Patent ID: 7798906
Filing Date: 2010-09-21
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A game management server comprising; a game-holding-prior-notice-receiving unit operative to receive a prior notice of a multiplayer game being held that does not need manipulation from a user, including a date and time the multiplayer game is expected to be held and a request to call for entries to the multiplayer game from a terminal of a user who hosts the multiplayer game via a network and operative to register the received date and time in a database comprised in a computer; an entry-reservation-receiving unit operative to read the date and time the multiplayer game is expected to be held from the database, and operative to make the prior notice including the date and time the multiplayer game is expected to be held open via the network, and operative to receive an entry reservation for the multiplayer game from a terminal of a user who will participate in the multiplayer game by receiving data necessary for progression of the multiplayer game from the terminal and registering the received data in the database; and a game management unit operative to, when the date and time the multiplayer game is expected to be held arrives, read the data necessary for progression of the multiplayer game received from the terminal of the user who will participate in the multiplayer game from the database and send the data to the terminal of the user who hosts the multiplayer game in order to execute the multiplayer game at the terminal of the user who hosts the multiplayer game; and a result presenting unit operative to acquire a result after the execution of the multiplayer game from the user who hosts the multiplayer game and to make the result of the execution open to view via the network.