Networked Electronic Entertainment System

Abstract

A system and method for distributing data between telephone devices and electronic entertainment systems. The data may be voice data or image data. The system includes a plurality of telephone devices, a plurality of entertainment systems, a conversion server, a user management server, a user database, and a game server. Analog phone data received by the conversion server from the telephone devices via a telephone network is converted to digital data including a user identification. A user name associated with the user identification is determined, target users are identified, and the data is distributed to the target users' entertainment system. In addition, entertainment system data is distributed to telephone devices of target users when game situations specified by the users are realized.

1 . A system for distributing data between telephone devices and entertainment systems, comprising:
 a conversion server coupled to the telephone devices and the entertainment systems, the conversion server configured to receive the data and to enable communication between the telephone devices and the entertainment systems;   a game server communicatively coupled to the entertainment systems to monitor the entertainment systems and to store game information and the data; and   a user server communicatively coupled to the conversion server, the game server, and a user database to distribute the data.