the game fee breakdown DB (38d) (step S900d), and then

transmits the breakdown to a computer system (20) of the checked

ADSL service provider together with the gamer identification

information (step S900e).

At this time, the gamer identification information includes ID and

password of the gamer used for the ADSL service. This information is

extracted from the gamer information DB (38a).

Hereby, the method of imposing a game fee adding up to an ADSL

service charge according to the present invention is completed.

In the above, the gambling game service server (30) stores an IP

address specifying the computer system (20) of the ADSL service

provider. Thus, the gambling game service server (30) connects the IP

address to transmit the game fee breakdown of the gamer.

The ADSL service provider then adds up the transmitted game fee

of a gamer as an item of an ADSL service charge of the corresponding

gamer. The ADSL service provider also pays the game fee to the

gambling game service server (30) from money paid by the gamer after

settlement of the ADSL service charge. In the fact that an ADSL service charge is currently added up

telephone charges, it could be considered that the game fee is added up

to the telephone charges.

The present invention has been described in detail. However, it

should be understood that the detailed description and specific

examples, while indicating preferred embodiments of the invention, are

given by way of illustration only, since various changes and

modifications within the spirit and scope of the invention will become

apparent to those skilled in the art from this detailed description.

INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY

According to the method of imposing a game fee adding up to an

ADSL service charge of the present invention, there is provided more

differentiated gambling game method, so attracting stronger interest of

gamers. This method makes gamers be more sincere to gambling

games, so contributing to making the sound game cultures. In

addition, since the game fee is imposed adding up to an ADSL service

charge, the gambling game service provider may lessen a burden of the

imposing business. The ADSL service provider can also levy a charge

for imposition agency business from the gambling game service provider.

Furthermore, this method makes gamers more convenient since the

gamers may check and pay both charges required for the gambling game in a bundle.

Claims

What is claimed is;

1. A method of imposing a gambling game fee by adding up to

an ADSL service charge, which comprises the steps of:

(A) a gamer accessing a service server through a computer system

using the ADSL service and playing a network gambling game with

other gamers;

(B) the service server differentially calculating a game fee of the

gamer depending on victory or defeat of the network game at the end of

the game; and

(C) the service server transmitting a breakdown of the calculated

game fee to a service provider of the ADSL service by data

communications and requesting the ADSL service provider to impose

the game fee by adding up to an ADSL service charge.

2. The method of imposing a gambling game fee according to

claim 1,

wherein the gamer inputs ADSL service identifier information

including ADSL service name, user ID and password.

3. The method of imposing a gambling game fee according to

claim 1 or 2, wherein the ADSL service provider in concert with the service

server receives payments of the game fee added up to the ADSL service

charge from the gamer and then provides the service server with the

game fee of the gamer.