KR20130082633A - Method and apparatus for providing of game information - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A game information providing method and a device thereof are provided to expect what game type a user wants to play and effectively recommend appropriate games to the user by using the user's SNS information. CONSTITUTION: A game information providing device obtains a user's personal information including his or her SNS information (S210). The game information providing device recommends some games to the user based on the user personal information (S220). The game information providing device provides relevant information regarding at least one of the recommended games (S230). [Reference numerals] (AA) Start; (BB) End; (S210) Obtain the information about a user; (S220) Determine a game to recommend; (S230) Provide the informaiton about the recommended game

Description

Method and apparatus for providing game information {Method and apparatus for providing of game information}

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing game information, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for providing information about a game to be recommended to a user based on information about the user's SNS.

Conventionally, game companies gradually expand the size of game user groups by securing initial users by using general advertising methods of product advertisements, and by inviting neighbors to use it when experienced users of the game are interested. Game users in a way.

However, each time a new game is released, there is a limit to spending a large amount of advertising or promotion separately, and the effect of the advertisement cannot be guaranteed. In addition, it is not effective to wait indefinitely until a potential user searches for the game in the game category list and encounters the game.

Once you have a user who is interested in a game, it is most important to first give them the opportunity to experience the game, which is mainly psychologically related to a game recommended by a person who is recommended by an acquaintance. The most efficient way is to be exposed to the opportunity to encounter the game without resistance.

In the past, the way in which a game experienced person recommended the game that he / she used to recommend it to his or her relatives mainly depends on the method of inviting users to download and use the game by using oral explanations or wire-to-face. Even if the recommended person has a desire to try a mobile game, the train that searches and downloads the location of the game source is also tricky and complicated, and even if the game is recommended, the game spreads as a barrier.

In addition, even though he was quite interested in the game he had experienced, he was often just mentioned to his relatives, and he also actively recommended it and had little incentive to spread the game. In addition, even if the recommended person receives the recommendation message for the mobile game, the effect of the recommendation is often halved by not being distinguished from the indiscriminate mass sending message.

The purpose of solving the above problems is to effectively provide game information, and in particular, to effectively provide information about the recommended game using the user's SNS information.

One aspect of an embodiment of the present invention for achieving the above object comprises the steps of: obtaining user information including information about the user's SNS; Determining a game to be recommended to the user based on the user information; And providing information on at least one of the recommended games.

The user information may include at least one of a game play pattern of the user and existing game information of the user.

The SNS information may include a friend list of the user in the SNS subscribed to the user.

The determining may include determining a game to which the friend included in the friend list is the recommended game.

The determining may include selecting a priority of friends included in the friend list according to a predetermined criterion, and determining a game to which the friend whose priority is equal to or greater than a threshold value is the recommended game.

The providing of the information may include receiving at least one of the recommended games; And providing information on the selected recommended game.

The providing of the information may include providing at least one of introduction information regarding the recommended game, review information about the recommended game, and site information about the recommended game.

The providing may include providing information on SNS of at least one user who has subscribed to the recommended game.

One feature of another embodiment of the present invention, the user information acquisition unit for obtaining user information including information on the user's SNS; A recommended game determiner which determines a game to be recommended to the user based on the user information; And an information providing unit that provides information on at least one of the recommended games.

In an embodiment of the present invention, by recommending a game using the user's SNS information, the user can anticipate and effectively recommend a desired game.

In addition, by selectively recommending only the games registered by a user registered as a friend or a user registered as a friend of high priority on the SNS, the probability of the user joining the recommended game can be increased.

1 is a block diagram of a game information providing system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a flowchart illustrating a method for providing game information in the game information providing apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is an example of user information according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is an example of information about a game provided by the game information providing apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a block diagram of a game information providing apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The terms used in this specification will be briefly described and the present invention will be described in detail.

