Patent ID: 7695370
Filing Date: 2010-04-13
Classification: A63F,G07F

Abstract:
1. A network-based game system, comprising: one or more web servers each configured to receive a first request and a second request from one or more game client applications each running on a computer device and to produce a first data base query and a second data base query in accordance with the first request and the second request; a plurality of data bases configured to store game information configured to be retrieved in response to data base queries; and a proxy server cluster comprising a plurality of connection pool servers that are connected in parallel, wherein the proxy server cluster is in communication with the one or more web servers and the plurality of data bases, wherein the proxy server cluster is configured to receive the first data base query and the second data base query from the one or more web servers in separate first persistent network connections, wherein the proxy server cluster is configured to direct the first data base query and the second data base query to one of the plurality of data bases in a single second persistent network connection, wherein game information related to the first data base query and the second data base query are retrieved from the plurality of data bases.