METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR ENABLING GAMES IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK

摘要

A method and apparatus for enabling an electronic game provided by an external game server (202) in a public network (204) and involving multiple players. The players and a plurality of local devices (A,B,C) operated by the players in a local network (200), are registered in a gateway device (GW) connected to the local network. The gateway device then registers the players and devices in the external game server for the electronic game. During the game, the gateway device applies a local game logic and translates any game related messages and/or media communicated between the local devices and the external game server, while communicating with the local devices in the local network using a short-range communication mechanism. As a result, only the gateway device in the local network needs to communicate with the external game server (202) in the public network, which may provide reduced latency in responses to user actions.