While the present invention has been described in connection with what is presently considered to be the most practical and preferred embodiment, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments. Also, in certain cases, there may be a term selected arbitrarily by the applicant, in which case the meaning thereof will be described in detail in the description of the corresponding invention. Therefore, the terms used in the present invention should be defined based on the meanings of the terms and the contents throughout the present invention, rather than the names of the simple terms.

When an element is referred to as "including" an element throughout the specification, it is to be understood that the element may include other elements, without departing from the spirit or scope of the present invention. In addition, the terms "... unit", "module", etc. described in the specification mean a unit for processing at least one function or operation, which may be implemented in hardware or software or a combination of hardware and software. .

Throughout the specification, SNS (Social Networking Service) is a concept that collectively refers to a service that can be associated with an unspecified person online. Users form new networks through SNS or strengthen their relationships with existing networks. Throughout the specification, SNS includes all services that can be connected with others online such as blogs, cafes, homepages, websites, mobile websites, and the like.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram of a game information providing system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

The game information providing system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may include a game information providing apparatus 100, an external server 102, and a user terminal 101.

The game information providing apparatus 100 communicates with the user terminal 101 to obtain information about a user. The information about the user may include information about the user's SNS, game play pattern information of the user, existing game information subscribed to the user, and the like. In the present specification, a game that a user subscribes to refers to a game in which an account is created for play, regardless of whether the user actually played the game. The SNS information of the user may include all information related to the user in the SNS site, such as the SNS site that the user has subscribed to, the friend list registered on the SNS, and the intimacy with the user included in the friend list.

In addition, the game information providing apparatus 100 may communicate with the external server 102 to receive information about a user. The external server 102 may be a server that provides an SNS service, and the game information providing apparatus 100 may communicate with the external server 102 to receive a list of SNS sites subscribed to by the user and a friend list for each user. Can be.

The game information providing apparatus 100 generates a game list to be recommended to the user based on the information about the user and transmits the game list to the user terminal 101. When the desired game is selected in the user terminal 101, detailed information about the selected game is provided. Can be transmitted.

The user terminal 101 may include a mobile phone, a smartphone, a laptop, a PC, and the like. The user terminal 101 may include an interface unit for receiving a user input and a display unit for providing information to the user.

The user may directly input a game play pattern such as a preferred game genre, a preferred game time zone, a preferred game unit (for example, an individual, a team), or existing games subscribed to by the user through the interface unit. In this case, the user may input existing games in the order of their preference, and may select the genre or the recommended game of the recommended game in consideration of the preference of the user of the game information providing apparatus 100.

The user may check the game list recommended by the game information providing apparatus 100 and detailed information about the selected game through the display unit.

The external server 102 provides an SNS service and may include information about a user who has subscribed to the SNS. The external server 102 may manage information about a friend list of a specific user or another user included in the friend list, and transmit corresponding information according to a request of the game information providing apparatus 100.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method for providing game information in the game information providing apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In operation S210, the game information providing apparatus 100 obtains user information.

The user information may include SNS information of the user.

The SNS information of the user may include an SNS site subscribed to by a specific user, a friend list registered on the SNS site, intimacy between a specific user and friends.

A friend's friend list can include all of the people who wrote on a particular user's SNS site (for example, a blog of a specific user, a Twitter of a specific user, a specific user's homepage, etc.), but the specific user is a friend. It may contain only one user.

Methods of estimating intimacy with a particular user can vary. For example, as the number of articles written on the SNS site of a specific user increases, the familiarity may be set higher, or the familiarity may be set higher as the user frequently accesses the SNS site. However, the user may directly establish intimacy with another user.

The user information may include user profile information such as identification information of the user, a location of the user, a taste of the user, or the like, or may further include a game play pattern of the user and game information subscribed to by the user. In this case, at least one of the game play pattern and the game information subscribed to by the user may be directly input by the user through the user terminal 101. The user's game play pattern may include any information related to the game, such as the user's preferred game genre, preferred game time zone, preferred game style (eg, individual / team) information, and the like.

