Patent ID: 6846239

Claim:
A game providing server which receives an image used for a game run on a portable terminal of a user from a communications terminal of the user and sends the image and a game program that uses the image to the portable terminal, the game providing server comprising: a recording device which records game programs run on the user's portable terminal and information about types of the game programs by associating them with each other; a first transmitting device which reads the information about the types of game program run on the user's portable terminal out of the recording device and transmits the read information to the user's communications terminal; a receiving device which receives information specifying a type of game program to be run on the user's portable terminal and an image to be used for the game from the user's communications terminal; an image processing device which converts the received image to be used for the game into a display image compatible with display capacity or display specifications of a display device installed on the user's portable terminal; and a second transmitting device which reads the specified game program from the recording device and transmits the read game program to the user's portable terminal together with the display image.