Player matching device and player matching method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2018333630-A1
Application number	US-201816048496-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jul 30, 2018
Priority date	Feb 2, 2016
Publication date	Nov 22, 2018
Grant date	—

Abstract

The present invention relates to a player matching device and a player matching method. According to a first aspect of the present invention, there may be provided a player matching device for matching a virtual user capable of playing a virtual golf game with a player on a virtual golf course with the player, the player matching device including: a level determination unit configured to determine at least one of the skill level of the player and the skill level of a virtual user; and an opponent determination unit configured to determine an opponent capable of playing a virtual golf game with the player, wherein the opponent determination unit extracts one or more virtual users having a skill level within a predetermined range based on the skill level of the player, and determines the opponent to be a virtual user including at least part of the extracted virtual users.

First claim

1 . A player matching device for matching a virtual user capable of playing a virtual golf game with a player on a virtual golf course with the player, the player matching device comprising:
a level determination unit configured to determine at least one of a skill level of the player and a skill level of a virtual user; and an opponent determination unit configured to determine an opponent capable of playing a virtual golf game with the player, wherein the opponent determination unit extracts one or more virtual users having a skill level within a predetermined range based on the skill level of the player, and determines the opponent to be a virtual user including at least part of the extracted virtual users.

2 . The player matching device of claim 1 , wherein the level determination unit determines the skill level of the player based on a skill index of the player.

3 . The player matching device of claim 1 , wherein the level determination unit groups skill indices according to their range, and determines the skill level of the player to be a level corresponding to a group including the skill index of the player.

4 . The player matching device of claim 3 , wherein the level determination unit determines the skill level of the player to be the level corresponding to the group including the skill index of the player when the player satisfies a condition for a promotion from a level below the level corresponding to the group including the skill index of the player to the level corresponding to the group including the skill index of the player.

5 . The player matching device of claim 1 , wherein the level determination unit determines at least one of first and second levels for the skill level of the player, in which case the level determination unit groups skill indices according to their range, determines the first level to be a level corresponding to a group including the skill index of the player, and determines the second level, which is a detailed level of the first level, to be a level corresponding to a detailed group obtained by subdividing the group including the skill index of the player.

6 . The player matching device of claim 1 , wherein the level determination unit determines the skill level of the player based on a number of virtual golf games played by the player for a predetermined period.

7 . The player matching device of claim 1 , wherein the level determination unit determines the skill level of the player based on a skill index corresponding to a group including the skill index of the player and a rank of the player when skill indices are grouped according to their range and the group including the skill index of the player satisfies a predetermined condition.

8 . The player matching device of claim 2 , further comprising an index computation unit configured to compute the skill index of the player based on play of the player in at least one of virtual golf games played by the player.

9 . The player matching device of claim 8 , wherein the index computation unit computes the skill index of the player as an average value of scores in one or more of virtual golf games played by the player.

10 . The player matching device of claim 8 , wherein the index computation unit computes the skill index of the player by applying at least one of an evaluation of a corresponding golf course and a round environment to a score in at least one of virtual golf games played by the player.

11 . The player matching device of claim 8 , wherein the index computation unit modifies hole scores in one or more of virtual golf games played by the player, selects one or more games having a relatively high one of the modified scores, and computes the skill index of the player as an average value of handicaps of the player in the selected one or more games.

12 . The player matching device of claim 8 , wherein the index computation unit computes the skill index of the player as an average value of handicaps of the player in one or more of virtual golf games played by the player.

13 . The player matching device of claim 8 , wherein the index computation unit accumulates times spent in one or more virtual golf games played by the player, and computes the skill index based on a total cumulative time.

14 . The player matching device of claim 1 , wherein the opponent determination unit filters out one or more virtual users, having play data on being played by a number of players equal to a number of players of a team including the player, in the extracted virtual users.

15 . The player matching device of claim 1 , wherein the opponent determination unit filters out one or more virtual users, having set an amount within a predetermined range as a bet amount based a bet amount of a team including the player, in the extracted virtual users.

16 . The player matching device of claim 1 , wherein the opponent determination unit filters out one or more virtual users, having play data on being played by a number of players equal to a number of players of a team including the player or having set an amount within a predetermined range as a bet amount based a bet amount of a team including the player, in the extracted virtual users, and determines the opponent to be a virtual user who belongs to both the filtered-out virtual users and virtual users having earliest play data and who is a recording player.

17 . The player matching device of claim 16 , wherein the opponent determination unit determines the opponent to be a virtual user who is a ghost player when the recording player does not exist.

18 . A player matching method by which a player matching device matches a virtual user capable of playing a virtual golf game with a player on a virtual golf course with the player, the player matching method comprising:
determining at least one of a skill level of the player and a skill level of a virtual user; and determining an opponent capable of playing a virtual golf game with the player, wherein determining the opponent comprises extracting one or more virtual users having a skill level within a predetermined range based on the skill level of the player, and determining the opponent to be a virtual user including at least part of the extracted virtual users.

19 . A computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon a program which performs the method set forth in claim 18 .

Assignees

• Golfzon Co Ltd

Inventors

• Jang Sung Won

Classifications

• A63B71/0616

  Means for conducting or scheduling competition, league, tournaments or rankings · CPC title

• A63B2220/30

  Speed · CPC title

• A63B2220/76

  Wind conditions · CPC title

• A63B2225/20

  with means for remote communication, e.g. internet or the like · CPC title

• A63B2102/32

  Golf · CPC title