In operation S220, a game to be recommended to the user is determined based on the user information. The method of determining the recommended game may vary.

For example, the game information providing apparatus 100 obtains a list of users registered as friends of the specific user in an SNS site, and checks a game to which the users included in the friend list subscribe. Since more games are matched by comparing a game joined by a friend with a game subscribed by the specific user, the game propensity is similar. Therefore, the game information providing apparatus 100 may include a friend having a similar game propensity. The game can be decided as a recommended game.

As another example, the game information providing apparatus 100 obtains a list of users registered as friends of the specific user in an SNS site, and calculates intimacy between the specific user and a user included in the friend list. Thereafter, the game information providing apparatus 100 gives a high weight to a game joined by a friend having a high intimacy with the specific user, and gives a low weight to a game joined by a friend having a low intimacy with the specific user. Then, the game to be recommended is decided based on the weight. In general, since a game user mainly plays a game with a friend who has a high degree of intimacy, when a friend who has a high level of friend recommends a game, the probability of the particular user joining the recommended game increases.

In step s230, at least one information about the recommended game is provided. The user may select at least one of the games recommended in step s220, and may provide detailed information about the game selected by the user in step s230.

The information about the recommended game may include introduction information about the recommended game, review information about the recommended game, and site information about the recommended game. In this case, the game information providing apparatus 100 displays an item corresponding to each piece of information on the user terminal 101, and if the user selects the item, the game information providing apparatus 100 displays a link in which the corresponding piece of information is displayed. It may be provided to the user terminal 101.

In addition, the information about the recommended game may include information about the SNS of at least one user subscribed to the recommended game. In particular, the SNS site information of the user who subscribed to the game among the users included in the friend list may be included.

3 is an example of user information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The user information according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a site name item 310, a friend list item 320, an intimacy item 330, and a preference item 340.

The site name item 310 indicates an SNS site subscribed to by a specific user. In this embodiment, the specific user has subscribed to the 'A' and 'B' sites.

The friend list item 320 shows a list of users registered as a friend and a specific user in each SNS site.

In site 'A' a specific user is friends with users 'a', 'b' and 'c', and in site 'B' a specific user is friends with users 'd', 'e' and 'f'.

The intimacy item 330 indicates an intimacy between a specific user and a friend included in the friend list. On site 'A', a particular user is most familiar with user 'c', and on site 'B', a particular user is most familiar with user 'f'.

Favorite game item 340 indicates a game preferred by friends included in the friend list. Friend 'a' prefers game 'ga' most and friend 'c' prefers game 'me' most.

The game information providing apparatus 100 determines a game to be recommended to a specific user based on the information about the user.

For example, the game information providing apparatus 100 may determine a friend's favorite game included in a friend list as a recommended game. In FIG. 3, the game information providing apparatus 100 may include a game 'a' and a game ' It's a recommended game.

As another example, the game information providing apparatus 100 may determine a game preferred by friends having an intimacy of 70 or more as the recommended game. In the case of FIG. 3, the game information providing apparatus 100 may determine a game 'a' and a game 'la'. Decide on the recommended game.

In the related art, a method for recommending an appropriate game to a user has not been proposed, and thus the user cannot be enticed to join the game. However, in one embodiment of the present invention, since the game is recommended to the user using information about other users included in the friend list using the SNS information of the user, the probability of the user selecting the recommended game is very high. This is because the users who subscribe to the same SNS site are likely to have a similar inclination to the game, and in particular, the inclination toward the game is very likely to be similar to a user who has high intimacy among friends included in the friend list.

4 is an example of information about a game provided by the game information providing apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Information about a game according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a game introduction item 410, a review information item 420, an official site item 430, and an SNS information item 440. In addition, a sub-category of the SNS information item 440 includes a blog item 441, a cafe item 442, and a tweet item 443, and each item is SNS information of a user who has subscribed to the game, or provides a game. It may be SNS information operated by the company.

