Method and system for online payment of the virtual property trading of the network game

Abstract

A method and system for online consignment of the virtual property trading of the network game, the main theory is to setup a trading platform with the function of online payment to support a great deal of dealer terminals, and set an adapter between the trading platform and the network game provider system, by defining a serious of standardization for the adapter, make it possible to perform the data exchange between the trading platform and the game database of the network game provider system, so as to realize the changing of the coincidence relation between the virtual property formed from the network game and the game account through the operation of the user terminal, to realize the really safe consignment of the virtual property of the network game, thus ensure that the virtual property trading of the network game carries out smoothly.

1 . A method for online consignment of the virtual property trading of the network game, the method comprising:
 1) setting up a trading platform, said trading platform connecting a plurality of dealer terminals, and setting a adapter between said trading platform and the network game provider system;   2) transferring the game account and password inputted by seller terminal and buyer terminal via the trading platform, the adapter verifying the validity of the game account and password in the game database of the network game provider system, after passing the verification, the adapter creating a seller token including a game account and valid time of the seller, and a buyer token including a game account and valid time of the buyer back to the trading platform;   3) transferring the obtained seller token to the adapter by the trading platform according to the browse request of the seller terminal, after passing the verification, reading the virtual property record corresponding to the game account of said seller in the game database, and transferring such virtual identification (ID) number and detailed information to the trading platform, the information being parsed and then is sent to the seller terminal for displaying;   4) according to the sell request of the seller terminal, transferring the seller token and the identification (ID) number of the virtual property to be consigned to the adapter, the adapter looking up the game database according to the seller game account of the seller token, transferring the virtual property record corresponding to said identification (ID) number, to the buffer of the game database, pointing said storage address using a lock identification (ID) number, returning said identification (ID) number and the relevant detailed information of the virtual property to the trading platform, according to the browse request of the buyer terminal, said lock identification (ID) number and the relevant detailed information of the virtual property being sent to the buyer terminal for displaying;   5) sending the buyer token, the buyer game account and the lock identification (ID) number of the virtual property to be bought to the adapter via the trading platform according to the consignment request of the buyer terminal, verifying the buyer token by the adapter, after passing the verification, transferring the virtual property record corresponding to said lock identification (ID) number in the buffer of game database to the relevant address of said buyer's game account in the game database.   
   
   
       2 . A method for online consignment of the virtual property of the network game as recited in  claim 1 , further including:
 at times when the trading platform receives the consignment request of the buyer terminal, using the online payment platform, displaying a payment request on the buyer terminal, only if the buyer terminal pays up according to the request of the online payment platform, could the consignment be allowed.   
   
   
       3 . A method for online consignment of the virtual property of the network game as recited in  claim 1 , wherein each virtual property record corresponding to the game account in said game database includes the game props list and game role information, when the adapter reads a virtual property record corresponding to the game account, making the detailed information of each props in the props list and each game role information to the formatting SOAP data stream of the XML format, and sending to the trading platform, and parsing them to provide to user terminal for displaying. 
   
   
       4 . A system for online consignment of the virtual property trading of the network game, includes the network game provider system, trading platform, user terminal and adapter, wherein the network game provider system contains a game database used for storing the game account and the password and the virtual property record corresponding to the game account, the trading platform connects to several user terminals and deals with each requests of browse and trading of user terminal, the adapter is connected between the trading platform and game database so as to provide interface with their data exchange, the adapter further includes:
 identification (ID) module, receiving the game account and password transferred from the trading platform, verifying the validity of the game account and password in the game database, creating a token including the game account and valid time for the valid user, and returning it to the trading platform;   virtual property browse module, receiving the token and browse request from the trading platform, reading the requested virtual property record in the game database or the buffer, and sending the identification (ID) number and detailed information of the virtual property to the trading platform, parsing them to provide to user terminal for displaying;   virtual property lock module, receiving the token and the identification (ID) number of the virtual property to be sold from the trading platform, transferring the identification (ID) number of the virtual property to the buffer of the game database in the game database, pointing said storage address used by a lock identification (ID) number, returning said lock identification (ID) number and the detailed information of the relevant virtual property to the trading platform, parsing them to provide to user terminal for displaying;   virtual property transfer module, receiving the token and the identification (ID) number of the virtual property to be sold from the trading platform, transferring the lock identification (ID) number stored in the buffer into the game account of said token in the game database.   
   
   
       5 . A method for online consignment system of the virtual property of the network game as recited in  claim 4 , wherein said trading platform further includes a network payment platform interface module for connecting the online payment platform.