Mail exchange between users of network game
Abstract
A server group includes a mail server and multiple game servers that provide different games. The mail server includes a character information table where a character name used in each game is registered and associated with a user and a game name and a mailbox prepared for each user. When receiving a request for using an extended mail address from a terminal apparatus, the mail server generates an extended mail address including the character name as a mail account and the game name as a domain, referring to the character information table. When receiving the mail using the extended mail address as a destination address, the mail server stores the mail to a mailbox of the user corresponding to the extended mail address.

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- EP1522979
- Application
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- Application, DOCDB
- 04024211
- Application, EPODOC
- EP20040024211
Titles3
- German
- Briefaustausch zwischen Gebrauchern eines Netzwerkspieles
- English
- Mail exchange between users of network game
- French
- Echange de courrier entre utilisateurs d'un jeu en réseau
Classification
- CPC, 13
- G06Q10/10
- A63F13/87
- A63F2300/407
- A63F2300/572
- A63F13/352
- A63F13/335
- A63F2300/513
- A63F13/79
- A63F13/32
- A63F2300/5546
- A63F2300/404
- A63F2300/208
- A63F13/35
- IPC, 4
- A63F13 33
- A63F13 85
- G06F13 00
- H04L12 58
Designated states2
- Contracting states, 1
- Türkiye
- Extension states, 1
- North Macedonia