When the user selects a desired item, corresponding detailed information is displayed.

5 is a block diagram of a game information providing apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The game information providing apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a user information obtaining unit 210, a recommended game determining unit 220, and an information providing unit 230.

The user information acquisition unit 210 obtains user information including information about the SNS of a specific user. The user information acquisition unit 210 may communicate with the user terminal 101 or the external server 102 to obtain user information, or may be directly input by the user through the user terminal 101.

The SNS information may include any information related to the user's SNS, such as an SNS site subscribed to a specific user, a friend list for each SNS site, information about friends included in the friend list, and the like.

In addition to the SNS information, the user information may further include information about a play pattern of the user or a game played by the user.

The recommended game determiner 220 determines a game to be recommended to the user based on the user information. In particular, the recommended game determiner 220 may determine a game to recommend to the user based on the information on the user's SNS.

For example, the recommended game determination unit 220 may determine a game that friends included in the friend list have joined, but which a specific user does not join as the recommended game. At this time, the recommended game determination unit 220 includes the friends included in the friend list according to a predetermined criterion (for example, intimacy, the number of visits, the degree of match of the games joined, the record of the game played together, etc.) The priority of the friends can be determined, and only the games joined by friends whose priority is above the threshold can be determined as recommended games. As such, by selecting a game to which the friends included in the high priority friend list join as a recommended game, the possibility of recommending a game desired by the user increases.

The recommended game determiner 220 may determine the recommended game by further considering play pattern information. For example, when a user prefers the RPG genre, the user may recommend only a game corresponding to the RPG, or set the priority so that games belonging to the RPG genre are first exposed.

The information provider 230 provides the user terminal 101 with information about at least one of the recommended games, and the user terminal 101 displays the information about the game on the screen so that the user can check it.

The information about the recommended game may include introductory information about the recommended game, review information about the recommended game, site information about the recommended game, and SNS information about at least one user (eg, a friend) who has subscribed to the recommended game. have.

The above-described embodiments of the present invention can be embodied in a general-purpose digital computer that can be embodied as a program that can be executed by a computer and operates the program using a computer-readable recording medium.

The computer-readable recording medium may include a storage medium such as a magnetic storage medium (eg, a ROM, a floppy disk, a hard disk, etc.) and an optical reading medium (eg, a CD-ROM, a DVD, etc.).

So far I looked at the center of the preferred embodiment for the present invention. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. Therefore, the disclosed embodiments should be considered in an illustrative rather than a restrictive sense. The scope of the present invention is defined by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description, and all differences within the scope of equivalents thereof should be construed as being included in the present invention.

Claims (9)

Obtaining user information including information about the user's SNS;
Determining a game to be recommended to the user based on the user information; And
And providing information on at least one of the recommended games. The method of claim 1, wherein the user information,
And at least one of the game play pattern of the user and the existing game information of the user. The method of claim 1, wherein the information about the SNS,
Game information providing method comprising a friend list of the user registered in the SNS site subscribed to the user. The method of claim 3, wherein the determining step,
And determining a game to which the friend included in the friend list joins the recommended game. The method of claim 3, wherein the determining step,
Setting a priority of friends included in the friend list according to a predetermined criterion, and determining a game to which the friend whose priority is equal to or greater than a threshold value is the recommended game. The method of claim 1, wherein providing the information comprises:
Receiving at least one of the recommended games; And
And providing information about the selected recommended game. The method of claim 1, wherein providing the information comprises:
And providing at least one of introduction information regarding the recommended game, review information about the recommended game, and site information about the recommended game. The method of claim 7, wherein the providing step,
Game information providing method comprising the step of providing information on the SNS of at least one user subscribed to the recommended game. A user information obtaining unit obtaining user information including information about the user's SNS;
A recommended game determiner which determines a game to be recommended to the user based on the user information; And
And an information providing unit for providing information on at least one of the recommended games.

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