Patent ID: 8554842

Claim:
An electronic chat joining method, comprising: requesting, by a chairman video game terminal via a request that includes setup information that is input to the chairman video game terminal, a server to open a chat, the server opening the chat by setting an area of a database for storing chat messages; storing the setup information, before the server sets the area of the database, in a storage of the chairman video game terminal, the setup information being useable by the chairman video game terminal for creating an invitation message that provides access to the area of the database; creating, by the chairman video game terminal and while the server is setting the area of the database, the invitation message comprising the setup information that is stored in the storage of the chairman video game terminal; giving, by the chairman video game terminal, an invitation instruction for transmission of the invitation message; creating, at the chairman video game terminal and not by the server, an invitation data signal that is based on the invitation message and that comprises the setup information; initiating, by the chairman video game terminal, transmission of the invitation data signal comprising the setup information from the chairman video game terminal to a guest video game terminal based on the invitation instruction; receiving, by the guest video game terminal, the invitation data signal; obtaining, by the guest video game terminal, the setup information from the invitation data signal; creating, by the guest video game terminal, an access request signal based on the setup information; transmitting, from the guest video game terminal to the database, the access request signal created by the guest video game terminal in response to the guest video game terminal receiving a guest instruction, wherein the setup information is not visible on the guest video game terminal, and wherein the setup information includes a password that is communicated from the chairman video game terminal to at least one of the server and the guest video game terminal without modification and that initiates and authenticates access to the area of the database by the guest video game terminal.